Storm-related power outages at Activision's New York-based data centers impacting online play for all Guitar Hero games, numerous Call of Duty titles. Full Story

Developer claiming rights to the name of the popular fan-made online multiplayer game created using official mod tools for Warcraft III. Full Story

New release slate led by Turn 10's Forza Motorsport 4; Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, and Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster also out. Full Story

Activision launching new edition of ABC's obstacle course game show on 360, PS3, Wii, 3DS, DS. Full Story

Rhythm game minted $830.9 million--but Call of Duty: Black Ops is closing fast with $787.4 million; Wii Fit, Modern Warfare 2, and Rock Band also make top 10. Full Story

Project Gotham Racing, Geometry Wars, Blur, and James Bond 007: Blood Stone shop to be shuttered at the end of the week. Full Story

Activision confirms that downloadable content pipeline will dry up after this month. Full Story

[UPDATE] Unable to find buyer, Activision is recommending Blur studio be shuttered; US reps say shutdown "only likely option." Full Story

Activision's turntable-based rhythm game returns for 360, PS3, Wii in two months with 90 on-disc tracks. Full Story

Wedbush's Pachter expects 8% decline; Lazard's Sebastian forecasts 15% drop; Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2 pegged as top sellers. Full Story

Last week of May sees Video Game History Month draw to a close, reviews for ModNation Racers, Blur, Alpha Protocol, and UFC 2010 and early looks at Killzone 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops. Full Story

Box art veteran Brock Lesnar lends his likeness to another game with the release of the latest mixed martial arts game from THQ. Full Story

[UPDATE] Teaser Web site reveals launch date of Treyarch's next installment in series; co-op mode, Vietnamese, Cuban, and Arctic locales confirmed; full trailer inside. Full Story

[UPDATE] New studio Respawn Entertainment formed by Jason West, Vince Zampella; EA Partners to be exclusive distributor of future titles; Activision says deal is no surprise given the pair's "improper activities." Full Story

GDC 2010: Researcher Bruce Phillips' detailed study of 18,000 players' habits, multiplayer usage, and achievement acquisition is helping Microsoft Game Studios make better games. Full Story

[UPDATE] Activision unveils department focused on expanding franchise, confirms rumors Bay Area studio working on COD "action-adventure" title; mystery COD title due in 2011; massively multiplayer licensing in negotiations; Infinity Ward apparently involved only in MW2 expansions. Full Story

Pachter foresees 12 million in sales for World of Warcraft developer's catalog; Wilson thinks RTS will go sextuple-platinum, Greenwald also bullish on publisher. Full Story

Modern Warfare 2's record sales can't prevent Oct.-Dec. shortfall caused by asset write-down; earnings still beat analysts' expectations, stock up in after-hours trading; full-year profit of $113 million. Full Story

Wii Remote pack-in leads list of all-time titles; Guitar Hero III, GTA: San Andreas, Modern Warfare 2, Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii, Call of Duty 4, Madden NFL 07, COD: World at War, and Namco Museum also make chart. Full Story

Bobby Kotick says he "can't wait" for next installment in tepidly received rhythm franchise; publisher refocusing on quality vs. quantity. Full Story

NPD analyst pegs total store-bought software figure at $1.46 million last month; Activision's shooter franchise most lucrative so far in 2009. Full Story

Draft of Digital Economy measure proposes exceptions for games situated in athletics, rhythm, religion genres. Full Story

Double Fine's heavy metal odyssey doesn't sell out--but does outsell former publisher's massively hyped turntable rhythm game. Full Story

Pacific Crest Securities predicts slow US start for Activision rhythm game in a month with sales down 20 percent; Borderlands pegged at 375,000. Full Story

World's top publisher turns small profit on $703 million in sales; $4.05 billion 2009 outlook maintained despite concerns about holiday consumer spending. Full Story

[UPDATE] Cowen and Company's Doug Creutz cuts sales projections for Activision's latest rhythm game by 61 percent, citing online demand that is "well below" expectations. Full Story

Go Around the World in DJ Hero. Full Story

Call of Duty CCO Vince Zampella says publisher pushed for best-selling shooter franchise to remain in WWII period, PC-only. Full Story

Five months after first hints, Activision registers name of its popular shooter series for use with "pre-recorded movies"; new Modern Warfare 2 trailer inside. Full Story

Activision and Bizarre Creations' Mario Kart-meets-PGR racer bumped to next year due to online multiplayer concerns. Full Story

CEO Bobby Kotick reveals plans for "untethered Guitar Hero," Facebook integration, emotionally resonant animation, and taking "all the fun out of making video games." Full Story

North American release date of Activision's new mix-and-mash rhythm franchise confirmed; international launches to happen by Halloween. Full Story

Bedlam Games takes over litigation-plagued rhythm title following Activision's acquisition of original developer; due out early next year. Full Story

$1.038 billion in revs yield $195 million in profit for Call of Duty, World of Warcraft publisher; Starcraft II delayed to "first half of 2010"; Modern Warfare 2 most preordered game to date; COD4 sells 14 million; new James Bond, Spider-Man, post-Ride Tony Hawk next year. Full Story

