1. Julie Fedotova, III IR Fedotova Julie, III IR

2. History Michael Morhaime Allen Adham Frank Pearce

3. 1) 1994 – Warcraft: Orcs & Humans

4. 2) 1996 - Diablo

5. 3) 1996 - StarCraft

6. Battle.net

8. World of Warcraft  World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard.

10. Interesting facts  It’s a common knowledge, that there were fatal accidents connecting with MMORPGs. In October of 2005 a Chinese girl died from utter exhaustion after she had been playing WoW for several days. There was her virtual funeral in the Internet.

11.  On the 27 th of February in 2009 the Swedish organization “The Youth Care Foundation” announced that in the world of computer games WoW can be compared with cocaine. They asserted that they often faced the examples of computer addiction, and always WoW was to blame. Moreover, after the release of the game the number of suicides on the basis of games has greatly increased.

12. Thanks for your attention! Igromir, 2009