Chinese WoW publisher The9 Limited announced today that World of Warcraft recently had a peak concurrency of one million players. The Chinese operator has been handling the Blizzard game in the China region since June 2005. This concurrency number is the highest since the game’s original launch.
IRVINE, Calif. – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft®, its award-winning, subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), is being prepared for release in Latin America. The Latin American localization will be based on the existing European Spanish version but will feature entirely re-recorded in-game speech. This new version of the game […]
Today, the executives at Activision can be found rolling in a shameful amount of money and laughing to their hearts content. In its financial report on its fiscal third quarter 2008, Activision claims it has brought in a net revenue of $1.48 billion. That’s an 80% increase over the same period last fiscal year, which […]
Subscriptions to the World of Warcraft MMORPG have surpassed the 10 million subscriber mark worldwide, according to developer Blizzard Entertainment. The game, now more than three years old, has become the most popular massively-multiplayer online role-playing game, taking the top sales spot among PC games around the world in 2005 and 2006. WoW was only […]
The guys over at AltGN received an interesting piece of information from a regular poster on their boards. He was taking quizzes through the Microsoft Retail Zone, which is a website interface used to further educate employees of electronic retail stores. While taking the quiz for “Universe at War”, he stumbled upon a cool little […]
Run for your lives! Blizzard has confirmed that it is working on a new massively multiplayer online game not connected to the World of Warcraft universe, according to a post on the official WoW message boards earlier this month. Reported today by Wired’s Game|Life blog, the assurance is music to the ears of MMO junkies […]
If you think EA would just sit idly by and watch Activision Blizzard flaunt their newfound status as the worlds largest video game company, think again. Following the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games, Electronic Arts has told GamesIndustry.biz that there is always a possibility of further acquisitions by the publishing giant. EA Partners’ Nick […]
Although the word ‘value’ might be farthest from your mind when faced with a multi-billion dollar deal, industry analysts have described Activision’s merger with Vivendi as a “bargain” and have predicted that the merger may open the floodgates for similar deals within the industry. Talking to Gamasutra, Michael Pachter of Wedbush, a leading investment firm, […]
Activision Blizzard has just confirmed that Call of Duty 5 and Guitar Hero 4 are both in development just hours after news of the company’s merger hit the wire. And while the news isn’t exactly surprising, if Activision Blizzard’s recent boasts are anything to go by we could see both of the series become hopefully […]
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