East meets West in mobile games as Kabam raises $120M from China's Alibaba Group
China's giant Internet firm Alibaba makes its move into Western games via a strategic deal with Kabam.
Puzzle & Dragons’ huge profit explains why Square Enix has 20 new mobile games in 2014
Puzzle & Dragons helped GungHo make more than $500 million in profit in the first half of 2014.
Cloud Strife, Ryu, Mega Man … the real birthdays of some of the biggest video game characters
We dig through annals of video game history and find the exact birthdays of Mega Man, Cloud, and more.
Beyond Good & Evil director joins new indie studio — but he's still at Ubisoft as well
Michel Ancel will split his time between two jobs, and Ubisoft says he is still working on its games.
Destiny tries to beat the massively multiplayer console game curse
Massively multiplayer online (MMO) games usually go to consoles to die. Bungie's new MMO shooter-RPG Destiny tries to avoid the usual killing fields.
PlayStation sales tripled Xbox sales last quarter, according to Sony
Microsoft only sold 1.1 million Xbox consoles last quarter while Sony sold 3.5 million PlayStations.
Fantasy Life is the role-playing game where you can be a chef just as easily as a mercenary (preview)
Fantasy Life is a game that is ready to adapt to any career choice you make, be it a wizard or a lumberjack.
How Sledgehammer Games became the new Call of Duty studio (interview)
Sledgehammer Games promises that Advanced Warfare isn't the same old Call of Duty.
Xbox One secures its first MMO — and it's coming to free-to-play-crazy China (update)
The Xbox One is finally breaking into the massively multiplayer online gaming universe. Publisher Perfect World Entertainment and developer Cryptic Studios announced today that the...
Crytek drops U.K. studio and downsizes its team in Austin after Deep Silver buys Homefront
The studio is moving development of Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age from its U.S. team to Frankfurt in addition to its just-announced agreement with Deep Silver regarding Homefront.