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$310 million in sales in 24 hours. That’s how much demand there was for Activision’s first-person shooter, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. T… Read More »

Activision Delivers Solid Q3, But Faces Challenges Moving Forward

Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) swung to a profit for Q3, after posting a $108 million loss for the same quarter last year. The game publisher’s rev… Read More »

 
 

First, Courtney Love threatens to “sue the s–t” out of *Activision* for putting Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5, and now rock-ska band No Doub… Read More »

Government Tug-of-War Stunts World of Warcraft’s Growth In China

Growth of Activision’s money-making MMO World of Warcraft is being stalled in China, as Reuters reports that the game is now caught up in th… Read More »

The Beatles: Rock Band may have trumped Guitar Hero 5 in terms of both unit sales and actual revenue, but less consumer interest in both fra… Read More »

Reports have been flying around about Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) potentially buying hot social-gaming company Playfish — with sources tel… Read More »

While rival gaming companies like EA and *THQ* were laying off thousands of staff earlier this year, Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) kept chugging a… Read More »

EA’s UTA Deal Nets Its Latest Catch: A Dead Space Movie

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has two sequels to its Dead Space survival thriller in the works, and now there’s a feature film coming down th… Read More »

Gamers have salivated over the possibility of a World of Warcraft movie ever since Blizzard Entertainment sold the rights to Legendary Pictu… Read More »

Sony’s Stringer Dismisses Kotick’s PS3 Threats As ‘Noise’

It took a few weeks, but *Sony* CEO Sir Howard Stringer has responded to *Activision* CEO Bobby Kotick’s very public threat to stop making g… Read More »

Activision’s Kotick: ‘We May Not Make Games For The PS3 Next Year’

It’s one thing when indie developers, bloggers and a couple of analysts plead with Sony (NYSE: SNE) to come down on the price of the PS3. It… Read More »

Industry Moves: PopCap, Xbox Exec Heads To Blizzard Entertainment

World of Warcraft publisher Blizzard Entertainment has poached casual games expert Greg Canessa from PopCap Games. Canessa’s new title isn’t… Read More »

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Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) apparently has aspirations well beyond the video-game world for its hit franchise Guitar Hero. CEO Bobby Kotick told… Read More »

Rebounding from posting a $72 million loss in Q4, *Activision Blizzard* turned in strong Q1 numbers. Net revenues came in at $981 million –… Read More »

A California judge has just upped the stakes in the trade secrets and IP battle between *Activision* and Scratch: The Ultimate DJ creators G… Read More »

A pair of indie gaming companies may have tossed a wrench into Activision’s plans to piggyback on the success of its Guitar Hero franchise w… Read More »

Former *Yahoo* COO Dan Rosensweig’s name has come up in the running for a number of high-profile Web positions in recent months: including Y… Read More »

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