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Exec says Call of Duty 'is in the process of being destroyed by Kotickâ??s own hubris'
Read More »EA responds to Kotick attack
Publisher EA has retaliated in the war of words that was reignited by Activision boss Bobby Kotick yesterday. Kotick said in an interview yesterday that EA has been struggling for a long time”, adding: The most difficult challenge it faces today is great people don’t really want to work there. …
Read More »Kotick: Iâ??d be jailed for what West & Zampella did
Activision CEO suggests the Infinity Ward founders used the company for personal gain
Read More »What Kotick thinks about what you think about Kotick
There’s no other exec who provokes quite the same reaction on the pages of MCVuk.com as Activision’s Bobby Kotick. As the head of the most powerful publisher in the world, the hardened businessman is not always a favourite on the site comments. But speaking to Edge magazine, Kotick has admitted …
Read More »I love games, Kotick insists
It’s one of the better known supposed ‘facts’ about Bobby Kotick – he doesn’t like games. But the Activision boss has come out and denied the claims, saying that being a single dad is the only barrier between him and a gaming habit. I don’t even know how that happened!” …
Read More »Kotick: EA canâ??t keep top devs happy
Activision boss says rivalâ??s hope to create studio independence is futile
Read More »Kotick: Schafer project was poor, over budget
The Activision CEO on why his firm dropped the EA title
Read More »Bungie â??the last remaining great indieâ?? – Kotick
More extraordinary claims from the outspoken publishing boss
Read More »Kotick wants to sell you cut-scenes
Are you on the lookout for a man that says what he thinks and doesn’t mind risking upsetting people? Well here he is – Bobby Kotick is at it again. This time the outspoken business leader and Activision publishing CEO has stated that he’d like to start charging gamers to …
Read More »Kotick loses court appeal
After what the LA Times describes as a brawl” between Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick and Californian lawyer Patricia Glaser, the outspoken games executive has emerged on the losing side of a three-year court battle. In 2007 a flight attendant named Cynthia Madvig filed a lawsuit in the LA County …
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