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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has released the first trailer for the upcoming Battleship titles, which will be linked to the movie with the same name and will be released for the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft at some point during March.
The Battleship video game is being develope... |
10 February 2012
05:58 GMT |
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We are just a few short days away from the end of 2011 and the beginning of a new year and analysts are jumping at the chance to prove their mettle by predicting the big trends of the coming 365 days.Scott Steinberg, who is an analyst and a marketing expert at TechSavvy Global, told IndustryGamers that, “Expect... |
29 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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A Superior Court in California has ruled that video game publisher Activision Blizzard can go ahead with a lawsuit against rival Electronic Arts and argue that it is entitled to get damages because of the way EA courted developers Jason West and Vince Zampella while they were working at Infinity Ward.
Activision has... |
23 December 2011
10:10 GMT |
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The analysis firm Lazard Capital Markets has revealed a study which shows that World of Warcraft, the biggest subscription based MMO in the gaming world, could lose between 900,000 and 1.6 million active players in late December, when Star Wars: The Old Republic from developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts wi... |
23 November 2011
20:31 GMT |
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Video game developer Infinity Ward has announced that the company and publisher Activision Blizzard have no plans to launch a Prestige Edition of the upcoming first person shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.The Prestige Edition for previous titles in the same franchise have come complete with such gizmos as night... |
19 September 2011
05:47 GMT |
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The two ex-leaders of Infinity Ward and leading creators of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare concepts have said that one of the most important lessons they have learned is that any intellectual property that will be created by their new Resapwn venture will be owned by them and not the publishers.
Speaking to IGN ... |
5 September 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Video game developer Bungie has announced that the first game linked to its much-talked-about Aerospace initiative will be called Crimson: Steam Pirates, will tackle the real-time strategy genre and will be launched exclusively on the iPad from Apple.
The developer of Crimson: Steam Pirates is Harebrained Schemes,... |
24 August 2011
10:20 GMT |
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An executive working for video game publisher Activision Blizzard has called out rival company Electronic Arts over the strong comments it has made about the future prospects of the Call of Duty franchise, saying that while competition is good for the industry it does not make sense to wish publicly for a rival produ... |
18 August 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that it has managed to beat its own internal projections in order to announce a profit of 335 million dollars for the second calendar quarter of 2011 while overall revenue reached 1.1 billion. Bobby Kotick, who is the chief executive officer of the company, stat... |
4 August 2011
04:55 GMT |
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A new report coming from investment firm Sterne Agee says that in the coming months the video game line-up from publisher Activision Blizzard will show more diversity, with the company working hard to make sure that it has more profit sources than the Call of Duty franchise and the MMO World of Warcraft.
Arvind Bh... |
30 June 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Two of the biggest video game launches of the fall of 2011 will be Battlefield 3, the first person shooter from DICE and Electronic Arts, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, from Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard, and the two games seem to be locked in a statement war that could last up until their respective lau... |
20 June 2011
18:41 GMT |
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The lawsuit that the co founders of Infinity Ward, Vince Zampella and Jason West, have filled against publisher Activision Blizzard is now likely to go to trial after a judge has ruled that the two have merit in their claims and should be able to present their case at length.A judge for the Los Angeles Superior Court... |
20 June 2011
04:56 GMT |
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The most hardcore fans of the Call of Duty franchise might not be too pleased with the announcement of Elite, the subscription-based service that will be launched this fall, but to the Activision executives who have thought up the idea, it's important to deliver a new service that, in some ways, turns video gami... |
15 June 2011
05:47 GMT |
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The Call of Duty Endowment, an initiative from video games publisher Activision Blizzard designed to deliver military-oriented charitable work on behalf of the well-known brand, has announced that it is starting a Memorial Day fundraiser, which will donate all the money to the Hire Heroes initiative.
The Endowment... |
27 May 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher THQ might not have the same profile as the big players in the industry, Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard, but its leader believes that the company has the potential to be one of the leaders of the market. Brian Farell, who is the chief executive officer of THQ, has talked to Industry Game... |
18 May 2011
08:34 GMT |
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Both the rumors that began to appear during last week and the big information leak that has recently arrived from inside Infinity Ward mentioned that publisher Activision Blizzard was set to launch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on November 8 this year, and now at least one major source inside a retailer confirms the... |
17 May 2011
05:43 GMT |
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Bungie's new video game, set to be published by Activision is very exciting, according to the company, but won't arrive this year.
