Video games are changing. Gone are the days when people bought games, played them for a while and then moved on. With titles like Call of Duty and Halo, we now see many gamers buy a title, play through the single player, and then literally spend the next couple of months playing the game. You are getting hours, days, months …

The financial gurus over at Bloomberg reckon that Xbox Live has netted the Redmond giant over a billion Dollars is revenue this past fiscal year. They got to this figure using conservative estimates based on Microsoft reports. According to Microsoft, about half of its 25 million Live subscribers pay for Xbox Live Gold, allowing them access to multiplayer and other …

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 …

It’s a new(ish) month! that means there’s a whole bunch of new games being released – and this month there are some biggies. The most anticipated of this month’s releases is no doubt StarCraft II : Wings of Liberty, the sequel to the world’s most popular RTS – and is expected to have gamers Zerg-rushing retail stores. StarCraft II will …

Microsoft have released their financial result for the first quarter of this year, ending March 31. What they reveals is that – as expected – Microsoft makes a whole bunch of money. Despite a 12 percent decrease in year-on-year sales of the 360, profits for the quarter were up. Lots up! Then Entertainment division – which includes Xbox 360, Zune …

Since Jason West and Frank Zampella’s somewhat less than amicable split from Activision, the situation at the in-house Infinity Ward seems to have gone from bad, to worse. And now with the founding duo having set up their own studio, cleverly called Respawn entertainment, Activision may be looking at a mass exodus of Infinity Ward staff. Last Updated: April 14, …

Masayuki Chatani, Sony’s technology platform boss has told Nikkei that the company will “face difficulties” if it continues to rely on the “sell-and forget model” that they currently employ. “Servers and the like have running costs… after we sell the hardware, though, we continue to sell products such as content and services,” he said, before continuing “In addition to single-payment …

You can say what you like about Bobby Kotick – most of what you say would probably be along the lines of “Evil, Douchebag, Dickwad” and the like – but you can’t deny that he’s a shrewd and successful businessman. When the man that everyone loves to hate took over Activision in 1991, it was hanging by a thread, moments …