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Analyst: Call of Duty Online could make $100 million in its first year

Rumors have been flying around about a subscription-based Call of Duty game for some time now — Activision boss Bobby Kotick loves the idea , because he loves money, and the company’s other subscription-based game, World of Warcraft , is quite the cash-printing machine. So why not go down that road? Many still believe Activision will, including Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey. With the …

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Analyst: Subscription Call of Duty In China Could Bring In $100M For Netease

Analyst Mike Hickey with Janco Partners said in a Friday research note that Chinese World of Warcraft operator Netease and Activision Blizzard could ink a new licensing deal to bring a rumored Call of Duty subscription service to China. If established, Hickey said, the service could bring in $50-100 million in first-year sales for Netease, which picked up the lucrative operating rights for …

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World of Warcraft quitter: ‘I was addicted’

Nicky Haik was stuck at home sick for a week when he was 13. Out of boredom, he started playing World of Warcraft. During the next five years, he says he spent somewhere between 175 and 200 solid days, or well over 4,000 hours, playing the game…

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Call Of Duty Online In China Could Net Activision $100 Million In First Year

World of Warcraft has been a veritable gold mine for Blizzard; it’s the gift that just keeps on giving. And as much as Activision denies it , CEO Bobby Kotick would love nothing more than to transform the Call of Duty franchise into a similar subscription business.

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Video game workshop scheduled

Instead of wasting away the summer playing World of Warcraft why not put your creative mind to work designing the next best-selling video game? Thats the idea behind a two-day Summer Workshop in Video Game Design sponsored by UCR Extension specifically for teens and preteens.

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