world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king posts

The stock market went a little wonky today but after the markets closed came good news from publisher Activision Blizzard who announced their latest financial results. For their last quarter that ended on March 31, the company had $1.3 billion in revenues compared to $981 million from the same period a year ago. Non-GAAP net profits reached $381 million for the quarter, up from $189 million from the same period a year ago.

That's well beyond what the publisher had predicted and was due to higher than expected sales of their first person shooter Modern Warfare 2 and Blizzard's MMO expansion World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.

Our sister web site WoW Insider is at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational event in Paris, France and the event has turned into a treasure trove of info on their hit MMO World of Warcraft and their upcoming expansion pack Wrath of the Lich King. The site has reports from all of the World of Warcraft panels at the event.

In addition, Blizzard has released new screenshots from the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion. While the second major commerical expansion to the MMO is officially set for release "when it's done", Blizzard's parent company Vivendi Games is expecting the expansion to be released sometime in the second half of 2008.