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1:17PM Junglist | If you’re lucky enough to be practicing your Roach Rushes and Double Hatchery strats in the Starcraft 2 beta, you might have noticed something odd about its interface. More »
The Great Starcraft 2 Hotkey Debate
1:17PM Junglist | If you’re lucky enough to be practicing your Roach Rushes and Double Hatchery strats in the Starcraft 2 beta, you might have noticed something odd about its interface. More »
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Guess Which Three Games Help Keep Activision Afloat
4:20AM Brian Crecente | Activision is a giant company with a small problem: Most of their revenue comes from three video games. More »
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Activision Boasts $US1.56 Billion, Better Than Expected Q4
8:40AM Michael McWhertor | Despite doing business in “difficult times”, super publisher Activision Blizzard had a better than expected holiday quarter, with $US1.56 billion in revenue during the company’s Q4, bringing the yearly haul to $US4.28 billion. How did Activision do so well? More »
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Will Blizzard Shock And Awe During Next Month’s Financials?
2:00AM Brian Crecente | Activision Blizzard are holding a lot of cards and I want to see all of them. They probably won’t show ‘em all during next month’s conference call, but it still promises to be very interesting. More »
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Acti Blizzard Bossman Buys Part Of The Pittsburgh Steelers
4:30PM Luke Plunkett | No, it’s not Robert Kotick. We’re talking about Paul Sams, former COO of Blizzard, now COO of Activision Blizzard, and his “family”, who are part of a consortium that just bought the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers. More »
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Activision: Sequels Offer “Road Map For Innovation”
10:00AM Stephen Totilo | 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 »
Culture
Inside GamesCom’s Halls One Day Early
9:00PM Brian Crecente | Koelnmesse, home to Gamescom, is a mammoth, sprawling complex of buildings, streets and boulevards, so it’s not surprising that Mike and I got lost on the way to the press room. More »
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When An Activision Boss Jokes About Raising Game Prices…
8:00AM Stephen Totilo | 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 »
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8:20AM Stephen Totilo | Activision Blizzard reported another quarter of growth today but announced it expects to make $US300 million less in 2009 than originally forecast. More »
StarCraft Delay, Activison Expecting A Lot Less Money
8:20AM Stephen Totilo | Activision Blizzard reported another quarter of growth today but announced it expects to make $US300 million less in 2009 than originally forecast. More » 