Before Aion, before Guild Wars, before anything else for NCsoft, there was Lineage. Not the sequel (which actually takes place significantly before the first title) but the original game, released not too long after Ultima Online came on to the scene. While the game is ol...Read More

Square Enix Holdings announced today that it expects to post a ¥12 billion ($148 million) loss for the fiscal year that ended in March, a stark turnaround from a February internal prediction of a ¥1 billion ($12.4 million) profit. In a revision note issued Thur...Read More

Sega has confirmed a brand new Alien game in development that may be inspired by the Dead Space series. The project is different from Aliens: Colonial Marines, a shooter in the works at Gearbox Software. The currently untitled Alien game is being developed by Creative ...Read More

The Assassin's Creed franchise continues to make a killing for Ubisoft. As part of the French publisher's 2011 fiscal year earnings report today, the Ubisoft announced that Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has shipped 7.2 million units through March 31. That figure comes in ...Read More

Since the release of Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny in 2009, Namco Bandai has remained tight-lipped about the future of its weapon-based beat-'em-up. One of the reasons could be down to PSP game's poor performance--it failed to make the publisher's top 10 sales list for Apr...Read More

The Disney Interactive Media Group has posted significant losses for the second quarter of this fiscal year, leading to the parent company's earnings being lower than expected. For the quarter ended April 2, 2011, revenue from Disney Interactive Studios increased by 3 ...Read More

Tencent Holdings, China's biggest Internet company by revenue, said first-quarter profit jumped 61 percent, beating analysts' estimates, after offering new online games to boost sales. Net income climbed to 2.87 billion yuan ($442 million) from 1.78 billion yuan a year...Read More

Blizzard has admitted it needs to speed up development of expansions for World Of Warcraft to arrest a continuing slide in subscription rates. Speaking during a conference call after the publication yesterday of Activision Blizzard's latest financial results, Blizzard ...Read More

Facebook and mobile game developer Funzio announced Tuesday that it has secured $20 million in a Series A round led by IDG Ventures and IDG Capital Partners in China. Additionally, Playdom co-founder Rick Thompson, who also serves as chairman of Funzio's board, also parti...Read More

Microsoft has confirmed an agreement to purchase internet telephony and video communications company Skype for $8.5 billion, with plans to connect the service with Xbox Live and Kinect. Xbox Live users can already talk and engage in Kinect-powered video chats with each...Read More