The perfect storm: How Blizzard North channeled chaos to design the original Diablo
The author of a new Blizzard book, Stay Awhile and Listen, analyzes game design at one of the industry's most successful companies.
Activision unveils Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer, and you can play a woman
Activision reveals the multiplayer combat in its next big Call of Duty game.
Skylanders: Swap Force has lots of variety … and repetition (hands-on preview)
You can now swap Skylanders toys to create new creatures. Is that enough to keep the juggernaut franchise going?
Activision Blizzard stock soars 15%, Zynga's falls 14% — what does it mean for games?
Investors piled out of Zynga and seemingly right into Activision Blizzard.
As subscribers sink, Blizzard searches for ways to make World of Warcraft grow
Tom Chilton and J. Allen Brack are among those who have to keep World of Warcraft growing.
Activision Blizzard preannounces earnings that beat Wall Street estimates
World of Warcraft continues to lose subscribers.
Activision launches Skylanders-branded Monopoly board game
It's a big brand now, but will Skylanders hit the saturation point?
Blizzard taps NetEase to release freemium card game Hearthstone in China
Hearthstone is heading for one of the world's biggest market for free-to-play games.
Activision Blizzard and Tencent join the game industry’s lobbying group
Activision rejoins the ESA, while China's Tencent joins for the first time.
Blizzard is testing microtransactions in World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft has been losing subscribers, so free-to-play may be in the offing.