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Call of Duty is one of the most popular shooter franchises out there. Activision, the owner of this series tends to make an even bigger profit by having the IP (Intellectual Property) developed by two game studios at once, Infinity Ward, the creators of the first games, and Treyarch. While the latest title from Infin... |
14 October 2008
16:01 GMT |
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Activision is trying to get a game off the ground taking advantage of the United States presidential elections. The game is called Secret Service and aims to allow the player to become a Secret Service agent who must protect the leaders of the nation as Washington D.C. is attacked by dangerous terrorists on Ina... |
14 October 2008
03:48 GMT |
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Activision is interested in making Guitar Hero World Tour, the upcoming game in its music simulation franchise, as attractive as possible on launch, especially considering the fact that Rock Band 2 is already out and selling in North America. So, the publisher decided to launch quite a few day one downloadable tracks... |
10 October 2008
15:41 GMT |
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There's a demo of the upcoming Quantum of Solace videogame in the wild and, because of a certain interest in all things Bond and Call of Duty powered, I got it this morning and played it. It seems interesting at first sight and we could just have on our hands the beginning of another long and successful franchis... |
8 October 2008
19:31 GMT |
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E For All is one of the biggest gaming conventions in the United States. It will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center starting on October 3 and ending on Sunday, October 5. It will host the biggest game companies out there which will showcase their line-up of games, offer trials of their upcoming titles a... |
3 October 2008
16:01 GMT |
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Game Developer magazine has released its annual Top 20 Publishers report and Nintendo is still riding high at number one, after it managed to take it from Electronic Arts in last year's report.The chart is based on a reputation survey which is considered by people at Game Developer alongside revenue, video game ... |
2 October 2008
20:51 GMT |
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In-game advertising is set to be one of the biggest advertising mediums that has yet to be explored by the big companies. Although some attempts were made in the past, with Electronic Arts indulging in quite a few real life products in their Need for Speed series, the concrete deals aren't in that big of a numb... |
1 October 2008
16:01 GMT |
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Guitar Hero: World Tour is not out yet and Activision Blizzard is still thinking of new things that can get the valuable Hero tag. It's pretty much sure that, in 2009, a Metallica themed Guitar Hero will make an appearance and the company also says that it plans to release more games in 2009 and 2010, with... |
1 October 2008
03:25 GMT |
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We reported a while ago that Warner Music president Edgar Bronfman declared that he thought music companies were not getting enough revenue from the developers of music games, like Harmonix and Activision. He said that, without the tracks the music companies supply, the music simulation games cannot be great successe... |
29 September 2008
07:10 GMT |
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The Congress is putting together a 700 billion bail out designed to prop up the financial sector of the United States while in Europe, banks are getting nationalized left and right. The price of oil is still around 100 dollars and there's a clear chance that it will go up while more and more people are complaini... |
29 September 2008
04:58 GMT |
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You can really tell that the holiday season is coming; publishers are announcing special editions of their games left and right. After Electronic Arts' announcements of the really expensive collector's editions for their Dead Space and Mirror's Edge games, Activision decided to launch a special ed... |
26 September 2008
12:01 GMT |
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I am usually highly skeptical when it comes to videogames that tie in with big Hollywood movies. The quality of, let's say, Iron Man the game is far below that of Iron Man the movie. But Quantum of Solace, the videogame which is going to be published by Activision, kinda looks like more than a money maker ... |
24 September 2008
07:45 GMT |
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Piracy is a big thing nowadays – it's present in a lot of industries and despite the efforts of the producers, it will keep going for a long time. Most commonly it targets the music industry, with users downloading songs from various Internet websites or using different types of applications. But the gamin... |
22 September 2008
03:53 GMT |
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When Activision held Analysts Day at the beginning of the week, we were all focused on the interesting announcements: the fact that a new James Bond themed game would be launched in 2009, even if no Bond movie is coming out; the fact that Infinity Ward would be doing another Call of Duty game also set for 2009 and th... |
19 September 2008
04:39 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard has staged its biggest event as a new company, holding an analysts day in which selected individuals were invited to talk to the leadership of the publisher to gain some insight into what it plans to do in the coming year. If the purpose of the event was to charm the people that were in attendance... |
18 September 2008
16:31 GMT |
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There's a fierce battle going on the music game market, the one that started it all, Guitar Hero, has really caught the world by storm and broken through a market that wasn't even created and brought a new kind of fun you could have in front of your console by holding a guitar shaped controller and roc... |
18 September 2008
15:01 GMT |
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We all know the really long story behind EA's proposition to publisher Take Two, which has quite a rich portfolio, with the likes of former Irrational Games studio, now 2K Boston and Australia, the developers of Bioshock, or Grand Theft Auto creators Rockstar Games. The news that the negotiations have seiz... |
