World of Warcraft could help your grandma focus

There’s hope for grandma and grandpa in video games. Rolling up a night elf hunter or orc shaman in massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft could help cognitive functioning in some older adults, according to a new study …

Star Wars: The Old Republic isn’t hurting World of Warcraft as much as you may think

To what extent has Electronic Arts’ Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) been keeping users away from Activision Blizzard’s cash cow World of Warcraft (WoW)? Surprisingly little, according to traffic reports from leading independent community websites for both online games.…

Once dead Hellgate: London online game returns as free-to-play

Hellgate: London, an online game developed by former members of Blizzard Entertainment that was shut down in 2009, has returned from the dead and is now free-to-play.

T3Fun will now operate the game now that the original studio is defunct. …

World of Warcraft goes free-to-play for first 20 levels

World of Warcraft, one of the top-selling online games in the world, will be free to download and play for a good chunk of the game’s introductory content, game developer Blizzard Entertainment announced today.

The new program is another way …

Starcraft developer Blizzard interested in making games for iPhone, iPad

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 …

China gets World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion next month

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the latest expansion pack for Activision-Blizzard’s online role-playing game, will finally be released in China on July 12.

Video game launches have become like premieres of Hollywood blockbusters, both in the dollars consumer spend and the …