If you remember, a couple of weeks ago we wrote about how for one short, glorious weekend, the Diablo III beta was open and available to anybody who wanted to try it out. During that time period, Blizzard’s Community Manager Micah Whipple estimated that around 300,000 people were online playing the demo...

Quick, what do you do when the guy you hired to act as your PR firm decides to insult your customers and jeopardize your entire company? If you’re a sane person, you’d have answered “Fire him immediately”, and that is exactly what N-Control CEO David Kotkin did. However, despite firing the man who...

While StarCraft II is one of the most popular eSport games out there, it is far from perfect. With no LAN support in the game, all games must be routed through Blizzard’s servers, even if both professional players are in the same room. This can cause problems, as there have been times during professional...

Three weeks ago, it was reported that EA was going to lay off a significant percentage of their employees. EA denied the rumors, saying that “EA is growing and looking to hire hundreds of people”. Well, this might not come as a shock to you, but turns out EA was lying. EA will be “restructuring” the...

In their earnings statement, released yesterday, EA announced that subscribers for the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic have dropped from their peak of 1.7 million active subscribers to 1.3 million. For those of you who aren’t math majors, that’s about 25%. Generally, if you’ve lost 25% of your...

Some people love the idea of DLC. You get a game, play it for a while, and just when it’s starting to get stale, you can download some new content for it and keep on playing it. Companies generally love this concept too, because have DLC available means that they can make more money off of a game long...

If you were one of the people who were looking forward to EA being bought out by another company, I’m afraid I have some sad news. Nexon, a Tokyo-based company that helped pioneer the free-to-play computer game movement, is not in talks with EA to buy them out. Instead, it turns out the talk are a bit...

Call of Duty: Blacks Ops 2 is not letting its predecessors down. Despite the fact that the sales of Modern Warfare 3 are behind the sales of the original Black Ops at this time last year, Black Ops 2 is smashing the pre-order numbers of the older Call of Duty’s. That’s pretty good for a series that some...