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Adding to the Beatles’s loss in the music charts at the hands of the record-breaking Dame Vera Lynn, EA’s licensed games outing The Beatles: Rock Band also missed out on the video games charts crown with Activision’s Guitar Hero 5 emerging victorious to claim the top spot. Guitar Hero 5 …

505 Games has strengthened its growing team with the impressive appointment of former Activision and Eidos stalwart Bob Burridge as UK sales director. The new hire comes shortly after former UK sales head Ralph Pitt-Stanley was promoted to the position of commercial director last month. Like many of 505’s key …

Following Activision’s claims that Courtney Love sanctioned the use of Kurt Cobain’s likeness in Guitar Hero 5, the two surviving members of Nirvana have also expressed their disapproval of Cobain’s in-game appearance. Kirst Novoselic and Dave Grohl released a joint statement calling for Activision to prevent the Cobain avatar from …

Activision has claimed it received the proper permission to use Kurt Cobain’s likeness in Guitar Hero 5. The publisher released a statement responding to Cobain’s widow Courtney Love, who insisted the Nirvana frontman’s appearance was a breach of contract” and that she would sue the sh*t out of Activision”. Activision …

Europe will go head-to-head in the Guitar Hero ‘jump in, jump out’ world record attempt for the largest number of gamers in a single Guitar Hero session. The event will pit France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Sweden and the UK against each other, and will make use of Guitar Hero 5’s …

Courtney Love is threatening legal action against Activision after the publisher recently announced Kurt Cobain will appear in Guitar Hero 5. Posting on her Twitter account, the late Nirvana front-man’s widow expressed her anger over Activision’s decision, declaring it to be outrageous violation and breach of contact”. She said: I …

Nick Gibson takes a look at another innovative business model

Activision Blizzard has underlined the importance of retail in the success of Guitar Hero 5. The publisher has arranged to have a strong in-store presence, as well as some appealing pre-order incentives to drive customers to retailers on September 11th. Retailers are absolutely crucial to every Guitar Hero launch,” senior …

Future Marvel video games may be produced in-house at Disney, the firm revealed during an investors conference call. The news follows Disney’s $4 billion buy-out of Marvel, which would give the media giant access to Marvel’s 5,000 characters. Currently THQ, Activision, Sega and MMO firm Gazillion Entertainment publish games based …

Despite the region’s traditional hostility to first person shooters, it seems as if publisher Square Enix is to publish Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in Japan. The hint comes from a new splash page on the Square Enix website. Though the game is not named specifically, a large …