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With just a week to go before the official Christmas number one is revealed, Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: World at War has enjoyed its fifth consecutive week at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40. The WWII epic fought off stiff competition from Mario Kart Wii, …

Activision Blizzard will lose its European boss in the spring, after two years of impressive turnaround. Joerg Trouvain is returning home at the end of March to be closer to his family, switching to a CEO role at German online travel company HolidayCheck. After a role as boss of EA …

Activision Blizzard has announced it will publish X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a video game companion to the upcoming film of the same name. Due to arrive alongside its cinematic counterpart in May 2009, X-Men Origins follows the early adventures of popular superhero Wolverine. Set before the recent movie trilogy, the game …

Seemingly not satisfied with conquering the world’s living rooms with its music series Guitar Hero, Activision-Blizzard is to bring its franchise to arcades around the world – and the surprise is that Japanese rival Konami is on board with the project, MTV Multiplayer reports. Guitar Hero Arcade is based on …

Activision Blizzard’s CEO Bobby Kotick has been named as a finalist for MarketWatch’s CEO of the Year award. Kotick received the most recognition for his success in merging Activision and Blizzard earlier this year. MarketWatch described the move as the creation of a formidable challenger to industry leader Electronic Arts”. …

JJ Richards assumes new role, as Microsoft ad company signs 18-game deal

The lead designer on Starbreeze’s upcoming next-gen take on the Chronicles of Riddick franchise has spoken enthusiastically about the game’s move from Activision-Blizzard to Atari. For the full stroy, head over to Developmag.com.

Jerk Gustafsson says upcoming Assault on Dark Athena will be Starbreezeâ??s most â??polishedâ? title to date

In a recent airing of the long running American television news magazine 60 Seconds, Olympic gold medal winning swimmer Michael Phelps was profiled, revealing the news that he is to be the subject of a video game. While no other details of the title have been revealed, Phelps, who smashed …

Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: World at War has taken the number one position in the ChartTrack Top 40 for the third week in a row – despite sales dropping by 30 per cent. The game was raced all the way by EA’s Need For Speed: Undercover, which moved from …