18 September 2008
13:51 GMT |
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At the recent Analyst Day event hosted by Activision Blizzard, the company managed to officially announce the next Call of Duty game without actually telling us anything concrete about it at all. And it also probably managed to drive a few music industry executives to new levels of insanity by pointing out how much b... |
17 September 2008
19:41 GMT |
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It must be nice to be a videogame publisher, looking down on the exciting games your developers are making and deciding what bits of information to release to the public so that they thirst and crave for more and more news on a particular project. Important publishers are especially good at offering up snippets of in... |
16 September 2008
20:01 GMT |
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Finally Activision has officially released the full list of tracks to be featured in the upcoming Guitar Hero World Tour.It's nice to see that they managed to create a balanced play list that includes classic guitar players like Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac and Creedence Clearwater Revival while also offering new... |
15 September 2008
06:19 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard is a big company that has considerable resources it can use for video game development. And Blizzard, which is set to remain autonomous from its bigger partner Activision, is well known for the fact that it releases games when it believes they are ready and not when the publisher thinks they shoul... |
4 September 2008
13:21 GMT |
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Guitar Hero: World Tour is aiming to get more star power so that it can outrank Rock Band 2 when the music simulation rivals are launched later this the year. Now, Smashing Pumpkins are getting ready to offer their new single, called G.L.O.W., together with 2 other tracks, as part of a downloadable pack, in October j... |
3 September 2008
09:27 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard sends word that the development of a new Tony Hawk videogame for the Nintendo DS platform is now official and that it will be called Tony Hawk's Motion. The title is an indication that the game will have motion control capabilities created by way of an add-on which will use the GBA port of th... |
1 September 2008
05:42 GMT |
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The Electronic Software Association, which aims to represent the interests of videogame makers, has hailed the sentencing of two individuals who had been involved in software and videogames piracy as a big step towards creating a secure environment in which the industry can operate and generate profits.Kifah Maswadi&... |
29 August 2008
04:56 GMT |
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This slipped through our news net when we first talked about the conference call that Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick had with investors following the posting of the financial results for his company. It seems that, alongside information about Vivendi games franchises and World of Warcraft re... |
6 August 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Activision has recently released its final earnings reports as an independent company, following the merger with Vivendi Games and the forming of Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest videogame companies in the industry. And, as expected, analysts poured over reports to try to discern what the company would do in t... |
5 August 2008
16:16 GMT |
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Vivendi Games, which is now officially a part of Activision Blizzard, has reported its financial results for the first quarter of the current financial year, the last time it does so as an independent game developer and publisher. The quarter saw a slight dip in sales and in revenue, as the company did not have any b... |
28 July 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Universal is announcing that it is setting up a videogame studio to handle development for some upcoming projects. Universal had a stake in Vivendi Universal, even if that company was not focused on games based on movies, but the merger between Activision and Blizzard means Vivendi Universal is now virtually out of t... |
25 July 2008
14:06 GMT |
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There hasn't been media frenzy regarding the news that Activision and Blizzard have finally merged. A big reason might be that we have known of the move for quite a while, since the final part of 2007. Another might have to do with the fact that the merger was announced right before E3, as the press was more con... |
24 July 2008
03:26 GMT |
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E3 is no longer a public trade show and lately the Entertainment Software Association, which organizes the event, is taking some flak of its own. Activision and LucasArts, together with id Software, have pulled out of the organization and a lot of the other members are declaring themselves dissatisfied with the work ... |
17 July 2008
16:11 GMT |
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id Software and Electronic Arts are announcing that they have entered a deal regarding the distribution of the upcoming id title RAGE through the EA Partners label. The new game from id is being billed as "an all-new take on the first person shooter," and is in development for the PC, the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 ... |
16 July 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was released on November 6, 2007 in North America and on November 9, 2007 in Europe, being one of the most expected titles of the year. Developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is available on multiple platforms, including here Xbox 360, Pla... |
16 July 2008
08:40 GMT |
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With all this E3 madness going on, guess which company is relaxed and is counting its money? If you have read the title, you already know: it's Activision. And it seems that they're counting even more than expected which, combined with the Blizzard merger, will probably turn them into the most profitable bu... |
15 July 2008
12:11 GMT |
