If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsLots of great news in this weeks gaming podcast thanks to the holiday season approaching. We also take a retro style flashback to Space Invaders and talk about our [...]
TD Gaming Podcast 94: Chicken and Subscription Fee
October 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Activision · Casual Games · Episode · Podcast · Show Notes · popcap
Call of Duty: World at War Beta - Coming Soon
October 13th, 2008 · No Comments
I don’t know anyone that can’t pass up a good beta, Call of Duty: World at War is no exception to the rule, especially for those gamers that pre-ordered the title already. It’s a great opportunity when you’re able to buy a game ahead of time because you’re a fan and get into the beta [...]
Tags: Activision · FPS · Press Release · Xbox 360
Call of Duty: World at War - October Open Beta!
September 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsIf you’ve got Microsoft Windows or an Xbox 360 you’ll be eligible for the public beta of Call of Duty: World at War by Activision. Although the game is set to deploy on the 11th of November, many of us will be able to get [...]
Tags: Activision · FPS · Industry News
Starcraft 2: A 2009 Release Schedule
September 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
If you thought you’d be getting a release of Starcraft 2 for the holiday of 2008 you’ll be upset at the news. The heavily awaited RTS title Starcraft 2 will be arriving sometime in 2009. The original title arrived in 1998 but we’re not going to see the first sequel until sometime next year, amazing [...]
Tags: Activision · Blizzard · Industry News · starcraft
Activision Blizzard Trying To Scare Off Competition?
August 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments
A few months ago, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said investing $500 million to a billion still wouldn’t be enough to compete with an MMORPG like World of Warcraft. The MMORPG space is a costly investment and you’d need to really burn a lot of money to start competing against the mega-giant, but Mythic VP [...]
Tags: Editorial · MMO · Warhammer Online · world of warcraft
Exclusive Artist Deals In Rhythm Games Not Good?
August 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Rhythm games are the new FPS for a lot of gamers, a broader audience of gamers, and the market is thriving and demanding new titles. Harmonix and Activision are at the front of the battle with Konami following a bit behind but still contending (we think) very soon.
Each company plans to up each other with [...]
Tags: Activision · Editorial · Guitar Hero · Industry News · Konami · harmonix · rock band
Diablo 3 Doesn’t Look Right, Dev Says Yes Sir!
August 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments
There has been many debates on the graphic level of Diablo 3 and how it should be different. Finally a developer comes out and says “um, no.” Their reasoning is fairly simple, it’s one thing to photoshop up a screenshot with some filters but it’s another to get the texture and lighting to run at [...]
Tags: Activision · Blizzard · Diablo 3 · Editorial
Activision: Cleaning House, Losing Studios
July 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Now that Activision has merged up with Blizzard all under Vivendi it’s time to consider what to do with all the additional overhead, management, internal studios and sheer amount of people working on projects within their organization. In other words, it’s time to trim the fat and get leaned out for the long haul.
This isn’t [...]
Tags: Activision · Blizzard · Industry News
Battle of the Mega Powers: EA Wants Take-Two
July 21st, 2008 · No Comments
We’re already looking at the results of an Activision Vivendi union and now Electronic Arts is slowly working towards taking over Take-Two. Activision Blizzard is larger than that of EA but would the Take-Two buy-out grow EA into the number one publisher once again?
For gamers, it’s changing the map of the industry. We grew up [...]
Tags: Activision · Blizzard · Editorial · Take-Two · electronic arts
Activision and Blizzard Layoffs
July 18th, 2008 · No Comments
If you’ve ever been through an acquisition or merger you’d have expected this news to come, but for those new to the concept it’s simple: you can’t keep everyone. After a complete merger you end up with two sales departments, two IT departments, etc.
Do you really need them all? No, not really. You’ll need to [...]
Tags: Activision · Blizzard · Industry News



