Video game fan asks court to ban real sloth and greed from World of Warcraft outlines a lawsuit brought by a World of Warcraft player against IGE over virtual gold sales. According to plaintiff Antonio Hernandez virtual gold sales hurt the game's economy. According to defendant IGE, he has n...

There's a Cevat Yerli Q&A on IGN talking with the Crytek CEO about a variety of topics. One interesting bit, as pointed out by Gamasutra (thanks Mike Martinez), is his elaboration on his previous assertions about the impact of PC piracy on sales of Crysis, as his guestimates at piracy r...

BlizzCon 2008 Website has word that the glitch from earlier (story) is fixed, and that BlizzCon 2008 ticket sales are underway. Word is:This morning, we experienced some technical difficulties with ticket sales for BlizzCon. Please be aware that no tickets were sold during the service int...

The latest from the World of Warcraft Forums on the status of BlizzCon 2008 tickets is a post that went up in the wee hours (Eastern time) today in a futile bid to save folks from staying up until the wee hours. So the tomorrow it refers to means later today: Update: 9:40 PM PDT - We have a...

The BlizzCon 2008 has word that their complication has suffered a bit of a complication: Due to continued extreme demand, the Blizzard Store is again temporarily unavailable while we make some adjustments to better accommodate the volume of BlizzCon ticket purchase requests. For continuing u...

Steam is offering another weekend sale. Through August 25 Beyond Good and Evil and AudioSurf are available for $4.99 each. ...

The Bionic Commando Website highlights the positive reviews garnered by Bionic Commando: Rearmed and has news that their digital release of the platformer remake has news that the game has sold over 130,000 units via digital download. They describe this as a "friggin JUGGERNAUT" in...

Spore expected to sell 2 million in US in September quotes sales projections by Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Markets. Among the specific things he's seen in his crystal ball are US sales of 2 million copies of Spore in September and around 650K sign-ups this month for Warhammer Online: ...

Gamasutra quotes Stardock's Brad Wardell saying that the success of Sins of a Solar Empire is in part based design decisions by developer Ironclad Games that lead to low system requirements, saying the game will look great running on a four year-old video card. As to that success, he says th...

Steam News announces the latest of what seem like regular weekly sales, saying they are offering all id Software Games for 50% off. This offer ends September 8. In other news for bargain hunters, Steam is also now offering sales of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, offering Funcom's M...

GTA IV' Sales Slow, Complicating Take-Two/EA Merger is an analysis based on the new NPD game sales data (story) saying sales of Grand Theft Auto IV "have slowed considerably, which may complicate ongoing talks to buy the company." EA is in negotiations to takeover Take-Two (story...

The David Braben Interview on GamesIndustry.biz talks with the Frontier Developments boss about The Outsider, Frontier's upcoming action/adventure game, while also getting thoughts on the industry in general from the man behind the classic space trading and combat game Elite. One topic that ...

EA announces that Spore has sold over one million units for PC, Mac, and DS since  the launch of the life simulation a couple of weeks ago, and that over 25 million creatures, vehicles, and buildings have been uploaded to the Sporepedia (26,531,862 as of this writing). They also highli...

Music 4 Games has news that preorders will begin today for Echoes of War: The Music of Blizzard Entertainment, a two-disc package of themes from various Blizzard games performed by the Eminence Symphony Orchestra. There is a Legendary Edition with extra content that will be available on Nove...