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Activision has made the claim that its balance sheet is stronger than the US Treasury’s” at its E3 conference last night. The publisher’s chief financial officer Thomas Tippl told investors: We’re the only publisher that developers can count on for being around in the long term. Around $1.5bn was handed …
Read More »Blizzard rapidly expands operations
WoW and Starcraft II resources boosted in time for E3
Read More »GAME offers Xbox Slim trade-in deals
UK retailer GAME doesn’t just see the Xbox 360 Slim as a chance to sell the console to a wider audience – it wants to sell the console to existing Xbox owners, too. Speaking via Twitter, the retailer stated: Looking for our trade-in deals for the new Xbox? We will …
Read More »E3 2010: 300 new faces working on CoD
In the build up to its celebrity studded E3 party last night, Activision confirmed that in just three years it has added an impressive 300 staff to its Call of Duty team. Speaking in the firm’s E3 investor conference call Thomas Tippl, CFO of Activision said: Over the last 3 …
Read More »E3 2010: Black Ops pre-orders match MW2
Pre-orders for this year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops are already on par with those made for last year’s best-selling Modern Warfare 2. Activision’s chief financial officer Thomas Tippl was speaking to investors at the publisher’s E3 conference last night. He said: Pre-orders for Call of Duty: Black Ops are …
Read More »Cave wants to conquer the West
Cult Japanese arcade developer Cave, which is famous for its notoriously challenging and collectible shmups, has told Develop of its plans to tailour its creations for an international market. Having released very few home platform titles outside of Japan, the studio behind 2D shooter genre stalwart Dodonpachi recently ported its …
Read More »Japanese developers back OnLive
Capcom, Square-Enix, Sega, and Konami building titles for streaming service
Read More »E3 2010: Sly getting HD PS3 reboot
We’ve got no surprises left!” That’s what a Sony rep jokingly told MCV last month as rumour upon rumour about possible E3 reveals flooded the internet. But if current talk doing the rounds is to be believed, Sony still has some surprises left for the tonight’s show. VG247 reckons that …
Read More »E3 2010: Activision party video
It was just three years ago when organisers ESA radically cut down on the glitz & glamour and bells & whistles of E3 in an effort to reduce the spiralling costs – it’s what all the publishers had told it do to. 12 months later? Publishers were grumpy. E3’s just …
Read More »Activision recruits 300 in 3 years for CoD
Huge boost to headcount confirmed in company's E3 investor conference call
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