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Publisher Electronic Arts, Vince Zampella and Jason West, two high profile ex Infinity Ward leaders, have announced the creation of a new development studio, called Respawn Entertainment, which will be designing AAA videogames, probably set in the first person shooter genre. At the moment, Respawn is trying to p... |
13 April 2010
04:52 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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These days, my gaming time has been all about God of War 3 and about the journey Kratos made to Zeus and the conclusion of the series. We have a review for God of War 3 up and there is also a series of diaries addressing more particular elements of the game that are available. We also have a Weekend Reading feat... |
11 April 2010
06:01 GMT |
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Valve has announced that it plans to allow first-person shooter fans to enjoy a free weekend of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, starting today. The free-play window is set to begin at 4 PM Pacific Daylight Time and the Steam announcement does not specify exactly when the free-play weekend will end. Those who are inte... |
8 April 2010
04:52 GMT |
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It's quite a rare sight for the United Kingdom videogame chart but two new entries sit at the top for the previous week, with Just Cause 2, the latest release that Square Enix prepared for the Western market under the Eidos brand, taking the first position.With Rico grappling along, tying stuff together and gene... |
1 April 2010
13:31 GMT |
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The Stimulus Package for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is now out and both developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision are probably expecting to have another hit on their hands. The first new map pack for what has been the biggest selling title of 2009 includes five new killing grounds where players can test th... |
31 March 2010
06:47 GMT |
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2009 was not a very good year for videogames, with overall sales down and only price cuts making gaming consoles an interesting buying proposition for players. Yet GameStop, the retail chain best known for its used game deals, managed to do well, seeing sales going up by 3.1% to reach 9.08 billion dollars, although o... |
23 March 2010
04:17 GMT |
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After the Infinity Ward-Activision Blizzard conflict, with the main creative minds at the company laid off and law suits being thrown around by the two sides, players started looking at other long time developer-publisher relationships and wonder whether something similar could be possible. And some developers have b... |
17 March 2010
05:57 GMT |
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The conflict between Jason West and Vince Zampella, the two Infinity Ward leaders, and Activision Blizzard is far from being over and its continuation and fallout could actually have a clear negative impact on the future success of the Call of Duty franchise. This is the main conclusion that Wedbush Morgan analyst Mi... |
15 March 2010
15:31 GMT |
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We've known since last week that Infinity Ward and Activision planned to launch the Stimulus Map Pack for the Xbox 360 on March 30, with versions for the PC and the PlayStation 3 from Sony coming at a later unspecified date. What we did not yet know was what the first map pack for Modern Warfare 2, the best sold... |
15 March 2010
07:14 GMT |
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It's the end of another gaming week and we've got the most important news of the last seven days listed a little bit farther in the article. While scrolling down, you can also take a look at the Napoleon: Total War game diary, showing off how I dealt with the most important battles of his career, or you can... |
14 March 2010
07:51 GMT |
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The February NPD Group sales numbers for the United States are now out and the big winner when it comes to videogames is BioShock 2, the first person shooter with a story from Take Two and 2K Games, which managed to top the sales chart with 562,900 units moved to the players eager for a return trip to Rapture and its... |
12 March 2010
04:44 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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The Twitter feed of Robert Bowling, the creative strategist at developer Infinity Ward, seems to be suggesting that the first Map Pack for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 should arrive on the Xbox 360 home gaming console from Microsoft on March 30, with versions for the PC and the PlayStation 3 from Sony set to be del... |
10 March 2010
05:23 GMT |
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This week, we've posted both a game diary and a complete review of Dante's Inferno, the videogame from Visceral and Electronic Arts, which aims to take the player to Hell to meet all its wonderful denizens and chat a bit with some famous historical figures. We also have a Weekend Reading piece about how Ubi... |
7 March 2010
10:31 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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Jason West and Vince Zampella, the Infinity Ward co-founders and ex leaders, have filed a lawsuit against publisher Activision, accusing the company of breaching the contract it had with them and abusing its position as it ousted them from Infinity Ward. Activision is accused of: breach of contract, breach of the imp... |
4 March 2010
16:21 GMT |
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It seems that something rather ugly went on behind the scenes in the last few days at developer Infinity Ward, the outfit in charge of the biggest videogame released in 2009, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Now, two of the most important men at the company are no longer working there and it appears that further conte... |
3 March 2010
04:09 GMT |
