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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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Bobby Kotick, the current Chief Executive Officer at publisher Activision Blizzard, has attacked the upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic from BioWare and Electronic Arts, saying that he does not understand the business fundamentals that underpin the game.Speaking at the Reuters Media Summit Bobby Kotick stated, ... |
30 November 2011
07:40 GMT |
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The features that will be a part of the Call of Duty Elite online service have been developed by Activision after an extensive batch of feedback from the massive community of Call of Duty players, at least according to the CEO of the company, Bobby Kotick.
Call of Duty Elite was showcased earlier this year as a bo... |
4 July 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Activision boss Bobby Kotick has expressed his thoughts on the recently revealed PlayStation Vita portable console, confirming that he and his company are interested in the device, but wonders whether it's going to actually sell in a competitive market.
Sony presented its PlayStation Vita handheld platform, f... |
4 July 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is set to become a massively popular game, at least according to the CEO of its publisher, Bobby Kotick, who proclaimed at this week's E3 2011 conference that the demand for the game is reaching impressive levels, and that not even Electronic Arts' Battlefield 3 can touch it l... |
10 June 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Price cuts to platforms like Microsoft's Xbox 360 or Sony's PlayStation 3 are coming, at least according to Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, who talked about the current generation of platforms.
While the gaming industry wasn't severely affected by the recession, consumer spending power has decreased, s... |
11 May 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Activision has just detailed what role its newest studio, Beachhead, will play in the future of its massively successful Call of Duty franchise.
Activision surprised a lot of people last week when it announced that it had established a brand new studio, called Beachhead, which will oversee the online future of the... |
15 February 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Despite heavy rumors that such a decision may be showcased soon, Activision boss Bobby Kotick has once again revealed that his company wasn't that interested in presenting a Call of Duty online experience that would use a subscription model, in the same way as World of Warcraft, for example.
Activision's... |
14 February 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has recently revealed that his company isn't concerned about EA's upcoming big MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and that his own online RPG, World of Warcraft, will continue to be the most popular title out there.
Activision Blizzard's World of Warcraft is t... |
3 December 2010
14:21 GMT |
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Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit which took part in San Francisco, Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer of publisher Activision Blizzard, has said that one of the most important outcomes of the merger between the two video gaming giants is a new culture of patience in the company.Kotick said, “I would say th... |
18 November 2010
15:01 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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Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer of publisher Activision Blizzard, has said that his company is not ready to actively take measures specifically designed to eliminate used game sales, instead relying on extra content for already launched titles in order to make money from them.Kotick stated in an interview w... |
17 November 2010
03:08 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard, has stated that the current view of developer Treyarch as the second string team when it came to Call of Duty video games is unfair, given the amount of work they have put into the multiplayer element in Modern Warfare 2 and the current success of rece... |
15 November 2010
06:29 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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Activision boss Bobby Kotick has once again expressed his confidence in Call of Duty: Black Ops, and how the upcoming game will have the biggest entertainment launch in history, overtaking the previous Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 title.Call of Duty: Black Ops is set to be the biggest game this year, and, according... |
8 November 2010
04:02 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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Bobby Kotick, the boss of Activision Blizzard, has shared some more light on the whole Infinity Ward controversy, which prompted studio founders Jason West and Vince Zampella to leave and start their own studio, Respawn, for Activision rival EA.The Activision boss revealed that he felt betrayed when he saw what West ... |
29 September 2010
18:01 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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Activision boss Bobby Kotick has recently talked about his company's new strategy, and revealed that other console-dependent companies like Sony, Microsoft or EA can't even compete with Activision, given its solid online strategy.Kotick revealed that other companies are going to have lots of problems when p... |
22 September 2010
02:32 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, the president and Chief Executive Officer of publisher Activision Blizzard, has commented that Bungie is the last of the independent developers that is actually managed as a high level company and has clear business sense.Talking to an audience at the Deutsche Bank 2010 Technology Conference the executi... |
21 September 2010
18:31 GMT |
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Yesterday, Tim Schafer, creator of such titles like Grim Fandango, Psychonauts or Brütal Legend, condemned Bobby Kotick, the chief executive of Activision, for his approach in the industry. Kotick is, of course, infamous for his cut-throat attitude to business, openly expressed so many times. His most controvers... |
15 July 2010
05:25 GMT |
