Activision-Blizzard makes lots of money, no update on Blizzard earnings

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Activision-Blizzard has released their third-quarter numbers for the financial year of 2009, and as you might expect for the company in charge of Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, and World of Warcraft, business is brisk. They were expecting to make around $700 million, and ended up making around $50 million more than that. It's good, we guess, to be the king.

Blizzard, in particular, laid claim to three of the top five selling PC games in North America on the good side, and on the bad side, Activision acknowledges in the press release that they're happy to have WoW back online in China, but a little worried about the troubles it's seen over there lately.

Strangely enough, there is no information in the earnings about how much money World of Warcraft has pulled in for the company, or any updates about subscriber numbers. Usually, that gets at least a mention, so maybe, with subscribers certainly down in China, Activision-Blizzard wants to keep that under their hat for now.Continue reading Activision-Blizzard makes lots of money, no update on Blizzard earnings

Activision-Blizzard makes lots of money, no update on Blizzard earnings originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.




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