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Weekend Reading: The Call of Duty Versus Battlefield Rivalry Is Not a Good Thing

The biggest first person shooters of the fall are now out and gamers can now pick up both Battlefield 3, from Swedish studio DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, from Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games and Raven with publishing handled by Activision, and measure the quality for thems...

19 November 2011
07:11 GMT

Modern Warfare 3 Producer Wants Success for Both Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is now out and while fans of the series are busy going through the single player and gaining the first ranks in multiplayer, industry watchers are eager to see how its rivalry with Battlefield 3, the DICE made and Electronic Arts published FPS, plays out.But at least one high level exec...

9 November 2011
03:40 GMT

Activision Calls Out Electronic Arts Over Modern Warfare 3 Rot Comment

An executive working for video game publisher Activision Blizzard has called out rival company Electronic Arts over the strong comments it has made about the future prospects of the Call of Duty franchise, saying that while competition is good for the industry it does not make sense to wish publicly for a rival produ...

18 August 2011
17:41 GMT

Weekend Reading: The Downside of an Origin vs. Steam Fight

Electronic Arts has put together a new digital distribution service, called Origin, and the interests of the publisher are now on a clear collision course with those of Steam, the Valve-created dominant force on the PC market, with the results probably bad for gaming, bad for the PC space and for most of the players....

2 July 2011
05:51 GMT

Rivalry with Pro Evolution Soccer Central to FIFA Success

The FIFA video game series from EA Sports has become in the last few years the most important football simulation franchise, performing better than its main rival, the Konami made Pro Evolution Soccer series, but at least one leading developer working on it says that having a capable rival is important to the quality...

2 June 2011
13:31 GMT

Apple Giving Palm a Rough Time over Pre iTunes Access

With the Palm Pre making probably the most worthy iPhone competitor, Apple is (seemingly) beginning to feel the ground shaking beneath its feet. Palm likes to advertise its smartphone as being able to connect to iTunes. Apple, of course, had to have a say in this. The New York Times points out that Palm touts the Pr...

5 August 2009
06:19 GMT

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, a "Crappy War Game"

If you were ever thinking that game developers don't like other products but theirs, you were probably right, if we are to judge by Activision producer's opinion on the highly anticipated (but not Activision-owned) Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway. According to him, it is just a crappy war game out of ...

2 July 2008
13:06 GMT

Bigger Fish to Fry

The processors war, as it could be named, started between AMD and Intel way back, in the good old days of the first Pentiums and K6s. But as the times and technologies change, Intel is looking at its other competitors. It seems that AMD is not the rival now, as Intel tries to move on to newer markets. In a document t...

13 July 2007
05:00 GMT


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