Its domination continues. As more than 6.5 million people have purchased Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 within its first 24 hours on the market, in both North America and the United Kingdom, with it pulling in more than $400 million in total revenue. That number makes it one of the largest entertainment launches in [...]
Blizzard Entertainment have unveiled the final character class for Diablo III, the Demon Hunter class, a class that captures the essence of its name. The Demon Hunter carries a dual-crossbow and is said to be the successor to the Rogue class from the original. The Demon Hunter class is focused on projectile weapons; including throwing [...]
Update: It has been brought to my attention that there was a little error within the title. However, it has now been edited. Original: That’s right. According to The Hollwood Reporter, it seems that Activision have set up deals for “Call of Duty: The Movie”, the movie for the very popular video game. “[The Call [...]
There were many reports today stating that Modern Warfare 2 has dropped the ‘Call of Duty’ out of its name, so we asked Activision for a reason why they changed the name. Responding, a company spokesperson told us as to the reason why. “Modern Warfare has taken on such a life of its own, it [...]
When Activision dropped most of there upcoming games for the merger with Blizzard, that we thought were going to be good, the video game version of the hit movie Ghostbusters was a victim. Then there was that rumor going around that the game was happily picked up by the guys over at Atari, and soon [...]
While Nintendo is still leading the pack, if you ask Activision Blizzard for their input on the out growth of a system they seem to think that the PS3 will see more growth than the Xbox 360 by the end of ’08. According to GameDaily, in a conference call Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith provided [...]
Personally, I never really notice that these games were different and it looks like THQ has found out why. According to Patent Arcade, THQ has filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard over trade dress and copyright, which means box-art in this case. The news site reports that the lawsuit against Activision Blizzard is about the [...]
As the news is still buzzing around the internet today, Activision Blizzard has unmasked that it has brought out U.K. developer FreeStyleGames. Now, according to a leak, FreeStyleGames could be working on DJ Hero, which was trademarked back in February by Activision, and Kotaku has possible collected the first details for the game. In the [...]
According to Joystiq, an Activision PR representative at X08 confirmed that the fifth Call of Duty game will be releasing sometime in November. This just points to the fact that Activision is sticking to their “fall 08″ gap that they set for the game when it was released. If Activision’s November gap is true this [...]
The Vancouver Sun is reporting that video game company Radical Entertainment will be laying off about 100 employees, which is almost half its staff. The decision was made by the company’s owner, Activision Blizzard, to reduce the number of titles Radical produces. “Activision Blizzard is committed to making the best games possible and has elected [...]