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Thu, Nov 17, 2011 | 15:01 GMT

NetEase profits and revenue rise on Chinese WoW

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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.

Thu, Nov 10, 2011 | 14:55 GMT

Bloomberg: Activision shares drop on loss of WoW subs

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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.

Thu, Oct 27, 2011 | 17:02 BST

Blizzard “not sure” if free-to-play is “the best model,” for WoW right now

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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.”

Thu, Oct 27, 2011 | 14:10 BST

Thursday shorts: XIII, PS Home, Uwe Boll, WoW, Kojima

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

Tue, Oct 25, 2011 | 17:00 BST

Blizzard: Offering Diablo III for free is a show of “gratitude,” to WoW player base

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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.

Tue, Oct 25, 2011 | 14:21 BST

WoW’s enemy UI to ascertain whether Pandarens are Horde or Alliance in PvP

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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.

Thu, Sep 08, 2011 | 20:26 BST

Tippl: Six “proven property” releases from Blizzard expected over the next three years

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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.

Wed, Aug 17, 2011 | 21:58 BST

Wednesday Shorts II: Isengard, Dead Island, DDO, Notch, Deathwing

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

Thu, Dec 08, 2011 | 04:30 GMT

Thursday Shorts II: Spyro, MotorStorm, Iran 1979, WoW, Total Recall, Witcher 2

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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?

Wed, Aug 03, 2011 | 18:48 BST

WoW’s Cenarion Hatchling raises over $1.9 million for Japan earthquake relief

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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.

Sat, Jul 23, 2011 | 13:23 BST

Friday Shorts II: Walmart, YES, Ono x Harada, WoW, indie

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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.

Sun, Jul 10, 2011 | 17:40 BST

Saturday Shorts: GTAV, APB, Dead Island, Pachter on PSN Pass

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There’s some excellent short stuff below for you.

Wed, Jun 29, 2011 | 07:14 BST

World of Warcraft goes F2P up to lvl20 with Starter Edition

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Blizzard has announced a World of WarCraft Starter Edition, meaning you can play the game for free up to level 20. Oh my god, I’ll never see most of you again.

Sat, Jun 25, 2011 | 21:57 BST

Saturday Shorts: WoW patch, Yu Suzuki, Xillia, WarGames, sales

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It’s time for the weekend, and our vacation starts as soon as we post this. Enjoy this shorts post, and the shot of what the author of it will be surrounded by for the next week. Kisses.

Wed, Jun 22, 2011 | 22:15 BST

More Wednesday Shorts: Sales, PS Home, Hitman, 999, Dead Island, Ms ‘Splosion Man

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The evening edition of shorts for Wednesday is rather dense, so we will skip failing at wit and just get to it.

Wed, Jun 22, 2011 | 17:25 BST

Blizzard talks Titan, says it’s hard to not “build on what other games do”

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World of Warcraft lead systems designer Greg Street has discussed the development process behind Project Titan with Eurogamer, and has said that it’s a bit hard to create a game which doesn’t borrow from another one on the market.

Wed, May 18, 2011 | 21:44 BST

Blizzard to start testing premium cross-server dungeon party feature

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Blizzard has planned to launch a new service on its WoW test servers, which would see players being able to raid with friends that play on other game realms.

Thu, May 05, 2011 | 21:46 BST

Thursday Shorts II: Witcher nudes, Catherine shots, Disciples III, WoW, MMA, Make-a-Wish

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More shorts for your Thursday are below. Some, are NSFW. Hopefully you are home by now anyway.

Thu, Apr 28, 2011 | 20:47 BST

Blizzard talks a bit about patch 4.2 and the Encounter Journal for WoW

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Blizzard is readying patch 4.2 for World of Warcraft, and apparently it’s a “pretty good patch,” size-wise for the developer, according to lead game systems designer Greg Street, also know affectionately as Ghostcrawler.

Fri, Apr 22, 2011 | 22:14 BST

Friday Shorts: Gamocracy, KOTOR’s Revan, science, Sheen, sales, Suda, more

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It’s Good Friday. It’s especially good if you got the day off to celebrate Jesus and bunnies and stuff. Here’s some shorts to make it even more of a good Friday.

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