Filling World of Warcraft’s boots: Why Blizzard had to delay Titan

Publisher Activision Blizzard has to make a hit with Titan to replace the revenue generated by World of Warcraft.

Blizzard delays unannounced MMO until 2016, resets whole project (exclusive)

The game known only under the codename Titan has been delayed. The publisher is redeploying about 70 developers to other projects.

Xbox One troubles University of Michigan’s video game archivist

Game preservation is already a difficult job, but Xbox One might have just made it that much harder.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: WoW loses 1.3M subscribers, Amazon brings paid apps to China, Q1 earnings, and more

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Activision Blizzard says Call of Duty: Ghosts will be a huge launch, but stock falls on weak Warcraft numbers

In after-hours trading, Activision Blizzard's stock price fell 5 percent to $14.49 a share. The fall may be due to the drop in World of Warcraft numbers and the comments about the second half.

Dota 2 replaces World of Warcraft as Raptr’s third most-played game

The gaming social-network Raptr reveals the data for the 20 most-played games in April.

League of Legends is crushing World of Warcraft in China’s Internet cafes (exclusive)

Tencent is giving Activision Blizzard a run for its money in the huge Chinese online gaming market.

Everybody was kung-fu fighting: Age of Wushu comes to America (preview)

Age of Wushu's kung-fu fantasy is already a major hit in China. Now developer Snail games plans on bringing its wuxia-style MMO to America, and they're targeting World of Warcraft players who crave a cheaper, deeper game.

‘The Thunder King’ trailer celebrates the imminent arrival of World of Warcraft’s latest patch

Gather, heroes. Sound the drums. The Thunder King comes. The Thunder King comes.

House GOP majority leader Eric Cantor calls publicly funded research into video games a ‘waste’

Video games could hold great mental-health benefits, but the leader of the House of Representatives' Republican majority would rather not know that.

Warcraft movie officially gets a new director, again

David Bowie's son to direct the long-in-development Warcraft film.

How major MMOs are celebrating Christmas in-game (gallery)

Some have you saving Santa, some have you killing him -- but either way, he's giving up that holiday loot.

The biggest gaming surprises of 2012

It doesn't matter how closely you follow the news or how often you refresh your browser; some companies can still manage to catch the gaming public completely unaware. Here are some of our picks for the biggest surprises of 2012.