Categories Posted inin Business Activision’s The Blast Furnace resurrects Pitfall! for mobile devices Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes August 9, 2012 2 min Just in time for the game's 30th anniversary, Activision's new mobile studio, The Blast Furnace, has released a reimagining of the classic Pitfall! Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Introducing The Blast Furnace, Activision’s first mobile-only development studio Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes August 9, 2012 2 min The new studio is the latest example of Activision's aggressive investment in the mobile development space in the span of just a few months. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat weekly roundup: MMO troubles, virtual reality, gaming, and slow Vita sales Posted byby GamesBeat August 3, 2012 2 min Missed the latest news on GamesBeat? Here's a list of the stories we ran over the past week. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business World of Warcraft loses over one million subscribers in second quarter Posted byby GamesBeat August 2, 2012 1 min Massively popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft has lost over one million subs, but could the next expansion provide a needed boost? Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business As Sanctuary beckons, Diablo III players top 10M Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 2, 2012 1 min More than 10 million people are playing Diablo III. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business As blockbusters keep selling, Activision Blizzard beats Wall Street’s expectations Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 2, 2012 4 min When Activision reports its earnings, the game world listens. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria expansion releases September 25 Posted byby GamesBeat July 25, 2012 1 min Blizzard's massively multiplayer titan World of Warcraft gets its fourth expansion, Mists of Pandaria, on September 25. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Activision taps Swrve for mobile game analytics and A/B testing Posted byby GamesBeat July 25, 2012 1 min Activision Blizzard and Swrve are proving that mobile games are as important as those for consoles. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Earnings preview: Game makers to see mixed second quarter Posted byby GamesBeat July 19, 2012 3 min Financial analysts at Robert W. Baird & Co. predict how well video game publishers performed this fiscal quarter ahead of earnings reports. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business New Call of Duty: Black Ops II video says games are better than movies while touting Hollywood connection Posted byby Mike Minotti July 18, 2012 1 min Publisher Activision Blizzard is putting a lot of effort into building up Call of Duty: Black Ops II as a giant media event with this new video. Continue Reading 1 min