| Christian Martin |
Chief executive of Activision Blizzard, and current defender of the Golden Douche Belt, Bobby Kotick, apparently wants more money. Big surprise, huh? This time he feels it’s Microsoft holding out on him by not giving Activision a cut of its Xbox Live profits.
| Erik Johnson |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s second downloadable map pack has been listed on Steam and is now available for pre-purchase ahead of its July 6 release.
| Adam Bruno |
Just yesterday, Activision announced at E3 that another iteration of the classic Nintendo 64 game is in the works. The original GoldenEye 007 came out way back in 1997 for the Nintendo 64, based on the James Bond film of the same name. And while there was a last-gen pretender called GoldenEye: Rogue Agent in 2004, it was similar in name only and was panned by reviewers.
| Adam Bruno |
Called it! Well, it wasn’t exactly rocket science in the first place, but four former Infinity Ward employees have jumped ship and gone to former IW studio heads Jason West and Vince Zampella’s new development studio, Respawn Entertainment.
| Adam Bruno |
Hey, gang. This was supposed to have been published a while ago, but the technology gods ate my post. And the draft. And my soul. Anyway, my apologies. On with the post!
The fight between Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision Blizzard continues to heat up as five more employees of Infinity Ward have left. This brings the body count to at least 17, which is not an insignificant number for the small development studio based in Encino, California.
| Adam Bruno |
If you play any of today’s video games, chances are you’ve seen, if not purchased, some downloadable content. In fact, you may have played a game that felt woefully incomplete without said downloadable content. For better or worse, the trend is only going to increase. Before you click on the break, take a guess at how much money the Call of Duty franchise is expected to make on DLC alone next year.
| Kenneth Ellis |
Guitar Hero is doing great! Wonderful job, Activision! I couldn’t have done it better myself, and I’ve tried. Kudos.
Wait, you are out to destroy your IP, right? Because that’s what you’re doing. I just want to make sure before I throw kudos around willy-nilly.
| Erik Johnson |
Earlier this morning I noticed Direct2Drive had posted something other than a game release or a sale on its Twitter account:
Been wondering if D2D will have CoD Modern Warfare 2 come launch day? Well, the answer is, sadly, no. Here’s why.
| Adam Bruno |
With the release of DJ Hero just minutes away, it seems those who like to order their games online won’t have to wait nearly as long for their DJ fix. Those who eschew Gamestop and the like and order directly from Actiblizzard are in for a little treat. I’ll link it after the jump.
| Kenneth Ellis |
The intro video for DJ Hero was recently released, and it’s not messing around!
