Eurogamer has a response from Activision to rumors that surfaced today suggesting Infinity Ward was in negotiations to become the sole developer of the Call of Duty series, which has had contributions from Treyarch, Spark Unlimited, and Gray Matter. Word is: "A spokesperson for the publ...

Voodoo Extreme reports that the June print issue of OXM mongers a rumor that Ken Levine is working on a new X-COM game, reviving speculation that first surfaced over a year ago (story). Apparently while 2K was conspicuously acquiring Ken's Irrational Games, somewhere along the way in an un...

Beyond Good & Evil 2 in pre-production, says Ancel on videogaming247 (thanks Mike Martinez and Joystiq) mongers a rumor that Beyond Good & Evil 2 is in pre-production with a development team of 10-12 people, though Ubisoft is uncertain whether to enter full development with the pr...

Blizzplanet has a tidbit from the new July print issue of PC Gamer Magazine that may indicate a Diablo 3 announcement is in the offing. They point out several details from previous Blizzard announcements to support their theory that PC Gamer is gearing up to announce a new installment in the...

Voodoo Extreme has word from PC Gamer Magazine that contrary to rumors (story), there will be no Diablo 3 announcement in their forthcoming print issue: "We're officially squelching the Diablo rumor. We've got two big announcements coming in our August issue, but neither is from Blizz...

A new patch has hit the tubes for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, updating Infinity Ward's military shooter sequel to version 1.6. The new patch addresses a denial of service vulnerability and also delivers the promised bonus map pack which was paid-for content for the Xbox 360 edition of the ...

A page promoting Xfire's Blizzard Worldwide Invitational Coverage apparently teased their coverage of a new Blizzard game announcement at the event, before the page was edited to remove that reference. The original text is immortalized on The Unofficial Diablo II Site, where they quote it a...

In not getting too caught up in today's Blizzard splash page speculation, our attempts to avoid Diablo 3 rumor-mongering today seemed to be going so well, too. But now DiabloII.Net foils that plan by reporting "confirmation from inside sources" that Blizzard will announce Diablo...

Overclocking.net has a photo of a magazine cover seemingly confirming a PC edition of Grand Theft Auto IV, which some consider to be an inevitability (eventually). The source is PC Gamer Malaysia, which is probably not sufficient to dislodge this from the rumor category. ...

Game On has more fuel for the Grand Theft Auto IV PC rumor fire, noting for a brief time the Entertainment Software Rating Board Website was showing a rating for the PC edition of GTA4 (thanks Ant and Digg). The listing was subsequently removed, but it does inspire speculation over whet...

Massively follows up on yesterday's rumors about layoffs at NCsoft Europe and the possibility that the future of Tabula Rasa is in doubt (story). They point to an itsy-bitsy post on PlanetTR.com from NCsoft's "Ziggidy Zaggidy" saying simply: "There are no current plans to c...

We got a reply from Valve to our inquiry about the rumor circulating this morning that Google was seeking to acquire Valve (story). According to spokesperson Doug Lombardi, this is just a rumor: "It's nothing more than rumor. Valve is focused on making Left 4 Dead a great product and su...

Variety reports "Private equity-backed film financier Legendary Pictures is in negotiations to acquire Epic Games, the North Carolina-based developer of videogames including 'Gears of War.'" They say this is based on reports from multiple sources, but that both Legendary and Epic h...