That's a huge number and one that I honestly think signals that with sufficient value delivered, consumers will still pay for software. This might be an anomaly of historic proportions, too, though.

Blizzard said today that those 10 million paying subscribers include 5.5 million players in Asia, 2.5 million in the US and 2 million in Europe. Consider that, advertisers, when insisting that only US audiences are monetizable. Niche blog (or is it niche?) WoW Insider asks in its coverage whether Blizzard has reached market saturation. The Warcraft brand was first introduced in 1994 and World of Warcraft was launched in 2001.

For readers unfamiliar with WoW, there's a lot of video on YouTube, including the following parody of Weird Al's "That's Your Horoscope Today". It's not the catchiest tune but it's a good tour of what goes on in the game and it's been viewed more than 4 million times. When you build software that becomes a platform for user generated content all abo

Last month, a Virginia Tech student was found dead in the Target parking lot of the Christiansburg, Virginia store with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. His name was Daniel Kim, a 21-year old senior at the university. Unfortunately, some individuals have already started making assumptions that somehow his death was related to and possibly caused by gaming.

After doing a little research, I discovered that gaming is actually the one thing in his life that gave him a chance to live. Daniel was an avid Warcraft player who had developed numerous friendships playing the game over the past couple of years. The only warning signs that he was on the edge came in the form of emails sent to the university from various WoW players who were concerned for his safety. Unfortunately, little action was taken from the warnings and as we all know, Daniel Kim is now dead.

This was an unfortunate and probably preventable tragedy. It’s also unfortunate that some people will try to blame games when gaming may have been the only positive thing going on in his life. Online multiplayer games have a social aspect that the media simply does not understand. You create bonds with people you have never seen

DENVER (Billboard) - In the two months since MTV Networks and Harmonix released the music-based videogame "Rock Band," players have purchased and downloaded more than 2.5 million additional songs made availa

Half-Life Live Action Film?

A couple weeks ago I was pondering the possibility of a Half-Life live action film (based more on the second game then the first), hopefully one not so cataclysmic as Dooms (though

I Hope i can have one~~~~~~~~~