Cryptozoic Entertainment have been granted the license to produce the World of Warcraft Card game, this is the news that hit last night and has been picked up by a large number of other sites. I think granted is a massive stretch perhaps given is a little more likely when you consider that the aforementioned Cryptozoic Entertainment was founded by Cory Jones from Blizzard (and Upper Deck before that) and Ex DC comics and Wildstorm Exec John Nee. For those who don’t know Wildstorm was an independent comic company which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of DC comics. Many sites are reporting that John is coming from Wildstorm, however in reality he resigned from DC in 2008. His history with large scale licenses and management may put the card game in reasonably safe hands, he is the CEO of the new company.
Cory Jones, now the new director of Entertainment on the other hand was also formerly Director of Brand and New Product Development with Upper Deck which is worrying. Anyone who was in the higher management levels of Upper Deck has ethical questions to answer. He worked on the initial product and then jumped to Blizzard, the license holders. Now having set up this third company they have been handed the rights to WOW. Hopefully they will not let the fans down, but time will tell. At the time of publication the official web site is down http://www.cryptozoic.com/
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You got so much information wrong it’s not even funny. You may want to re-read the release.
Well not all of our information comes from press releases, as far as I can see everything is accurate, however we are willing to correct any errors so feel free to point them out and we would look at them.