GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Activision Blizzard’s quarterly earnings report predicted to shine come Wednesday
Activision Blizzard will report its first-fiscal-quarter earnings on Wednesday, May 9, after the market close. This will come two days after its arch-rival Electronic Arts reports its earnings, and the two together will paint a better picture of the grudge match between EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic and Activision Blizzard's flagship online game World of Warcraft.
EA’s quarterly earnings report will be a must-read on Monday
Game industry observers will be watching Electronic Arts closely on Monday, May 7, when the company is scheduled to report its fourth fiscal-quarter earnings...
PopCap opens the product licensing floodgates for the first time
PopCap Games is announcing today a number of deals in which it will license its popular video game franchises to makers of T-shirts, toys, and other merchandise. You'll soon see everything from zombie wallets to Plants vs. Zombies T-shirts.
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
EA stock spikes on rumor that Nexon will buy it (not likely)
Shares of Electronic Arts rose today on a rumor that Japan’s Nexon has made a bid to purchase EA. The odd thing is that...
Star Wars: The Old Republic launches in 38 additional countries
Star Wars: The Old Republic is officially launching in 38 additional countries throughout Europe and the Middle East, developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts today announced.
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Game marketers strive to stand out among a sea of social noise
The Game Marketing Summit is where marketers go to fill up on inspiration when it comes to marketing video games to the largest audiences...
Electronic Arts burned by reports of impending layoffs
Electronic Arts has an internal shakeup in the works, according to several reports around the web today. While EA representatives claim that the world’s...