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Activision is one of the biggest companies in the gaming industry, which it has shaped through its projects, but it is most famous for its very profitable franchises, like Guitar Hero or World of Warcraft. However, a very successful one is the Call of Duty shooter series, which has seen the latest installment in the ... |
17 June 2009
02:38 GMT |
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Activision is already committed to delivering at least one new Call of Duty videogame each year. It's true that one of the series is not called Modern Warfare, but all gamers know where its roots really lie.With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare still selling well and with its follow up World at War getting over 11 m... |
16 June 2009
18:11 GMT |
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Mike Hickey, who is an analyst for Janco Partners, has offered quite an interesting prediction, saying that Modern Warfare 2, the Infinity Ward developed and Activision Blizzard published sequel, would become the biggest game release of 2009, selling no less than 11.1 million units from November 10 until the end of t... |
15 June 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was one of the biggest titles of the end of 2007, marking a significant change in the CoD series, which, up until then, tackled World War II conflicts. As it shifted in the present, the game enjoyed a huge amount of popularity and is still being played a lot these days. In 2008, CoD: W... |
11 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has made news not only through its rather extensive E3 presentation but also through a luncheon that was attended by Marc Whitten, who is the general manager of the Xbox Live service. One of the big reveals is that Microsoft plans to implement a service called “Games On Demand,” set to allow con... |
2 June 2009
03:48 GMT |
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The Call of Duty franchise was the same as any ordinary first-person shooter series that tackled World War II, up to the fourth installment, dubbed Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. By simply bringing the series into the present day, its developer, Infinity Ward, and its publisher, Activision, experienced a big amount ... |
28 May 2009
02:17 GMT |
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A lot of games have been confirmed for release this year, including some highly anticipated titles like God of War III, Guitar Hero 5 or other sequels. But one of the most important ones and a definite blockbuster will be Modern Warfare 2, created by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, which is the sequel to t... |
25 May 2009
03:20 GMT |
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The Call of Duty series is without a doubt one of the most popular franchises of first-person shooters currently in development. It has brought its publisher, Activision, huge amounts of money, especially with the most recent iterations, CoD 4: Modern Warfare and CoD: World at War, both developed by separate studios ... |
20 May 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your own roundup of the most important news in gaming from the last week. We've seen some very interesting turns of events these past 7 days, which have been filled with teasers and announcements from various big corporations, all ending with the month... |
16 May 2009
07:11 GMT |
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One of the most highly anticipated titles of the end of the year is Modern Warfare 2, the follow-up to the hugely successful Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare game. This new iteration, which will be developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, is set to break sales records, as executives from the two companie... |
13 May 2009
03:17 GMT |
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The Call of Duty series is one of the most important franchises to Activision as it generates a huge amount of profit with every iteration. With the overwhelming success of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the team at Infinity Ward, the creators of the series, has been hard at work developing a sequel to it, entitled ... |
12 May 2009
03:24 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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The Call of Duty franchise continues to be one of Activision's flagship products, as almost anything remotely related to it seems to achieve big sales left and right. Such is the case with the first pack of downloadable content for the latest iteration in the series, Call of Duty: World at War, which has broken ... |
7 May 2009
02:45 GMT |
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The Call of Duty franchise is one of the most acclaimed and popular series of first-person shooter games out there. Created by Infinity Ward and now shared by the publisher Activision between that studio and Treyarch, the series is getting more and more popular these days thanks to the Call of Duty: World at War titl... |
5 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The Call of Duty franchise has gained critical acclaim for its solid gameplay and for the fact that it has brought a lot of interesting scenarios and stories to life. But while the versions that focused on the World War II conflict gathered a lot of fans, it was only until CoD 4: Modern Warfare appeared that it gaine... |
4 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Aspyr Media has released a new patch for players of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The company responsible for publishing various Windows titles on the Macintosh platform notes that the patch bringing Call of Duty 4 to version 1.7.1 is for the digital download version of the game only, and supports English only. An ... |
8 April 2009
05:26 GMT |
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In the gaming industry, a lot of franchises have become blockbusters and are rivaling other forms of entertainment like movies or television in terms of profits and fan base. One such example is the Call of Duty series of shooters, which is being taken care of by the large Activision corporation.It has just seen its ... |
