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Give it up to Colin Stewart at the OC Register for getting the inside scoop once more at Blizzard HQ.
Blizzard Entertainment, the envy of the computer game industry, has learned 11 lessons on innovation that can help almost any business.
Irvine-based Blizzard used these innovation methods not only to create the world’s most popular massively [...]

This is not really suprising for most of us. According to MMOGChart.com, World of Warcraft has 62.3% market share of MMOG Subscriptions, the closest competitor which is Runescape is really far behind with 6.9%, followed by Lineage 6.6% and Lineage II 6.3%.
It’s safe to assume that World of Warcraft won’t lose his dominating position this [...]

A group of investors are apparently planning to sue Activision regarding their recent merger with Vivendi Games, apparently saying that Activision didn’t do enough to cash in on the deal. They’re complaining that in the deal with Vivendi (Blizzard’s owners), Activision settled for an “unfavorable minority poisition.” The company hasn’t responded yet, but if this [...]