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.
Activision Blizzard beats estimates, but World of Warcraft loses 1.3M subscribers.
John Vignocchi shows off the latest with Disney Infinity in a video interview. He says that Disney isn't just copying Skylanders.
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Activision has another $1 billion franchise that it plans to update annually.
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Editor's Pick The winner of these battles will carve out a transmedia empire.
The Disney conglomeration is using its vast resources to make a game like no one else can. It looks like it might even be fun, too.
Disney tends to add 3D to a lot of its films, so showing the recently unveiled Disney Infinity figures in 3D seems only natural, right? Check out this small gallery of wiggle pictures taken with a Nintendo 3DS.
Disney Interactive is the next big publisher to mix collectible figures and video games with its new Infinity project.
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Video game sales fell 42% percent in April, with total industry sales falling to $630.4 million from $930.9 million a year ago, according to market researcher NPD Group. The early Easter holiday this year may have contributed to the lower than expected sales numbers along with a relatively light game release schedule for the month.
Skylanders, the new game and toy franchise from Activision Blizzard, is exceeding expectations across platforms.
A trailer for the game Rayman Legends has leaked, demonstrating use of the Wii U’s tablet-like controller, and showing how real world objects can be linked with games on Nintendo’s upcoming console.
Activision Blizzard is diving into freemium monetization strategies for iOS games in a big way with the worldwide launch of Skylanders Cloud Patrol today.
The new app signals a major departure for the company, which has always focused on selling …
Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure was a sleeper hit last year, a unique cross-platform product that combined a video game with collectible real-world toys. Now, ahead of the annual North American International Toy Fair in New York City, Activision Publishing is announcing …
Nintendo is a funny old company. Just when you think it is out of ideas, it has a habit of springing innovation on the market that changes things forever. The Wii brought us motion gaming, and the 3DS saw the …
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