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World of Warcraft Floats Vivendi Games

Posted by Zonk on from the nice-to-have-someone-to-borrow-from dept.

Gamasutra reports that Vivendi Universal Games posted strong revenues for the third quarter, largely thanks to some MMOG. From the article: "The previously troubled game division, which the company had earlier been attempting to sell off, saw revenues increase by 88 percent to 158 million ($189m), thanks to the global success of Blizzard's massively multiplayer role-playing game World of WarCraft. The game's success has also had a positive effect on operating profits, which rose to 7 million ($8 million), from a loss of 32 million ($37m) at the same time last year." Unrelatedly, but humorously, Joystiq reports that WoW showed up as a Jeopardy! question recently.

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  1. Jeopardy! by BigDork1001 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I saw that. It was the $2000 dollar question. And none of the contestants got it right! I mean c'mon, you'd think that college kids would know what WoW was. Of course maybe the fact that they are on Jeopardy! shows that they don't play. All the WoW addicts are too busy to leave Azeroth.

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  2. Jeopardy Clip? by Blackwulf · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apparently, the entire category that the Leeroy Jenkins question was found in was about computer games, however every video clip I can find ONLY shows the WoW question. Is there a clip online of all five questions? (Apparently the others were about Halo and GTA.)