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Straight from the top: Activision/EA spat continues

Who knew being the head honcho of a big multi-national games publisher conglomerate could be so fun!

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StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty released

That’s right people, after over 12 years, Actizzard (nee Blizzard) have pumped out the next instalment of e-sporting RTS & sci-fi epic StarCraft II (well, part of it anyway). In related news, nobody in South Korea turned up for work today!  Officials are currently investigating whether the two items are linked…

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Under Siege – IW raided by Activision, heads rolling

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 […]

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Industry News PS3 XBOX 360

Now with realistic plastic underwear! – Modern Warfare 2 Special Edition #47

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 […]

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Less a Blizzard, more an Avalanche! – BlizzCon Deets

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 […]

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Now, YOU TOO can perve on the neighbours, courtesy of MW2!!!

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: […]

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StarCraft 2 will not feature LAN play. In other news – South Korea explodes!!!

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 […]

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Industry News PS3

Thems Fighting Words! – Activision threatens Sony

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 […]