Microsoft acquires Obsidian Entertainment, a premier role-playing game studio
After adding five studios this year, Microsoft’s shopping cart isn’t full yet, as the publisher announced the acquisition of Obsidian Entertainment, one of the top...
Microsoft acquires InXile to make role-playing games for Xbox, PC
The Xbox team’s acquisition storm continues. The publisher revealed today that it is folding Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera studio InXile Entertainment...
Xbox Game Pass gets 16 new games, including PUBG
Microsoft announced that the Xbox Game Pass subscription is getting 16 new games, including PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Akin to Netflix for movies, the Xbox Game...
The DeanBeat: A dust-up over Diablo: Immortal has far-reaching implications
For Blizzard Entertainment, the dust-up over the announcement of the mobile game Diablo: Immortal came at a bad time. Our review editor Mike Minotti...
The RetroBeat: Why Blizzard is remastering Warcraft III — and what it’s changing
Warcraft III is one of the greatest real-time strategy games of all time, and its rich story and memorable characters set the foundation for...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is selling 3-times faster than Black Ops III on PC
Activision Blizzard just reported the results of its fiscal Q3. The company hit its own expectations, but it came up short relative to what...
SuperData: Players who pay for subscriptions spend 45% more on games
Market research firm SuperData reported that gamers who pay for subscriptions spend about 45 percent more for games than non-subscribers. That’s one reason why...
Overwolf raises $16 million for game services in round led by Intel Capital
Overwolf has raised $16 million for its game apps and services in a funding round led by Intel Capital. The Tel Aviv, Israel-based Overwolf has...
Riot Games gets hit with gender discrimination lawsuit (updated)
Riot Games is facing a class action lawsuit for gender discrimination at the publisher of League of Legends, one of the biggest games in...
Blizzard denies it intended to show Diablo 4 at BlizzCon
Game publication Kotaku stirred the hornet’s nest of entitled gamers on Monday when it published a story citing unnamed sources saying that Blizzard intended...