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Part 1 - Blizzard's VP of business development on what's next for WOW.

Blizzard Entertainment has signed a new deal with online game publisher The9 that will see World of Warcraft expansion pack The Burning Crusade released in China.

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade takes the top spot in the All Formats charts this week, becoming the second fast-selling PC game in chart history

Blizzard Entertainment has announced plans to hold four midnight launch events across Europe to promote new World of Warcraft expansion pack The Burning Crusade, which hits the shops on January 16.

Blizzard's Paul Sams on why 6 million subscribers can't be wrong.

Blizzard COO Paul Sams has told <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> that the company plans to release a new expansion pack for multi-million selling MMO World of Warcraft every year.

Organisers of the Austin Game Conference have announced two keynote speakers for the September event, which begins with an address from Blizzard Entertainment's VP game design, Rob Pardo.

Blizzard has decided to "indefinitely postpone production" on StarCraft: Ghost, its action-oriented StarCraft spin-off for consoles, "while evaluating opportunities for utilising the additional power of the new and upcoming console systems".

World of Warcraft developer, Blizzard Entertainment, has announced that the subscriber base for its exceptionally popular massively multiplayer online game has now exceeded 6 million worldwide.

Blizzard has apologised to a World of Warcraft player who was given an official warning for attempting to set up an in-game guild which welcomed lesbian, gay and bisexual members.

Blizzard has admitted to <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> that many World of Warcraft players are still facing problems when they attempt to log into the game - adding that everything possible is being done to resolve the issue.

A spokesperson for gay equality organisation Stonewall has told GamesIndustry.biz that attempts to set up lesbian, gay and bisexual-friendly guilds in World of Warcraft should be "welcomed, not blocked."

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its phenomenally successful massively multiplayer online game, World of Warcraft, has now surpassed one million subscribers in Europe, topping 5.5 million worldwide.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the number of subscribers to World of Warcraft, the hit massively multiplayer online RPG, has topped 5 million following the launch of the game in Asia.

As the fallout from Blizzard Entertainment's merging of its North and South studios continues to settle, three former Blizzard North development staff have established a new studio called Hyboreal Games.

The parents of a 13 year-old boy who died falling from a building are suing World of Warcraft developer Blizzard, claiming that the massively-multiplayer online game is to blame for their son's death.

Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Universal Games, has announced the launch of its award winning World of Warcraft MMO in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau regions.

World of Warcraft developer Blizzard Entertainment has flatly denied rumours that it is planning to unveil an Xbox 360 version of the immensely popular MMOG at its Blizzcon event this week.

As European World of Warcraft players grow increasingly frustrated with the lagging issues that continue to plague many servers, developer Blizzard has pledged to compensate players for their trouble.

The growth of Blizzard Entertainment's massively multiplayer title World of Warcraft continues unabated, with the firm this week announcing that it now has over four million paying customers on the service.

Vivendi Universal Games subsidiary Blizzard Games has shut its secondary development location, Bay Area based Blizzard North, and is moving the team at the studio to its headquarters in Irvine, south California.

Then latest set of financial figures from Vivendi Universal show that the group's Games division saw revenues rising by 76 per cent in the second quarter of the year, largely due to the exceptionally strong performance of World of Warcraft.