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Activision confident that Infinity Ward “will rise from the ashes”
Activision is “100 percent confident” that Infinity Ward will “come back to what it was” without it meddling with the studios’ culture. Speaking to Develop, Activision’s executive vice president Dave Stohl said that while the publisher is supporting the studio’s rebuilding process, it is being careful not to negatively impact the Modern Warfare devs’ existing culture. “I ...read more
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Modern Warfare 2 glitch unlocks five SNK XBLA games
In a stroke of exceptionally bad luck for SNK, a glitch has been discovered that unlocks free access to the full versions of five of the publisher's XBLA games for users who already have the demos on their hard drives. To make it worse, the glitch occurs within Modern Warfare 2 (a game that bajillons of Xbox 360 owners already have) -- or its recent demo (which is freely available). Somehow, ...read more
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Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer video reveals recording, editing
If you've been waiting for someone – anyone! – to challenge Bungie's heretofore uncontested dominance in online multiplayer features, you'll want to watch this video for Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops. Sure, Modern Warfare 2 wins if you're looking at the numbers, but anyone familiar with Halo 3's excellent Forge and Theater modes knows they should expect more ...read more
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Black Ops is Activision’s ‘biggest investment’ ever
Activision’s Call of Duty franchise is one of the biggest properties in all of videogames, so it comes as no surprise that the publisher is treating the follow-up to Modern Warfare 2 like the AAA release it so surely is. During Activision’s second quarter earnings call this week, CEO Bobby Kotick went on record saying Call of Duty: Black Ops represents the company’s largest ever ...read more
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Bungie’s next game definitely coming to PS3
When Activision and Bungie announced their groundbreaking 10-year exclusive publishing deal in April, it was strongly, strongly hinted that the studio’s next product would arrive on Sony’s PlayStation 3…but now it’s a 100 percent, unequivocal guarantee. Now that Bungie has wrapped work on Halo: Reach, the studio is focused on its next universe. A job posting listed on the job portion ...read more
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Activision on used game struggle
Perpetually under a cloud of controversy, the used game market is no stranger to damaging publisher sales. Treated as everything from a nuisance to an evil threat, pre-owned game sales continue regardless. When questioned on how they will deal with these issues, the response is something along the lines of, “We are still evaluating various possibilities for greater participation in the ...read more
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THQ slams Modern Warfare’s “steroided-out super soldiers”
Okay, maybe THQ didn’t quite slam Modern Warfare, Activision’s billion dollar war machine, but they have tried to distance Homefront, their upcoming entry into the military minded first-person shooter fray, from their competition by claiming it won’t feature “steroided-out, super soldier[s]” running around “pristine,” “movie studio” set pieces. “The most important thing ...read more
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Halo: Reach achievements released, promise plenty of boom-headshot fun
We’re just about a month away from the awesomeness that will be Halo: Reach, and the developers have given us so many juicy bits of information already. But, with mere weeks to go, the official Halo dev blog has released a comprehensive list of the game’s achievements. Some of the 1,000 gamerscore points are of course attributed to standard fare - beating each of the game’s levels, ...read more
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Red Dead Redemption update reduces griefing, hangovers
Rockstar's latest update to the 360 and PS3 versions of Red Dead Redemption goes about reducing grief in all its forms. This includes the kind of grief that arises due to pesky bugs, like the one that removes downloaded costumes from the player's inventory, or the one that screws up the geometry of sliding doors. It also limits the griefability of multiplayer cowpokes, automatically placing ...read more
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Kinect gobbles up ‘less than 1%’ of 360’s CPU
You might be worrying that with all the power of Kinect’s motion tracking magic there might not be much room left in compatible games for the kind of tech we see in many AAA releases. Fear not; Ubisoft’s Frederic Blais who handles all the Kinect stuff for the company is here to wipe those worries away. When asked about the rumors as to Kinect taking up a whole CPU core, Blais replied: ...read more
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