Call of Duty: Black Ops III Eclipse DLC hits PS4 on April 19
April is the cruelest month. Call of Duty fans will be able to express themselves fully and get out their frustrations with the Eclipse...
Activision Blizzard adds a few hundred million users as it closes $5.9B King acquisition
Call of Duty and Candy Crush Saga are now married. Activision Blizzard today completed its $5.9 billion acquisition of King Digital Network, the maker of...
Despite strong Call of Duty growth, Activision Blizzard fails to beat expectations in holiday quarter
Activision Blizzard (ATVI) reported earnings that were below the expectations of Wall Street analysts during its traditionally strong holiday quarter. And its stock price has fallen...
The DeanBeat: My rank is 3,440,250 in Call of Duty: Black Ops III multiplayer
I had the rare pleasure of hitting the highest level in Call of Duty: Black Ops III multiplayer a week ago. This is the earliest...
The DeanBeat: Worldwide game revenues weren’t too shabby in 2015
China may have hit the pause button, and the stock markets around the world tanked. Game investments and game industry acquisitions fell sharply in...
Activision Blizzard names ‘Pulp Fiction’ producer Stacey Sher to co-lead film studio
Activision Blizzard is intent on elbowing its way into the movie business. Today, the company is announcing that it has hired Stacey Sher, a...
Activision Blizzard buys MLG for estimated $46M to build ‘ESPN of esports’
Just weeks after announcing its esports division, Activision Blizzard has acquired the assets of live esports event organizer Major League Gaming for an estimated...
The DeanBeat: 10 predictions for the game industry in 2016
The video game business is unpredictable. But if you can predict the trends with a reasonable degree of accuracy, your company can gain a...
Call of Duty: Black Ops III sets record with $550M sales in three days
Call of Duty: Black Ops III generated $550 million in worldwide sales in its first three days. That gives Activision Blizzard the biggest entertainment launch...
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...