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News: Blizzard keen on WOW micro-transactions

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:38:30 +0000

Item sales will be purely optional, though. According to VG247, Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime told the Activision Blizzard investor conference that the company sees micro-transactions as an important part of World of Warcraft's future. "We... expect digital sales to increase in the future, and plan to take advantage of it," he said. His comment follows the appearance of the pet store earlier this week, offering the first ever sale of in-game items for WOW. Morhaime offered reassurance ...

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Activision Blizzard Announces Better-Than-Expected Third Quarter CY 2009 Financial Results

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:05:26 +0000

> > SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced better-than-expected financial results for the third quarter 2009. > For the quarter ended September 30, 2009, Activision Blizzard’s GAAP net revenues were $703 million, as ...

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Direct2Drive won't sell Modern Warfare 2; indirectly blames Steam

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Modern Warfare 2 must feel like everyone is piling on it. From the reveal of some contraversial scenes to the lack of dedicated servers for the PC version to a unfortunate release of a PSA, the upcoming shooter from Infinity Ward has not had the best publicity. Now yet another issue has ...

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Activision Blizzard Announces Better-Than-Expected Third Quarter CY 2009 Financial Results

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

- Company Calendar Year Financial Outlook Remains Unchanged - SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov 05, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced better-than-expected financial results for the third quarter 2009. For the quarter ended ...

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China clamps down on Activision's top online game

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:16:33 +0000

* China regulator says game's new version lacks approval * Orders NetEase to stop collecting fees, new accounts * NetEase shares lose 2.4 pct, Activision sheds 4.3 pct (Recasts first paragraph to add Activision, context; adds analyst comments, closing stock prices) By Alexei Oreskovic SAN ...

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Breaking: Chinese government rejects World of Warcraft, again

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:17:42 +0000

In a crackdown against online gaming, China has shut down World of Warcraft again today, asking Chinese operator NetEase to stop collecting fees and suspend new account registration as the game is in violation of regulation agreements . A regulator from the General Administration of Press ...

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NetEase, Activision caught up in China turf war

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:01:34 +0000

* China regulator says game's new version lacks approval * Observers say move the result of apparent govt turf war * NetEase shares lose 2.4 pct, Activision sheds 4.3 pct * Move underscores risks to China Internet firms (Adds comments, background) By Alexei Oreskovic and Melanie Lee SAN ...

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Yet another controversy involving Modern Warfare 2?

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:45:00 +0000

Oh boy. Here we go again. First, Infinity Ward manages to make lots of hardcore PC gamers upset by not supporting dedicated servers for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 . Then a pretty brutal scene from the upcoming FPS (that has a plot point that we won't go into here) is leaked into the ...

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News: THQ stock loses 12% since WWE announcement

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:34:32 +0000

THQ is facing a tricky pre-Christmas period on the stock markets as the company's share price dropped by a further 6.5 per cent in trading yesterday, bringing the total to almost 12 per cent since last week's WWE/Jakks Pacific announcement and over 26 per cent since September ...

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Opinion: An open letter to Infinity Ward

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 04:30:00 +0000

(Editor's note: We have tried repeatedly to contact Infinity Ward and Actvision to give us their comments about the issues in this open letter before we decided to post it. They have yet to respond to our inquires.) To: The Modern Warfare 2 Team at Infinity Ward There's been a massive ...

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Hands On: Queen vs. 50 Cent in DJ Hero DLC

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:57:55 +0000

The first batch of downloadable DJ Hero songs mashes 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige and Queen all together — but costs $6. Scrolling text at the bottom of the menu screen will remind you, fairly subtly, that there is new music available. But DJ Hero doesn’t have an in-game store like ...

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China clamps down on Activision's top online game

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:15:00 +0000

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U2 down with music games; I’m down with that

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:30:43 +0000

I might not approve of U2’s music or Bono’s smugness, but I can definitely get behind the band’s appraisal of music games. Essentially, they’re alright. Radical even. During a chat with USA Today’s Edna Gundersen, bassist Adam Clayton said the band ...

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China bans foreign investment in online games industry

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:05:19 +0000

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has banned foreign investment into its lucrative online games industry in an effort to tighten control over its virtual worlds. China's video game industry regulator the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) and copyright watchdog issued a circular on ...

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China bans foreign investment in online games industry

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:32:11 +0000

SHANGHAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - China has banned foreign investment into its lucrative online games industry in an effort to tighten control over its virtual worlds. China's video game industry regulator the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) and copyright watchdog issued a ...

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China Q2 online game revenues hit $906 mln

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:30:59 +0000

SHANGHAI, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Revenue from China's online game market grew 39.5 percent in the second quarter from the previous year to 6.18 billion yuan ($906 million), according to data from research firm Analysys International on Tuesday. Tencent Holdings ( 0700.HK ), which runs China's ...

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Chinese Online Game Revenues Continue Explosive Growth

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:00:00 +0000

A new report that details online game revenues in China showed a second quarter tally of 6.18 billion yuan (approximately $906 million U.S.), a 39.5 percent increase over the previous year. Reuters reports that Tencent Holdings led the way in the quarter with a 20.2 percent share of the pie, ...

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NPD September: PS3 on Top, Beatles Beat Cobain

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:04:56 +0000

The combination of a new hardware model and lower price made PlayStation 3 the best-selling home game machine in the U.S. for the month of September 2009, the NPD Group reported today. NPD added that The Beatles: Rock Band outsold Guitar Hero 5 , saying that MTV’s Beatles game sold ...

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Analysis: How Call Of Duty DLC Boosts Revenue, Publicity

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:43:00 +0000

[In this NPD analysis, part of our monthly extended look at U.S. console retail sales, Gamasutra examines DLC for Activision's Call Of Duty: World At War, calculating that the average WaW game owner has spent $9 on DLC, taking average sales per customer to $65.] Analysts and gamers alike anticipate that Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will set the charts on fire in November of this year. We've selected its immediate predecessor ...

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Modern Warfare 2 PC update: system specs, id Tech and Walmart price

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:16 +0000

Infinity Ward seems to have put a cone of silence now on their comments concerning the PC port of Modern Warfare 2 following the revelation this past weekend that they will do away with dedicated servers for the first person shooter. However it looks like GameStop's back cover artwork for ...

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