Unlike rival megapublisher EA, who’ve implemented Project 10 dollar – a method of creating incentive for gamers to purchase their games brand new, Activision have no plans of muscling in on the used game market. In fact, perpetually vilified Activision overlord Bobby Kotick has criticised the very notion of online passes. In a Call of duty centric interview with …

The music genre is declining – rapidly. With the recent release Rock Band 3, MTV and Viacom (owners of Harmonix) are now looking to offload the development studio. Rock Band 3 received very good reviews, but the sales have not reflected this at all. According to the Wall Street Journal, Viacom has just announced a 59% drop in profits and …

Last year when Modern Warfare 2 broke all records by selling a mind-blowing 4.7 million copies worth $310,000,000 US Dollars we all thought that the record would stay unbeaten for quite a long time. Well, it didn’t. According to Activisions day 1 sales estimates, Call of Duty: Black Ops opened on its first day with a ludicrous 5.6 Million units …

This post is a double-whammy of controversy as there are two separate stories dealing with people who are unhappy with Activision and their “doubly perverse” military shooter. What would a Call of Duty release be without a healthy dose of hysteria? In Cuba, a state-owned website is accusing Treyarch’s game of being perverse. In Canada, a Vietnam War veteran is …

Yes, yes we know that Black Ops has only just released, but part of gaming is that gnawing anticipation for the next title. You might already know that in May this year, Activision registered a whole bunch of domain names under the Call of Duty label. Those registered included names like Call of Duty: Space Warfare, Call of Duty: Advanced …

And that’s not because it’s called “Hardened Edition” or because we’re being totally sexist or anything. It’s because Activision is being totally sexist, or totally stupid; take your pick. Although many would argue that those two adjectives are not mutually exclusive. You would have thought that a game release as MASSIVE as Black Ops’ would have been orchestrated down to …

Have you ever had an establishment’s burger – the world’s most perfect food – so delicious it bordered on life-changing, and then returned later only to be fed a dry, tasteless slab of meat; limp, soggy lettuce sandwiched by stale bread? For many – justified or not – this was the experience of playing Treyarch’s biennial Call of Duty games …

Project Gotham Racing, which started its life as Metropolis Street Racer on the Dreamcast has been Microsoft’s other racing title. I’ve always preferred it to the boring sim-racing presented in Forza, as it struck the fine balance between sim and arcade racing perfectly. PGR 3 was a launch title for the 360, with PGR 4, released in 2007, as the …