Vivendi has released its financial results for the first nine months of the year, and reported, to no one's surprise, an increase of 7% compared to last year (10.9% in the last quarter). Vivendi Games' revenues in particular are up 49% compared to last year, racking up a rough $1 billion, primarily driven, like the past year or two, by World of Warcraft, which has recently launched in China and now counts over 9 million subscribers.

Blizzard has released yet another update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v2.3.0 patch fixes a slew of bugs, tweaks every class and adds new content.

PaymentOne announced that it has signed an agreement with Blizzard to deploy its PhoneBill payment option in World of Warcraft, giving players a simple and safe option to charge subscription fees to their local phone or broadband bill without needing to use a credit card.

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration by the hardiest adventurers. New levels of power, challenging new dungeons and encounters, an exciting new character profession, and the game’s first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King.

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration by the hardiest adventurers. New levels of power, challenging new dungeons and encounters, an exciting new character profession, and the game’s first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King.

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration by the hardiest adventurers. New levels of power, challenging new dungeons and encounters, an exciting new character profession, and the game’s first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King.

Blue Orb announced Switchblade, a software package designed to allow gamers to play Blizzard’s massively popular World of Warcraft using an Xbox 360 controller.

Blizzard has released yet another update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v2.2.3 patch fixes a few bugs, OpenGL issue, and a few sound/voicechat hiccups.

Blizzard has released yet another update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v2.2.3 patch fixes a few bugs, OpenGL issue, and a few sound/voicechat hiccups.

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration by the hardiest adventurers. New levels of power, challenging new dungeons and encounters, an exciting new character profession, and the game’s first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King.

Blizzard has released yet another update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v2.2.2 patch adds a number of new graveyards across the world and two new holiday events.

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration by the hardiest adventurers. New levels of power, challenging new dungeons and encounters, an exciting new character profession, and the game’s first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King.

Blizzard has released yet another update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v2.1.3 patch adds voicechat, tweaks various classes, fixes issues with the interface, quests, dungeons and raids, as well as the world environment.

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration by the hardiest adventurers. New levels of power, challenging new dungeons and encounters, an exciting new character profession, and the game’s first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King.

Until Nov. 30, DIRECTV is offering Blizzard's MMORPG World of Warcraft, to its new customers across North America. New players will be able to download a trial copy of the game, upgrade that to a full version at no cost, and receive 11 months of free game time.

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration by the hardiest adventurers. New levels of power, challenging new dungeons and encounters, an exciting new character profession, and the game’s first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King.

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration, as new levels of power, challenging new dungeons and encounters, an exciting new character profession, and the game’s first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King. Blizzard sent over a pre-canned Q&A giving more details ...

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration by the hardiest adventurers. New levels of power, challenging new dungeons and encounters, an exciting new character profession, and the game’s first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King.

While rumors about a new World of Warcraft expansion have been floating around the past few weeks, Germany's ESRB counter-part, the USK, might have revealed more than it should. Unlike the ESRB, the German ratings board also handles demos, and yesterday a new listing for WoW: Wrath of the Lich King popped up, with a Addon/GC Demo tagged onto it. Could the Games Convention, late August, get a demo for the next WoW expansion? Will details be revealed at BlizzCon later this week?

Vivendi Games’ revenues were 68.9% higher than the same period last year, driven by the continued momentum of World of Warcraft in all markets, following the first quarter of 2007 release of WoW: The Burning Crusade. Within one, the expansion sold approximately 3.5 million copies in regions connecting to North American and European realms - a new one-month PC-game sales record.

Blizzard announced today that its subscription-based MMORPG World of Warcraft had reached yet another milestone, 9 million subscribers and counting, with The Burning Crusade yet to launch in China.

DC Comics announced plans today to publish a new comic book series based on Blizzard's MMORPG World of Warcraft, to be published through DC’s WildStorm imprint and debut this fall. Preview art from the series will debut at Comic-Con International, held in San Diego, CA from July 26–29.

Blizzard has released yet another update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v2.1.3 patch tweaks various classes, fixes issues with the interface, quests, dungeons and raids, as well as the world environment.

Blizzard has released yet another update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v2.1.2 patch tweaks various classes, fixes issues with the interface, quests, dungeons and raids, as well as the world environment.

Blizzard has released the much anticipated "Black Temple" update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v2.1.1 patch addresses a few other issues that were discovered in the v2.1.0 patch...