6 April 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Recent Call of Duty games have seen a massive surge of popularity, as they offered a very top-notch first-person-shooter experience but also combined it with an interesting story and rich environments and settings. The latest iteration in the series, Call of Duty: World At War, while beginning the holiday season wit... |
2 April 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Celebrities are people just like you and me, so the fact that they play video games shouldn't be very shocking. We've already heard quite a few stars talk about one of their favorite pastimes, and reveal whether they were actually any good, or that they even resorted to cheating, like Metallica's Lars ... |
30 March 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Last week, the Game Developers Conference offered us many pieces of news related to upcoming games and services like OnLive. But this was also the time when the ESRB, the commission in charge of rating games for the territory of the United States, revealed new classifications, including two very interesting ones, Cal... |
30 March 2009
02:18 GMT |
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was a truly great game, as it received numerous awards and, according to its publisher, Activision, has sold over 12 million copies worldwide, making it the “most successful first-person action title of all time.”Yesterday, we saw the trailer to the sequel of the game, Moder... |
27 March 2009
04:36 GMT |
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The Game Developers Conference is in full swing these days and it is there that big publishers and developers showcase their future titles or reveal new and exciting details about the ones that will be appearing in the near future.After the awards ceremony ended, Activision considered proper to unveil a teaser traile... |
26 March 2009
04:14 GMT |
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We reported yesterday that a few outraged teenagers decided to start a petition against Activision and its Call of Duty shooter franchise. With the recent bad publicity that video games have gotten, you would think they were against depicting violence against people in games, but actually they didn't like the fa... |
25 March 2009
17:41 GMT |
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The Call of Duty franchise is one of the most popular shooter series currently on the market. Created by Infinity Ward and developed by both the studio and Treyarch under the publishing umbrella of Activision, the series has taken pride in depicting almost all the conditions from World War II as well as those in mode... |
24 March 2009
03:59 GMT |
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Most of the time, when the traditional media talks about games, it can only adopt one tonality, that of the concerned party pointing out the evil influences that videogames have on players and especially on kids. Now, there's a new meta study that points out that the previous reports which researched the link be... |
18 March 2009
19:11 GMT |
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The Activision Blizzard of today is pretty much the Electronic Arts of yesterday, at least as far as business philosophies go. Even as EA is admitting that it needs to create something new and interesting, like Dead Space or Mirror's Edge, in order to expand the potential customer base, Activision Blizzard is sa... |
13 March 2009
03:18 GMT |
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The first person shooter genre is a very popular one, as it offers gamers the chance to shoot up bad guys and rescue everything, from the love of their life to their world. That is why there are a lot of titles that have really pushed forward the genre through innovative stories and new features. One such title is C... |
12 March 2009
04:20 GMT |
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With news that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is in development at Infinity Ward, the maker of the highly successful 2007 game of the series, a lot of speculations have been piling up, offering leaked bits and pieces of information regarding what's going to be in the new game.The most credible of the speculation... |
5 March 2009
04:55 GMT |
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Bungie has released data showing that players who have bought Halo 3, the latest game in the series featuring Master Chief, released exclusively for the Xbox 360, have played more than 1 billion online matches since the game was released, sometime in September 2007, less than 15 months ago.Bungie says that the billio... |
4 March 2009
08:01 GMT |
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Hardware sales were the main driver for the 13% increase the videogame industry saw in the United States for the month of January 2009 over January 2008. The data coming from the NPD Group shows that software sales increase at a slower pace than hardware, indicating a somewhat surprising trend: when there’s lit... |
13 February 2009
14:21 GMT |
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The Wii is expected to do great in January's NPD numbers, when they are released, even as Nintendo is wondering why Japanese gamers are no longer interested in home gaming consoles. To keep the balance positive, Nintendo should take into account the performance it has achieved in the United Kingdom, where only o... |
13 February 2009
02:40 GMT |
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After the Game Developers Choice Awards nominations were dominated by LittleBigPlanet, which lead the field with seven nominations, with Brain being the closest competitor with five nominations, it is time for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to announce the nominations for its videogame-oriented award... |
12 February 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard presented a very mixed earning report to share holders and the press. On the one hand, the publisher created revenue of 2.3 billion dollars in the period between October and December, which is better than analysts expected. On the other hand, the company posted a loss, for the same period, of... |
12 February 2009
03:51 GMT |
