Chinese operator posts increase in full year revenues and profit, boosted by the September re-launch of World Of Warcraft.
The General Administration of Press and Publication in China has green-lit the launch of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.
Operator NetEase suspends new user registrations for at least a week as it awaits results of its licence application.
Chinese online game operator reportedly set to invest in two gaming companies after losing its World Of Warcraft licence.
THQ and Take-Two have been named as possible targets for Asian firms looking to buy their way into the Western market.
NetEase expected to be fined over its operation of the online title as regulatory spat between GAPP and the MOC nears resolution.
China's General Administration of Press and Publications and the Ministry of Culture have reportedly reached an agreement.
The second part of our look at CCP's Dust 514, in which we discover how this shooter's battles will be for the control of planets in Eve Online.
Part one of our account of how Eve Online's CCP has come down from the stars and on to the battlefield with its FPS, Dust 514.
Beijing research firm Analysys International predicts record online revenues in three years.
Social networks causing a "rebirth" in the platform, says Lionhead boss
Rocksteady's dark knight takes two Video Games Awards and Uncharted 2 takes four, while Shigeru Miyamoto is honoured with an Academy Fellowship.
Members attending Extraordinary General Meeting vote for re-branding and to develop a new mission statement.
Chris Donlan looks at Backbreaker Football, along with some of the other iPhone games that are slicing up sports.
IGF Nuovo finalist Ian Bogost on crafting games with meanings that players can interpret through play.
Mass Effect 2's lead cinematic designer discusses his successes and failures in creating an interactive narrative.
The shopping mall scene in Heavy Rain fails, for a simple reason: it’s no fun, argues Chris Dahlen.
N'Gai Croal opens Pandora's box and thinks that the depths of 3D really do have something special to bring to videogames.
Chris Dahlen meets the director of interactive fiction documentary Get Lamp and remembers how rich a world that only costs the time it takes to write it can be.
How hot rhythm and high camp came together to perfectly express Sega’s magical difference.
Dante would only be delighted that his hellish visions should be inflicted on a new generation of sinners.
Despite an overall year-on-year drop for UK game industry revenues, individual retailers recorded growth in 2009.
Why do you love a game that refuses to love you back? Meet Robotron: 2084 – gaming’s earliest abusive relationship.
How the rise of the home console led to the creation of an arcade gaming legend and the grandfather of Left 4 Dead.