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Can Bad Company, which was initially conceived as a sort of humorous version of Battlefield that needed to draw in gamers interested in single player, get serious about the story it tells and about the multiplayer it offers? DICE is set to answer this question during next week as it put out, in conjunction with publi... |
26 February 2010
16:31 GMT |
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DICE is quite busy at the moment. The company is working on putting Battlefield: Bad Company 2 out in top shape and is also set to deliver the multiplayer component of the revived Medal of Honor game, which should arrive in time for the holiday shopping season and compete directly with the Call of Duty title develope... |
25 February 2010
16:21 GMT |
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One of the claims to legitimization the videogaming industry has made is that it produces more revenue than the movie industry. And now, consumer research firm Nielsen has announced that videogaming spending accounts for about 5% of all entertainment bound funds for average consumers.When the “active buyer&rdqu... |
24 February 2010
03:38 GMT |
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This week has been all about BioShock 2, the return to Rapture engineered by a variety of 2K studios and Digital Extremes, and we've got four videogame diaries to show after playing the title, talking about Sophia Lamb, the mini last stand battles and the city of Rapture itself. But we also have our regular Week... |
21 February 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Oh, how the mighty have fallen. The previous week saw Mass Effect 2, the role playing space opera made by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts, go down from its first place perch to numb eight in the United Kingdom videogame chart while BioShock 2, the 2K-made underwater shooter, which sees the player go back to ... |
18 February 2010
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Ubisoft has announced its DRM plans for the PC version of Assassin's Creed II, but no one expected things to be this bad. We just hoped that, if we blinked really, really hard and snapped our fingers, we'd wake up and it would have all been just a bad dream. But reality is usually worse than what our nightm... |
18 February 2010
04:19 GMT |
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Microsoft seems determined to limit the storage space of most Xbox 360 gamers to 120 GB. The 250 GB hard drive, initially released as part of a bundle that also included Modern Warfare 2, the biggest selling game of 2009, is set to also appear as part of a bundle with Final Fantasy XIII, the Square Enix-made Japanese... |
17 February 2010
13:11 GMT |
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Game awards may come in different shapes and colors, but the BAFTA ones are indeed some of the biggest out there. And the 40 different nominees on the Academy's list are going to go neck and neck right until the moment of triumph, with a lot of amazing titles present and accounted for. Some were luckier than oth... |
17 February 2010
07:31 GMT |
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The Church of England is, apparently, interested in the implementation of tighter regulation for the videogaming market. The organization believes that the fabric of society is threatened by the content adults and children can have access to in games like Modern Warfare 2, God of War III or Resistance.Tom Benyon, who... |
17 February 2010
02:53 GMT |
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Aside from the initial controversies Modern Warfare 2 started, with the way Infinity Ward approached the PC version of its games, as well as with the famous "Airport Massacre" scene, its multiplayer has also generated some pretty intense talks. The title managed to motivate the hacking community to such an extent, th... |
16 February 2010
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Sales of videogames declined in January 2010 by 12%, a bad figure but one that looks good when compared to the 21% posted for console sales, in the United States, according to figures released by the NPD Group.Analysts thought that the fall would be of about 5% just a few days ago. And, in a somewhat surprising move,... |
12 February 2010
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Microsoft re-launched its X series of events related to the Xbox 360 home gaming platform in San Francisco and made some pretty interesting announcements as part of it. And the biggest of them is that the company is partnering up with Infinity Ward and with Activision Blizzard in order to deliver an exclusive piece o... |
12 February 2010
03:37 GMT |
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The NPD Group is set to publish its sales figures for both hardware and software in the United States later today and another analyst expects the market to be down when compared to the same period in 2009. Doug Creutz, who is working for the Cowen Group, is saying that sales will be down by about 2% for both hardware... |
11 February 2010
12:51 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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Another year has passed, so one of the things gamers are looking forward to is the announcement of another Call of Duty title, as Activision confirmed another installment in the franchise at its Q4 conference call, held yesterday. Further official details about he game stopped here, but rumors about Call of Duty 7, f... |
11 February 2010
03:27 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2, the space-based role playing experience with strong cover-based shooting elements delivered by BioWare and Electronic Arts, has managed to have quite the impact, despite being out for just a week in the United Kingdom.The videogame has managed to top the software chart and seems set for a good run, aft... |
4 February 2010
04:54 GMT |
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Valve Software has announced that at the end of 2009, the Steam digital distribution service reached 25 million active users, which is 25% more than at the same point in 2008. Ten million of those who are holding accounts have also created profiles for the community features of the service. It's quite an importa... |
