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Eric Hirshberg has been appointed CEO for Activision Publishing. Hirshberg takes over from Mike Griffith who resigned from the role in April to become vice chairman of Activision Blizzard. He starts from September 7th, 2010, and will report to COO Thomas Tippl. Hirshberg joins from marketing agency Deutsch LA where …

Past and present employees of troubled developer Infinity Ward have banded together to sue Activision Blizzard over the publisher’s demands for a third Modern Warfare 2. Nearly 40 people have filed suit against the firm for $500m, alleging breach of contract and unpaid royalties, according to Kotaku. According to the …

New string of accusations fired at Activision in ongoing lawsuit

Speaking on his personal blog, former games journalist and current Activision man Dan Amrich has launched a passionate defence of online racer Blur following widespread reports of low sales in the US. I’ve seen sites call it a ‘failure’ and one even went on to list a whole bunch of …

Studio boss suggests that the talent hunt will tie into a new digital strategy

Publisher assures that finalists will retain game rights, and clears up confusion over the contest

A closer look at last week’s NPD results for the North American video games market courtesy of Gamasutra has revealed that Activision’s brand new racing IP Blur sold just 31,000 units across Xbox 360 and PS3 in its first five days on the market. Other games that performed less well …

Activision has spoken out against the UK government just a week after Chancellor George Osborne dashed developers’ hopes by cancelling Labour’s promised games tax breaks. The Financial Times this evening quotes the company CEO Bobby Kotick as saying the Activision needs financial investments to keep encouraging it to invest in …

Format-holder joins Activision in outcry to stop support for British games industry dwindling

Activision CEO says British games development has become less attractive after Government cancelled tax break promise