Activision adding microtransactions to Call of Duty: Black Ops II with Personalization Packs
Activision unlocks the power to nickel and dime its huge Call of Duty audience.
The Princeton Review ranks the best schools for game design
Universities around the nation continue to expand their gaming programs. The Princeton Review names the best.
Xi3’s Steam Box-like Piston starts at $1,000 — debuts holiday 2013
The tiny and quiet PC gaming rig from Xi3 finally gets a price tag.
Howard Stringer retires after overseeing rocky period for Sony and PlayStation
He oversaw the PlayStation 3 launch, 3D televisions, and one of the largest hacks of all time.
Star Wars: First Assault is reportedly a first-person predecessor to Battlefront III
First Assault would pit teams of Stormtroopers and Rebels against one another on familiar Star Wars planets.
Zynga exec: Debate over clones is a ‘distraction’ — everyone copies
Zynga New York general manager explains what he meant when he admitted that the developer copies others.
MLG, Twitch, and Blizzard execs talk the business, growth, and popularity of e-sports
Twitch has over 29 million unique viewers a month, and it's only getting bigger.
Brian Fargo (Torment) and Richard Garriott (Shroud of the Avatar) speak about each other’s Kickstarters
The men behind two of the biggest recent crowdfunding projects speak out about one another's games.
While SimCity stumbles: Kalypso discounts Tropico on Steam, and SimCity 2000 tops GOG charts
The Tropico publisher is swooping in to capitalize on EA's errors.
EA puts brakes on SimCity marketing campaign as servers continue to malfunction
The publisher is suspending the city-building game's ad campaigns.