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Guitar Hero, WoW & World At War Give Activision Great Q3 Results

10:20AM Michael McWhertor | Things are lookin’ up for old Activision Blizzard. The publisher announced today that business is good, better than expected even, resulting in a $US755 million quarter for the company. More »
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Why We Love To Hate Activision — And Might Be Wrong

4:30AM Leigh Alexander | The games biz has a new favourite bad guy, and its name is Activision. Do the mega-publisher and its aggressive, polarising CEO, Bobby Kotick, deserve the bad rap? Or do we just love to hate? Who is this man, anyway? 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 »
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Bobby Kotick Wanted To Take The Fun Out Of Making Video Games

10:30PM Luke Plunkett | You’d be forgiven for thinking that the above headline is taking a liberty or two with a comment from Activision boss Bobby Kotick. Nope. Those words are straight out of the man’s mouth. More »
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Activision Looking To A Future Where Consoles Aren’t Needed

12:20PM Luke Plunkett | Activision haven’t exactly had the rosiest of relationships with console manufacturers over the past few months. Which would be a problem for a console games manufacture, were they not working on games that didn’t even need a console. More »
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Activision Boss: Next Blizzard MMO To Have “More Broad Appeal”

10:20AM Michael McWhertor | No, Bobby Kotick isn’t talking about a Blizzard developed, massively multiplayer online game that appeals more to women, but something that probably doesn’t have orcs riding motorcycles. Something that won’t cut into World of Warcraft’s subscriber base. More »
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Activision Boss Bets Games Will “Eclipse” Movies, TV

11:20AM Michael McWhertor | Bobby Kotick, chief executive officer at Activision Blizzard and hero to gamers everywhere, is nothing if not confident. He’s so confident in the video game industry that he sees the potential for it to surpass movies and TV. More »
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Kotick: Most Gamers Prefer Sequels To New IP

12:00PM Owen Good | Those CEOs, the things they say when they’re talking to the magazines CEOs read, thinking no one’s watching. Talking to the Economist, Activision’s Bobby Kotick said “a small segment” of gamers are the ones insisting “everything has to be new.” More »
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Ever Wonder How Much Activision Honcho Made Last Year?

10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Last year, Activision had a good year. Activision boss Bobby Kotick had a very good year. 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 »