Rockstar Starts Selling Red Dead Online Gold For Real Money
Red Dead Online’s economy is based on two currencies: cash and gold bars. At launch, it was only possible to get these…
How Buying Cards Works In Magic: The Gathering Arena
Wizards of the Coast’s Hearthstone-ish Magic: The Gathering Arena is a fresh take on digitizing the venerable TCG, but…
Hacker Reflects On 20 Years Of Exploiting MMO Security Flaws For Money
A hacker going by the name Manfred spent much of the last two decades finding ways to make money by manipulating the…
Damn, Even Star Citizen's Economy Is Exciting
If everything goes according to Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts' plan, a "fully-simulated economy" might be one…
The Guild Wars 2 Economy as Seen By Its Dark and Mysterious Money Wizard
Guild Wars 2 doesn't launch until next week, but the exchanging of currency for goods and services heeds no human…
Valve's Hat-Based Economy Now Has Its Own Hat-Based Economist
The creators of Team Fortress 2 have hired their very own economist to help out with their various crazy hat-based…
GameStop Blames Poor Sales on Broke Customers Reneging on Preorders
Despite the onslaught of desirable, highly anticipated titles, week after week this fall, GameStop's sales are "lower…
Ubisoft Sees Sharp Drop in Sales, Blames Market, DS Piracy
Sales for Ubisoft's second quarter is expected to show a more than 50 percent drop from the same quarter last year,…
Stargate Worlds Bravely Soldiers On
Addressing concerns raised by Stargate television show producer Brad Wright, developer Cheyenne Mountain has issued a…
Three Companies Eye Midway For Buy Out
With Midway in the middle of troublesome bankruptcy proceedings and rumors of the Mortal Kombat dev team leaving, it's…
GameStop Reports Record 2008, More Stores Imminent
With business failing and stores closing all over the country, GameStop reports record sales and earnings for 2008,…
Say Goodbye To FileFront
A popular online destination for the latest computer game demos, patches, and mods, FileFront has announced that come…
Bad Economy Casts Pall Over GDC
The Associated Press writes up an advance on GDC09, using the sour economy to set up the conference, which opens…
Nintendo Raising UK Wii Trade Price
With the British pound continuing to depreciate, Nintendo has announced that they will be increasing the price they…
The Secret To CCP's Success
During a recent visit, CCP North America president Mike Tinney explained how the EVE Online developers continue to…
Activision Seeks Recession-Fueled Acquisition Bargains
What does a company like Activision Blizzard do when sitting on $3 billion in cash with no debt while many gaming…
Layoffs Hit THQ's Volition
Nearly all of Volition's quality assurance department were laid off today in Champaign, Illinois, THQ confirmed to…
Recession Boosts Gaming Pawns
A spike in gas prices followed by the deepening recession has led to all-time highs in pawn profits, the Chicago…
Midway Gets the Greenlight
Despite the protests of quite a long list of debt collectors, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court is letting Midway spend money…
Electronic Arts Won't Run From Risk
Despite the cuts, despite the layoffs, despite the economic apocalypse, Electronic Arts will continue to take chances…