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"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," almost certain to be the year's best-selling video game, has also become its most notorious. Full Article at Asbury Park Press
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Jerry Brown J.J. Abrams, director of "Star Trek," creator of the TV series "Lost." $25,000. Steven Spielberg, director, producer, DreamWorks SKG founder. $13,000. Don Henley, singer and drummer in the Eagles and solo artist. $13,000. Full Article at Sacramento Bee
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 20: Actor Ryan Malgarini plays at the Activision booth at the HBO Luxury Lounge in honor of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 20, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California. View Photo »
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Examples of this include THQ's Dawn of War II, Sega's Empire: Total War, and more recently Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ... limits our content.
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Sad news this week as one of the coolest, most successful development companies are closing their doors. Full Article at Cinema Blend
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In an industry that has been said to be over saturated with peripherals for rhythm games do we really need a plastic turntable? People that don’t enjoy the gentle musings of Children of Bodom and Metallica would have to say: Yes! Full Article at andPOP
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Video game developer Infinity Ward smashed some barriers this month when it released its testosterone-filled shooter game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2." Full Article at Stars and Stripes
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 20: Actress Yvette Nicole Brown plays at the Activision booth during the HBO Luxury Lounge in honor of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 20, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California. View Photo »
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Jason West, Steve Macuda and the rest of the guys from Infinity Ward have an interest in doing it and Activision wants to do it. I'd be very curious to give that a try. You've got your source material to draw on, which is the biggest advantage in getting one of these movies off the ground
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The controls mix touch with tilt, although tilt balancing when grinding is entirely optional. You can control Skater Nation entirely through the virtual d-pad and the two on-screen action buttons. Full Article at IGN
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Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. Full Article at Eurogamer
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 20: Actor Ryan Malgarini plays at the Activision booth at the HBO Luxury Lounge in honor of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 20, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 20: Actress Yvette Nicole Brown plays at the Activision booth during the HBO Luxury Lounge in honor of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 20, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 20: Actor Matt Lanter plays at the Activision booth during the HBO Luxury Lounge in honor of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 20, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 20: Actor Russell Hornsby plays at the Activision booth during the HBO Luxury Lounge in honor of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 20, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 19: Actor Clifton Collins Jr. poses at the Activision booth during the HBO Luxury Lounge in honor of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 19, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 19: Actor Jackson Hurst poses at the Activision booth during the HBO Luxury Lounge in honor of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 19, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 19: Actor Mehcad Brooks poses at the Activision booth during the HBO Luxury Lounge in honor of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 19, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 19: Actress Sara Rue poses at the Activision booth during the HBO Luxury Lounge in honor of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 19, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 19: Clifton Collins Jr. plays Guitar Hero at the Activision booth during the HBO Luxury Lounge in honor of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 19, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.
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(L-R) Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, Michael Larson of Cascade Investments and Ron Meyer, president and COO Universal Studios arrive at the Sun Valley Inn in Sun Valley, Idaho July 8, 2009.
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(L-R) Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, Michael Larson of Cascade Investments and Ron Meyer, president and COO Universal Studios, arrives at the Sun Valley Inn in Sun Valley, Idaho July 8, 2009.
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Robert Kotick, Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard, Inc. , poses for a portrait during the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 in Los Angeles June 3, 2009. The convention runs June 2-4.
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A man demonstrates how to play Activision's game Tony Hawk: Ride. on on a Microsoft Xbox 360 using a motion sensing skateboard-like device during the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 in Los Angeles, June 3, 2009. The convention runs June 2-4.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 03: The Guitar Hero 5 game is demonstrated at the Activision exhibit at the 2009 E3 Expo on June 3, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 03: A DJ-based game is demonstrated at the Activision exhibit at the 2009 E3 Expo on June 3, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. The 2009 E3 Expo features over 200 leading-edge computer, technology and video game publishers and developers, according to organizers.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 03: Guests attend the Activision exhibit at the 2009 E3 Expo on June 3, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. The 2009 E3 Expo features over 200 leading-edge computer, technology and video game publishers and developers, according to organizers.
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Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk demonstrates Activision's game Ride at the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles June 2, 2009.
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Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk introduces Activision's game Ride at the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles June 2, 2009.
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Show attendees play video games at the Activision booth at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 2, 2009.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 20: Actress Yvette Nicole Brown plays at the Activision booth during the HBO Luxury Lounge in honor of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 20, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Examples of this include THQ's Dawn of War II, Sega's Empire: Total War, and more recently Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ... limits our content.
