Well, this news is about to break one of my best friends’ hearts. Activision Blizzard has just canceled BlizzCon. So don’t go saving up for your tickets or organizing a meetup, because BlizzCon 2012 isn’t happening. World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo fans throughout the country are crying out in grief. Okay, now that you’ve more »

The 2011 holiday season had a showdown between the third installments of the Modern Warfare and Battlefield franchises.

You know, in this sea of utter crap that is our economy, it’s nice to see that certain cherished traditions will live on. BlizzCon – the official convention for all things Blizzard (you know, the maker of such fine games as Starcraft II and World of Warcraft) is officially on for next August. According to Joystiq the event is planned for August 21-22, 2009 at the Anaheim Convention Center, and the convention will sprawl across four halls (as opposed to last year’s three).

It’s the time of year again when Activision-Blizzard decides to release yet another installment of one of its key franchise. As you probably surmised from the headline, Kotaku has uncovered via the ESRB that the next Guitar Hero installment will be titled Guitar Hero Modern Hits and will be released on the Nintendo DS. No release date was given but we do have an ESRB rating of Everyone 10+. Wait, can they call it “everyone” if people below the age of 10 shouldn’t play it?

Anyway, this will mark the third installment of the…

EA Sports boss, Peter Moore, has designs of world domination that he spelled out to UK trade journal Market for Home Computing and Games (MCV). Don’t worry he is not building a private militia to conquer the world, but is charting EA’s course to reclaiming the top spot among third-party developers. He confidently issued a warning to rival mega publisher Activision-Blizzard.

Moore believes that EA will leave Activision-Blizzard far behind on the back of a strong showing by its…