Activision plans to debut Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer Aug. 14
The biggest third-party publisher's most important game will try to convince fans to come back for the eighth consecutive year.
Cowen report shows Call of Duty: Ghosts leads preorder sales heading into fall
Analyst firm's video game odometer shows the top 20 games for the fall.
How Tencent is slowly transforming into one of gaming's biggest investors
The Chinese company owns portions of Riot Games, Epic Games, and now Activision.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Activision buys out Vivendi for $8.17B, Zynga lays out recovery plan
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Activision buys back shares from Vivendi in a deal worth $8.17 billion
Activision purchases its freedom from Vivendi for a handsome fee.
EA exec Frank Gibeau: Betting on next-gen consoles, mobile, and doing right by consumers (interview)
EA had a good E3, and Frank Gibeau is one reason why that happened. Here's our interview with EA's studio boss.
Vivendi may shake down Activision for a special $3B dividend
Vivendi would get $2 billion and would leave Activision with $1 billion in cash.
Activision releasing new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles side-scrolling brawler in October
The game is based on the new Nickelodeon show.
Police Quest creator is back with spiritual successor Precinct (and it’s on Kickstarter, too)
Developer Jim Walls, who created the Police Quest series, announced that his Jim Walls Reloaded studio is working on a spiritual successor called Precinct that is due out for PC and Mac in 2014. To fund Precinct, Walls posted the project to crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The developer is looking for $500,000.
Activision launches Skylanders-branded Monopoly board game
It's a big brand now, but will Skylanders hit the saturation point?