Bethesda's postapocalyptic RPG gets final add-on for Xbox 360, PC; new levels for last year's Call of Duty, Freddie Mercury croons in SingStar Queen, handheld receives purple paint job. Full Story

Infinity Ward community manager twitters about custom controller for upcoming shooter; last year's Call of Duty DLC goes quadruple platinum. Full Story

Naughty Dog's PS3-exclusive sequel wins Best of Show, 5TH Cell's DS puzzler honored for Best Original Game by industry media collaboration. Full Story

GameStop listings suggest Activision is testing premium price points with Guitar Hero spin-offs; Modern Warfare 2 gets $80 special edition. Full Story

New Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart DS, Call of Duty games round out NPD Group's top 20 accounting of month's non-PC retail software sales; World of Warcraft dominates PC charts. Full Story

E3 2009: Activision Blizzard kicks off this year's marathon investor call tipping hand on RTS date, PSP Guitar Hero, and new James Bond, Tony Hawk, Spider-Man, and Transformers in 2010. Full Story

Activision's second band-centric Guitar Hero comes down under. Full Story

Naughty Dog founders Jason Rubin and Andrew Gavin start Monkey Gods, a new casual game development company specializing in 360, PS3, Wii, iPhone, and Facebook games. Full Story

[UPDATE] Crash Bandicoot studio posts job ads for two potentially related positions to work on Nintendo's console; Activision confirms "no plans to bring Prototype to the Wii." Full Story

Activision announces rumored game from recently acquired Project Gotham Racing studio will debut at next month's gaming expo. Full Story

Activision confirms previously rumoured Heroes arriving this autumn, alongside Van Halen; full Greatest Hits/Smash Hits setlist revealed; first shot of turntable controller inside. Full Story

Massive multinational's chief executive Jean-Bernard Levy to head board of world's biggest third-party publisher; Bobby Kotick still CEO. Full Story

Los Angeles judge finds no evidence of wrongdoing, refuses to grant restraining order against 7 Studios or its new parent company; plaintiffs Genius and Numark say there's more in store. Full Story

Megapublisher accused of acquiring 7 Studios to halt work on DJ Hero rival; "substantial damages" sought along with return of software assets, Numark turntable controller. Full Story

GDC 2009: Activision declares hit "best-selling first-person action game of all time"; Infinity Ward reps appear to confirm spin-off; Activision mum on COD series' future. Full Story

Launch of teaser site confirms turntablist Guitar Hero spin-off will come to Microsoft console and at least one of Sony's platforms; Nintendo edition reconfirmed. Full Story

[UPDATE] Demand for Nintendo's console and Capcom's long-awaited fighter helps monthly game sales top $1.47 billion; Killzone 2 guns down 323,000. Full Story

NPD reports World of Warcraft expansion's reign at retail has extended for another moon; Sims 2 Double Deluxe takes silver, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II bangs out bronze. Full Story

Capcom's controversial and highly anticipated horror survival game set to spook gamers later this week. Full Story

Guerrilla Games' sci-fi shooter prevents Xbox 360's clean sweep of rental service's weekly charts. Full Story

Capcom's 2D fighter tops GameFly's rental charts on Xbox 360, PS3, as Microsoft's platform scores near-perfect sweep of top 10. Full Story

US gaming industry sales climb 13 percent to $1.33 billion, led by Nintendo's fitness trainer; Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty, World Tour, Skate 2 among other top sellers. Full Story

Activision readying compilation of full-band versions of tracks from older Guitar Hero games; third offering on Nintendo's handheld by year's end. Full Story

Modern Warfare nets seven nods in extended Brit game awards; GTAIV, Fable II, Little Big Planet. Full Story

Top Global Markets anoints power plumber's day at the races as best-selling international game of the year; Wii Fit logs 8.31M, GTAIV hits 7.29M. Full Story

NPD figures have Activision's rocker outselling Harmonix rival two-to-one in the United States last year. Full Story

US retailers rack up another record year as Nintendo dominates hardware and software charts; Sony sees December system sales shrink. Full Story

Wedbush Morgan's game-industry wise man forecasts tit-for-tat price cuts from Sony, Microsoft in weeks leading up to E3; $2.62 billion in December software sales forecast. Full Story

Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, World of Warcraft, Gears of War, and Wii Fit top store's sales chart as retailer closes out 2008 with record-breaking stretch of game sales. Full Story

Microsoft dubs Bungie's sci-fi FPS as most-played online Xbox 360 game; Castle Crashers crowned Arcade champ. Full Story

Slightly disappointing World Tour sales aside, Signal Hill's Todd Greenwald expects franchise to grow in 2009 with Metallica, Jimi Hendrix extensions. Full Story

UBS reports Activision beat Rock Band 2-to-1 in November rhythm-game revenues--but 30.8% year-on-year earnings slide despite product doubling rings alarm bells. Full Story

[UPDATE] Nintendo's console reigns supreme in hardware, more than doubling Xbox 360; Gears 2, COD: World at War top software; top-20 games. Full Story

