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• Fans Flocking Back to World of Warcraft
  Friday 7 November 2008 – 11:30 in Gaming
  After trying other MMORPGs like Age of Conan and Warhammer Online, many who canceled their World of Warcraft subscriptions to play these games have now come back to the land of Azeroth.
• World of Warcraft population tops six million
  Thursday 2 March 2006 – 12:32
  Buried within another press release about the development of a Spanish language version of World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the popular massively multi-player online game is truly massive. WoW now has topped six million players which is up 500,000 from just over a month ago when we reported on January 19 that the game has 5.5 million active players.
• World of Warcraft not coming to consoles
  Tuesday 21 August 2007 – 09:57 in Gaming
  Irvine (CA) – The runaway MMORPG World of Warcraft won’t be coming to consoles anytime in the future according to an interview with Blizzard’s VP of Game Design Rob Pardo. Pardo told Game Daily that WoW was never really designed with consoles in mind and
• Does a "World of Warcraft" EULA compliance mechanism count as spyware?
  Tuesday 25 October 2005 – 12:05
  An anti-cheating mechanism deployed by Blizzard Software for use by players of their popular game, World of Warcraft, has been discovered to collect information about gamers' running Windows environment, and report that back to the server. If gamers were warned in advance - albeit with very fine print - does that make it exempt from privacy concerns?
• World of Warcraft reaches 9 million subscribers
  Thursday 26 July 2007 – 10:45 in Business
  Irvine (CA) – Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its hit World of Warcraft MMORPG has reached 9 million subscribers. That is half a million more than its previous record announcement released less than five months ago. "We’re thrilled that gamers
• World of Warcraft expansion confirmed
  Thursday 23 June 2005 – 09:23
  Given the increasing popularity of World of Warcraft - which reached the 2 million subscriber milestone last week - it was only a matter of time until it got an expansion pack.
• World of Warcraft subscribers reach 4 million
  Tuesday 30 August 2005 – 06:29
  It seems that most often when a massively multiplayer online role-playing game makes headlines, the news is bad.
• World of Warcraft hits 8 million subscribers
  Friday 12 January 2007 – 08:26
  World of Warcraft, the online multiplayer fantasy game, now has more than 8 million players. This is according to Blizzard Entertainment who released the game just over two years ago on November 23rd, 2004. The players include more than 2 million North American players, along with 1.5 million in Europe and an incredible 3.5 million in China.
• No World of Warcraft for Xbox 360
  Friday 3 March 2006 – 08:31
  Blizzard Entertainment has slammed the door shut on any possibility that World of Warcraft will appear on the Xbox 360.
• Parents blame death of son on World of Warcraft
  Tuesday 22 November 2005 – 01:56
  Xinhua, a mainland China news agency, has reported that the parents of a young boy who committed suicide last year have filed suit against Blizzard, the makers of World of Warcraft. The boy jumped out of a 24-story window on December 27, 2004 and the parents blame the suicide on the boy's alleged addiction to the game. They also believe that he was trying to reenact a scene from the game.
• Warcraft III Continues To Rule The PC Game Sales Charts
  Friday 26 July 2002 – 09:51
  For the week ending July 13th, Warcraft III continues to whip up on the sales charts by once again leading the way.
• World of Warcraft tops 5.5 million users
  Thursday 19 January 2006 – 09:36
  World of Warcraft (WoW) now counts more than 5.5 million users, Blizzard Entertainment announced today. The online role-playing game also gains traction in Europe where the game has surpassed one million subscribers.
• Vivendi Universal profits boosted by World of Warcraft
  Friday 4 November 2005 – 05:12
  Vivendi Universal has posted its third quarter financial results, beating analyst expectations thanks to a doubling of revenues from its games division, fueled by the success of Blizzard's World of Warcraft.
• Wrath of Lich King; 24 Hours 2.8M Sold
  Friday 21 November 2008 – 10:10 in Gaming
  With the holidays fast approaching, November is prime time when it comes to game releases. Whether it's for PC, PS3, Xbox 360, or the Wii, the big AAA-titles usually hit store shelves sometime between mid-October to early December.
• WoW Diehards Hit Level 80
  Tuesday 18 November 2008 – 11:20 in Gaming
  World of Warcraft die-hards have completed all of the expansion's content