Well it’s official the next Call of Duty will indeed be named Black Ops. The Treyarch produced entry in the series will be available on November 9th with the “teaser trailer” available tonight after it premiers on Game Trailers TV on Spike TV. Joystiq is reporting that GAME the UK equivalent of Gamestop has a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Activision’
Activision and Bungie Partner Up For New IP
April 29th, 2010
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Bungie has announced that all new IP that they produce will be published and distributed by Activision. The first game in this 10 year partnership will be the long whispered about Jason Jones project. A game that has been supposedly in the works since Jones stopped working on Halo 2 some time during it’s development. [...]
Infinity Ward Employees File Lawsuit Against Activision
April 27th, 2010
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Were you wondering why Infinity Ward employees were leaving in droves and in spite of possible bonuses? Because, they are all suing Activision for their bonus money! G4 has broken the story on the Infinity Ward Employee Group filing suit against Activision for between 75 and 500 million dollars. How did they come up with [...]
Bullshot! 050 – Fitty
April 16th, 2010
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Bullshot! turns the big five-oh. We put those cute signs in its front lawn that say things like “AINT THAT SPIFFY, BULLSHOT’S FIFTY!!” and “I JUST TURNED 50, GET OFF MY LAWN!!” Then we realized it was 50 episodes, not years, old and took them down.
Infinity Ward Continues To Hemorrhage Talent
April 15th, 2010
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The latest exodees exodessers dudes to leave Infinity Ward are Lead Animator Mark Grigsby and Lead Character Animator John Paul Messerly. That puts the running total at 11. From Joystiq Grigsby had been with the company for five years, working on Call of Duty 2, 4 and Modern Warfare 2. Messerly was an eight-year employee, having [...]
Bullshot! 049 – Three Figure Cheque
April 9th, 2010
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You see how much more sophisticated things look when you spell them the European way? Those bastards BLEED sophistication (trust me, I know.) Anyway, about Bullshot!, um…so we did a show…it was about video games…yeah, well, here it is. DRINK DEEP.
Ruh-Roh! Activision Counter Sues Former Infinity Ward Heads, Kind Of Announces Modern Warfare 3
April 9th, 2010
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From LA Times: In a lawsuit that read more like a dramatic Hollywood script, Santa Monica-based Activision claimed it fired Jason West and Vincent Zampella in March because the two “morphed from valued, responsible executives into insubordinate and self-serving schemers who attempted to hijack Activision’s assets for their own personal gain.” Activision’s suit, filed Friday [...]
Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack 1 Sells 2.5M, Free To Play Online This Weekend
April 7th, 2010
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From Joystiq: Activision announced today that the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 “Stimulus Package” set a new Xbox Live record — clearly, mapathy had set in. According to Microsoft’s figures, the DLC pack was downloaded over one million times in 24 hours, surpassing 2.5 million units within a week. All at $15 a pop. [...]
Blur Beta To Open To All Xbox Live Users
April 2nd, 2010
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From Kotaku: “We basically ran out of code, so next week we are going to go live with the whole thing publically so anyone can download it,” Wilson said. “We’ve been sneaking on to see what people think of it and people are really getting into it…” That’s a quote from Gareth Wilson from Bizarre [...]
Geometry Wars: Touch Shows Up On The App Store [iPad Only]
April 1st, 2010
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A clever forum member over at Touch Arcade stumbled upon Geometry Wars: Touch on the App Store. From the App description In addition to the six original Geometry Wars gameplay modes: Deadline, King, Evolved, Pacifism, Waves, and Sequence, Geometry Wars: Touch for the iPad will feater a brand new, adrenaline-filled mode — Titans! — exclusively [...]