You’re a giant video game company. You’ve released StarCraft II this year, and Call of Duty: Black Ops is selling ridiculous amounts. Your first name’s Activision, last name’s Blizzard. You have a plan for the future and, today, you shared.
Call of Duty: Black Ops is not just a popular game. It’s a very popular game. More popular than Modern Warfare 2 was one year ago, its creators said today.
On YouTube, in four parts, there is the tale of a man with military training and a $US250 outlay spent on an illicit, leaked copy of Cal of Duty: Black Ops. He got busted by the piracy police and confesses.
Sometimes, it can be hard to keep track of all of the wise words and insightful proclamations that come out of the mouth of Activision’s CEO, Bobby Kotick. The guy sure does get up to a lot of wacky adventures, and says some of the darndest things. So we’ve aggregated his recent ramblings into one spot. Beware, dear reader. The mind of Kotick is not for some.
Best known for Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, Activision Blizzard has joined a corporate initiative to help improve literacy in science, technology, engineering and maths (the STEAM fields).
We know that GameServers.com has exclusive rights to host servers for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops, and last week Kotaku AU exclusively reported that GameServers’ Australian operation would be handled by Internode. We talked with GameServers and local server admins to find out what the deal really means for Black Ops in Australia.
Blizzard have revealed that patch 1.1 of Starcraft 2, available Thursday the 23rd, will include an in-game region selector, with anyone who purchased a Southeast Asian copy of the game having access to North American servers.