Colin Sebastian believes poor showing of Mirror's Edge could lead to more layoffs and cancellations; EEDAR's Jesse Divnich thinks Activision's rhythm game has "peaked." Full Story

MK vs. DC Universe, Shaun White Snowboarding, Lips, Tomb Raider Underworld, NFS Undercover, Rabbids TV Party, New Xbox Experience all launch this week. Full Story

[UPDATE] Guitar Hero triumphs on four platforms in October with $67.3 million as Harmonix' upstart continues to rock hard with $26.8 million; Rock Revolution sells less than 3,000. Full Story

Retail shelves brace for impact, as headliners join Call of Duty: World at War, Mirror's Edge, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw, PES, Star Wars The Clone Wars, and more. Full Story

It's an explosive week, literally, as headliners join EndWar, James Bond: Quantum of Solace, AC/DC Rock Band Track Pack, and more. Full Story

World Tour project director flatly states scratch-ready rhythm game in the works. Full Story

Despite being temporarily banned, Fallout 3 makes it onto our soil at the same time as the rest of the world. Full Story

It's raining games, as headliners join Midnight Club, PS3 trio of BioShock, Eternal Sonata, Rock Band 2, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Portal: Still Alive, and more. Full Story

Publisher wants Xbox 360, PS2, and PC players willing to take a virtual bullet for the president in budget-priced game coming later this year. Full Story

RedOctane.com says "deluxe" edition of rhythm game a pretty penny on PS3, 360; PS2 and Wii DE $220; but what does an extra $50 buy? Full Story

EA, Activision, THQ, Ubisoft, Sony, and Microsoft partially recover from yesterday's fiscal boot party on Wall Street. Full Story

MTV inks deal with Australian rockers to release first band-based stand-alone product exclusively via Wal-Mart in November; pack's 18 tracks can be added to Rock Band, Rock Band 2; no DLC version planned. Full Story

Megapublisher registers title for possible Guitar Hero rhythm spin-off. Is a Dance Dance Revolution rival next? Full Story

Activision confirms original developer will return to series next year, talks about monetizing online play with "Day One Advantage" experience acceleration. Full Story

Fifth installment in Call of Duty series dated for North America; PC and 360 betas opening up in October. Full Story

Four-piece Guitar Hero game to ship on November 12 in Australia; four new tracks announced, including one from Aussies The Living End. Full Story

Publisher confirms Rock Band 2, GH: World Tour, and Rock Revolution instruments will all be interoperable; SingStar mics also game-agnostic. Full Story

Record company CEO says licensing fees paid to the music industry by game companies are "far too small." Full Story

Neversoft's World Tour gets experienced with 'Purple Haze' and 'Wind Cries Mary' on the disc; more to come as downloadable content. Full Story

Microsoft's press conference reveals rumored Xbox Live overhaul and Karaoke game--then delivers Square Enix shocker; exclusive Fallout 3 DLC coming, Gears 2 touted. Full Story

CEO Robert Kotick tells Reuters the current top third-party publisher is pondering selling original recordings alongside Guitar Hero tracks and considering "appropriate" buyouts. Full Story

Activision and Neversoft confirm rumors of "touch strip" guitar neck for Guitar Hero holiday edition; Billy Idol, Foo Fighters, Sublime, Linkin Park, Van Halen, and The Eagles on board. Full Story

UK's Official Xbox Magazine reveals Treyarch-developed Call of Duty: World at War will visit the Pacific Theater of WWII with four-player player co-op and vehicular multiplayer. Full Story

GameStop now listing Activision full-band rhythm game set as $10 more expensive than Rock Band; PS2 version $179, Guitar-only bundles $99; allegedly due October 27. Full Story

Latest Game Informer spills beans on cymbal-enabled drum kit, character and guitar creation, song-creation toolset, and music sharing. Full Story

Publisher confirms follow-up to Infinity Ward's modern-warfare shooter will have new setting on Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, and DS; COD4 engine to power next James Bond game, due this fall. Full Story

German band Blind Guardian talk to GameSpot about their appearance in the upcoming Sacred 2, and what it's like to be a guitarist playing Guitar Hero. Full Story

Sierra's airborne-reptile trilogy wraps this fall with Dawn of the Dragon on 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS; marsupial practicing Mind Over Mutant on 360, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS. Full Story

British pop rockers' "Photograph," "Rock of Ages," and debut single "Nine Lives" rocking Activision's rhythm game on April 24 for X360, May 8 for PS3. Full Story

Instrument maker's quest to have Activision's Guitar Hero pulled from store shelves extended to include EA, MTV, and Harmonix's latest four-piece rhythm game. Full Story

Longtime supporter of Activision's best-selling rhythm franchise claims game violates patent filed in 1999 for "technology for simulating a musical performance." Full Story

We caught up with RedOctane's founder and president to talk Guitar Hero sequels, boss battles, and working with Aerosmith. Full Story

Activision Blizzard confirms recently announced merger will not disrupt plans for new iterations in popular franchises. Full Story