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Jason West, Steve Macuda and the rest of the guys from Infinity Ward have an interest in doing it and Activision wants to do it. I'd be very curious to give that a try. You've got your source material to draw on, which is the biggest advantage in getting one of these movies off the ground
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gently opening the box and unpacking each part, I found that I, too, received the same side of Soap's face twice. ... But in less time than it takes to get a hold of Activision, [Jordan and I] were already swapping addresses. Today, I got my missing half, and my night-vision goggles are sitting proudly ...
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Once a game requires Steamworks, it is effectively cut off from us, which limits our content. Examples of this include THQ's Dawn of War II, Sega's Empire: Total War, and more recently Activision's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2 ... The problem is that it is not practical for us to install a game that...
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Additionally, sales of both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (published by Activision) and Halo 3: ODST (published by Microsoft Game Studios) would likely have been greatly diminished had the Xbox console ban occurred prior to the release of these games.
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Sure, they paid some of the top earners, like Z-Trip and DJ Shadow, to be a part of the game ... But Activision’s real media buy seemed to center around TV ads featuring Jay-Z and Eminem (two acts who have very little actual connection to DJ culture) in a cynical bid for mainstream appeal.
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One person close to the company said it also was considering adapting Call of Duty as a massively multiplayer online world ... The genre, in which Activision's Blizzard Entertainment subsidiary is a leader, requires huge upfront investments but can be very profitable as players pay a monthly subscriptio...
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Despite the success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Activision Blizzard remains cautious about the U.S. and global economy as well as other variables that can affect industry fundamentals and our own performance, including consumer spending which remains a significant concern.
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Activision is right to wave the flag of awesomeness from the rooftops simply because 'MW2' is a huge undertaking ... It's a huge success, economy considered. But it's difficult to compare media launches to each other because of how disparate the costs are.
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Reports that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been banned in Russia are erroneous. Activision only released a PC version of the game in Russia which went on sale on Tuesday, November 10.
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The band [members] are bitterly disappointed that their name and likeness was taken and used without their permission ... They agreed to play three No Doubt songs as a band. . . . Activision then went and put them in 62 other songs and broke the band up [and] never even asked.
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First-week sales of Activision and Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in the United Kingdom are ringing in at £67.4 million ($111.8 million)
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Appearing on the Fox Business network on Friday, the same day U.S. unemployment passed 10%, the head of Activision acknowledged that high jobless numbers will challenge the gaming business, but vouched for the value of playing games in tough times.
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Activision is working with retailers to plan more than 10,000 midnight openings in the United States, including most of the 4,300 GameStop stores around the country.
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GameStops in Northeastern states such as New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio are selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 early, granted special dispensation from Activision due to street-breaking mom-and-pop stores.
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Based on last year’s popularity, Activision and Walmart asked for a sequel with the same gamers
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Artists want consumers to think their style is cool ... Activision makes it almost a parody. I'm surprised they would do that to their artist partners.
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Our performance was driven by positive audience response to Activision Publishing's Guitar Hero 5, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, and the Guitar Hero and Call of Duty franchises, as well as Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft.
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positive audience response to Activision Publishing's Guitar Hero 5, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, and the Guitar Hero and Call of Duty franchises, as well as Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft.
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It seems that over at the Australian Xbox.com forums there has been some speculation that Activision's Modern Warfare 2 could be on the shelves as early as this end of the week according to some forumites. It seems that Big W has spoken to a few of their customers in store notifying them that they can s...
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Activision transformed No Doubt band members into a virtual karaoke circus act by enabling each member's 'performance' of over 60 musical works, many of which include lyrics, contained in iconic songs, which are not appropriate for No Doubt
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In a suit filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court, the band alleges that Santa Monica-based Activision, the maker of the game, has far exceeded the contractually approved use of likenesses, or avatars, of band members Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young.
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unless Activision replaces the FPS gameplay with first-person putting puppies into a wood chipper and renames it Osama bin Laden Pushes Jesus Christ Down a Flight of Stairs Made of Baby Skulls, we're not sure there's any amount of controversy that's going to slow Modern Warfare 2 down.
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Animator on Activision's James Bond series for the Nintendo Wii
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NPD added that The Beatles: Rock Band outsold Guitar Hero 5, saying that MTV’s Beatles game sold 595,000 units in total across the three platforms while Activision’s sequel sold 499,000 copies in total across its four platforms (which include PlayStation 2).
SOURCE: Joystiq
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