May 23, 2013

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Activision Developing Motion Controlled Dance Hero

Activision Developing Motion Controlled Dance Hero

After announcing that Guitar Hero and DJ Hero were officially discontinued, it looks like they’re not done with the Hero franchise. Kotaku claims to have word from an unspecified source that Activision is currently working on Dance Hero which, as the name clearly suggests, would ditch the traditional rhythm action format of previous entries in [...]

Blizzard Releases StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Demo

Blizzard Releases StarCraft II Wings of Liberty Demo

About five months after its release, StarCraft II finally has a demo. The new demo provides a quick overview of the history and does not require a Battle.net account, so there’s no online play. He, however, characteristic of the first three missions of the campaign. As company’s blog indicates, the newly released demo has access [...]

Activision to Sue Electronic Arts for $400 Million

Activision Blizzard is seeking $400 million in damages from Electronic Arts over its Call of Duty video game series. Activision wants to add Electronic Arts as a defendant in a case against two former employees who developed the hit Call of Duty franchise, Reuters reported. In April, Messrs. West and Zampella announced they had formed [...]

Blizzard “Titan” Confirmed as Next-Gen MMO

Blizzard Confirms Titan as Next-Gen MMOG

As part of the 2010 VGA ceremony, Blizzard cofounder and executive vice president Frank Pearce spoke with gaming blog Destructoid, confirming Titan as at the very least a working title for the studio’s much-speculated upon new massively multiplayer online role-playing game. “Titan is… the media is not meant to know anything about that,” Pearce said. [...]

Activision Reports 8.4 Million Units of Call Of Duty: Black Ops Sold in First Month

Call of Duty: Black Ops has shown a roaring success in it’s first month of sales, as Call of Duty: Black Ops sold 8.4 million copies Worldwide in its first month on sales,  putting it in seventh place in NPD’s top ten games (by sales) of all time. According to Gamasutra, 4.9 million units of [...]

Blizzard Outs WoW Cataclysm “The World Reborn” Trailer

WoW Cataclysm The World Reborn

The release of a new World of Warcraft expansion is one of those events that’s going to be huge whether or not it gets hyped up. Nonetheless, Blizzard is adding to the pre-launch excitement with a new trailer. “The World Reborn” trailer is nearly 3 minutes long and sends viewers through numerous majestic vistas that [...]

Activision Shuts Bizarre Creations, Budcat

New Reports are suggests that Activision has shut down at least two of its studios this morning: Geometry Wars creator Bizarre Creations and Blast Works developer Budcat. While official word on Bizarre’s closure has not yet come, several Twitter posts point to the studio being shut down today, with its entire staff of 200+ employees [...]

Diablo 3 Headed to Game Consoles

Blizzard’s upcoming PC game Diablo III appears to be headed to consoles, if recent job postings by the company are accurate. According to the company’s Jobs Directory, Blizzard is currently looking to fill lead designer, lead programmer, and senior producer roles very specifically for a console version of Diablo III. A console port has never [...]

Blizzard “Diablo III” Coming to Consoles?

diablo iii

Blizzard’s upcoming PC game Diablo III appears to be headed to consoles, if recent job postings by the company are accurate. According to the company’s Jobs Directory, Blizzard is currently looking to fill lead designer, lead programmer, and senior producer roles very specifically for a console version of Diablo III. Recently Blizzard added three new [...]

Activision Blizzard Made Record $360M in “Call of Duty: Black Ops” Opening Day

Black Ops shattered entertainment records this week when it raked in $360 million in its first 24 hours on sale. Activision Blizzard has revealed its highly anticipated Call of Duty Black Ops game has earned $360 million in retail sales in its first 24 hours of sales alone. This makes the generally well-reviewed game whose [...]

Activision “Call of Duty: Black Ops” Makes Record Sales in a day

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Activision Blizzard Inc said Thursday it sold about 5.6 million copies of “Call of Duty: Black Ops” for $360 million on its first day, setting a new record for the video game industry. “Black Ops” is a gritty military-themed shooter game that is the seventh installment of the popular “Call of Duty” franchise. The game [...]

Watch “World of Warcraft : Cataclysm” Cinematic Introduction Trailer Video

World Of Warcraft Cataclysm intro

World of Warcraft “Cataclysm” is due to be released on December 7.  For all of you gaming techno geeks out there, we have just received news of a new cinematic introduction video. This will include how the game will change with the awakening of the ancient evil dragon ”Deathwind the Destroyer.” As well as this, [...]