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Ever since its merger with Blizzard, video game publisher Activision has been accused of eliminating any attempt to innovate and of relying on the same core franchises, including Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, in order to generate revenue.
But at least one leading executive working at the company believes that ... |
14 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Publishers, like Electronic Arts, have already taken some of their biggest franchises, from Dragon Age and Mass Effect to The Sims, to the Facebook social platform but their main rival, Activision, is not yet ready to jump into the genre although it sees its potential.
Speaking to Gamasutra, Eric Hirshberg, the chie... |
14 February 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Activision has talked about the impact its Call of Duty series has on its fans, saying that the popularity of its Call of Duty Elite online service and last year’s Call of Duty XP convention prove that fans think of the franchise not just as a game series, but more of a lifestyle.
The Call of Duty series may h... |
13 February 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts, after criticizing Activision’s Call of Duty Elite online service last year, has now started complimenting its rival’s strategy, saying that it managed to please both gamers and actual retailers with the Elite strategy.
EA and Activision were engaged in a bitter fight towards the end of 2... |
13 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Speaking at the DICE 2012 conference, Eric Hirshberg, the chief executive officer at Activision Publishing, has said that video game publishers should make better use of creative people, rather than limiting their involvement to the development side.
The executive stated, “I've always believed that creati... |
13 February 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Activision has talked about its massively successful Call of Duty franchise during an investor’s call, promising that the next version of its online Call of Duty Elite service will arrive with the upcoming all-new Call of Duty game.Activision took its Call of Duty franchise to a new level last year, in November... |
11 February 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced its set of financial results for the fourth quarter of the current year, showing better than expected revenue and profits for the three-month period that ended on January 31.Activision has announced that it has managed to generate 2.41 billion dollars (1.81 billi... |
10 February 2012
22:11 GMT |
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Both video game developer Bungie and publisher Activision Blizzard have been very tight lipped when it comes to the new project they are collaborating on, but fans of the company behind Halo will be happy to know that progress is being made at an incredible pace.
Despite the upbeat attitude neither of the two compan... |
10 February 2012
07:02 GMT |
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Activision has already started talking about the new Call of Duty game that it will publish at the end of the year, promising to investors that it will bring “meaningful innovations to the franchise.”
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has sold a huge amount of copies, breaking records set by the previous in... |
10 February 2012
05:42 GMT |
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During the DICE 2012 conference organized in Las Vegas, Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the video game industry, has argued that the current publishing system for video games is broken and that more of the companies handling these duties might disappear in the coming years. Speaking at the event organize... |
9 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that the Skylanders brand will get its first full expansion during the autumn of the year, using the Giants name that a number of rumors have been suggesting for some time.
The new expansion will introduce eight new legendary Giant characters that are twice as b... |
8 February 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Activision, the publisher of massive properties like Call of Duty, should consider buying Take-Two Interactive, the company behind major franchises like Grand Theft Auto or BioShock, not to mention the popular NBA 2K series, according to games industry analyst Asif Khan. Take-Two Interactive is the publishing partne... |
6 February 2012
19:11 GMT |
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What we know:Radical Entertainment has managed to create a pretty solid new franchise with 2009’s Prototype, and now the development team has a chance to show that its ideas about open world action games have legs, by designing a sequel that takes the best concepts and develops them in interesting ways.The bigg... |
2 February 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that its Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure will be the star attraction at the upcoming International Toy Fair in Nuremberg, Germany, with the company set to make a number of announcements related to the future of the mix between real-world action figures and vir... |
1 February 2012
07:13 GMT |
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Activision has just announced a brand new pre-order bonus for those interested in Prototype 2, as they’ll be able to get the Hardened Steel Vehicle Armor upgrade if they pre-purchase the game from Best Buy in North America.
Prototype 2 is getting ready for its April release later this year, so Activision wants... |
30 January 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Activision has revealed that it’s trying to cope with the huge demand for Skylanders toys, as millions of people are trying to buy extra characters for their game.
Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure has taken the world by storm last year, as its unique premise, of using real world toys to add different charac... |
27 January 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Some very careful examination of domain registrations conducted by Fusbile has uncovered a number of new Internet domains that are probably linked to a new upcoming Skylanders video game, which might bear the name Giants.
