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- Government Tug-of-War Stunts World of Warcraft's Growth In China
- Growth of Activision’s money-making MMO World of Warcraft is being stalled in China, as Reuters reports that the game is now caught up in the government’s crack-down on foreign investment and operations in its online games industry. For context, Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) reported about $70 million worth of revenue...
- External links 2009-11-03
- The9 Limited Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Wallace Cheung - Credit Suisse. Wallace Cheung - Credit Suisse Good morning Jun, Hannah, and Dahlia. Congratulations on the good results. Hannah, I appreciate your contribution for the last four years. I hope to cooperate with...
- Earnings calls 2008-02-21
- Gaming Roundup: Trion/SciFi; WoW's New Record; LiveGamer P2P; GameHouse Relaunches; In-Game Ads
- —Trion and Sci Fi staff up forthcoming game/TV project : MMO and virtual world developer Trion World Network and The Sci Fi Channel are building out the team for their as yet unnamed videogame/TV show hybrid: Blizzard Entertainment and Carbine Studios vet Kevin Beardslee will serve as senior development...
- External links 2008-11-21
- Spiderman director to make Warcraft film
- Spiderman franchise director Sam Raimi is lined up to make a film based on multiplayer online game World of Warcraft. Blizzard Entertainment, which owns the Warcraft brand, will collaborate on the film with Hollywood studio Legendary Pictures. Warner Brothers is financing the film, which has does not yet have a confirmed cast...
- Articles 2009-07-22
- World Of Warcraft Magazine Targeting Gold-Rich, Long-Term Subscribers
- Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) is adding orcs, trolls and blood elves to its list of licensed magazine franchises. The Bath, England-based publisher is partnering with Blizzard Entertainment for World Of Warcraft: The Magazine, a quarterly available in English, French, German, and Spanish.Most interestingly, the 148-page title will be available...
- External links 2009-08-20
- The9 Limited Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Alicia Yap with Citigroup. Alicia Yap - Citigroup I have a few questions. First of all, I did not get the active paying customer number for the first quarter and second quarter. I'm not sure you...
- Earnings calls 2009-08-27
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- Nielsen's Top 10 PC Games and Consoles of 2008
- World of Warcraft, Tetris, and the PlayStation 2 make strange bedfellows, but they each topped Nielsen's 2008 year-end scan of popular media trends in the U.S. World of Warcraft's a no-brainer on the PC games chart. But what about Alexey Pajitnov's twenty-some-year-old Tetris for mobiles? And are people really still...
- News items 2009-08-07
- World of Warcraft jumps into print
- You might think that starting a brand-new, high-quality, full-glossy magazine in one of the worst publishing environments in years would be a suicidal business idea. After all, take a look at just about any magazine you can think of, and, thanks to the veritable collapse of advertising, odds are it's...
- News items 2009-08-20
- Will Activision's World of Warcraft Successfully Make the Crossover to Film?
- Seth Gilbert submits: Electronic Arts ERTS has an agent, movie project and deals with Steven Spielberg and Zack Snyder. MTV Games is tied up with Jerry Bruckheimer. James Cameron is working with Ubisoft (UBSFY.PK). Activision Blizzard ATVI now has Sam Raimi, well, sort of. Activision...
- External links 2009-07-24
- Blizzard Entertainment(R) Partners With PaymentOne to Provide Additional Payment Services for World of Warcraft(R) Subscribers
- PaymentOne® Corporation today announced that it has signed an agreement with Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry's most critically acclaimed games. As part of the agreement with PaymentOne, Blizzard Entertainment® will deploy PaymentOne's flagship PhoneBillTM payment option...
- Research articles 2007-10-29
- PalTalk Aims At Warcraft, Other MMOs With New Patent Infringement Lawsuit
- Video-based social network and chat service PalTalk has filed a new patent infringement lawsuit that could make massively multiplayer online MMO games like World of Warcraft and Free Realms far less lucrative for their parent companies. Paltalk is suing Sony, Activision Blizzard, Turbine, Jagex and NCSoft for damages in...
- External links 2009-09-17
- Comedy.com and Curse: Two Startups "Under the Radar"
- At today's Under The Radar conference, 32 of what the organizers call the "bleeding edge" startups that have launched in the past year in social media and entertainment are getting their chance to strut their stuff before an audience of VCs, bloggers, and other webophiles. So, in...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Looking back to the future of fun
- As 2008 draws to a close and with 2009 just around the corner, it has been an eventful year for the games industry. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 surpassed expectations, Wii Fit showed us that you can play video games and still keep the spare tyre in check, Gears...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Why Are Games Based on Hit Films So Lame?
- Jedi Acklay in action.COLOGNE, GERMANY Films and videogames would seem a match made in heaven, so why are games based on hit movies so bad?Despite sharing the same demographic of devoted fans, action, sci-fi and fantasy films rarely translate into branded videogame hits."Movie-based games almost never work, no matter how...
- News items 2009-08-20
- First U.S. Rehab Center for Internet Addiction Opens Its Doors
- Over the last few years, a new and disturbing phenomenon has been increasing in frequency. It's called Internet Addiction Disorder IAD, and it has been the subject of new research and debate. It is not currently included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM, but many argue...
- News items 2009-08-24
- Online Games Add 'Detectives' to Fight Spam
- LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Sept 3 (Reuters Life!) - Gamers competing against rivals around the globe in online multiplayer games have a new force protecting them?teams of virtual detectives. While some companies cause havoc with PC users via e-mail spam and viruses, a new type of spam company is targeting the...
- News items 2009-09-03
- Can Virtual Currencies Help Bridge The Gap Between Free And 'Paid' Content?
- Virtual goods and micro-transactions have been driving the billion-dollar online games industry across Asia for years. And deals like EA’s $400 million buyout of social gamer Playfish, and Activision’s new virtual pets addition to World of Warcraft, show that virtual currencies have now evolved into a viable business model...
- External links 2009-11-10
- Earnings: Vivendi H1 Up On Games, Digital Music Growth
- Fast growing digital music sales and the ongoing popularity of online multiplayer video games helped Vivendi (EPA: VIV) to a recession-beating 15 percent year-on-year revenue growth in the first half of 2009.—Activision Blizzard: The games division continued to power on - revenues up 300 percent from last year to...
- External links 2009-09-01
- The WoW Paywall: What Newspapers Can Learn From Orcs And Dwarves
- Newspapers haven’t yet found the secret sauce of getting consumers to pay online, but games publishers certainly have. While Rupert Murdoch delays his grand paywall scheme and local papers start to tentatively get in on the act, Activision-Blizzard’s World of Warcraft celebrates its fifth birthday this week: its 12...
- External links 2009-11-25
- PopCap Games Raises $22.5 Million Funding For Social Gaming Acquisitions
- Eying the growing popularity of social games, casual gaming company PopCap Games has raised $22.5 million in late-stage funding from Meritech Capital Partners; private investors Larry Bowman formerly of Apple and Fidelity and John McCaw also participated. The company plans to use the new money for potential acquisitions in...
- External links 2009-10-06
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