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GDC 2011: An Epidemiologist’s View Of World Of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood Plague

In 2005, there was a major epidemic that affected a vast population of 6.5 million people worldwide, but it went largely unreported by the mainstream media. That’s because it was an in-game epidemic in Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft that is now known as the Corrupted Blood Plague, or the Hakkar Blood Plague. Even though the epidemic was virtual, it still provided fascinating insight …

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Obituaries Today: Michael Ypma, 32-year Herman Miller employee, dies at 50

As a video game connoisseur, Michael’s favorite endeavor was World of Warcraft (Mandrick for the Alliance).

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Netease.com 4Q net income jumps 25 percent

Chinese online game and Web advertising company NetEase.com Inc. said its fourth-quarter net income jumped 25 percent, helped in part by the launch of extra content for a popular video game called World of Warcraft.

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Five Reasons Why I Didn’t Get Into World of Warcraft

Note that these are only my personal opinions, I respect every reader’s opinion and if you would like to kindly voice them in comments, please do so. A few months ago I tried something totally out of my video game league. I decided to try World of Warcraft, the mmo (massive multi-player online) that has become popularized with millions of players. One of reasons for me looking into WoW was …

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World Of Warcraft Drives 47% Annual Sales Rise At China’s Netease

Chinese online game service provider Netease reported a rise in annual sales and profit driven by World of Warcraft, which the Beijing-based company licenses from Blizzard Entertainment. Total sales for the year ended December 31 were 5.7 billion yuan ($857.5 million), up 47 percent compared to the year prior. Annual profits were 2.2 billion yuan ($338.8 million), up 16 percent year-on-year …

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