Blizzard is looking to have more of an influence over how its game is used in e-sports.
Twitch has over 29 million unique viewers a month, and it's only getting bigger.
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.
The country's biggest gaming competition is growing its online viewership at a startling pace.
This gallery shows a dozen Lego models inspired by video games, which are a testament to the creativity of both the Lego and gaming communities, and a reminder of the versatility and power of the humble Lego brick.
Activision Blizzard will report its first-fiscal-quarter earnings on Wednesday, May 9, after the market close. This will come two days after its arch-rival Electronic Arts reports its earnings, and the two together will paint a better picture of the grudge match between EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic and Activision Blizzard's flagship online game World of Warcraft.
The numbers are in from this month’s IGN Pro League (IPL) gaming competition, and they’re record-breakers of a kind. IGN boasts of drawing 346,000 streaming spectators at the tournament’s peak and more than 3 million unique viewers over all three …
Professional video game players just got a big endorsement: NBA star Gordon Hayward has signed on with the IGN Pro League.
Hayward (pictured), a forward for the Utah Jazz pro basketball team, will try his hand at the eSport of …
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 making games built for the iPhone.
That would give Activision-Blizzard access to millions of iPhone, iPad …
A trailer for Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm — the second episode of Activision-Blizzard’s massively popular real-time strategy (RTS) game franchise — found its way onto the Internet over the weekend and has appeared on video streaming site YouTube.…
It used to be that if a Western game showed up in China, it was pirated. But times have changed, and Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase.com have announced that StarCraft II is beginning a long-awaited open beta test in China on …
Justin.tv, a site that lets web browsers watch and publish live video streams, is recruiting additional developers to build an exclusive electronic sports live-streaming website for games like real-time strategy game Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty.
The live streaming site …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories we published in the last seven days:
Reddit ‘excited’ about chance to eat Digg’s lunch — Could social news aggregator Reddit catch up to its more …
If you’ve noticed a drop in productivity among your workers lately, you might trace it back to the July 27 launch of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. The sequel to the original StarCraft came out 12 years after the first …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Oracle sues Google over Android — Oracle announced this week that it has filed suit against Google for alleged …
Overall U.S. console game sales shrank 1 percent in July, continuing a weak trend that has persisted for much of the year. But sales of StarCraft II, which went on sale on July 27, were so strong that PC game …
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty sold more than 1.5 million copies in its first 48 hours, making it the top-selling PC game of the year, according to Blizzard Entertainment.
The game was one of the most anticipated PC games ever, …
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty went on sale tonight, some 12 years after the original game debuted. The game is likely to be one of the biggest sellers of the year and the first shot in the arm for the …
Just a day before the release of Starcraft II, the pre-orders for the sci-fi PC game have hit 800,000 units, suggesting the game will be a sure-fire hit this summer.
VGChartz reports that sales in the Americas in the first …
Game maker Blizzard Entertainment is preparing to release the much anticipated StarCraft II on July 27, and many gamers are salivating over the title, which is a sequel to the hit real-time strategy sci-fi game that came out more than …