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Activision and Treyarch have put out the 1.2 patch for their World War II first person shooter Call of Duty: World at War. The main addition brought on by the patch is the introduction of a day time version of the old Makin map allowing players to see how the transition from pitch black darkness to the light of day a... |
9 February 2009
04:53 GMT |
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The United States branch of Activision is announcing that players of Call of Duty: World at War will be getting double experience this weekend. This is probably an attempt to make sure that those gamers who play for eight or more hours a day don't end up dominating the game. It's expected that the servers w... |
30 January 2009
15:31 GMT |
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In the United Kingdom, Wii Fit, the Nintendo Wii sensation relying on the Balance Board add on in order to make people lose weight and improve their health, sits at the top of the sales chart, managing to take down the best sold game of last week, FIFA 09 from EA Sports. The football title, which began the year in th... |
22 January 2009
12:51 GMT |
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The general rush when the numbers offered by the NPD Group come out is to look at the data and try to answer the Most Important Question in Gaming (or MIQG, pronounced like “my cog”). Did the Xbox 360 sell better than the PlayStation 3? How much money did Nintendo make in the last month? Will 2009 be the ... |
20 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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So, what does it take to get someone to enlist in the Army, be it the United States military forces or those of any other country? The first answers that come to someone’s mind are: loyalty to the country, the passion to defend, a good physical condition, a strong mind and a good level of understanding of the w... |
20 January 2009
08:21 GMT |
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Call of Duty: World at War, the World War II shooter developed by Treyarch using the engine created by Infinity Ward for Modern Warfare and published by Activision, proved a big success with gamers, challenging the likes of Gears of War 2 and Wii Fit in terms of sales over 2008. One might say that the game managed to... |
19 January 2009
04:42 GMT |
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As part of its reports for December, the NPD Group has also done a bit of math to see which game sold the most in 2008 and came up with a top ten offering few surprises but a lot of space for thought.Unsurprisingly, given the domination of the Nintendo Wii in all hardware charts, the best sold videogame of 2008 was W... |
19 January 2009
03:46 GMT |
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With the videogames industry slowing due to the recession and with a 2009 that could see the fall of more developers and even some publishers as less titles hit it big at retail, everyone is looking at the NPD Group data for December 2008, trying to see who is doing well and who is not even showing up for the fight.A... |
16 January 2009
14:01 GMT |
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What's a recession hit gamer to do when he hasn't yet played the biggest videogame releases of 2008 even if the gigantic titles of 2009 are knocking at his door and ready to claim share of their wallet? Renting games, although frowned upon by videogame publishers, is clearly the way to go here and companies... |
16 January 2009
03:45 GMT |
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Just before Christmas, FIFA 2009 from EA Sports took the top spot in the United Kingdom Top 40 of videogames, pushing Call of Duty: World at War, published by Activision Blizzard and developed by Treyarch, to number two. Now, in a surprising reversal, the latest installment in the Call of Duty series has staged a com... |
7 January 2009
14:21 GMT |
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You know all the time we, the videogame oriented websites, spend talking about the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft? Well, it might be a bit too much as media research company Nielsen just posted data showing that the Sony made last gen console PlayStation 2 is the most used i... |
5 January 2009
17:21 GMT |
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2008 is not a good game for the economy overall and although the videogaming industry has not been hit as hard as, say, the financial segment, there are a lot of publishers and developers facing difficult situations. Still, the industry is on track to posting a growth of 20% over 2007, which is more than the analysts... |
29 December 2008
12:01 GMT |
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Recession is hitting hard. Midway was just sold for around 100,000 dollars. Eidos is looking for someone to bail it out. Brash Entertainment went under. Electronic Arts has laid off 1,000 people, about 10% of the staff it employs and announced closing down nine studios, including Need for Speed Undercover developer B... |
23 December 2008
11:21 GMT |
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In a month when the gaming industry grew by around 10% over the same period of 2007, bringing the total revenue for the year to around 16 billion dollars, sales of videogames went up by 11%, which is good but not great, considering the value of the games released during the recent four weeks.The biggest game of Novem... |
12 December 2008
19:31 GMT |
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Mario Kart Wii, created by Nintendo, has managed to be the best sold videogame in the United Kingdom for another week, after last week the title went to number one about eight months since launch. The popularity of the game seems to be a result of increased advertising, better Nintendo Wii supplies and the comin... |
11 December 2008
06:55 GMT |
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I'm torn about reviewing Call of Duty: World at War, Treyarch’s latest game in the Activision published series. On the one hand, it does a lot of things very well. The action is fast and the environment is engrossing. Checkpoints are well placed, co op is well implemented, the mission intros are well direc... |
10 December 2008
05:11 GMT |
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