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Speaking on a Facebook page called ‘Gamers Against Bobby Kotick and Activision’, an Activision’s media manager Dan Amrich has insisted claims that Activision sacked former Infinity Ward owners Jason West and Vince Zampella to avoid honouring bonus payments outlined in their contracts are untrue. Instead, he insists the money once …

An update to the popular McAfee anti-virus software has left many owners of PCs running Windows XP SP3 unable to use their machines. Software such as McAfee automatically updates its virus definitions (parameters by which the program identifies and isolated potentially malicious files) every time it boots. However, the most …

Though upcoming triple-A titles such as Fable III have pledged their support for Microsoft’s motion camera Natal, Bungie has ruled out any possible support for the peripheral in its upcoming FPS Halo Reach. Practically speaking, Natal didn’t exist until Reach was already two years into development,” Bungie’s community director Brian …

No Modern Warfare 2 development bonuses for the pair, rep claims

Media manager Dan Amrich ponders defection to Respawn

Activisionâ??s Amrich says the studio is â??a really good place to be right nowâ?

Ahead of what will be one of the fiercest contests ever seen in the games industry later this year, GAME has argued that the support of High Street retail is vital to the success of the upcoming motion control revolution. Both Microsoft and Sony will launch their motion controllers, dubbed …

Though GAME’s recent financial results were in line with expectations and far ahead of the global declines seen in the video games market, the retailer has pointed to the heavily decreased performance of Wii on the High Street as one of the key reasons behind its struggles in 2009. In …

Sony has told MCV that SCEE policy is the reason behind why many of the boxed expansion packs that get released on Xbox 360 and PC only get a PSN release on PS3.

 A number of games – including Dragon Age, Borderlands and Fallout 3 – have seen their post-release …

Guinness World Records has confirmed what we already knew – that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the most successful entertainment launch of all time. The game released on November 10th, 2009 with verified one day sales totaling more than $401.6 million (242.4 million) worldwide, breaking the previous record …