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...
BioWare: Old Republic server transfers in early summer
BioWare says character transfers for Star Wars: The Old Republic launches in early summer after a round of preliminary testing.
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.
The top 5 MMOs of 2012 — and what they’re doing differently
2012 will see some of the biggest releases ever in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game genre. GamesBeat has rounded up the most promising titles and asked their developers, “What makes your game unique?”
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.
WTFast promises to destroy lag in online games; we’re skeptical
The WTFast service is supposedly an accelerator of the connection between clients and servers which potentially increases the responsiveness of online games. I was skeptical, so I went in search of more data.
Retro revival: PC games raise $6.7M and counting in Kickstarter campaigns
Kickstarter’s gone vogue. With a single, bold move by Double Fine’s Tim Schafer in early February, the crowdfunding web site propelled itself into the...
Can we panic now? — Core gaming has a problem
THQ layoffs, Sega cancellations, and Sony studio closures caused last week to be one of the worst in memory for the gaming industry. Compare that to mobile darling OMGPOP which was sold for $210 million based on the strength of one game. It seems like one side of the market is on its way down, while the other side has nothing but growth ahead of it, but that isn't necessarily the case.
Guild Wars 2 challenges MMO establishment with hybrid business model (preview)
The massively multiplayer online (MMO) games business is about to get even more competitive. Market leader World of Warcraft (WoW) dodged a bullet when...
Free-to-play games catching MMO subscribers’ attention (and wallets)
The successful launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic notwithstanding, the business model of mandatory subscriptions for massively multiplayer online (MMO) games seems to...