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Tim Shafer, the founder of Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Psychonauts and Brütal Legend, has expressed in a recent interview his low opinion of the chief executive officer of Activision Blizzard, the infamous Bobby Kotick. Of course, there is bad blood between Shafer's outfit and Activision beca... |
14 July 2010
17:01 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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Bobby Kotick, Activision 's infamous chief executive officer, said that the publisher's upcoming games would feature music belonging to well-known artists. Call of Duty: Black Ops, DJ Hero 2, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and True Crime: Honk Kong will have names like Usher, Eminem, Soundgarden, Pharrell Wi... |
14 June 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Activision, the videogame publisher best known for long running series like Guitar Hero and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, has announced that it will launch an Independent Games Competition, aimed at offering bedroom coders a chance to hit it big by having a project financed and maybe even picked up for publishing.The... |
4 June 2010
02:01 GMT |
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Activision has recently announced that Modern Warfare 2 managed to bring in 550 million dollars for the company in just five days, becoming the biggest entertainment release in history, beating not just Grand Theft Auto IV but also The Dark Knight. And Booby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer of Activision, has take... |
20 November 2009
02:55 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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Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard, arguably the biggest videogame publisher in the world, spoke at the Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference in San Francisco for just 45 minutes but the ripples of his talking points might be felt for quite some time. In addition to tackling the... |
16 September 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Guitar Hero 5 from Activision is now out and battling for the title of most successful music title of 2009 with The Beatles Rock Band from Harmonix and MTV Games. Initial reports are saying that Guitar Hero 5, no doubt buoyed by the advertising push from the publisher, is doing very well. But, as always after a big r... |
16 September 2009
07:10 GMT |
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The gaming industry is huge, filled with big companies that are making impressive amounts of money even in this troubled economy. One of the largest is Activision, which owns big money-making franchises like Call of Duty or Guitar Hero, which appear every year in new installments, for better or for worse. It is this... |
24 August 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Activision is the biggest video game publisher in the world, owning franchises like Call of Duty or Guitar Hero, which generate obscene amounts of money every year thanks to multiple installments and other profit opportunities like peripheral sales or downloadable content. Speaking at a recent press conference, the ... |
13 August 2009
02:22 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is one of the most complicated consoles currently on the market as, although it has the biggest number of features and many aces up its sleeve, its high price tag and still relatively low number of blockbuster exclusives make it inferior in terms of user base, as opposed to its rivals, the Xbox 360 ... |
22 July 2009
02:24 GMT |
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The gaming industry is definitely a tough one, and the worldwide recession is taking a pretty big toll on it as well, even though it isn't as tough as on other branches of the industry. That is why a lot of companies are trying to squeeze out the maximum amount of profit with the least amount of risk involved. ... |
8 July 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is a very important console as it is one of the most powerful in terms of hardware and is filled with interesting features like a Blu-ray drive, essential for big games. But a heavy toll comes with such specs, as it is the most expensive device on the market. The fact that it almost always comes in... |
29 June 2009
02:40 GMT |
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Out of all the current generation consoles, the PlayStation 3 had the most difficult start, largely due to the fact that it has the highest price tag and that it hasn't been really supported by Sony with many first-party titles.As such, it was up to third-party companies to unveil titles for the PlayStation 3 an... |
22 June 2009
03:28 GMT |
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It seems that 299 dollars is too high a price for Bobby Kotick when it comes to getting a new videogame console. He would like to pay less for one and has told that to the press.While talking to the Reuters news agency, the Chief Executive Officer of Activision, which is now arguably the biggest videogame publisher i... |
11 March 2009
06:20 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer of Activision, has finally conceded that DJ Hero, a game set to replicate the experience of being a disk jockey, is in development and would be released in 2009.CNBC reporters have ambushed Kotick at the World Economic Forum, which took place in Davos, Switzerland, and asked ... |
2 February 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Guitar Hero is one of the most popular music game franchises out there. It paved the way for this genre to overtake the sports one and was a true innovator in terms of gameplay for these titles. The most recent addition in the series is Guitar Hero: World Tour, which brings even more features than the previous ones.A... |
6 November 2008
04:32 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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Bobby Kotick from Activision took the stage at the D: All Things Digital conference and talked about a range of issues, including Guitar Hero: World Tour and the upcoming Vivendi - Activision merger.On the merger issue, he said that the main drive behind the business move is the fact that Activision can get very quic... |
30 May 2008
16:06 GMT |
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There are some commentators puzzled by the decision of Activision to stick only to guitar playing in their Guitar Hero line of games. After all, even if guitars and guitar players get a lot of time in the spotlight, there are other instruments that are equally important for a band and tone. You can't rock withou... |
24 April 2008
19:06 GMT |
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