Word: warcraft
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...longest decline in purchases since record keeping began. A record that probably drew less attention, though, was the one-day sales record for a computer game. In a month when, despite holiday shopping, retail sales actually fell 1.8 percent, Blizzard sold 2.8 million copies of their new World of Warcraft expansion, “Wrath of the Lich King,” at $40 a pop and in just...
...rest of the game market, which might be an even better value. Casual games often cost less than a dollar and are an expanding market on new platforms like the Apple iPhone. Power gamers are unlikely to cancel monthly subscriptions to persistent-world online games (like World of Warcraft), because the 60 or more hours many admit to playing each week makes the cost per hour infinitesimally small. Recently, “microtransaction” online games, which are free to play but charge players small amounts for in-game items and upgrades, like the Korean games Cabal Online...
...fact, Pollard said, it was his wife's addiction to another fantasy role-playing game that drove him to the other avatar. "Amy never did anything around the house. She just played World of Warcraft all the time," he said. More hurtful was her refusal to give him attention. "If I wanted to spend time with her, I had to ask, but it was always too much trouble for her to come off the game to spend time with me, so the marriage was a bit of a joke." (See pictures of World of Warcraft...
...both parties, though, there appears to be a silver lining. Taylor has a new boyfriend whom she met through playing World of Warcraft. And by Friday afternoon, the Daily Mail in England had reported that Pollard is now engaged to Linda Brinkley, 55, the woman behind the Modesty McDonnell avatar...
...Facebook friends 5) Number of Pokemon cards collected in your childhood 6) Your BMI (the lower the better) 7) Your fastest mile time 8) Number of licks it takes you to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop 9) Consecutive days spent on World of Warcraft 10) Number of Miley Cyrus songs on your iPod 11) Your record highest score on Rock Band 12) Number of jobs you’ve held without getting fired 13) Number of Central Asian states you can accurately spell 14) Number of times you failed your driving test 15) Number...