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Hidden away in the press release, World of Warcraft dropped to 7.7 million subscriptions, losing roughly 600k since the last quarter.

Activision Blizzard breaks off from Vivendi in $8.2 billion deal<b>UPDATE</b> The house of <i>Call of Duty</i>, <i>World of Warcraft</i> and <i>Skylanders</i> will spin off of Vivendi to become an independent, publicly traded publisher. Game DeveloperKris Graft [http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/197030/Activision_Blizzard_breaks_off_from_Vivendi_in_82_billion_de

Fan created Expansion ideas and art for World of Warcraft. While I no longer play, it’s still worth a look at some of the effort put into this concept.

New Expansion - Draw your predictions!Rise of the Legion Lost in Translation Update This was originally a thread to draw up some stuff you think we might see in the next expansion, but a Chinese gold farming site saw the images and the context was lost in translation. They thought it was concept art leaks (which it clearly isn’t).…MMO-Champion [

In just three months, they managed to lose another 15.8 million and about half of it’s daily user base. When you look at the big picture however, it really doesn’t mean too much, considering they’re still sitting on $1.25 billion in cash. Even though Mattrick has his work cut out for him, he has plenty of time to turn Zynga around.

Zynga loses $15.8M in Q2, nearly half its daily users year-over-yearSocial game maker Zynga announced its second quarter financial results today, posting a $15.8 mil

One of them came a bit of a pleasent surprise to me- a PC port of Deadly Premonition [http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=160687506].

Steam :: :: Sixteen More Titles Greenlit TodayWe’ve just Greenlit another fourteen games and two software titles, bringing the total number of Greenlit titles to 145. These titles were selected on the same criteria we have been using in the past: Votes in Greenlight give us a hugely valuable point of data in gauging community interest along wit…

Formed by executives hailing from Blizzard, Sony Online and Relic Entertainment, and backed by NCSoft in their first round of funding. Their first order of business should be a better web site.

Molten Games – New game studio, Molten Games, opens in San DiegoMolten Games [https://web.archive.org/web/20140219130134/http://www.moltengames.com/2013/06/hello-world/]

Update 04/14/2022:

Former employees have reported th

Anyone will now be able to develop on the Xbox One, similar to Playstation 4.

Microsoft: Every Xbox One Can Be Used To Make Games [UPDATE]Every single Xbox One can be used to make games, Microsoft says—in other words, you can use the next-gen console as your very own development kit.KotakuThe A.V. Club [http://kotaku.com/microsoft-every-xbox-one-can-be-used-to-make-games-up-898750954]

Now this is a kickstarter I can get behind.

Kickstarter [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ffviiwebseries/final-fantasy-vii-the-web-series-unofficial-fan-pr/]

But if the loudest voices in the Call of Duty “community” act like an angry mob instead, guess how the entire world views Call of Duty?

While the majority of gamers don’t act this way, they are often times the ones most heard. It’s also why the gaming community can’t be taken as a whole so often. It’s that angry mob mentality that is the first to stand out to any non or even casual gamer. I was turned off of League of Legends for this very reason. While most may be nice people to play with,

In Wake of Atari’s bankruptcy auction, Master of Orion and Total Annihilation managed to get snapped up by Wargaming, with Rebellion Interactive grabbing Moonbase Commander and Battlezone, and Stardock bought Star Control. Interesting to note that Chris Taylor, designer behind Total Annihilation works at Gas Powered Games, which was acquired by Wargaming earlier this year.

ScribdScribd [https://www.scribd.com/embeds/154934708/content]

EA was quick to put out a blog post [http://www.ea.com/news/update-on-ea-sports-and-college-football] they will continue to make college football games, just not under the NCAA name anymore.

NCAA will not renew EA Sports contractThe NCAA has made the decision not to enter a new contract for the license of its name and logo for theNCAA.org [https://www.ncaa.org/news/2013/7/17/ncaa-will-not-renew-ea-sports-contract.aspx]

Creative Directer Ocean Quigley, Gameplay Lead Dan Moskowitz, and Lead Architect Andrew Willmott have left EA/Maxis to form an indie studio, Jellygrade. An interesting move, but Im going to remain skeptical for the time being. Forming a studio to develop an iPad game just seems like a bad move with the shape of the current market.

jellygradejellygradeTumblr [http://jellygrade.tumblr.com/]