The digital division of the company contributed heavily for its profits in 2012 as revenue exceeding all-time high of $1.6 billion. This is 32 percent of revenues.

Blizzard entertainment also announced today the  subscriptions have decreased from 10 million at the end of September, to 9.6 million by December 31. Even with the decline it remains the most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online online role-playing game, according to the company.

Additionally, Activision announced that the Skylanders franchise has now earned over $1 billion in retail since its launch in the year 2011. This is significantly higher that the 500 million total revenue that the company reported earlier in the month, but the figure was based on sales from the United States.

Blizzard Entertainment also updated its numbers for sales of WoW Cataclysm Classic which revealed that the dungeon-crawler had sold in (i.e. delivered) more than 12 million units at the end of December which is up from 10 million sold the previous year.

WoW Cataclysm Classic: The Burning Crusade Walkthrough

It's been 2 years and a half since Blizzard launched WoW Cataclysm Classic on a gaming community that seemed ready to get it. While other massively multiplayer games did well prior to when WoW was released on store shelves in November 2004 none of them had experienced anything close to the massive popularity in WoW Cataclysm Classic. As one of the largest hit games to hit the shelves in PC games history offline or online, WoW Cataclysm Classic has gained a life that is its own, growing its global subscriber base to eight million users over the past two years.

Unfortunately for those who played WoW and then escaped the addictiveness, Blizzard has managed to release four more compact discs brimming with exciting contents in The Burning Crusade, the first fully-featured expansion to  The list of additions to The Burning Crusade is a rollcall of features that you would have expected to see including new races, new quest zones and a new profession an increased level cap and more.