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Revenues for Irvines Blizzard grew 58 percent year-over-year

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2008-02-01 01:17:35 by Sonya Smith in Gadgetress
...Blizzards share of that gaming revenue was $1.2 billion The Vivendi earnings report says Blizzards revenues grew 58 percent year over year, while the revenues for the rest of the Vivendi gaming division (Sierra Entertainment, Sierra Online and Vivendi Games Mobile) decreased by 29 percent In early December gaming giant Activision announced a...
 
Tags: division, vivendi games division, games, vivendi, vivendi games mobile, revenues, earnings, vivendi earnings report, percent
 
 
 
 
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Cost of Blizzard staff, development hits Vivendi expenses

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2008-03-05 01:20:07 by Sonya Smith in Gadgetress
...Blizzards higher compensation costs related to retention plans and by the current development of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and of StarCraft II meant higher expenses for the company. No specific figures for Blizzards expenses were given After leaving Blizzard, some workers went on on to create their own gaming companies...
 
Tags: expenses, blizzard, blizzards expenses, company, parent company vivendi, carbine studios, studios, companys expenses, blizzards
 
 
 
 
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Get taught by Blizzard a perk if you attend Laguna art school

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2008-05-20 10:04:46 by Gadgetress in Gadgetress
...Blizzards headquarters in Irvine. The Laguna college has 22 students in its brand-new video game major, which ended its first year last week. (This is the same college that hosted a World of Warcraft art exhibit last year Read my story today about the perks of going to video-game school heres the LINK Thanks to the very connected Sandy...
 
Tags: art, art school, blizzard, school, blizzard entertainment, warcraft art exhibit, play warcraft, play warcraft anymore, blizzard reps
 
 
 
 
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Blizzard-inspired art show opens this week

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2008-09-29 14:16:27 by Gadgetress in Gadgetress
...Blizzards big news: Diablo III announced Watch the animated version of Blizzards splash page Post from: Alt+Save with the Gadgetress Blizzard-inspired art show opens this week
 
Tags: blizzard, art, laguna college art, laguna college, blizzard entertainment moves, blizzard apology, blizzard connection, college, submittinng art
 
 
 
 
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Last chance to see BlizzCon only from DirecTV

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2008-10-07 21:09:26 by Gadgetress in Gadgetress
...Blizzards big news: Diablo III announced Watch the animated version of Blizzards splash page Post from: Alt+Save with the Gadgetress Last chance to see BlizzCon only from DirecTV
 
Tags: recent blizzard news, news, blizzard, directv, blizzcon, blizzard apology, blizzard blog, blog, blizzcon tickets
 
 
 
 
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Last chance to see BlizzCon only from DirecTV

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2008-10-07 21:09:26 by Gadgetress in Gadgetress
...Blizzards big news: Diablo III announced Watch the animated version of Blizzards splash page Post from: Alt+Save with the Gadgetress Last chance to see BlizzCon only from DirecTV
 
Tags: recent blizzard news, news, blizzard, directv, blizzcon, blizzard apology, blizzard blog, blog, blizzcon tickets
 
 
 
 
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Blizzards Starcraft put on Nintendo DS

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2008-01-04 21:45:49 by iGirl in Gadgetress
StarCraft , a game first released by Irvines Blizzard in 1998, has been put on the handheld Nintendo DS by two French developers, according to the DS FanBoy blog Dubbed StarLite, a demo version can downloaded here to be played by a DS emulator. The FanBoy blog writes that so far players can select and direct units via touchscreen, build simple...
 
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World of Warcraft hits 10 million subscribers milestone

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2008-01-22 23:03:09 by iGirl in Gadgetress
...Blizzards CEO and cofounder The game that debuted Nov. 23, 2004, now has more than 2 million subscribers in Europe, more than 2.5 million in North America and about 5.5 million in Asia. Subscribers only include players who are paying a subscription fee, who have an active prepaid card, who are within the first free month of access to the game...
 
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World of Warcraft hits Ten Million Subscribers

2008-01-28 19:47:51 by Dave in Forever Geek
 
...Blizzards bank account must look pretty nice, as each subscriber forks over $15 a month, as well as the purchase price of the game, its expansion and whatever else Blizzard comes up with I, for one, will probably be joining as well. Eve Online has become rather boring without any of my friends there, and the Start Trek MMO seems to no longer...
 
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