World of Warcraft Hits 6.5 Million Players (PC)
Updated: Blizzard's unstoppable MMO keeps growing.
By Li C. Kuo | Sept. 7, 2006

(UPDATED: Yesterday we inaccurately reported that World of Warcraft had reached 7 million subscribers. Blizzard has given us the correct figure of 6.5 million. We apologize for the mistake.)

Back in March, Blizzard gleefully announced that 6 million gamers worldwide had subscribed to its hit massively multiplayer online role-playing game, World of Warcraft. Now, not even one year later, the game has managed to nab another 500,000 players.

WoW was launched back in November 2004. Since that time it has proven to be unstoppable in the MMO universe, with no one being able to successfully challenge its dominance. Blizzard's first expansion pack for the game, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, is due sometime in the near future.