Scientific Games acquires Bally's money-gaming, social-casino division in $5.1B deal
Scientific will pay $3.3 billion in cash as well as an additional $1.8 billion to refinance Bally's existing debt.
Xbox Live is down (again) for many and is causing a black-screen bug
Microsoft is working on a fix for the problems right now.
Puzzle & Dragons’ huge profit explains why Square Enix has 20 new mobile games in 2014
Puzzle & Dragons helped GungHo make more than $500 million in profit in the first half of 2014.
Beyond Good & Evil director joins new indie studio — but he's still at Ubisoft as well
Michel Ancel will split his time between two jobs, and Ubisoft says he is still working on its games.
PlayStation sales tripled Xbox sales last quarter, according to Sony
Microsoft only sold 1.1 million Xbox consoles last quarter while Sony sold 3.5 million PlayStations.
Mobile-gaming ad network RockYou secures $10M in financing
RockYou doesn't have any games in development, but it has 75 million players in its gamer network.
Titanfall's 'no servers found' issue affecting players — Microsoft is working on a fix (update)
Microsoft is also having some issues with in-game purchases for titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Halo 4.
Xbox Live is down for some Xbox One owners — Microsoft is working on a fix
This is the second outage in two weeks for Xbox Live.
Nintendo will need a lot from Smash Bros. and Hyrule Warriors to sell 3.6M Wii U systems
The Wii U has a one or two games that could propel it through the rest of the year, and at least one analyst thinks Nintendo should achieve its guidance for the system's sales.
Crytek drops U.K. studio and downsizes its team in Austin after Deep Silver buys Homefront
The studio is moving development of Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age from its U.S. team to Frankfurt in addition to its just-announced agreement with Deep Silver regarding Homefront.