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As seen at the BMO Capital Markets 17th Annual Digital Entertainment conference.Activision: Sequels Offer "Road Map For Innovation"
Pity the video game sequel, perpetually scapegoated as an evil of the industry. To the rescue of its reputation this week came Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick. The exec recently explained what sequels are good for, besides profit. More »Inside GamesCom's Halls One Day Early
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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is taking his daily bruising from gamers, this time for telling someone he'd raise video game prices if he could. But there's a little more to the story. More »StarCraft Delay, Weak Economy Has Activison Expecting A Lot Less Money
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Activision Blizzard execs listed a bunch of new games for 2010 during a conference call today but declined to be anything other than cagey on the topic of Diablo III. More »The Console Market As Of Next New Year's Eve, According To Activison
During Activision Blizzard's conference call annoucning its second quarter results today, the company shared its best guess for the North American and European console market circa 12/31/09. More »Analyst Sees StarCraft II Inevitably Delayed To 2010
Blizzard set its sights on one "front line release" for 2009, a title that we expected to be StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first of three StarCraft II games. One analyst isn't so sure Blizzard can make it. More »StarCraft II Beta Planned To Last 4 To 6 Months
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The publisher of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft released a sunny financial report today, and revealed that Guitar Hero is big in Europe. More »Activision Gets A New Chairman
It's been announced overnight that Activision Blizzard's chairman, who is due to retire later this year, is to be replaced by the Chief Executive of partners Vivendi. More »BlizzardVision Rakes in the Dough
Back in February Activision Blizzard said it expected to rake in $860M in net revenues for the March quarter, now the company says they underestimated how well they would do in the quarter. More »First Peek At New Lingerie Model In New Guitar Hero Commercial
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While nearly every other company bled cash, fired employees and cancelled projects, Activision Blizzard posted record results, announcing over $5 billion in revenue for 2008, seeing $429 million worth of profit over the holidays. More »Activision Boss Confirms Existence Of DJ Hero
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