MarkMonitor, a brand and domain management service that is known to handle such issues for vide... |
25 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has offered details and a clear launch plan for the next 18 content drops that will arrive for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 first-person shooter, all the way up to the month of September of this year.
Overall gamers that like the multiplayer side of the game will be abl... |
25 January 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Activision has just deployed a fresh video for its Call of Duty Elite service, this time hyping up its features and content with the help of former The Daily Show member and ex-serviceman Rob Riggle.Call of Duty Elite is aimed at taking the multiplayer experience in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to the next level wi... |
24 January 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Eric Hirshberg, who is the Chief Executive Officer at Activision Publishing, told the audience at the Creativity and Technology event organized by Advertising Age that, “I said, like it or not our launch just started. And it wasn’t on our time table, and we didn’t instigate it, but it’s out th... |
20 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Activision has just unleashed the ‘Call of Duty ELITE’ game in the Android Market. The application is trying to bring some of the addictive gameplay of the PC and console versions on the Android platform.
‘Call of Duty ELITE’ is a freemium game that offers gamers an enhanced multiplayer... |
18 January 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Activision has just confirmed its downloadable content delivery strategy for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, saying that over 20 pieces of new content will appear for the popular first person shooter from now until September.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has broken sales records and got tens of millions of people ... |
11 January 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Activision has just secured the rights to the blackops2.com domain name, fueling rumors that a Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 could be in the works. Before the massively successful Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 shooter that was released last year, the previous installment in the series, Call of Duty: Black Ops, reigned s... |
11 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 might have been the biggest entertainment launch of 2011 but the executives at Activision are not interested in resting on their laurels and will try to use downloadable content to expand the attractiveness of the series.Eric Hirshberg, who is the Chief Executive Officer at Activision P... |
5 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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The Empire movie magazine has revealed, during a longer feature on the franchise, that the upcoming James Bond: Skyfall movie is set to get a video game tie-in, which will be published by Activision Blizzard, the company which currently holds the rights to the virtual representations of the characters.It’s not ... |
4 January 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 benefitted from an aggressive marketing campaign, with Activision pulling out all the stops and even releasing two special videos with Hollywood actors Sam Worthington and Jonah Hill acting in some real life Modern Warfare 3 matches. Now, those two videos have been criticized by former ... |
3 January 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto V might be little more than a trailer at this point but many analysts are expecting the Rockstar made video game to become one of the best selling titles of 2012 when it is released, presumably at some point in early autumn or late summer.Jesse Divnich, who is an analyst watching the video game indus... |
28 December 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Despite advances in the graphics power of both the PC and home console the developers at Bungie, the people that took advantage of them with the long running Halo series, believe that there are still at least two big issues that need to be solved when it comes to the look of modern titles.Speaking to Gamasutra Hao Ch... |
28 December 2011
05:26 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision has released a new developer diary for its upcoming Prototype 2, with the main focus being the side activities that the player can take on in the game.
The video shows how the main character will be able to discover new case files and missions that he can perform in order to get a ran... |
20 December 2011
02:20 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that launch of the beta stage of Skylanders Spyro’s Universe, a new virtual world aimed at kids that will allow them to further engage with the characters and the toys based on them.The developers are saying that the new game world will consist of a fantasy... |
15 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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The first full trailer of the upcoming Transformers: Fall of Cybertron debuted at the VGA ceremony during the past weekend but the developers decided that it was not enough for real fans of the robot based franchise and released another piece of video which goes behind the scenes and shows some of the developers talk... |
15 December 2011
12:11 GMT |
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A new Tony Hawk video game has been confirmed as being in development but it seems unlikely that fan requests for the music to be based on previous titles in the series will materialize.Dan Amrich, aka OneofSword, an executive at Activision, spoke about the soundtracks for the first and second game of the series, say... |
15 December 2011
07:58 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has just broken another record, this time because it reached $1 billion in sales (757 million Euro) in just 16 days, overtaking the Avatar movie, which reached this amount in 17 days.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was expected to set new sales records last month when it was released acr... |
14 December 2011
15:31 GMT |
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After releasing the first trailer for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD title during the weekend at the 2011 Spike TV Video Game Awards, Activision, its publisher, and Robomodo, its developer, have showcased the first actual details about this remastered experience.After a couple of botched attempts at trying to introd... |
