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MMOGlider creator forced to pay World of Warcraft developer

The iconic company's co-founder on StarCraft II, the drawbacks of success, and how key secrets are kept

Blizzard co-founder on the company's growth as "a great problem to have"

While a deal with AMD will see its games bundled with ATI graphics cards

Blizzard confirms Morrisroe's departure from the company to start a business outside the games industry

Blizzard opens five new realms localised to the region and offers free character transfers

A score for users' accounts will be tallied from StarCraft II and Diablo III rewards as well as Wrath of the Lich King

New content and cost-barriers to competitors will allow the MMO's subscribership to increase

Pay per view channel to offer convention content free to new subscribers

Warcraft developer reveals that it was instrumental in the selection of partners for the Vivendi merger

Warcraft developer's COO talks about Activision Blizzard, success in Asia, and whether or not the company will develop for consoles

And the studio doesn't expect to lose Warcraft revenue to the recently announced Diablo III

MMO publisher to sell code-generating key fob from this weekend onwards

Rumours suggest Diablo 3 is on its way, but Rob Pardo refuses to be drawn

Blizzard's Rob Pardo said that the MMO was originally intended to be an ad-supported free-to-play game

Vivendi Games' Q1 revenue - 86.8 per cent coming from Blizzard - was down 24.1 per cent from Q1 2007

The senior VP of game design will be interviewed on a variety of topics in a Q&A style format

Blizzard has announced that the third annual BlizzCon will take place on October 10-11 in Anaheim, California

The EU has concluded its inquiry, granting permission for Vivendi to merge with Activision

Expansion pack The Burning Crusade boosts numbers and tempts existing players back to Blizzard's marketing leading MMO

WoW developer sues creator of program that automatically performs key tasks

Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in California, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick detailed what his company has learned so far from its impending merger with Vivendi

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has said that he thinks it would take an investment of half a billion to a billion dollars to take on World of Warcraft - and even then, success isn't guaranteed.

Blizzard's senior vice president of game design, Rob Pardo, has said players would feel "betrayed" if a micro-transaction system, of the sort common in free-to-play MMO games, was implemented in World of Warcraft.

Major UK bank Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) has apparently stopped automatic payments to California-based game operator Blizzard, on the grounds that World of Warcraft is at the centre of an unusually high incidence of credit card fraud.