Blizzard Entertainment teams with Xfire offer $23,000 in prizes.
By Li C. Kuo | July 28, 2006

Want to score a free PC upgrade? How about a free XFX GeForce 7900 GT? How about a set of PC hardware and accessories valued at more than $1,000 and a free 12-month subscription to World of Warcraft? These prizes and more can all be yours if you enter a winning machinima movie using World of Warcraft into Blizzard and Xfire's Summer Movie Contest. Only movies created using World of Warcraft will be accepted. There are four categories in which you can enter your submissions: Short Film, Comedy, Music Video/Dance and Drama/Action. $23,000 worth of prizes will be given to the winners. To get more details on entering the Summer Movie Contest or to take a look at the prize packages, head over to Xfire's official contest page.

World of Warcraft Hits 6.5 Million Players (PC)
Updated: Blizzard's unstoppable MMO keeps growing.
By Li C. Kuo | Sept. 7, 2006

(UPDATED: Yesterday we inaccurately reported that World of Warcraft had reached 7 million subscribers. Blizzard has given us the correct figure of 6.5 million. We apologize for the mistake.)

Back in March, Blizzard gleefully announced that 6 million gamers worldwide had subscribed to its hit massively multiplayer online role-playing game, World of Warcraft. Now, not even one year later, the game has managed to nab another 500,000 players.

WoW was launched back in November 2004. Since that time it has proven to be unstoppable in the MMO universe, with no one being able to successfully challenge its dominance. Blizzard's first expansion pack for the game, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, is due sometime in the near future.