In an almost direct mirroring of Electronic Art’s recent earnings report announcement, Activision Blizzard has announced that one of their highly anticipated titles – True Crime: Hong Kong, originally scheduled for release sometime this Fall – has been pushed back into next year. The hopeful revamp of the sandbox action franchise has been building up […]
To little surprise, Blizzard’s epic follow-up to the hallowed Starcraft has been met with both critical favor and record-setting sales. In the U.K., the sequel outsold the lifetime sales of the original in its first 24 hours on store shelves. The game sold over a million units within on Day 1, making it “the best […]
Patience is a virtue Richard Garriott (aka Lord British) knows very well. Allegedly terminated for NCSoft in late 2008, the Ultima-creator sued the company for $47 million on fraud and breach of contract charges. His claim comes mainly for the company truncating his time to sell off his stock, losing him assumed millions in the […]
Thanks to a hefty $150 million investment raised from Japan’s Softbank, Zynga has announced a new Japanese studio, simply called Zynga Japan. The joint venture between Softbank and Zynga is based in Tokyo and will “tap into Japan’s rich history of gaming and leverage Softbank’s cutting edge mobile and Web technology to produce the best […]