Posts tagged Activision Blizzard
Under Siege – IW raided by Activision, heads rolling
Mar 2nd
Infinity Ward, the gurus behind the good (or 'sorta alright', depending who you ask) parts of the Call of Duty series, have been raided by their slave paymasters at Activision.
Reports state that security guards were posted at the entrance to the offices, el-presidente's for life Zampella & West have been sacked for 'breaches of contract & insubordination' and a giant mechanical gorilla unleashed by the former bosses is current terrorising down-town Encino. Of course, the latter may not be true, as reports from the scene are sketchy at best!
Whether this is related to either the handling of Modern Warfare 2's various issues (cheating/hacking, profiteering, controversy, treading on the PC gamers with a facist jackboot and much more) or the possible move of the Call of Duty brand to other divisions of Activision is currently unknown.
Now with realistic plastic underwear! – Modern Warfare 2 Special Edition #47
Sep 18th
Obviously not content with HMV snapping the UK rights to the mega-expensive Sex-pest Edition of Modern Warfare 2, GAME have lept in there to attempt to re-assert themselves as numero-uno in the high-street Modern Warfare 2 Special Edition war.
Called the Veteran package, it comes with the same 'Hardened Edition' as the Prestige Edition (meaning alongside the unique content, you get the game (*shock*), a Steelbook game case, art book and Call of Duty on XBLA/PSN), only instead of the bargain-basement night vision goggles & stand you get a doll...
Less a Blizzard, more an Avalanche! – BlizzCon Deets
Aug 22nd
Blizzard don't do things by half, even though their penny-pushing paymasters at that hideous Activision Vivendi conglomerate would rather the obscene amounts of money just keep coming in rather than being spent on frivolous events.
Still, BlizzCon is running and it's giving us loads of Blizzard-related information.
This post will be updated as more crucial information comes to bear.
Now, YOU TOO can perve on the neighbours, courtesy of MW2!!!
Jul 14th
Cast your minds back to the last, excessive special edition...
Thinking of the BioShock SE w. fake soundtrack & Big Daddy figure? Think bigger! Hows about the imminent Batman: Arkham Asylum SE with 1:1 Batarang & Wildstorm Art Book? Come on, you can do better than that!
Hows about Actizzard offering up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (note the apparently re-introduced brand name) in a Prestige Edition, which includes:
- The highly anticipated sequel in a nice steelbook case
- An artbook
- The original Call of Duty (branded Call of Duty : Classic) over PSN/XBLA
- A plastic molded head for (wait for it)...
- FULL FUNCTIONING NIGHT VISION GOGGLES!
Yep!
StarCraft 2 will not feature LAN play. In other news – South Korea explodes!!!
Jun 30th
In a fit of almost parity with the other madness going on in the gaming industry at the moment (following Valve *potentially* re-negging on the non-existent agreement to upgrade L4D4Free and Epic abandoning the PC for console lulz), Blizzard have announced that StarCraft 2 (sequel to probably the best selling RTS of the 20th century & quite possibly the choice poison of the South Korean dating scene) will not feature offline play over the trusty ol' 100MB link AT ALL.
Thems Fighting Words! – Activision threatens Sony
Jun 20th
Anyone would think this was goddamn Formula 1 at the moment...
Activision CEO and professional munchkin Bobby Kotick has charged Sony with reducing the premium entry fee of their console or face the worlds largest third-party publisher removing support for the format.
Reasons cited include the heightened development costs vs. return of investment when compared to the über-popular shovelware casual platform that is the Wii or the Xbox 360 (with its user-friendly & speedy development tools that also allow easier porting to the Windows platform).
