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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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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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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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Speaking at the DICE 2012 event, TJ Galda, a senior developer at Electronic Arts, suggested that video games should take television as their model and actually sell players chapters of story in order to keep them engaged with a story in the long term. The developers stated, “Call of Duty literally earned a bil... |
13 February 2012
10:38 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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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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Activision has just confirmed that the third content drop for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, in the form of a new multiplayer map, will arrive on the Xbox 360 platform for Call of Duty Elite premium subscribers later this month.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 broke sales records last year when it arrived on the PC,... |
8 February 2012
07:11 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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Activision has finally confirmed when Call of Duty Elite premium subscribers on the PlayStation 3 platform can get their hands on the first pieces of downloadable content for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Modern Warfare 3, after breaking sales records, just saw the release of its first two “content drops&rdq... |
3 February 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Infinity Ward has confirmed that the issues concerning the downloadable content that was recently released for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, in which Xbox 360 owners couldn’t access it while signed into other profiles, will be solved through a future update.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 received its first ... |
30 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Activision, together with developers Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games, has just deployed Title Update number 8 for the massively popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 first person shooter on the Xbox 360 platform, while the PS3 edition is set to receive it later this week.It’s been a busy week for Call of ... |
26 January 2012
07:13 GMT |
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A new issue concerning the downloadable content for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has just appeared, as Elite premium subscribers, who got the DLC earlier this week on the Xbox 360, found out that they couldn’t access the new maps from another profile on their own console.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 got i... |
26 January 2012
05:31 GMT |
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The new Elite subscription service for the Call of Duty series is, according to the developers working on the first-person shooter franchise, a way of offering the player base options and differentiating between the hardcore crowd and the casual players.
Speaking to Kotaku, Robert Bowling, the main creative director... |
25 January 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Activision has decided to once again use the talent of Rob Riggle, with the Hollywood actor, comedian and former serviceman now promoting the two new downloadable maps that were deployed yesterday for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Downloadable content for Modern Warfare 3 is going to be released through a fresh st... |
25 January 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Sniper Elite V2 is set during World War II, one of the most explored areas of history when it comes to video games, but the development team at Rebellion believes that it is the right time to explore the setting once again.
Steve Hart, the senior producer working on Sniper Elite V2 at Rebellion, told GamerZines that... |
25 January 2012
04:23 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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A report from Baird Equity Research, a financial analysis firm based in the United States, states that two titles, the upcoming Call of Duty installment and the already confirmed Grand Theft Auto V, will account for one third of overall games sales for the coming fiscal year.
When it comes to actual copies moved to ... |
24 January 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is set to receive its first “content drop” today, on the Xbox 360 platform, as premium subscribers to the Call of Duty Elite online service will be able to enjoy two fresh multiplayer maps.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 broke sales records all around the world and it is th... |
24 January 2012
05:15 GMT |
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Infinity Ward, the developer behind the massively successful Call of Duty franchise, has posted a job listing for an animator who needs to be interested in working with “next generation technologies.”
We’ve been hearing plenty of rumors about next generation consoles, like the PlayStation 4 or Xbox... |
19 January 2012
03:49 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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December 2011 was a much worse than expected period for video game sales in the United States, with the overall value of the retail market tracked by the NPD Group dropping by no less than 14 percent when compared to the same period of 2010.The top 10 NPD Group compiled video game chart for the United States market i... |
13 January 2012
05:24 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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Activision has confirmed that it is finally releasing mobile applications for its Call of Duty Elite online service, with a version already available on the iOS platform. The Android edition is coming next week.
Call of Duty Elite was released alongside Modern Warfare 3 back in November but, while the actual game we... |
10 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has just let loose a series of charts with the most popular games on its Xbox 360 platform and, to the surprise of almost no one, the three most played games on the platform are all part of the Call of Duty franchise.
The Xbox 360 is a platform dominated by hardcore games and thanks to the newest charts fr... |
9 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Gamefly has released some data from its subscriber queue that show the open world Rocksteady made Batman: Arkham City is the most wanted cross platform video game release of 2011.The rest of the top ten includes: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3Dead IslandBattlefield 3Assassin’s Creed RevelationsSaints Row: The T... |
9 January 2012
04:15 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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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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FIFA 12, the football simulation from EA Sports, has been the top selling video game in the United Kingdom for the week, which ended on December 24, just before the crucial holiday of Christmas, when a lot of video games are sold in order to be turned into gifts.FIFA 12 languished in fourth place during the previous ... |
28 December 2011
10:31 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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The company RealTime Immersive has launched a trailer for the new simulator that it is developing for the United States Army, which will use the name Dismounted Training System.The Army has invested more than 57 million dollars (43.59 million Euro) in the new training simulator and is using the CryEngine 3 from Cryte... |
27 December 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Activision has just confirmed that its blockbuster Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 shooter will be getting its first piece of downloadable content on January 24, 2012, in the form of a map pack that will be deployed onto the Xbox 360 platform and will be available for download by Call of Duty Elite premium subscribers... |
22 December 2011
06:51 GMT |
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Infinity Ward has revealed that a full pledged title update for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 first person shooter will arrive for the PlayStation 3 later this week.Modern Warfare 3 amazed millions upon millions of gamers when it appeared last month, quickly managing to reach $1 billion in sales in just 16 days.... |
15 December 2011
05:14 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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Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games have just released a brand new hotfix for their Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 first person shooter, making some much needed adjustments to the power of some weapons while eliminating quite a lot of exploits that appeared on the Dome multiplayer level.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ... |
13 December 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Keith Vaz, who is a member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, has asked fellow politicians to engage in a significant debate about the effects of video games on children as more and more parents are preparing to give popular titles as gifts for Christmas.The politician asked, “Could we have a debate next week... |
12 December 2011
12:31 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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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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Just as the hype concerning its Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 game is beginning to slowly dwindle, Activision has now presented a brand new video starring Hollywood stars Jonah Hill and Sam Worthington, with a new adventure in their ‘Vet versus n00b’ series.Modern Warfare 3 broke sales records all over t... |
2 December 2011
17:31 GMT |
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“The Call of Duty: Zombies phenomenon has risen back to life,” say the people at Activision who have just released this game in the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPad.Priced at $6.99 and seemingly available only for the U.S. market at the time of this writing, Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies is adapted ... |
2 December 2011
12:21 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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Eric Brown, who is the Chief Financial Officer at video game publisher Electronic Arts, has told an audience at the Baird Technology Conference that the DICE created first person shooter Battlefield 3 has been sold more than 8 million times since launch, with 12 million copies shipped to retailer during the same peri... |
30 November 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Dusty Welch, who was a senior vice president and the leader of publishing at Activision, has created a new games studio called U4iA Games, with the ultimate aim being to create a free-to-play and browser-powered FPS that will be more popular than the Call of Duty series.
Speaking about his new studio and his next pr... |
30 November 2011
02:29 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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Barely has Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 been on sale and already a batch of supposed details about its first downloadable map pack has been leaked on the web.According to Kotaku, the report includes the names of the five maps that will be part of this DLC, which are called Morning Wood, Concrete, Park, Italy, ... |
28 November 2011
14:21 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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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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