Modern Warfare 3 was a important factor in the bottom line of ActivisionBlizzard.

Activision Blizzard did not reveal specific sales figures on Modern Warfare 3, but it did highlight the game's social network, WoW cataclysm Gold: Elite. At the time of writing the platform has 7 million registered users and more than 1.5 million sign up for the premium tier of $50.

It's not surprising that the company announced that a new installment of the WoW Cataclysm Classic franchise will be out in 2012. The company also announced that it was developing Elite 2.0, with details to be announced in the coming months.

It is also possible that Activision Blizzard's investment in the market for toys has paid dividends. The company named Skylanders Spyro's Adventure the No. number one game for children in 2011, and added the company sold over 20 million toy that were based on the Skylanders franchise. The company is planning to launch an additional installment in this series called Skylanders Giants, in 2012.

Blizzard Entertainment has released a few pieces of bad announcements. The company has decided not to release its highly popular action RPG WoW Cataclysm Classic during the first quarter of the year. The Blizzard's Michael Morhaime said that the company now has the release date of April-June of the game. It will be supported by at least one additional game, possibly Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm or WoW Cataclysm Classic: Mists of Pandaria.

The company also announced it was WoW Cataclysm Classic continues to reduce its users. The most popular genre-defining massively multiplayer online game ended its year by having 10.2 million players which is down from 10.3 million at the close of September.

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Video game addiction has been a highly debated issue in public health both in the US and around the world in the past five years regardless of the absence of a official diagnosis. Although there is no official diagnosis, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) recently rejected a suggestion to include addiction to video games in the upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V)--to be released in May 2013, researchers across all over the world are still looking into methods for identifying the cause, treating, and even preventing this now acknowledged mental health problem.

A study recently conducted by National Development and Research Institutes' Special Populations Research branch in New York has discovered a connection between playing with problems and certain types of games.

First-person games like WoW Cataclysm Classic have been associated with problematic gaming habits.

Luther Elliott, Andrew Golub, Eloise Dunlap, and Geoffrey Ream (the latter from the School of Social Work at Adelphi University in New York) interviewed 3,380 adult participants aged 18 or older who reported playing video games for at least an hour over the course of the week.

The study paid special interest to the aspects of the use of video cheap Cataclysm Classic Gold games which included time spent playing games, the titles played over the past year, as well as issues that arise from playing. The researchers then utilized Gamefaqs.com to categorize the 2,652 titles that were available to 15 games that are mutually exclusive online multiplayer role-playing games, other games that involve role-playing, such as first-person shooter, action adventure Other shooter sports general driving, rhythm platformer, real-time-strategy and other strategy games puzzle board and card games, gambling and more.