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Geoffrey Tim - April 14th, 2010 | 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. ... [»] | 
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| Sony Talks up Monthly Fees Again | 
Geoffrey Tim - December 15th, 2009 | 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 ... [»] |
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| Bobby Kotick Sells Stock on the Back of Modern Warfare 2, Makes Millions | 
Geoffrey Tim - November 13th, 2009 | 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, ... [»] | 
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| Bugs vs. Cost: The epic battle continues… | 
Werner - October 28th, 2009 | I was busy browsing around, reading random gaming articles as I’m prone to do when I’m supposed to be working, when I stumbled upon the official known issues list of Borderlands. This list is quite extensive and I was actually shocked to see how many bugs there are on all 3 platforms. This got me thinking…Way back ... [»] |
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| Bobby Kotick Makes a Lot of Money | 
Geoffrey Tim - August 11th, 2009 | Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision-Blizzard does not like videogames - or the people who play them. What he does like though is the revenue generated by the people who pay for them. Considering how much he personally made from us last year, it’s easy to see why. The head honcho at the world’s largest evil videogaming mega-corporation – responsible for the Warcraft, Call of ... [»] | 
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| Wii Costs Nintendo Less, Costs You More. | 
Geoffrey Tim - April 8th, 2009 | According to a Credit Suisse, the Nintendo has dropped the Wii’s launch production costs by a staggering 45%. You’ll note, of course that the local price of Nintendo’s market- dominating unhighdef console has increased from it’s launch price of R2899 to it’s current, silly price of R3499. Generally, when production costs of any piece of electronics decreases, so to does its retail price, passing the saving on to the consumer. Not the case with Nintendo, who’ve easily been the most profitable this generation. Word is the European price is set to increase. Of course, with the general populace still ... [»] |
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| Nintendo DSi getting a possible April US release date | 
Karl Thomson - January 15th, 2009 | Nintendo's money printing machine (no not that one) will possibly see its upgrade hit US shores around April this year. According to 'multiple sources' (CVG's quote) the DSi will retail for $179 when it hits US shores. The DSi, for the uninformed, drops the GBA slot in favour of a SD slot, gets a bigger screen and a VGA camera and is 12% smaller. Also DSi Ware has launched for it in Japan serving a similar function to WiiWare.Given the ridiculous sales figures of the ... [»] |
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| Guitar Hero III the highest grossing single title…ever | 
Geoffrey Tim - January 13th, 2009 | Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith announced that Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock has become the first game to exceed $1 billion in sales. An impressive feat for any video game, but especially so considering it was developer Neversoft’s first stab at the franchise.Speaking at a ... [»] | 
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| Interesting Console Sales Figures | 
Gavin Mannion - December 1st, 2008 | I was browsing GameTrailers looking for some news on a slow day and came across a forum posting about the console sales figures. Now I am sure these stats haven’t been audited but they seem close enough and give us an interesting view on the sales so far. So according to the posting (and VGChartz) we have the following: Nintendo Wii 35 million units sold in 24 months 1.46 million sold per month $8750 million in gross sales Sony PS3 17 million sold in 24 months 0.71 million sold per month $8483 million in gross sales Microsoft Xbox 360 22 million sold in 36 months ... [»] |
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| Metal Gear Solid 4 moves 4.33 Million units | 
Gavin Mannion - November 7th, 2008 | Konami have just released their latest financial earnings and as always we can find some interesting facts by trawling through their boring financials.First of we find that Metal Gear Solid 4 has sold over 4.33 million units which is a fantastic amount and this includes ... [»] |
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