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The Marvel Ultimate Alliance PC Ports Are A Disaster

The re-release of Marvel Ultimate Alliance and PC debut of its sequel should be a happy occasion, but wonky controller mapping, horrible sound issues and other problems have folks calling it the worst PC port of the year. I was so happy about thesurprise(ish) announcement made over the weekend about the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance…

Hindu Leader Wants Blizzard To Drop Symmetra’s Devi Skin From Overwatch

Religious statesman and president of the Universal Society of Hinduism Rajan Zed released a statement today, urging Blizzard and Activision to remove an Overwatch skin he said “trivialized Hinduism’s highly revered goddesses.” Devi is the great goddess of Hinduism, worshiped in many different form and names since prehistoric times. While Symmetra’s Devi skin (and its…

The New Ghostbusters Game Plays It Safe

The idea of a video game tie-in arriving without much fanfare the week of a major movie release is scary, but Activision’s new Ghostbusters game is nothing more than a relatively basic, slow-paced twin-stick shooter. See for yourself. While the heroes of the new movie are off saving Washington D.C. from ghostly assassins, a new…

The Orion vs Activision Steam removal saga continues. Trek Industries’ David Prassel says that Activision contacted him with evidence that certain in-game assets were directly ripped from Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. The artist responsible has apparently been fired. Check the update to my original story for more.

Developer Claims Activision Nuked His Game From Steam Over Call Of Duty Guns [UPDATE]

Yesterday, Steam dinosaur game The Orion Project got yanked from Steam. Trek Industries’ David Prassel posted an update to Steam claiming that his game was the victim of a DMCA claim from Activision. And then the real fun began. It should be noted that we reached out to Activision and Valve for comment, but they’ve…

In 2002, Microsoft bought Rare. Things could have gone very differently, though: Ed Fries, formerly of Xbox, has told IGN that Activision actually outbid Microsoft for the British studio, and it was only a larger offer “at the very last minute” from Xbox’s Robbie Bach that sealed the deal.

Watch the Chinese Overwatch Rip-Off in Action

Earlier this spring, stills and artwork of an Overwatch clone appeared on Chinese sites. Now, we have footage of the game in action. As Redditor Rebirdhk previously pointed out on r/Overwatch, the game is called Legend of Titans. Overwatch does have an official release in China, and Legend of Titans appears to be for mobile,…

The Crash Bandicoot Revival Is Off To A Good Start

While a trio of remasters and a Skylanders cameo isn’t quite the Crash Bandicoot revival fans were hoping for, it’s a promising new beginning. And hey, new toy. When I heard that Crash would be making his current-generation debut in this fall’s Skylanders Imaginators, I cringed. I like Crash. I like Skylanders. Put them together…

E3 Skylander Imaginator Reveals Begin With This Hot Little Number

While Skylanders Imaginators is all about creating your own custom characters, they’d be nothing with Sensei characters to show them the way and give Activision new figures to sell. We’ll be seeing a lot of new faces during E3 this week, including Ember, the fire-based Sensei of the Sentinel class. Creating a character in Skylanders…

Skylanders Imaginators Proves It Can Do Plunder Fist

Earlier this week Activision introduced Skylanders Imaginators, a game where players can make any character they wish, with a child’s drawing of a character named Plunder Fist. Some commenters were concerned that they did not include an in-game image of Plunder Fist, so I asked them to make one. It really was kind of a…

Skylanders Imaginators Lets Players Bring Custom Characters To Life

Fans of Activision’s toys-to-life franchise have been dreaming up their own Skylands champions since the first game arrived back in 2011. This year’s Imaginators finally harnesses that creativity, giving players the ability to piece together the Skylander of their dreams. The first thing Activision’s Lou “Zoo Lou” Studdard showed me during a meeting earlier this…

The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game Is Best Played With Other People

Yesterday I played through Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan’s story mode by myself. Today I went online and played the game the right way. It makes complete sense. The TMNT franchise has always been about four brothers working together. In the movies Raphael was always getting angry and running off to do his…

The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game Feels A Lot Like Transformers: Devastation 

There’s a lot of Transformers: Devastation lingering in Platinum Games’ latest cartoon-based beat-em up, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan. Watch us play through the game’s first mission and see for yourself. We’ve got the same cel-shaded art style that first popped up in Platinum’s poorly-received Legend of Korra game. A small number of…

Skylanders Enters The Trading Card Game

While the competition bows out of the toys-to-life genre, Skylanders is finding new things for fans to buy. Today’s worldwide launch of Skylanders Battlecast adds physical trading cards to the mix. Finally folks have something to do with those Battlecast cards Activision bundled in Skylanders Superchargers last fall. Available today on iTunes, Google Play and…

Activision Responds To The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Mass-Dislike Campaign

Since Monday, YouTube users have been flooding the reveal trailer for Call of Duty Infinite Warfare, mashing the dislike button in what appears to be a game to see how high a number they can hit. As of publication time, the trailer’s got 447,096 dislikes, but that number is likely to skyrocket. And Activision’s aware…

People Are Mass-Disliking The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Trailer

It may surprise you to hear that YouTube, a place well-known for civility and intelligent discussions, is full of people saying mean things about the new Call of Duty trailer. As of right now, the video has 221,657 dislikes, and that number is going up by a few hundred every minute. This mass-dislike campaign has…

Here’s the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Debut Trailer

I’ll cut to the chase: It’s Call of Duty. There’s shooting. There are spaceships. There’s a “Space Oddity” cover. That’s right, besides the ground combat for which the series is known, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare takes players to space, allowing them to pilot a spacecraft. The Italian trailer seemed to first hit the Call…

Just Announce Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare Already, Activision

Followingyesterday’s spaceship tease, the Nuketown map in Call of Duty: Black Ops III now includes a couple of new decorations, one of which plays this video of a future man pointedly not simply announcing Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. How much longer can Activision draw this out?

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Map Teases Infinite Warfare

It’s almost May, which means it’s time for your annual dose of leaks and teases leading up to the yearly Call of Duty reveal. As of today, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3‘s Nuketown map has a teaser for this year’s game, which isn’t announced yet but will be called Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare…

Call Of Duty 4 Remastered Apparently Confirmed With Poop Emoji

Earlier today a pic did the rounds showing what was claimed to be a retail flyer, showing that certain versions of 2016’s Call of Duty—likely calledInfinite Warfare—will also include a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered. Now, Call of Duty’s Twitter account has seemingly confirmed this with a wink. Or, to be more…