14 December 2011
03:06 GMT |
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We already knew that the 2011 Spike TV Video Game Awards, which aired last Saturday, was going to see the reveal of a new Tony Hawk skateboarding game, but it didn’t really get us that excited, largely because the last few iterations were mediocre and had clunky motion controls.Fortunately, Activision and RoboM... |
12 December 2011
12:21 GMT |
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Transformers games haven’t exactly been the pinnacle of quality for interactive experiences, as for every decent release, like Transformers: War for Cybertron, we were treated with some mediocre tie-in for the Hollywood Transformers movies, like the recent Dark of the Moon.Now, it seems that Activision and High... |
12 December 2011
03:44 GMT |
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Publisher Activision and comic book company Marvel have announced that a new Spider-Man video game will be launched during the summer of next year, as a tie-in to the movie that Sony Picture Entertainment is planning to launch at the same time.The Amazing Spider-Man title will be a sort of stand-alone episode that ta... |
8 December 2011
13:41 GMT |
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It seems that the VGA show on Saturday can add another video game reveal to its line-up, with publisher Activision Blizzard set to offer the first information on a new Tony Hawk skateboard powered title, which will probably be launched during 2012.A Twitter message from the former skateboarding superstar reads: &ldqu... |
8 December 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Publisher Activision Blizzard has already confirmed that a new Call of Duty video game is being prepared for the fall of 2012 and developer Sledgehammer Games seems to be involved in its creation, judging by a new job ad that the company put out.The listing talks about “an unannounced high-end console title&rdq... |
7 December 2011
10:31 GMT |
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The developers at Radical working on Prototype 2 have made it clear that the race of the main character of the game does not in any way change his attitude towards life and the rationalization behind hid in-game actions.Ken Rosman, who is the leader of the Radical development studio, told the Official PlayStation Mag... |
7 December 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that all the revenue generated from sale of avatar items on the Xbox Live service linked to Modern Warfare 3 before December 16 will be donated to the Call of Duty Endowment.Players who like the first person shooter game from Infinity Ward can contribute to chari... |
5 December 2011
09:34 GMT |
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Video game publisher admitted that it sent passwords to Call of Duty Elite users in plain text but insisted that it was storing all personal information in encrypted databases that are always secure.Activision sent a statement to Eurogamer saying, “All Call of Duty Elite personal data, including passwords are s... |
1 December 2011
10:47 GMT |
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Can value exist outside of a context? When it comes to video games I believe that the right answer, at least in the current context, is “no” and GoldenEye 007: Reloaded is clearly Exhibit A for the prosecution in a trial of ideas.The original GoldenEye is a game that is revered by older gamers because it ... |
30 November 2011
09:16 GMT |
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Now that its Call of Duty Elite online service is almost fully operational, Activision has deployed the official trailer that focuses on the variety of features delivered by Elite and how they can help augment the regular multiplayer experience from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.Call of Duty Elite was launched along... |
29 November 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has the biggest launch for every entertainment product in history this fall and is on track on beating every record conceivable before the end of the year, with more than 1 billion dollars projected as generated revenue.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim also had a good launch day, with sales ... |
26 November 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Activision has revealed that it will be kicking off the first round of original programming for its Call of Duty Elite online service today, in the form of the Friday Night Fights, in which members of the U.S. Army and Navy will duke it out on the virtual battlefield of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.Even if anyone c... |
25 November 2011
06:02 GMT |
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Right after releasing the controversial Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Activision has talked about the perception of video games in recent years, and how, through the voice of its publishing CEO, Eric Hirshberg, it hopes that they’ll soon be viewed in the same way as movies.The gaming industry has tried to evo... |
25 November 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Activision has released another status update on its troublesome Call of Duty Elite online service, saying that it’s now 95% operational and there are just a few lingering problems that need to be resolved until everything’s completely working.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the first person shooter made ... |
24 November 2011
18:31 GMT |
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Harmonix has launched a new video which celebrates four years since the Rock Band franchise was released, talking about how hard it has been to launch the game and compete with another music based franchise that they had created.Ryan Lesser, who is the art director at Harmonix, says, “It was a rough, scary time... |
23 November 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that the 1 million membership mark for the premium part of its Call of Duty Elite service has been reached in just six days after the November 8 launch, which coincided with that of Modern Warfare 3.Activision says that the big interest in Elite is one of the rea... |
23 November 2011
05:15 GMT |
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