French media giant Vivendi SA won permission from the European Commission on Wednesday to merge its video game unit with Activision in a $9.85-billion US deal. The commission said the combined company "would not significantly impede effective competition...
A three year cooperation between Blizzard and Tokyopop have been decided upon. Out of this deal there will be twenty two brand new Starcraft and Warcraft Manga volumes that are slated to be released through 2010. They've previously worked together...
It's taken a long time, but BlizzCast Episode 3 is now available. It's quite interesting and contain a lot of neat information, definitely worth the wait and to listen to and/or read the transcript. Episode 3 of BlizzCast takes us deeper into...
Today Blizzard announced that the Dance and Costume signups are now open for the 2008 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational , to be held in Paris, France in less than two weeks! The two-day event will run on Saturday, June 28th and Sunday, June 29th -- culminating...
Earlier this morning a new splash page appeared on Blizzard's official site . When they did this last it was just before the 2007 World Wide Invitational in Korea, and during the event they announced Starcraft 2 . This coming weekend there's the...
Blizzard very recently updated their teaser page with a new image. This time it's "ice3.jpg". It's slowly opening up and we can see random symbols inside the ice. Another update was made to the master.css file, where they added the word...
A few minutes ago Blizzard uploaded "ice4.jpg", making it the fourth teaser image of their soon-to-be announced new game. What game do you believe its going to be? It's definitely nothing related to Wrath of the Lich King of Starcraft 2...
Today Blizzard uploaded "ice5.jpg", making it the fifth teaser image of their soon-to-be announced new game. What game do you believe its going to be? It's definitely nothing related to Wrath of the Lich King of Starcraft 2. Nor anything...
What a weekend in Paris. Blizzard really does know how to throw a special event; especially considering it was the first-ever Blizzard-run gaming event in Europe. Thousands upon thousands of eager Blizzard gamers attended, and I must say I personally...
Yesterday the COO (Chief operating officer) Paul Sams of Blizzard told Gamasutra that he feels that Microsoft can do more for the PC gaming scene. Especially, since they are the makers of the Windows platform and have full access to develop it further...
Multiplayer, a blog built by MTV News has spoken with Blizzard execs Paul Sams, Chief Operating Officer, and Frank Pearce, Executive Vice President of Product Development. Two interesting topics they go over are why Diablo III isn't an MMO and also...
