Activision-Blizzard is not a company that ignores the bottom line. Their latest conference call to investors and quarterly financial report made this point abundantly clear with announcements leaving a wake of studio restructurings, layoffs, game cancellations and a whole lot more Call of Duty. So what...

Lets face it, damn near anything that leaves the hallowed halls of developer Blizzard is pretty much guaranteed to be a smash hit.  Along with said success comes the concern of rampant piracy, a topic that Blizzard has never shied away from discussing.  Considering that their current MMO development model...

It is a pretty well known fact that Blizzard has made a metric shit-ton of money, hocking their StarCraft themed wares in South Korea over the last decade.  If the sport of baseball is considered the United States’ “National Pastime”,  then StarCraft would be the equivalent for the...

Jeff Strain, a man with an amazing MMO pedigree, has opened a new studio in Seattle dedicated to creating the ultimate zombie console MMO. After spending the last few years working with NCSoft on the Guild Wars franchise Strain felt it was time for a change. Last summer he left NCSoft to begin laying down...