12 Highest Grossing Video Games Of All Time

#1 World of Warcraft

Developer: Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI)

Released: 2004

Revenue: $9.23 billion

Now 13 years since its release, World of Warcraft continues to remain one of the most popular MMORPG’s in the world, with about 10 million subscribers. While that’s down slightly from the game’s peak of about 12 million subscribers in 2011, the game is nonetheless showing incredible longevity and continues to rake in boatloads of money for Activision Blizzard. Blizzard had been working on a new MMO for years, codenamed Titan, but eventually scrapped the project, perhaps partly out of fear that it would cannibalize WoW subs, which may not have been expected to still be as strong as they were when Titan was first started. Instead, some assets from Titan were reworked into Blizzard’s popular first-person shooter Overwatch.

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There you have it, the 12 highest grossing video games of all time. There were likely a few shockers on the list, and perhaps some games you’re surprised didn’t make it, such as Grand Theft Auto 5, which has sold over 65 million copies, yet only checked in at $2.48 billion through the end of 2015. Will any game knock World of Warcraft from its perch any time soon? Let us know in the comments.

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