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Activision-Blizzard’s ( ATVI ) “Guitar Hero” game is not living up to expectations, notes Cowen & Co. analyst Douglas Creutz in a note to clients this morning in which he nevertheless maintains an “Outperform” rating on the stock. Based on sales so far of 500,000 units for “Guitar Hero 5,” which went on sale Sept. 1 , Creutz estimates the title will sell only 1.5 million units in its first year of release, well below his expectation of 4.7 million units. Creutz doesn’t offer any theories

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By Skylar Smith Daily Titan Staff Writer oasting 11.5 million monthly subscriptions, the popular massive multiplayer online role playing game “World of Warcraft” …

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5.5 million lines of code for the game, which is 1.3 petrabytes in size (a petrabyte is a MILLION megabytes) 4.4 billion in-game rewards have been handed out the game’s 12 million subscribers/shut-ins SOURCE

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If this is true, WoW has around 11.5 million subscribers. When I got WoW, there was a sticker on the box touting 6 million. Oh how far it has come. Some statistics from this article at VideoGamer.com (which it takes from Gamasutra) include: 13,250 server blades 75,000 cpu cores 112.5 terabytes of ram Patch 1.3 saw 4.7 petabytes of data [...]

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According to this year’s Comscore stats, consumer publishing platform Wikia has surpassed DIY social network competitor Ning for monthly unique visitors. Since July 2008 the company’s traffic has more than doubled from 2.8 million to 6.5 million unique US visitors per month. Despite abandoning Wikia search in early March, it seems Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has built another great company. As of this evening, Wikia’s CEO Gil Penchina is announcing the company’s profitability due to i

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