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USAOPOLY and Blizzard have announced a partnership which will see the release of Monopoly: World of Warcraft and RISK: StarCraft board games.

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Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce has the firm had no idea “what we were getting ourselves into,” when it launched World of Warcraft 7 years ago.

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Gaikai chief executive David Perry announced during the Cloud Gaming Europe conference today that the service will soon launch on Facebook. Perry also demoed World of Warcraft running via the social network.

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Blizzard has said World of Warcraft Patch 4.3.2 will add the ability to form cross-realm raids with Real ID friends in older normal or heroic raids and in Battlegrounds. Expected for quite some time, the functionality was added to cross-realm parties last year. The ability to run normal or Heroic Dragon Soul with cross-realm Real ID raids has yet to be implemented. More information can be found through the link. The firm also noted that a hotfix has been applied to the game’s Hour of Twilight content. Notes can be found through here.

Blizzard has announced it’s cut the price of World of Warcraft expansions in Europe at both retail and through the Blizzard Store. Those who have yet to purchase expansions for the MMO, or who are just new to the fray, can now pick up Wrath of the Lich King for €19.99 and Cataclysm for €29.99. At present, there hasn’t been a price cut announcement for the US, as both expansions are listed on the store for $39.99; however, some retailers sell it for less than the suggested retail price, so it might be in your best interest to shop around.

Blizzard has released Cataclysm patch 4.3, Hour of Twilight, along with a video and notes. The update throws Azeroth’s intrepid adventurers against Deathwing in a final showdown.

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Blizzard has released a 10-minute video for Hour of Twilight, patch 4.3 for Cataclysm, which contains three new five-person dungeons and the Deathwing raid, Dragon Soul.

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Analyst firm Lazard Capital Markets has concluded World of Warcraft could lose between 900,000 and 1.6 million players when Star Wars: The Old Republic launches next month.

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Believe it or not, World of Warcraft will turn seven this coming Wednesday, November 23, and in celebration, Blizzard will be handing out a Feat of Strength along with a gift that contains fireworks, and temporarily grants a special tabard along with a 7% experience point and reputation bonus when used. On top of that, the developer will be airing a new TV commercial during the Chargers vs Bears NFL game this Sunday (tomorrow) on CBS. The commercial features a mystery spokesperson, who will follow in the footsteps of previous WoW luminaries such as: Ozzy, Mr. T, William Shatner, Steve Van Zandt and Verne Troyer.

The commercial will air during the first half of the game, which should kick off around 1.15pm PST/4.15 EST, and if you’re not into football, just wait around a bit as some illustrious YouTube user will surely have it up 10 seconds after it first airs.

World of Warcraft’s Chinese operator, NetEase, has posted a 39.8% increase in year-over-year revenue, noting a profit rise of 41.3% to $128.2 million and revenues of $308.3 million. The upswing for the quarter ending September 30 is despite the decline in subscription numbers for the Blizzard MMO, which were down 800,000 to 10.3 million for the start of Activision’s Q3 financial period. The publisher attributed the loss of subs to the Asian market, which, at the end of Q2, helped bolster the subscription numbers to 11.1 million. Thanks, Gamasutra.

Activision Blizzard shares fell at the close of the bell yesterday 6.5% to $13.02, the biggest drop since February 10, according to Bloomberg, which attributed the drop to the loss of 800,000 World of Warcraft players. Subscriptions to the game now stand at 10.3 million for the start of the firms Q3 financial period. At the start of Q2, the MMO boasted 11.1 million subs.

As of this post, stock prices for the firm are up 15¢ to $13.17 or 1.15%, proving just much the market can fluctuate. Thanks, Develop.

Blizzard president Mike Morhaime has admitted the subscription-funded MMO market is a difficult one “to compete in,” but considering the value players get when paying a monthly fee, he feels free-to-play “doesn’t necessarily make for a better game.”

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As appropriated from the great scribe and scholar Mr Bartholomew Simpson: Eat my shorts.

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Blizzard COO Paul Sams has said the firm is offering Diablo III free to World of Warcraft Annual Pass subscribers as a way to “show an amount of gratitude,” to the player base.

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Blizzard has said PvP players will be able to distinguish whether the neutral Pandarian Monk class in World of Warcraft is fighting for Alliance or Horde by using the game’s enemy UI.

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During the Citi 2011 Technology Conference today, Activision COO Thomas Tippl said to expect six “proven property” releases from Blizzard over the course of the next three years.

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Time for a second batch of shorts to get your gamescom afternoon rolled up.

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Time for some more shorts to get you ready for Friday. Just think: when you wake up tomorrow, your work week will be almost over. Isn’t that grand?

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Blizzard has announced it raised over $1.9 million through the sale of its World of Warcraft pet, the Cenarion Hatchling, which was sold to raise money towards earthquake and tsunami relief in Japan. In May, the firm said that for every Cenarion sold through July 31, 100 percent of the $10 cost would go towards the effort. Good job all around.

It’s time for your second batch of shorts for the day. This one features an interesting off-screen video of Yoshinori Ono and Katsuhiro Harada doing, well, just watch. We’ve actually posted the video in here. A shorts first? Maybe.

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