Sometime in the 90’s Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose was abducted by evil aliens and replaced years later by a whiny,braid-headed, talentless, portly approximation – who shall henceforth be known as Fat Axl. Presumably because he needs the money to buy Christmas mince pies, Fat Axl is now suing Activision for the princely sum of $20 Million – for …

Long awaited sequel StarCraft II has gone on to become the fastest selling RTS of all time, but it’s just garnered another accolade – It’s now one of the most pirated games in the multiverse. According to TorrentFreak, which keeps this sort of information, StarCraft II has been downloaded an insane 2.3 million times. While not every single one of …

Yesterday Karl reported that Raven Software had been hit with multiple layoffs, which whittled their staff down by forty people and relegated the company to producing DLC. Raven was acquired by Activision in the late nineties. It seems Activision’s march of doom is set to continue as the layoffs have now struck Robomodo, the developers behind the current peripheral-based Tony …

It’s not exactly unexpected, but it’s Vader-angst inducing nonetheless. Greg Canessa, the project director for Battle.net recently did a presentation at the GDC Online conference in Texas, where he elaborated on the upcoming features to Battle.net as “a main area of focus we’re going to be seeing on the StarCraft side over the next 18 months between now and Heart of …

He also seems to want to solidify the gamer opinion that he is indeed the Devil or has at least been forged in the fires of Mount Doom. With all the wonderfully exciting and positive news being belched out of the Tokyo Game Show, I thought it was about time to bring everyone back down to Earth and remind them …

  Activison-blizzard run the official World of Warcraft servers – with an iron fist. They don’t take too kindly to others doing the same, as Scapegaming’s Alyson Reeves has found out. The law has sided with Acti-Blizz and – and this serve as a deterrent should you wish to run your own for-profit WoW server – and awarded them a …

The diminutive Activision executive that everybody loves to hate has told the financial times that he’s frustrated by the Xbox Live model – which sees Microsoft benefitting from 3rd party online content more than the creators of said content. Because y’know…he just doesn’t make enough money. To illustrate his point, he cited the success of Modern Warfare 2’s Stimulus Pack …

What’s that you say? It can’t be happening for real? Yes, it can and it is. The sequel to StarCraft is finally coming. No more delays, no more excuses. Blizzard have hammered down the final release date for the middle of the year, July 27 to be exact. Blizzard are also grateful to all of the beta testers that have …