Gaming worlds: World of Warcraft triumphant

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The GamerDNA blog have done some further stat crunching for calendar year 2008 (Part 1 and Part 2 here). The findings? The excitement around Warhammer Online’s launch translated to players bleeding from Age of Conan, but essentially no impact on the leader, World of Warcraft . There’s an enormous array of other data worth reading through, [...]

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A Look At the Growth of MMOs In 2008

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From Slashdot.org: Zonk writes with news of a collaboration between Massively and GamerDNA to analyze the state of MMO player bases for 2008. Sifting through the data brought out several interesting trends. For example, Age of Conan took a substantial hit when Warhammer arrived on the scene, but none of the other major MMOs were significantly affected. Also, it seems Lord of the Rings: Online got a big shot in the arm from its Mines of Moria expansion — even moreso than World of Warcraft from

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Obligatory Bandwagon 2008 Review Post

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Let’s dive right in and see what happened in this blog and in my personal life, a la Hud shall we? This will be long, and probably only interesting to me, so sorry! Just skip to the end if you want a quick recap. January - The beginning of 2008 had me loving my new Xbox 360, Rock Band and Mass Effect. I was also eagerly anticipating Pirates of the Burning Sea and Age of Conan… both ended up as great moments in Bildo hyping himself up too much. I guest-hosted on Darren’s SUWT podcast, and hav

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World of Warcraft unstoppable, reaches 11.5 million!

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Even Age of Conan and Warhammer Online, which have been launched as its best contenders, could not stop it! According to the announcement Blizzard has made yesterday, the active player number is now 11.5 million and growing each passing day. Blizzard is currently working on a MMO project whose name has not been announced yet.

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World of Warcraft tops 11.5 million subscribers (Geek.com)

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1UP.com reports that the highly popular game, World of Warcraft has reached 11.5 million subscribers. The announcement was made by Blizzard just two months after Wrath of the Lich King became the fastest selling PC game of all time. Similar games like Age of Conan (where many WoW players went to temporarily) do not seem [...]

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