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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Will Get Four Extra Content Drops

Activision has confirmed that four extra content drops will arrive for its Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 shooter, besides the 20 pieces of DLC that have already been confirmed earlier this year. Modern Warfare 3 impressed tens of millions of fans from all over the world and Activision’s content strategy, of m...

16 March 2012
11:51 GMT

Activision Announces Cartoon Based Transformers Prime

Video game developer Now Production and publisher Activision Blizzard have announced that they are working together on a new game called Transformers Prime, designed to launch exclusively on the Nintendo Wii home console and on the new 3DS handheld. The game is based on the animated television show with the same nam...

16 March 2012
10:46 GMT

Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures Originally Aimed for Darker Tone

The new Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure, which mixes a video game and actual real world toys, has been very successful since being introduced last year mainly because it is family friendly and targeted a large audience but at one point the franchise was reaching for a darker, mature tone. Alex Ness, who is a rep...

14 March 2012
16:11 GMT

Activision Sees Call of Duty as Year Round Event

Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has said that it no longer looks at the Call of Duty franchise as an annual launch event but as a year-round activity, with the company always investing resources and interacting with the player base in order to keep the series in top shape. Eric Hirshberg, who is the Chief E...

5 March 2012
17:41 GMT

Stan Lee Claims Playable Character Status in The Amazing Spider-Man

Stan Lee, who is one of the best known comic book creators in the world, has announced that he will be involved as a player character in the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man video game. Stan Lee, who is currently leading comic book development at Marvel, has stated, “Oh, I’m going to be a playable charact...

1 March 2012
09:56 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection #1 Out This Month

Activision has confirmed that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will get a traditional downloadable content pack in March, which is going to be available for all Xbox 360 owners, no matter their Call of Duty Elite subscription.While previous Call of Duty games received DLC in the form of map packs released every few mon...

1 March 2012
02:35 GMT

Activision Offers More Info on Rhino for The Amazing Spider-Man

Video game publisher offered more information on Rhino, the main villain that players will have to fight in the new Amazing Spider-Man video game that arrives alongside the movie this summer. Stephane Gravel, who is the producer working on The Amazing Spider-Man, stated, “In the spirit of the film, the game is...

27 February 2012
13:31 GMT

Hong Kong Setting Sold Square Enix on Sleeping Dogs

Video game publisher Square Enix picked up the publishing duties for the newly renamed Sleeping Dogs after seeing how the game used the city of Hong Kong as a setting and decided that it was ready to spend money in order to get it to market. Jeff O’Connell, who is senior producer working on the project, told A...

23 February 2012
20:01 GMT

Devil’s Brigade Is Cancelled 2008 Call of Duty Project

The Call of Duty franchise from Activision Blizzard has not yet received a third-person installment but it came very close during 2008, when development was very advanced on a game called Call of Duty: Devil’s Brigade.The project was cancelled after the merger between Activision and Vivendi and was set to follo...

22 February 2012
13:41 GMT

Activision Denies Any Blacklists over Black Ops 3 Rumors

Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has denied that it has blacklisted a number of France-based sites that have reported on the rumored existence of a Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, saying that the whole matter was a misunderstanding that will be quickly resolved. A statement from Activision Blizzard given to VG247...

21 February 2012
09:40 GMT

Sleeping Dogs Dev Talks About Its Relationship with Square Enix

United Front Games, the developer of the upcoming Sleeping Dogs title, has talked about the turmoil that affected the project after its publisher, Activision, was replaced with Square Enix. UFG was tasked by Activision to make a new installment in its True Crime series that was supposed to be called True Crime: Hong...

21 February 2012
04:43 GMT

Call of Duty for PS Vita Out in Autumn

Sony has confirmed that a Call of Duty game for the PlayStation Vita is set to appear this autumn and it will be an “absolute game-changer” for the new handheld platform.The PlayStation Vita is out this week, on February 22, and will see the release of quite a lot of high quality games both now and in the...

