Gaming

Activision Blizzard reported today that its earnings for the third quarter ended September 30 beat Wall Street’s expectations on both earnings and revenues. The company had a big launch of World of Warcraft Classic during the quarter, and that helped drive the audience much higher in both Asia and the West, the company said. Activision Blizzard’s core businesses include games like Overwatch…

Red Dead Redemption 2 finally launched on PC this week, but much like the escapades of the game’s gunslingers, things haven’t quite gone according to plan. Players have reported a raft of problems, including issues with the launcher, freezing and recurring crashes. The usual go-to fixes for these sort of hiccups — updating graphics drivers and disabling anti-virus software, for…

Kids today are growing up with a lot of screens in their lives, despite the advice of pediatricians. One of the things they get a lot less of in playing with devices is the development of more tactile skills, which are usually learned by manipulating toys and other physical objects. Over the past few years we’ve seen companies try to remedy this by introducing products that marry the real…

Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau has been doing some victory laps in recent quarterly earnings calls. The maker of social mobile games like FarmVille, Merge Dragons, and Empires & Puzzles is back to strong growth. For the third quarter ended September 30, Zynga reported its highest quarterly revenue and bookings in history ($345 million and $395 million, respectively), with mobile revenue up 54% from a…