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Post-Launch WoW; Massive Sales2009-09-26There are several points of note regarding World of Warcraft, now that the game has been released.Servers are currently very busy, and there are in some cases long waits to get onto a server--don't worry, this should be temporary as most players are currently focused in a limited number of areas. Blizzard is creating dozens and dozens of new servers to help, as well as working to increase their server performance.You may notice server outages or immense lag now--this is directly related to the first point. WoW ...
"Guitar Hero" helps Activision rock Wall Street2009-09-22SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activision Inc (ATVI.O) posted a quarterly profit on Thursday that blew past expectations as demand for its "Guitar Hero 3" and "Call of Duty 4" video games offset an absence of new releases.
The two games, which were released late last year, drove Activision to a profit of just under $55 million, or 17 cents per share, more than triple the 5 cents per share expected by Wall Street on Reuters Estimates.
Revenue was $602.5 million, up 93 percent from a year ago and burying the average Wall Street forecast of $373.6 million.
"It's the ongoing popularity of 'Guitar Hero' and 'Call of Duty'. It just shows what can happen in terms of performance when you have blockbuster hit titles," said Colin Sebastian, an analyst with Lazard Capital Markets.
Shares of Activision rose 3.9 percent to $28.78 in extended trade from a close of $27.70 on Nasdaq, where they had gained less than 1 percent in the regular session.
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Is Guild Wars an MMORPG?2009-09-16Guild Wars takes place in a large virtual world made up of many different zones, and players can walk from one end of the world to the other. In Guild Wars much of the tedium of traveling through the world has been eliminated. Players can instantly return to any safe area (town or outpost) that they have previously visited just by clicking on it in the world overview map.
Rather than labeling Guild Wars an MMORPG, we prefer to call it a CORPG (Com...
Criminal profiling is coming to a MMOG near you2009-09-08With an uprising of terrorists and other criminals playing MMOGs like Hello Kitty the U.S. Government believes it is essential that Gnomeland Security monitors online behavior in virtual worlds. Humor aside, I'm not making this up.
The U.S. intelligence community wants to employ counter terrorism measures by utilizing data-mining and profiling software in various online spaces such as video and even online gaming. In the unclassified Data Mining Report Act, (pdf) one initiative called the Reynard project would determine the feasib...
