Dec 062007
Videogame companies Activision and Vivendi, who owns Blizzard, are merging. The New York Times has a pretty interesting article about the expansion of video games from caffeine-driven teenage-boy wonderland into some thing that everyone can enjoy.
The Wii, World of Warcraft, and Guitar Hero have all made games open to everyone. I personally think WoW is about the nerdiest game around, but it has over 9 million subscribers! That’s more than double the population of South Carolina.
Anyways, check out the link: Evidence of How Much the Gaming World Has Changed
(via nytimes.com)
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