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Investor call reports World of Warcraft subscriptions back above 10 million

The results are in for the third quarter of 2012, and despite sluggish numbers the last time around, World of Warcraft appears to be on a rebound. During the most recent Activision Blizzard investor call, subscribers for the game were pegged at around 10 million, back up from the lower figure of ...

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Blizzard: Patch 5.1 is 'going to change what it means to be a World of Warcraft patch'

In an effort to deliver more frequent updates, Blizzard has stated that it's willing to redefine the traditional mega-World of Warcraft patch to include smaller updates. "We're going to change what it means to be a WoW patch," said Production Director J. Allen Brack. "We just had to make a ...

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One Shots: Beautiful balloon

Massively logically selects for readers who aren't necessarily playing World of Warcraft -- if you were, you'd probably be reading our sister site WoW Insider, not this column. But I am still a WoW fan, as is this week's One Shots submitter, William. He sent in a freshly snapped pic from Mists of ...

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Mists of Pandaria cruises toward first big patch

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is chugging along quite nicely, and while there are players content in the current journey to the new endgame, there are always those asking, "What's next?" For the latter crowd, Blizzard has announced that the first major post-expansion content update is ...

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Blizzard moves 2.7 million Mists of Pandaria units in first week

After two rounds of speculation, we finally have an accurate read on Blizzard's Mists of Pandaria sales numbers. The firm moved approximately 2.7 million copies of World of Warcraft since its September 25th launch. This doesn't count sales in China, where the expansion debuted on October 2nd. The ...

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The Daily Grind: Would you play a game you dislike for one good feature?

I don't care for World of Warcraft. It's nothing personal against Blizzard or its legion of fans, but WoW has always rubbed me the wrong way. You've got to hand it to Blizzard, though. The company knows what works, and it's very good at what it does. A personal case in point is the fact that I ...

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Analysts: Mists of Pandaria sales not so disappointing

Last week an investment firm concluded that World of Warcraft's new Panda-flavored expansion was producing underwhelming sales numbers. This news was greeted by a collective W.T.F from everyone who has ever downloaded a game over the internet. Lazard Capital Markets estimated that Blizzard ...

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Hard work, not magic, is key to Blizzard's success

Should the success of World of Warcraft over the years be accepted as an aberration, encased in glass and set high up on a pedestal, untouchable and impossible to duplicate? Not according to an editorial on GameIndustry.biz, which suggests that other companies could find success by following ...

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Analysts: Mists of Pandaria sales disappointing

Is Mists of Pandaria a sales disappointment? Analysts at investment bank Lazard Capital Markets have estimated that this week's expansion has sold between 600,000 and 700,000 retail copies since its Tuesday launch. This is a significant drop from the 3.3 million unit sales of Cataclysm, World ...

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Blizzard offering free server transfers to offset Mists of Pandaria queues

Mists of Pandaria queues got you down? Our sister site sussed out the fact that Blizzard is offering free time-limited realm transfers for some North American World of Warcraft servers. If you're on one of eight high-population realms, you can migrate immediately (though you can't choose your ...

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