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Affinity Media Buys Game News Site WoWHead For $1 Million

WoWHead.com, a small news and information site devoted to Vivendi’s World of Warcraft, has been acquired by Affinity Media for an estimated $1 million, Gaming Today reported. World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that operates within Vivendi Game’s Blizzard Entertainment unit. As for Affinity Media, a unit within the ZAM Network, which includes other game-related sites like Allakhazam, Thottbot, and MMOInterface.

Gamasutra: Affinity Media was once known as the owner of IGE, though the company has since divested itself of the controversial gold farming business.

Update: News of WoWHead ‘s funding was first reported by TechSoapbox.

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Jun 25, 2007 5:13 PM ET

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Jun 25, 2007 10:01 PM

‘The original source of the leak and 1 million figure: http://www.techsoapbox.com/hot-off-the-presses-wowhead-sold-for-over-1-million/’

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