It seems as though Activision is minting its own money with each quarterly report recording unprecedented profit levels. The game studio’s first quarter profits sounded to the tune of $503m, up from $381m during the same period last year. Even sales were up from $1.3b to $1.4b, leading us to ask — can anything stop Activision’s money train?
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Just when you thought Android was behind the curve when it came to mobile gaming, GameString has thrown us a curveball. World of Warcraft (WoW) is coming to Android smartphone! In a alpha demonstration using GameString Platform’s remote play technology we get to see this bad boy in action, ready?
Guitar Hero World Tour could be going on a real concert tour, according to Bobby Kotick, CEO of Guitar Hero’s publisher Activision Blizzard. Weirder still, the Guitar Hero series may also be getting a spin-off reality TV show, according to comments from Kotick.
Diablo 3 is one of the most exciting games on the horizon, even despite the fact that Blizzard is horribly reluctant to pin a date on when we can expect all the hype to come to a climax. The developer has just teased out a new set of screenshots, showcasing Diablo 3’s newly revised inventory and skills system. Read on for the full story and gallery.
WoW players rack up an incredible 16.6 million completed quests every single day, lead designer Jeff Kaplan has revealed. That means the 11 million story army of international World of Warcraft players is farming 11,520 quests each minute or 192 per second. Even after five years at the top of the MMO hit list, WoW is showing absolutely no signs of giving up its top spot.
Gold farmers beware. Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate for the US Internal Revenue Service has published her annual report – this year she recommends that the US Government looks into taxing the virtual economies of games like Second Life and World of Warcraft.
Will there ever come a time when World of Warcraft isn’t utterly dominating the Massively Multiplayer scene? Now just a couple of days short of its fourth birthday and getting on a bit in gaming terms, WoW is going stronger than ever. Developer Blizzard reveals that the latest expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, sold 2.8 million copies in just 24 hours.
A Swedish teenager collapsed after an extended World of Warcraft session. The 15-year-old boy had been celebrating the launch of the latest WoW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, by inviting friends to his house for a 24-hour marathon bout of gaming. He suffered an epileptic fit caused by a combination of sleep deprivation, lack of food and prolonged concentration on the game, doctors said.