Blizzard Entertainment's sixth annual Blizzcon event started on Friday afternoon at the Anaheim Convention Center with the announcement of a new World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria.
It has been quite a year for New York, as the city has been hit with tornadoes, a blizzard, a heat wave, an earthquake and now a hurricane.
Hundreds of thousands residents in the outer boroughs of Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn were stuck in their homes for days because plows did not clear out snow from many secondary roads.
Activision Blizzard, the biggest U.S. video game publisher, raised its earnings outlook as a strategy of focusing on a few key titles seemed to be paying off, boosting its shares more than 2 percent.
Activision Blizzard, the biggest video game publisher, raised its earnings outlook for the year and said its quarterly profit rose as more gamers bought content over the Internet for its biggest franchise, Call of Duty.
An eye opening report by city investigators dismisses allegations that sanitation workers purposefully slowed snow cleanup efforts during the December blizzard.
Blizzard co-founder Frank Pierce said that their continued success would depend on the development of a really talented team with some of the best developers in the industry and that they were trying to see if some of it could be nurtured internally.
Announced in 2008, the third title in the Diablo series may finally make its way to consumers this year.
Amid music game sales increases, the company closes Guitar Hero developer Vicarious Visions.
Activision Blizzard Inc's first-quarter outlook was below Wall Street expectations and it said would disband the unit that makes Guitar Hero music games, sending its shares down 8 percent.
ThinkEquity has said that Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive and Changyou.com are its top gaming stock picks for 2011.
A deep chill set in across much of the central U.S. on Wednesday as a major storm moved toward the northeast, bringing heavy snow, ice, wind chills and severe weather.
The Milwaukee blizzard set to hit Wisconsin on Tuesday night will bring high-speed winds reaching up to 55 miles per hour, nearly a foot of snow and bitterly cold temperatures.
A big blizzard making its way through the central United States has significantly affected air travel, with nearly 8,000 flights having been cancelled on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A Major blizzard is expected to hit at least nine Midwest and plain states on Tuesday and Wednesday with a potential of one to two feet of snow, National Weather Service reports.
Emergency school closings have been reported from Chicago due to the blizzard warning issued by the National Weather Service.
The National Weather Service said that a major blizzard is developing late Monday over Texas that will move north east past Tulsa, St. Louis and Chicago over the next two days.
Many top U.S. retailers missed Wall Street's expectations for December sales, hurt by a post-Christmas blizzard on the East Coast and shoppers returning to their cautious ways after flocking to stores after Thanksgiving.
Several top U.S. retailers missed Wall Street's high expectations for December sales as a paralyzing post-Christmas blizzard on the East Coast slowed what had been a two-month shopping spree.
Retailers have not recouped all of the $1 billion in sales postponed by shoppers as they dug out from last month's East Coast blizzard, research firm ShopperTrak said on Wednesday.
A blizzard in the Northeast this weekend postponed about $1 billion in holiday retail sales by keeping shoppers out of stores in the days after Christmas, research firm ShopperTrak said on Wednesday.
U.S. retailers might have lost $1-billion in post-Christmas sales due to the massive blizzard that struck the Northeast over the weekend, according to a report from ShopperTrak, the retail sales analysis firm.