During a recent investor's call, Activision decided to share a few details about Bungie's project, but still played coy and secretive.
"This is an opportunity wh... |
11 February 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Activision is continuing its tirade against California's anti violent video game law, which reached the table of the Supreme Court at the end of last year, and also criticized the fact that media and lawmakers point to games like Postal, as examples of violence.
Activision Blizzard vice president and chief po... |
4 January 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Publisher Activision Blizzard is aiming to extend its lawsuit against Jason West and Vince Zampella, the ex-leaders of developer Infinity Ward, in order to include rival publisher Electronic Arts, which is now working with the pair's new company, Respawn Entertainment.
The new complaint names both the Chief E... |
22 December 2010
06:35 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has just talked about pre-owned games, and what strategies publishers like his company should take in order to stop people from trading in titles or buying used copies.Besides sharing some insight on Activision's strategy, Kotick also took a shot at rival EA, and its own Pro... |
18 November 2010
14:21 GMT |
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It must be hard to be one of the developers working on the Call of Duty franchise these days. This is a series which brings in a huge percentage of Activision's revenue and probably contributes more than, let's say, DJ Hero 2 to the profits of the company. This is a franchise which is used to setting record... |
18 November 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard head honcho Bobby Kotick has just revealed that his company's Infinity Ward studio is still quite capable, even after its founders, Jason West and Vince Zampella, and some of its staff left the developer this spring.As hardcore fans will no doubt remember, West and Zampella, the founders of I... |
15 November 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has recently talked about last year's scandal between his company and Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions, over Brutal Legend, a game that started developing with Vivendi's help, which was latter acquired by Activision Blizzard, but was eventually published by EA... |
11 November 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Satoru Iwata, who is the president of gaming company Nintendo, has stated that he sees more interest for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS handheld from third party publishers than he experienced for the original DS platform when it was released.The executive talked about how the platform will be welcomed video game wise dur... |
9 November 2010
05:18 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to push its new Kinect motion detection system to Xbox 360 users everywhere, and is quite confident that it will succeed, but Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick isn't so sure, and wants a price cut to be made as soon as possible.Kotick has often been accused of being a bit too greed... |
4 October 2010
15:41 GMT |
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Responding to comments made by Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard, regarding the quality of the working environment at the rival company a representative from Electronic Arts has shot back by saying that the success of the publisher has nothing to do with its leadership and with CEO spec... |
28 September 2010
09:06 GMT |
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Activision boss Bobby Kotick has once again went on the offensive against rivals, this time focusing his sights on his company's biggest challenger, EA, and revealed that it has suffered in terms of game quality and that talented developers are becoming increasingly weary of the corporation.Kotick attributes Act... |
28 September 2010
03:22 GMT |
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The most successful video game company in the world, Activision Blizzard, has announced that it will join other companies and support games in front of California's new violent video game law that aims to restrict the sales of such titles.After yesterday's letter of support sent by reputed comics writer Sta... |
22 September 2010
14:21 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer at publisher Activision Blizzard, has stated that his company will not focus on increasing revenue in the coming years but on developing business models that have higher profit margins that simply selling packaged video games at retail.The statements coming from the CEO of on... |
21 September 2010
04:24 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer at Activision Blizzard, has suggested that publishers might be interesting in creating video games based movies that will be delivered to fans without the use of traditional media channels.Talking at the audience at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Media, Communicatio... |
17 September 2010
03:05 GMT |
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A Bungie representative has confirmed that the developer, best known for working on the wildly successful Halo franchise with Microsoft, is now developing a new game engine from scrap with the aim to use it to power the new video game franchise that it will be developing for publisher Activision Blizzard during the n... |
14 September 2010
17:31 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, Activision's infamous chief executive officer, has restated once again his wish for an Activision owned massively multiplayer online medium for Call of Duty. The franchise has gotten a massive following on consoles, similar to what World of Warcraft has achieved on the PC. Unfortunately for Kotick&... |
5 July 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard and Nintendo will stream their E3 presentations live through the Internet. Bobby Kotick, the CEO of ActiBlizz, will hold a more technical conference for investors and analysts during E3. On the other hand, Nintendo will host quite a big invitational event that will be interesting not only for indu... |
2 June 2010
17:21 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest videogame publishers in the world, announced that, thanks to strong performance of the World of Warcraft MMO and of the Modern Warfare franchise, the company expects to make more money in the current fiscal quarter than it initially thought it would. The company expected to hav... |
