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3.3 million copies of World of Warcraft game were sold by Activision Blizzard in its first day on the market. "World of Warcraft: Cataclysm," launched December 7, surpassed the record set by the previous "World of Warcraft" release in November 2008, said the company.

The multiplayer online game has 12 million subscribers around the world, providing the company with steady and recurring revenue. Nearly half of those subscribers are in Asia, and the other half are in western countries, analysts say.

Tuesday morning, Blizzard sent out a 'friendly reminder' in a move to prevent StarCraft II player from being cheated.

The company thus advised gamers in mail to spread the word that anyone caught cheating or modifying the StarCraft II game client will be permanently banned from logging into Battle.net, Blizzard's catchall player aggregation service.

According to s study by Ipsos MediaCT that polled over a thousand of people 64% of gamers still like their media to be on physical discs.

“I believe the preference for physical discs amongst next gen gamers reflects the potential value they derive from the pre-owned market, which is holding up the preference for physical – this is unlike the music and film markets,” said Ipsos MediaCT director Ian Bramley.

The same survey found that music and film’s digital rejection rates were at 45 and 51 percent, respectively.

According to the new study, young boys who receive their first video game system don't progress as quickly in school as boys who don't have such gaming devices. That means, parents who worry about their kids addicted to video games might be right.

The study was published last week in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

The average reading and writing scores of the young gamers don't go down, but they don't improve either as study found.

A Japanese man, playing dating simulation game "Love Plus" under the moniker SAL9000, married game character Nene Anegasaki.

Having married a few weeks ago, they transmitted marriage ceremony on Japan's version YouTube.

SAL9000, doesn’t not want to reveal his real name for fear of being misunderstood. He recognizes to be an "otaku", a breed of Japanese youth obsessed with video games, computers and fantasy worlds.