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A little over a month since it launched all over the world on December 7. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has broken yet another record. Publisher-developer Blizzard entertainment announced this morning that its third update to the hugely multiplayer role-playing game already sold 4.7 million units in the first month of its release, 3.3 million of which were bought in the very first day. In the present, World of Warcraft has more than 12 million users around the world.
Deathwing has wiped out 4.7 million Wow accounts within one month.
In Blizzard's official sales numbers, Cataclysm has set a record-breaking sales record by the firm, surpassing the previous record holder the previous record, which was set in the 2008 record set by Wrath of the Lich King. The latest update increases the level cap of the game from 80 to 85 and has its own infamous catastrophe changing the layout of World of Warcraft 's existing world and the addition of several new areas. It also introduces the possibility of a new playable race for all of the factions in the game to the mix The goblins of technology are now part of the Horde while those who are cursed Worgen have joined the Alliance.
The year of 2014 was a great one for Blizzard. In July the Irvine California-based studio launched Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty which was the initial installment of a trilogy for its sci-fi-themed real-time strategy franchise. The game was sold out to
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