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Week in review: A first look at Google's Music Beta

Week in review: A first look at Google's Music Beta

May 14, 2011 9:25 AM Anthony Ha

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 first look: it’s miserable – Google’s Music Beta is supposed to provide users with a way …

Why I (and probably 600,000 others) stopped playing World of Warcraft

Why I (and probably 600,000 others) stopped playing World of Warcraft

May 11, 2011 7:28 PM Matthew Lynley

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 expansion packs yet. Blizzard chief executive Mike Morhaime said players blitzed through the content faster than …

StarCraft II game's next frontier is China

StarCraft II game's next frontier is China

March 17, 2011 6:29 PM Dean Takahashi

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 …

Atari to launch big online game Tera from Korean developer

Atari to launch big online game Tera from Korean developer

March 17, 2011 5:30 AM Dean Takahashi

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.

In one sense, that’s not a big deal as there were scores of massively multiplayer online …

How World of Warcraft maker keeps the hits coming

How World of Warcraft maker keeps the hits coming

March 7, 2011 5:00 AM Dean Takahashi

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 Blizzard, the gaming powerhouse created from the $18 billion merger in 2007 of Activision and Vivendi …

Will Trion's Rift be cataclysmic for World of WarCraft?

Will Trion's Rift be cataclysmic for World of WarCraft?

February 25, 2011 5:00 AM Dean Takahashi

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 five years and has raised more than $100 million to build the game and the dynamic …

How "Star Wars: The Old Republic" will reenergize multiplayer gaming (video)

How "Star Wars: The Old Republic" will reenergize multiplayer gaming (video)

February 11, 2011 4:39 PM Dean Takahashi


With 12 million paying subscribers, World of WarCraft is the juggernaut of the massively multiplayer online game business. But Star Wars: The Old Republic is waiting in the wings to challenge WoW’s dominance of online gaming. After many years of …

EA loses more even as digital game sales grow

EA loses more even as digital game sales grow

February 1, 2011 3:44 PM Dean Takahashi

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, Calif.-based company touted the growth of its digital online game business as a reason for optimism.…

Week in review: The top 10 video games of the year

Week in review: The top 10 video games of the year

December 18, 2010 3:40 PM Anthony Ha

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 video games of the year (vote for your favorite) — Game publishers aren’t thrilled that video …

Blizzard secures dominance of online games with World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (review)

Blizzard secures dominance of online games with World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (review)

December 3, 2010 7:30 AM Matthew Lynley

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 additional content for high-level players, like it did in its previous expansion, Blizzard went back to …

Free-to-play games creep closer to killing monthly subscriptions

Free-to-play games creep closer to killing monthly subscriptions

November 12, 2010 2:08 PM Matthew Lynley

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 and other digital bonuses which help speed play along, continues to grow in popularity. Nearly one …

Activision Blizzard makes $360M overnight on Call of Duty: Black Ops launch

Activision Blizzard makes $360M overnight on Call of Duty: Black Ops launch

November 11, 2010 10:16 AM Matthew Lynley

Activision Blizzard must get tired of setting records all the time.

Call of Duty: Black Ops has shattered the previous record for launch-day game sales set by its predecessor Modern Warfare 2 and raked in $360 million for the largest …

Jack Black and Tenacious D rock out at Blizzcon 2010 (video)

Jack Black and Tenacious D rock out at Blizzcon 2010 (video)

October 24, 2010 5:07 PM Matthew Lynley

It was only a matter of time before musical group Tenacious D took the stage at the closing ceremony of Blizzcon 2010. When they did, the crowd of around 20,000 attendees almost brought the roof of the Anaheim convention center …

Cosplaying Blizzcon 2010 attendees strut their stuff on stage (video)

Cosplaying Blizzcon 2010 attendees strut their stuff on stage (video)

October 24, 2010 1:36 PM Matthew Lynley

Roughly 20,000 people attended World of Warcraft and Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty creator Blizzard Entertainment’s Blizzcon 2010 convention in Anaheim, Calif. A good number of them pulled out all stops to dress up as their favorite Blizzard game characters.…

World of Warcraft fans: you don't need a DVD for newest expansion

World of Warcraft fans: you don't need a DVD for newest expansion

October 22, 2010 1:04 PM Matthew Lynley

Blizzard Entertainment, the creator of games like Warcraft and Diablo, announced today that its newest expansion pack for the insanely popular World of Warcraft online game would be available for a preliminary download.

This is another of the first large-scale …

Lord of the Rings Online doubles its revenue after going free-to-play

Lord of the Rings Online doubles its revenue after going free-to-play

October 8, 2010 11:25 AM Matthew Lynley

Turbine’s online role-playing game Lord of the Rings Online has doubled its revenue since it moved from a subscription model to a free-to-play model earlier last month, said the game’s executive producer, Kate Paiz. Paiz made the comment at GDC …

Holding back free game hordes, World of Warcraft crosses 12M paying subscribers

Holding back free game hordes, World of Warcraft crosses 12M paying subscribers

October 7, 2010 2:01 PM Dean Takahashi

World of Warcraft is successfully holding defending its territory against the onslaught of free-to-play fantasy role-playing games. Blizzard Entertainment said today that WoW has more than 12 million paying subscribers, making it the biggest subscription online game by far.

World …

Blizzard confirms World of Warcraft Cataclysm launch for Dec. 7

Blizzard confirms World of Warcraft Cataclysm launch for Dec. 7

October 4, 2010 9:41 AM Dean Takahashi

Following through on its pledge to launch two major games in a year, Blizzard Entertainment said it will release World of Warcraft: Cataclysm on Dec. 7. The game is a surefire hit because World of Warcraft remains the most popular …

MobileBeat: AFK keeps gamers connected to their worlds from anywhere

MobileBeat: AFK keeps gamers connected to their worlds from anywhere

July 12, 2010 1:30 PM Devindra Hardawar

AFK Interactive is one of 20 promising startups included in the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition, and is in the running for one of two coveted Tesla Awards.

AFK Interactive’s M4 platform (Massively Multi-user Mobile Monetization) is the holy grail for …

Blizzard predicts biggest year ever with Starcraft II and World of Warcraft Cataclysm

Blizzard predicts biggest year ever with Starcraft II and World of Warcraft Cataclysm

May 6, 2010 2:33 PM Dean Takahashi

Mike Morhaime, the president of Activision Blizzard’s Blizzard Entertainment division, said the coming release of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty was the company’s “most ambitious” in history.

Add to that the release of World of Warcraft Cataclysm, and the two …

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