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The CEO of Activision’s parent company Vivendi has stated that in Call of Duty: Black Ops, Treyarch has made a better game than Infinity Ward ever has. We have broken our own record. I am very, very pleased,” Jean-Bernard Lvy told investors at a Morgan Stanley conference this week, as …

Despite the poor performance from Tony Hawk’s Shred so far at retail, the key Christmas period could yet bring success to the title, Activision has claimed. Yesterday MCV reported that the game sold just 3,000 units in its first week on sale in the US, a number that represents a …

Last week, two of the biggest products of the year launched within 24 hours – and games retail certainly rose to the occasion. The High Street is accustomed to handling midnight openings and star-studded launch parties, but the timing of Black Ops’ and Kinect’s UK debuts triggered the busiest week in …

Recruitment event to be held next week

New title CityVille to launch across continents

The first images of what pertain to be the still secretive PSP2 have appeared online. You can see them both below. VG247 says the images are of the dev kit that until recently had been doing the rounds. However, it has since been superseded by a single brick design that …

Handful of firms declare interest in the Liverpool-based Blur studio, sources tell Develop

While Microsoft has claimed a notable victory in the US hardware market last month, Sony has highlighted the strength of PS3s software sales in its response to NPDs latest report. The platform holder says it enjoyed an incredibly strong October” and that the PS3 was the only format to enjoy …

It’s a well-known fact that marketing budgets are signficantly higher in the months leading up to Christmas than at any other time of the year. Only a few weeks ago, MCV reported that UK games firms are spending a combined total of over 181 milion on promoting their wares this …

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