20 February 2012
20:21 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Mentioned by Retailer and Developer

It seems that the next game in the Call of Duty series might be a sequel to 2010's Black Ops, as both a retailer listing at Amazon France, as well as a LinkedIn page of a game developer mention Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.Activision's Call of Duty series has broken sales records with its latest installments, ...

18 February 2012
10:11 GMT

Call of Duty Elite Gets New Update, Fixes Lots of Issues

Activision and its Beachhead studio have just released a brand new build of its Call of Duty Elite online service, fixing a variety of issues encountered by players, while adding support for the upcoming Overwatch map that's set to arrive next week as DLC for Modern Warfare 3. Seeing as how the release of Call ...

18 February 2012
05:31 GMT

Amazing Spider-Man Fights a Rhino in New Trailer

The development team at Beenox and publisher Activision Blizzard have launched a new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, showing the well-known comic book character as he battles a gigantic metal spider which is apparently called a Rhino.The Rhino name for the giant metal spider is somewhat confusing, as in the Marve...

18 February 2012
03:32 GMT

Prototype 2 Blackwatch Collector’s Edition Revealed

Activision has just revealed the Prototype 2 Blackwatch Collector’s Edition, which includes not just the actual game and the previously announced Radnet Edition, but also lots of extra goodies, like free access to the title’s first DLC. Prototype was a pretty decent game, managing to impress with the arr...

17 February 2012
04:18 GMT

Focus on Call of Duty and World of Warcraft Allows Activision to Create Engagement

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

Activision Is Interested in Facebook, Not Ready for an Official Announcement

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

Call of Duty Elite and XP Show That Gamers Care About the Franchise

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

Electronic Arts Compliments Activision on Call of Duty Elite’s Success

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

Activision Executive Believes Creative People Should Lead Publishers

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

Call of Duty Elite 2.0 Out With Next Call of Duty Game, Activision Promises

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

Activision Blizzard Financial Results Impress on Strength of Modern Warfare 3 and Skylanders

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

Activision Says New Bungie Game Shows Incredible Progress

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

New Call of Duty Game Brings “Meaningful Innovations” This Year, Activision Says

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

Analyst: Current Video Game Publishing Model Is Broken

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

Skylanders: Giants Will Be Launched During Fall, Brings More Characters

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

Activision Should Buy Grand Theft Auto and BioShock Publisher, Analyst Says

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

Incoming 2012: Prototype 2

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

Activision Teases Skylanders Announcement for Nuremberg Toy Fair

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

Prototype 2 Hardened Steel Pre-Order Bonus Available from Best Buy

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

Activision Is Trying to Keep Up with Demand for Skylanders Toys

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

New Skylanders Giants Game Uncovered from Internet Registrations

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

18 New Content Drops for Modern Warfare 3 Detailed, Dated

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

Call of Duty Elite Gets Promoted with New Video Featuring Rob Riggle

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

Activision Saw Modern Warfare 3 Leak As Opportunity to Talk to Fans

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

‘Call of Duty ELITE’ for Android Now Available for Download

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

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ‘DLC Season’ Debuts This Month with New Maps

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

Black Ops 2 Domain Name Secured by Activision, Prompts New Sequel Rumors

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

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC Will Deliver Experiments, Quality

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

James Bond: Skyfall Movie Will Get Video Game Tie-In

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

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Ads Criticized By Former Army Member

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

Analyst: GTA V Will Beat Call of Duty in 2012

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

Bungie Still Has Two Big Graphics Issues to Solve for New Engine and Game

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

Prototype 2 Gets Five-Minute Side Quest Diary

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

Skylanders Spyro’s Universe Offers New Virtual World for Real Toys

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

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Gets Behind the Scenes Trailer

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

New Tony Hawk Will Not Reuse Old Franchise Music

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

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Reaches $1 Billion (€757 Million) in Sales

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

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD Gets New Details and Price

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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