Activision Blizzard’s strategy for world conquest
Activision Blizzard has become the No. 2 publicly traded game company in the world, second only to China’s Tencent. It has done so by...
World of Warcraft: Legion at BlizzCon 2015 — new cinematic and details
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Blizzard Entertainment announced the latest on World of Warcraft: Legion and other Warcraft additions at BlizzCon 2015 in Anaheim today. Chris...
Activision Blizzard is counting on Call of Duty: Black Ops III to return series to growth
The hype around Call of Duty: Black Ops III couldn’t be bigger today as the game formally launches. Players around the world attended midnight...
Activision Blizzard opens movie studio to create films and TV shows based on its games
Activision Blizzard has finally gone Hollywood. The world’s No. 2 video game publisher is announcing today the launch of Activision Blizzard Studios, a new...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Activision-Blizzard buys King, and Halo 5 sells big
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! Activision-Blizzard sent shockwaves through the gaming industry this week when it bought King for $5.9 billion. We also...
Take-Two cans Borderlands Online — 150 people lose jobs as 2K China studio closes
Take-Two Interactive has shut down a 150-person game studio in China and stopped development on Borderlands Online, which would have been a free-to-play online...
For Shop Heroes, Apple featuring it on the App Store was a double-edged sword
When you want to make a mobile hit, you’ll need some heroics of your own. At our GamesBeat conference in San Francisco last month,...
World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion coming September 21
A leak has given us some new details on World of Warcraft’s next expansion. A splash page image (above) showed up on Battle.net revealing...
The DeanBeat: The top 25 public game companies have changed drastically in five years
Five years ago, not many people outside of China had heard of Tencent. But today, the company heads the list of the top 25 public companies...
Blizzard’s Overwatch is coming to consoles and PC spring 2016
While a full announcement will likely come today during BlizzCon, a splash page (that’s now gone) featuring the image above on Battle.net revealed that Blizzard’s team-based shooter is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC next spring. This also confirms that Overwatch is coming to consoles.