Blizzard Entertainment Reveals Third Expansion for Its Popular Subscription-Based Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game at BlizzCon® Gaming Festival
BlizzCon 2009
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced plans for the third expansion to World of Warcraft®, its award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Unveiled at the company’s fourth BlizzCon® gaming festival, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm™ will bring sweeping [...]

StarCraft® II QcK Limited Edition Mousepads Provide an Optimized Textured Surface for Smoothness and Glide During Game Play
Today, SteelSeries, a leading manufacturer of game peripherals and accessories, unveiled a new line of gaming surfaces featuring art from Blizzard Entertainment’s highly anticipated StarCraft® II. The QcK Limited Edition Terran Marine and Kerrigan vs. Zeratul editions [...]

Exclusive Coverage of Blizzard Entertainment®’s Gaming Convention Available Through DIRECTV® Satellite TV Service and Internet Stream
BlizzCon 2009
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that tickets for its fourth BlizzCon® gaming convention will go on sale May 16. Live coverage of the event will be available as a DIRECTV® Pay Per View event and, for the first time, [...]

Founded by Former Blizzard Entertainment and Insomniac Games Veterans, Booyah Paints a Vision for the Company, Mixing Expertise in Games, Mobile, Social Media and a Passion for Life
Booyah, a Silicon Valley start-up founded by former games industry veterans Keith Lee, Brian Morrisroe and Sam Christiansen, announced that the Company has raised a $4.5M Series A [...]

World of Warcraft® Players to Meet Blizzard Entertainment® Developers and Be Among First to Obtain Their Copy at an Exclusive Launch Celebration
Alliance and Horde members will converge on the Best Buy at 44th Street and 5th Avenue to take part in the highly anticipated midnight launch of Blizzard Entertainment®’s World of Warcraft®: Wrath of [...]

Collaboration Helps Ensure Rich Experience for World of Warcraft® Gamers Playing on New AMD ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series Graphics Cards
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Blizzard Entertainment® that will allow AMD to bundle Blizzard’s best games across all ATI Radeon™ graphics products, to deliver a superior [...]

Blizzard Entertainment® Announces Highly Anticipated Sequel at 2008 Worldwide Invitational in Paris
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today revealed Diablo® III, the newest entry in its critically acclaimed action role-playing-game franchise. The announcement was made during the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment® Worldwide Invitational at the Porte de Versailles Convention Centre in Paris, France. A cinematic trailer and an [...]

The online gaming industry generates enormous revenues, estimated at $3.4 billion in 2006. The most significant contribution to this number comes from South and East Asia where the gaming industry is still experiencing explosive growth and the correlation between broadband lines and game hours clocked is clear.
This is against the background of launches like [...]

First quarter of 2008
Revenues: €5.3 billion, an increase of 5.2% and of 6.9% at constant currency when compared to the first quarter of 2007.
Very good operating achievements were offset by non recurring or calendar impacts: the first quarter of 2007 included notably the successful launch of the first expansion set World of Warcraft: The Burning [...]

SPIRIT DSP, the world’s leading provider of voice and video software engines, announced today that ZTE Corporation (”ZTE”), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has licensed SPIRIT’s voice solution to empower ZTE’s HD (High Definition) video conferencing systems with outstanding quality voice, giving end-users a rich communication experience.
ZTE is the [...]