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...
StarCraft II game’s next frontier is China
It used to be that if a Western game showed up in China, it was pirated. But times have changed, and Blizzard Entertainment and...
Atari to launch big online game Tera from Korean developer
En Masse Entertainment is announcing today that its blockbuster-wannabe online game Tera will be launched by Atari this year in the North American market....
How World of Warcraft maker keeps the hits coming
Who’s responsible for Blizzard Entertainment’s string of money-minting video games? Meet Paul Sams, the chief operating officer of Blizzard, now a division of Activision...
Will Trion’s Rift be cataclysmic for World of WarCraft?
Rift is one of the biggest bets in video game history. Trion Worlds has been building the fantasy role-playing online game world for almost...
How “Star Wars: The Old Republic” will reenergize multiplayer gaming (video)
With 12 million paying subscribers, World of WarCraft is the juggernaut of the massively multiplayer online game business. But Star Wars: The Old Republic...
EA loses more even as digital game sales grow
Electronic Arts reported a bigger loss than a year ago, blaming a lack of video-game hits during the holiday season. But the Redwood City,...
Week in review: The top 10 video games of the year
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: VentureBeat’s top ten...
Blizzard secures dominance of online games with World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (review)
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is Blizzard Entertainment‘s most ambitious expansion pack for its wildly popular online role-playing game yet. Instead of focusing on adding...
Free-to-play games creep closer to killing monthly subscriptions
The free-to-play model has all but taken over the online game industry. Next stop: everything else. Free online games, which make money through upgrades...