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Posted 03 Sep 2010

Activision <3 Microsoft

In a blossoming relationship, the best thing to do is ditch the past and move forward. Forget asking for threesomes and just go with the flow. Activision appear to be doing just that, by ditching Playstation branding in the current UK print campaign for Call of Duty: Black Ops. The ad, spotted in Kerrang! Magazine, only features one console branding…. Continue »
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Posted 01 Sep 2010

Dave Mustaine to rock

Dave Mustaine, the ginger-haired whingebag from Megadeth who only ever finds time to write good metal tunes in between moaning about how he used to be in Metallica – in the good ole days. Well now you can pretend you’re a ginger twat, not by appearing on a horrific trainwreck of a documentary about Metallica crying in a therapy session…… Continue »
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Posted 06 Aug 2010

Activision: Blizzard working on new IP

We’ve posted about the Activision earnings call a lot today but more news keeps trickling out. Now it’s Blizzard’s turn. Activision’s answer to Darth Vader, CEO Bobby Kotick, jumped in to talk about Bungie and Blizzard. Interestingly, he outlined Blizzard spending huge money on a new IP. Speculation of such a thing came about originally around 2006/7 when Starcraft II… Continue »
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Posted 06 Aug 2010

Activision’s year

Activision gave an earnings call today for press people to post all the wonderful news they had. However Activision were surprisingly open about their losses and wins. The years successes with Blizzard (World of Warcraft, no word on how amazingly Starcraft is doing) and Call of Duty were offset by poor sales of racing title Blur and Singularity. Blur only… Continue »
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Posted 06 Aug 2010

True Crime: Hong Kong

United Front Games’ crime sim has always been a little retarded brother to GTA. Never as nice a city to explore, never as funny or as good a storyline and certainly never as good as a piece of technology. Activision are sticking with it though, as they sell well in-between GTA iterations. And this time, the series goes where no… Continue »
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Posted 05 Aug 2010

Modern Warfare 2… demo

This press release just shipped from Acitivison. Normally we don’t copy/paste press releases here, but it’s worth reading, for humour reasons: Santa Monica, CA – August 4, 2010 – Cliffhanger, the breathtaking and epic mission from Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2, is now available worldwide for download as a single player demo on the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace and on… Continue »
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Posted 04 Aug 2010

Win a BMW!

No, we’re not giving away a car. We’d never do that… we’d just keep it. Activision, however, have a bit of cash to spend for European players of the new Blur demo. The car is a BMW 125i. To enter, download the demo from PSN and once you hit level 5, you’ll be in with a shot of winning the… Continue »
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Posted 27 Jul 2010

South Korea has probably shut down

If you’re trying to call any friends or family based in South Korea, it’s probably a lost cause. No, Kim Jong-Il has not decided to go postal and dump nuclear explosives into his neighbours. No, an outbreak of swine flu hasn’t occured. Again. No, this time it’s something we can all enjoy. Today is the launch of Starcraft II, the… Continue »
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Posted 15 Jul 2010

Activision is a police state

It’s hard to believe the darling child of Activision’s game development roster has come down to a series of lawsuits, which claim that working for Activision was like working under a police state. The suit claims that Activision subjected Infinity Ward employees to secret “interrogations” and placed security guards at the office exits ahead of the termination of studio heads… Continue »
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Posted 14 Jul 2010

DJ Hero2′s mashed artists

DJ Hero was released last year with the typical review to the extra plastic peripheral in your room being “eh, it’s not bad”. Really, the only mash-up track that was of any use was Daft Punk – who leant their likeness to the game to help promote the Activision cash cow. Well, not all that shockingly 2010 will see DJ… Continue »