King beats Wall Street estimates for Q3 earnings, but revenues weaken
King, the Candy Crush Saga game publisher which has agreed to be acquired by Activision Blizzard for $5.9 billion on Monday night, reported earnings for...
Activision, Microsoft are gaming’s biggest TV ad spenders in October
Console games are once again on top of TV ad spending, holding four of the Top 5 spender spots in the gaming industry. In...
Why King’s disruptive CEO is happy with his new traditional-gaming overlord
Call of Duty, StarCraft, and now Candy Crush Saga. Activision Blizzard’s $5.9 billion purchase of King Digital Entertainment means that it will have a...
Activision rolls out new Guitar Hero Live content starting today
Activision is beefing up the song catalog on its Guitar Hero TV (GHTV) service, which lets players jam along to a selection of curated...
Activision’s stock price hits all-time high, closes up 7.5% after King deal
We woke up today to a world where Activision is now, overnight, one of the biggest mobile gaming publishers in the world. And Wall...
After King deal, Activision now makes more revenue from games than Microsoft, Sony, or EA
The numbers now say that Activision Blizzard is bigger than Microsoft and Sony. The gaming giant bought mobile developer King yesterday for $5.9 billion in...
Activision’s $1.04B revenues surged past expectations last quarter
Activision is rocking the gaming world today with the news that it’s in the works to buy Candy Crush Saga publisher King for $5.9...
World of Warcraft monthly subscribers fall slightly to 5.5M — and Blizzard will no longer report player numbers
I don’t think Blizzard wants us to watch World of Warcraft’s subscription numbers continue to shrink. Activision Blizzard revealed today that its popular MMO...
Activision buys Candy Crush Saga publisher King for $5.9B
One of the biggest publishers of traditional games in the world now also owns one of the biggest mobile publishers. Call of Duty, World...
Call of Duty: Black Ops III is getting modding and map-making tools on PC
The Call of Duty community will have the capability to help the next game in the series grow in ways the developer never predicted....