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Despite not yet being officially announced, Activision’s DJ Hero has received another official nod today after seemingly being announced by a newsletter from Dutch trance star DJ Tiesto. It seems that Tiesto will lend his name and music to a DJ Hero spin-off, which is most likely to take the …
Read More »Vivendi Mobile Games to close
Vivendi Games Mobile’s European office will be closed within days, resports suggest. Sources say the team has been informed of the decision and will be disbanded. Shortly after the buy-out Activision said Vivendi Games Mobile would be ‘realigned or divested’, and the latter looked more likely as Activision has never …
Read More »Infinity Ward dev lashes out at World at War producer
Outspoken Robert Bowling slams Call of Duty: World at War producer Noah Heller
Read More »Activision buys Budcat Creations
Publisher strengthens internal Guitar Hero resource with Iowa-based Wii and DS specialist
Read More »PSW gives CoD5 10/10
Ahead of its release on November 14th, Future’s print magazine PSW has given Activision-Blizzard’s Call of Duty: World at War an impressive 10/10. CVG quotes the mag as saying: Modern Warfare was pretty much the best game on PS3 for the last year. So to hold the position that it’s …
Read More »Activision Blizzard Q3 earnings call in full
Activision-Blizzard’s earnings call following its Q3 results has certainly raised some eyebrows online. You can read the full transcript here, with CEO Bobby Kotick, CFO Thomas Tippl and more top execs answering tough questions from investors.
Read More »Call of Duty 4 rocks Golden Joysticks
Those in attendance at today’s 26th annual Golden Joystick Awards are currently getting stuck into the after-show drinks, with the Activision-Blizzard crowd most rapturous as the publisher celebrates a triumphant afternoon in London. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare scooped no less than four awards in total, winning the Nuts …
Read More »Guitar Hero: World Tour dated
The highly-anticipated release of Guitar Hero: World Tour is set to hit retail next month, with the title’s multiple SKUs set to launch over a three-week period. Both the solus and guitar controller bundle SKUs for 360, Wii, PS3 and PS2 will be released on November 7th. The ‘super bundle’, …
Read More »Now Atari snaps up Riddick
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena has become the latest title to be snapped up after suffering at the hands of the Activision-Blizzard merger – and it’s Atari once again doing the honours . Having allegedly already snapped up the rights to publish Ghostbusters next year, Atari has now acquired …
Read More »Activision uses Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg tech
German institution's facial animation tools applied to Quantum of Solace
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