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Originally Posted by wraggster

Mike Morhaime, president of World Of Warcraft developer Blizzard, has said that a second quarterly decline in subscriber numbers should not be a cause of concern. Instead he claims it was to be expected following the release of the game's third expansion, Cataclysm, last December.

Speaking on an investor call following the publication yesterday of Activision Blizzard's latest financial results, Morhaime revealed that World Of Warcraft ended the quarter with 11.1 million subscribers.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The GameBox app makes Facebook games playable on the Apple tablet by handling Flash rendering in the cloud. Only two games are available at present - Zynga's CityVille, and Army Attack by Digital Chocolate - but developer Mobi2SNS is promising that more titles will be added over time

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/gamebox...cityville-ipad

Originally Posted by wraggster

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, developer Snowblind Studios has told Eurogamer.

"We feel that it is," said producer Ruth Tomandl. "We went back and looked pretty closely at Dark Alliance and looked at what really facilitated the co-op in that game, because a lot of people, including a lot of us, played that game on the couch with our friends.

"And we wanted to figure out what was

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood will be available as a digital download on the EU PlayStation Network from tomorrow for £23.99, Ubisoft's confirmed.

In addition to the game, the publisher will also be releasing a set of 10 avatars at a price of £0.40 each, it says, two of which (Ezio and the Harlequin) will be exclusive to PlayStation Plus users and come free with purchase of ACB.

As a special promotion, Ubi's also dropping the price of the digital download version of

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Borderlands 2 is in development at Gearbox Software, Eurogamer understands.

We've heard an announcement from publisher 2K Games will be made soon.

A source close to the game told Eurogamer the Gearbox-developed shooter will release on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next year.

Borderlands 2 has been rumoured for months now. In April Borderlands 2 was spotted on a game developer's online CV – sparking speculation that the sequel will be announced at E3

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