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Report: Neversoft Merging With Call Of Duty Developer Infinity Ward
The studio that created Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater will soon be no more. According to an internal memo from Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg obtained by Giant Bomb, the 20-year-old studio is merging with Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward, and the Neversoft name is being retired. Neversoft was formed in July 1994 by Joel…
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What We Can Learn From The First COD: Advanced Warfare Screens
In the year 2054, a private military corporation (PMC) emerges with the power to rescue humanity from a war devastated by a global attack on its infrastructure. We’ve seen the Spacey trailer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfighter Warfare. Now let’s see what the first three screens can tell us. Right off the bat, I’ve…
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The Saturday Morning Stream: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 [All Done]
With its movie inspiration webbing up box office money this weekend and our official review forthcoming, I figured it was a good morning to play around with Spider-Man and his amazing friends. If only there was a Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends game. Iceman and Firestar would be a welcome break from this game’s constantly-quipping…
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The Origin Of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Starring Bruce Willis
Fresh off developing the Bruce Willis-powered PlayStation game Apocalypse, developer Neversoft used the pre-built Willis model as the first rider in the prototype for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. That’s just one of many fun facts in Did You Know Gaming?‘s look at the king of skateboarding games. While I still maintain the sequel was the…
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New Call of Duty DLC Has Snoop Dogg Announce Your Kills
Wait, what? A few things. Why does this exist and why didn’t this already exist? Regardless of the answers to these pressing questions, Call of Duty: Ghosts now officially has the best announcer in all of first-person shooters. The lines weren’t written by Snoop Dogg, but they may as well have been considering how naturally…
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Double Bumblebee Is The Best Thing About Rise Of The Dark Spark
I don’t care which universe he’s in, plucky yellow Autobot Bumblebee always rocks. And hey, that’s two voice actors Activision doesn’t have to hire! SPOILER FOR TRANSFORMERS PRIME ANIMATED SERIES FOLLOWS If you don’t love Bumblebee for some reason — maybe you are a communist, which is okay — once you watch the final scene…
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It’s Looking Bad For Peter Parker In The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Game
As if three movie villains weren’t enough, Electro and the Green Goblin are are joined by the ugliest Kingpin ever, bad-hair-lighting Black Cat and… is that Carnage? Yeah, Parker is screwed. Activision tried to sneak a little Carnage into the trailer, but I can smell a Cleetus a mile away. It helps that I was…
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Rise Of The Dark Spark Is A Tale Of Three Optimus Primes
We knew Activision’s upcoming Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark combined two Transformers continuities. Now it’s three, as the original Optimus Prime arrives to show the other two how it’s done. Maybe that’s not a good thing. Having recently rewatched the entire original Transformers cartoon series, I’ve come to the realization that Optimus Prime was…
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Activision Is Almost Finished With Skylanders: Swap Force Toys
The next wave of Skylanders: Swap Force figures hit Toys’R’Us this weekend, leaving hardcore collectors and impressionable youngsters only two more reasons to get out of bed in the morning until the next game is announced. What’s the point of it all? Man, Activision and Toys for Bob really love to drag these things out,…
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WoW Level 90 Character Boosts Are Just An Expansion Pack Preorder Away
The physical editions of this fall’s Warlords of Draenor expansion for World of Warcraft will come with a code that’ll allow players to boost a character to level 90. Pre-order a digital edition from Blizzard, and you’ll get the boost right away. The Warlords of Draenor expansion gives players the ability to explore World of…
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Call Of Duty: Elite Shuts Down On Friday. It’s Okay To Cry.
Remember back in 2011 when Activision’s ambitious online service dedicated to the Call of Duty franchise and its players was going to be thebest thing ever? It’s shutting down forever on February 28. That’s skull logo has never been more appropriate. Clans and stat-tracking and advanced matchmaking and original comedy programming! All of these were…
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What Call Of Duty: Ghosts Needed Was Space Cats. Now It Has Them.
When I played through Call of Duty: Ghosts I got the distinct feeling that something was missing, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. That’s because the glory of Space Cats is forever beyond our human reach. We can but download them as one of many character and personalization packs added to the…
By Mike Fahey
