"December 2010 was one of the best month-long WoTLK Gold performances that the industry has had in terms of retail sales," tainment Software Association president Michael Gallagher said in a statement released with the numbers. "It was a strong conclusion to a year that was marked by the development of new technologies and involving millions of people by offering a variety of distribution models. Video games and computers dominated to other options for entertainment in our response to consumer demands for original media on all platforms including smart phones, consoles to handheld game consoles."

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 today that its third update of the hugely multiplayer role-playing game been sold 4.7 million units in the first month of its release, 3.3 million of which were bought within the very first day. At present, World of Warcraft has more than 12 million players 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 new record in sales by the firm, surpassing the previous record-holder which was the 2008 record set by Wrath of the Lich King. The most recent expansion increases the game's limit to 85 instead of 80 and features the title disaster revamping a large portion of World of Warcraft 's existing world and creating new zones. The expansion also adds an entirely new race playable for all of the factions in the cheap WoTLK Gold game to the mix The goblins of technology join the Horde and Worgen, the cursed Worgen have joined the Alliance.