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Activision is probably entering the best period of its existence. Call of Duty 4 is one of the most important first person shooters on the market, still selling strong more than six months after launch. Guitar Hero is poised to evolve to the next level with the eminent release of World Tour, which brings the experien... |
11 July 2008
09:36 GMT |
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After we've reported that the Activision shareholders have approved the merger with Sierra Games, we're getting info that the entire process which was initiated last December is now complete. Activision Blizzard is officially the newest and biggest videogame developer and publisher in the world.The process ... |
11 July 2008
02:32 GMT |
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Everybody is preparing for the biggest game related event of the year, the E3, but when a major company has a different agenda, nothing will stand in its way - Activision, for example, has plans to create a brand focused on Wii titles only and they called it, pardon the expression, Wee 1ST. However, the brand's ... |
10 July 2008
02:51 GMT |
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Publisher Activision has announced that its shareholders, who had been asked to vote in a special meeting, approved the merger between the company and Vivendi Games, which has ownership of Blizzard and Sierra Games. The announcement did not mention the ratio of the vote or what other steps the two companies have to t... |
9 July 2008
02:41 GMT |
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In the battle of the music simulator sequels, Guitar Hero: World Tour, aka Guitar Hero IV, might be gaining a bit of advantage on its newly announced rival, Rock Band 2. The advantage stems from certain comments made by Alex Rigopulos, one of the co-founders of Harmonix, the company which initially created Guitar Her... |
7 July 2008
10:17 GMT |
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One of the best selling games of the last year (Guitar Hero) and one of the best rock bands of all times (Aerosmith) have agreed on a partnership to bring us a brand new product called Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. And that highly anticipated product is finally available for purchase from game retailers nationwide, for the... |
3 July 2008
03:19 GMT |
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If you were ever thinking that game developers don't like other products but theirs, you were probably right, if we are to judge by Activision producer's opinion on the highly anticipated (but not Activision-owned) Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway. According to him, it is just a crappy war game out of ... |
2 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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When they said that the true brutality of the West would be exactly portrayed in Gun, I didn't believe it for a second so I went on playing without giving it another thought. The first close-up of a slashed throat changed my opinion almost immediately and the more I played, the more I enjoyed it in a fun and twi... |
2 July 2008
10:05 GMT |
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In case you've missed the previous Guitar Hero games (three of them for the record), let me tell you what GH III is all about. Basically, it's a musical game that allows the players to use a guitar-shaped controller to simulate playing a real guitar. The screen shows a couple of scrolling notes that you... |
2 July 2008
09:47 GMT |
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Could The Beatles decide the competition between Rock Band, coming from MTV Games and Harmonix, plus Guitar Hero, coming from Activision? There's an interesting report from the Financial Times that suggests this might be the case.Representatives of the surviving members of the band are even now talking with both... |
26 June 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Glu Mobile and Activision, two of America's best-known companies when it comes to gaming, have announced the future availability of Call of Duty: World at War for mobile phones. The game will be based on Activision's original Call of Duty: World at War, the fifth from the popular first-shooter series. U... |
26 June 2008
10:39 GMT |
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The 2007 success of French based publisher Ubisoft, reflected in a net income rise of more than 100 million dollars, was largely based on the sales of Assassin's Creed, the free running and sneaking focused game starring Altair. The title has already pushed more than 6 million copies to gamers all over the worl... |
26 June 2008
10:02 GMT |
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Even if there's no news of the official merger between Vivendi Games and Activision and with even less news regarding the future of certain key Vivendi Games property - like Prototype - once the merger goes through, there are signs that the process of integrating business assets and creating cross brand marketin... |
26 June 2008
03:38 GMT |
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Treyarch has a bad reputation. And some of it might be deserved, because Big Red One was not worthy of being a Call of Duty game. But as it is developing the next game in the franchise, there might be a chance that the fifth title in the series will redeem them in the eyes of gamers.We have already told you that the ... |
25 June 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Rick Carini, Chief Technology Officer of gaming technologies at Dell, thinks that people "get fed up and don't buy PC games any more". Why are his remarks important to gamers? Well, Carini happens to be the chair of the recently created PC Gaming Alliance, which brings together major players in the PC hardware a... |
25 June 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Apparently, the leaked information from Intellisponse regarding the new game offering coming from Activision was pretty much on the wrong side. The company is now saying that it only offers "game concepts" to market research companies, and that most of these are then discarded prior to development beginning on the de... |
19 June 2008
16:16 GMT |
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Gamers looking for more than just guitar controller play already know that Rock Band is the game for them. Harmonix has also done its job wonderfully in keeping fans updated with how the development on the upcoming title was going and what it would feature when it launches. The latest update from the renowned develop... |
19 June 2008
10:35 GMT |
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