16 April 2010
04:09 GMT |
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When you launch a videogame that sells as much and as fast as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, a sequel is pretty much assured. And now publisher Activision Blizzard seems to have confirmed that Modern Warfare 3 is in development at Infinity Ward as part of the law suit it brought against Jason West and Vince Zampella... |
12 April 2010
17:51 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard and Marvel have offered the first details related to Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, the new superhero-based videogame set to be launched in September 2010. The two companies are saying that gamers will be able to play as four different versions of the iconic character, with The Amazing Spider-M... |
6 April 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Various analysts have pointed out that the Call of Duty franchise, the Guitar Hero games and World of Warcraft account for about two thirds of the revenue of Activision Blizzard. We already know that the music genre is in free fall and that the number of Guitar Hero titles launched in 2010 will be severely reduced. T... |
13 March 2010
11:01 GMT |
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One of the most repeated refrains amongst both players and developers of videogames is that “PC gaming is dying.” But, as it often happens, facts appear to go contrary to perceptions as the PC Gaming Alliance recently released figures that show how, in 2009, the revenue derived from PC-based videogames we... |
12 March 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Infinity Ward has lost two of the most creative people it had, Vince Zampella and Jason West. Activision Blizzard has again come off as the bad guy when dealing with one of its most successful studios. One would think that rival publisher Electronic Arts, which has seen Infinity Ward steal the thunder from its Medal ... |
11 March 2010
08:36 GMT |
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When bouncers declining to tell who they were working for showed up at the offices of developer Infinity Ward, it seemed like something out of a bad gangster movie.Then, we found out that Vince Zampella and Jason West, co-founders of the developer and the main leaders of the studio that produced the Modern Warfare sa... |
5 March 2010
13:51 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard has announced that for the third quarter of the current fiscal year, which ended on December 31, 2009, it lost 286 million dollars, which is significantly more than the 72 million in losses it posted during the same period of 2008. Revenue was also down when the comparison is made but the publishe... |
11 February 2010
07:44 GMT |
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Fallout 3, the post apocalyptic role playing experience from Bethesda, has recently been re-released in a Game of the Year edition, which contains all the patches and expansions the title has received from the developer. Now, the videogame has another award to its name, this one coming from Future Publishing, to just... |
2 November 2009
03:50 GMT |
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Game Developer Research has announced that Nintendo has topped the chart of publishers that it outs annually, hanging on to number 1 for the third year in a row. The Japanese company is followed by Electronic Arts and by Activision Blizzard.The top 20 that Game Developer Research offers is based on a variety of metri... |
8 October 2009
03:59 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard is big. And, more importantly in this tough economic times, it is turning to profit just as the video-game business is hardly hit by the economic downturn, with the NPD numbers for August showing a 16% decline when compared to 2008. The one man who seems to be directly responsible for this is Bobb... |
17 September 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard is the biggest publisher of video games in the industry, as it wholly owns hugely popular franchises and titles like Call of Duty, Guitar Hero or World of Warcraft, which rake in money by the truckload every time a new iteration or expansion is released to the general public. During a recent conf... |
10 August 2009
16:41 GMT |
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There are plenty of games set to appear this fall season, with headliners like Modern Warfare 2, Uncharted 2 or Assassin's Creed 2. But one big sequel that won't make its estimated release date is Blizzard's StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy. What was specul... |
6 August 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Activision was one of the biggest companies in the video game industry, and when it merged with Blizzard it was certain that its rule would be a strict and severe one. But even though a lot of analysts marked the fact that it would make a reasonable amount of profit, the recent earnings report painted a very profitab... |
14 May 2009
02:29 GMT |
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Activision is seriously considering licensing its most important franchises for use in other mediums, like movies and television. And it seems that the most sought after of its properties are Guitar Hero and Call of Duty, predictably.Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Bobby Kotick, who is the Chief Executive Officer... |
12 May 2009
02:01 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard has announced its financial results for the fiscal quarter that ended on March 31. The company earned around 981 million dollars, with profit being an impressive 189 million. The news comes just as two other publishers, Electronic Arts and THQ, announced losses for the same time frame, which makes... |
8 May 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard has confirmed that it has ended its agreement with The9 for the operation of World of Warcraft in China. The MMO will now be operated in the country by another company, namely NetEase. The contract is rumored to be for a duration of three years and Activision Blizzard has not officially disclosed ... |
21 April 2009
16:21 GMT |
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