Once dead Hellgate: London online game returns as free-to-play
Hellgate: London, an online game developed by former members of Blizzard Entertainment that was shut down in 2009, has returned from the dead and...
World of Warcraft goes free-to-play for first 20 levels
World of Warcraft, one of the top-selling online games in the world, will be free to download and play for a good chunk of...
Star Wars Galaxies players start petition to make game free-to-play
[Update: The petition has now gathered more than 2,100 signatures] Enraged and frustrated players of Sony’s online Star Wars role-playing game, Star Wars Galaxies,...
Why Star Wars Galaxies' demise will be a tragedy
Star Wars Galaxies, one of the first online Star Wars games run by Sony Online Entertainment, will shut down December 15 — before the release of the...
Starcraft developer Blizzard interested in making games for iPhone, iPad
Activision-Blizzard’s Greg Street, a lead designer behind the company’s highly successful World of Warcraft online game, told Eurogamer that his company was interested in...
China gets World of Warcraft's Cataclysm expansion next month
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the latest expansion pack for Activision-Blizzard’s online role-playing game, will finally be released in China on July 12. Video game...
Star Wars: The Old Republic is World of Warcraft for Star Wars fans
Let’s get this out there right now — Star Wars: The Old Republic probably won’t kill World of Warcraft. At least, not in terms...
Can e-sports be bigger than golf? (Q&A)
Justin.tv, a site that lets web browsers watch and publish live video streams, started recruiting additional developers to build an exclusive electronic sports live-streaming...
Week in review: A first look at Google’s Music Beta
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Google’s Music Beta...
Why I (and probably 600,000 others) stopped playing World of Warcraft
Blizzard’s flagship online game, World of Warcraft, shed around 600,000 players in the last quarter even though it released one of its most successful...