2 February 2010
03:49 GMT |
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It seems that the reign of Modern Warfare 2 on the United Kingdom chart is over, with Just Dance, a casual dancing simulation title from Ubisoft, holding on tight to the number one spot in the United Kingdom videogame chart. The game is easy to pick up and play and offers a variety of pop hits from the 80's, 90&... |
28 January 2010
04:20 GMT |
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At long last after a reign of about two months, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been finally taken down from the top position of the United Kingdom videogame chart. The first person shooter, the best selling title of 2009, had a good run but has suffered the shame of being replaced by a very casual offering from F... |
21 January 2010
13:11 GMT |
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While not exactly as troublesome as the Monopoly dollar, the custom currency of Microsoft has generated a lot of confusion among people. The "Points" was something that took a lot of getting used to, and a lot of people are still having a hard time trying to figure out if Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox 360 is more or l... |
21 January 2010
06:48 GMT |
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Nintendo has announced that its New Super Mario Bros. Wii has managed to sell no less than 3,002,753 units on the Japanese market, becoming the quickest title to reach this milestone. It only took the game seven weeks since its release on December 3 to sell 3 million units, with close to a million of them sold in the... |
21 January 2010
03:54 GMT |
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While the "Ice Skating" problem has been fixed, Infinity Ward has found enough other problems in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to prepare another patch for the game. This time around, the patch is for the PC only and is delivered via Steam. Like always, "The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam clie... |
20 January 2010
06:10 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 is set to be released by BioWare and Electronic Arts on January 26 in North America and three days later in Europe, on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PC.The development team is quick to point out that the second game in the trilogy is set to fix all that was wrong with the first release, like th... |
19 January 2010
05:30 GMT |
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The NPD Group, as part of an end of year wrap up, has offered a list of the ten best selling PC videogames in the United States in 2009, showing that The Sims 3, created by the team at Maxis and published by Electronic Arts, sold better than World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the MMO expansion put out by... |
18 January 2010
17:41 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has sold more than 1 billion dollars worth of games since it was released at the beginning of November 2009. The number is taken from internal Activision estimates and has not been independently confirmed.The biggest share of that figure was achiev... |
15 January 2010
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December is the month of Christmas and a lot of people rush to pick up videogames in order to offer to the loved ones on the 25. Despite the fact that actual sales of videogames are said to have seen a decline a 7% during the last month of 2009, reaching 2.58 billion dollars, sales of both gaming hardware and accesso... |
15 January 2010
05:20 GMT |
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The New Year seems a lot like the last so far, judging by the latest United Kingdom videogame chart. Modern Warfare 2, the first person shooter developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, the biggest videogame of 2009, is still in first spot and will probably not relinquish it before the release of Mass E... |
14 January 2010
13:01 GMT |
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Even with the "almost perfectly" controlled environment set up by Infinity Ward and its IWNet, the one thing that Modern Warfare 2 isn't is under control. The game has already seen a large number of bugs, glitches and exploits. Even leaving the Akimbo problem aside, the day-one PC cheats as well as the Javelin g... |
11 January 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, developed by Infinity Ward, is the biggest selling game of 2010 and publisher Activision must be pleased. But now the attention of the fans of the series is turning to developer Treyarch, which is working on the next game in the franchise. Details should soon appear considering that th... |
8 January 2010
17:41 GMT |
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Videogame releases have come and gone and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 from Infinity Ward and Activision seems to be impossible to budge from the top spot in the United Kingdom videogaming chart. Some are looking to the release of Mass Effect 2, the space-based role playing experience from BioWare and Electronic Ar... |
7 January 2010
13:21 GMT |
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Video games have a tradition of an outcast and a popular cause for most disastrous effects. If you were to question a religious establishment about the reason behind the 9/11 tragedy, it probably wouldn't say oil, it'd be more inclined to blame Grand Theft Auto IV, even if it wasn't even released back ... |
7 January 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has shown off the first gameplay trailer for the new Medal of Honor videogame at the Spike Video Game Awards, which took place last year, and since then the company has kept its silence about what they plan to do with the revived franchise.While the new videogame will clearly be linked to Afghanistan ... |
5 January 2010
17:41 GMT |
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