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Reported during a recent Activision Blizzard conference call,  the subscriber base of the MMORPG World of Warcraft fell by another 800,000 players over a three month period. This constitutes a much larger decline than the lost 300,000 players that quit the game during the second quarter. The total user base now stands at approximately 10.3 million subscriptions, a large drop from a peak of about 12 million players during October 2010.… Read More

Blizzard Entertainment used its annual BlizzCon fan festival to tease fans of its massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, World of WarCraft, with the latest expansion to Azeroth. Dave Kosak, lead quest designer for World of Warcraft, talks about what’s in store for WoW fans with this latest expansion pack, Mists of Pandaria. “We have the Pandaren race and the Monk class, which lets everybody live out their martial art movie fantasies,” said… Read More

We're 100 percent certain that at least some of you have purposefully locked yourself in a small room filled with nothing but a computer just to submit yourselves to tortuously long gaming binges. Come to think of it, some of you are probably doing that right now. (Haven't we all?) But there's a big difference between a self-imposed gaming marathon, and one forced upon you by greedy prison guards at a Chinese… Read More

China's government may not allow people access to the full and open Internet most of us enjoy here in America. And it really doesn't care much for video games in general. But that doesn't mean the country is entirely negligent of the needs of the computer-savvy crowd. In China's Wunjin district, workers are currently constructing an amusement park modeled entirely after Blizzard's World of Warcraft and StarCraft,… Read More

Well, good news and bad. The good news is that Blizzard cofounder and executive vice president Frank Pearce confirmed that the company was working on a brand new massively multiplayer online role-playing game, with the working title of “Titan”. The bad news is that it is Blizzard, so don’t expect too many details, or even a confirmed release date anytime soon. In a video interview with Destructoid at the VGAs, Pearce confirmed the project,… Read More

Facebook is rumored to be the latest site to jump on the daily business coupon bandwagon. AllFacebook is displaying a screenshot of an e-mail outlining plans for Facebook to begin offering an application called Deals, a service comparable to Groupon or Living Social. Following in the footsteps of companies like AOL, which will soon launch Wow!, the social networking site is possibly offering a way for businesses to offer incentives for… Read More

As product performance improves and the use of novel technologies amplifies so does the consumer satisfaction— at least that’s what top analysts at J.D Power and Associates are claiming. The marketing information giant announced the results of its 2009 Residential Television Service Satisfaction Study this morning. The findings were simple: all’s well on the television service front. According to the director of telecommunications at J.D. Power… Read More

Blizzard Entertainment rallied the faithful last week at its fourth BlizzCon 09 conference, wowing enthusiastic gamers with promised updated to its long-running Diablo and Starcraft franchises, along with taking the wraps off World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, an upcoming expansion pack for its widely popular MMORPG game. First up: Cataclysm. Blizzard promises the third expansion pack for its World of Warcraft MMORPG game will turn Azeroth on its… Read More