Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. 今(21)日表示，《魔獸世界》全新資料片「巫妖王之怒」英文產品包在上市24小時內創下280萬套的銷售佳績，成為史上銷售最快的電腦遊戲；此項記錄打 破2007年1月《魔獸世界》第一部資料片「燃燒的遠征」上市24小時內即銷售240萬套的記錄。「巫妖王之怒」英文產品包已於本月13日在北美、歐洲、 智利、阿根廷及俄羅斯上市、澳洲、紐西蘭、新加坡、泰國則於14日上市；南韓、台灣、香港及澳門則已於18日開機、並於20日加開「凜風峽灣」及「撒爾薩 里安」2組伺服器，因應大量人潮。

As chief executive of Gaia Online, an Internet hangout for some 6 million teens, Craig Sherman should be worried about how the worsening economy could slam Web advertising. Nope, not a bit. Unlike so many Web startups that until recently saw ads as an easy ticket to riches, Gaia gets most of its more than $1 million in monthly revenues from sales—in this case, virtual items: clothes, jewelry, and other accessories to dress up one's avatar, or online character. They run from a few pennies to $10 or so apiece. Gaia's gross profit margins on sales of virtual goods, which are up tenfold from two years ago, top 95%. After all, they're just endlessly reproducible bits and bytes.