News

Activision Boss Refused Sneak Peak Of Competitor’s Battlefield 3

According to CVG, Activision CEO wandered by the E3 booth of Battlefield 3, the regicidal threat to his company’s own Call of Duty franchise, for a friendly look at the competition. He was denied.

EDIT: CVG has updated its story. Activision has denied this event occurred. CVG’s source remains adamant it did.


April 2, 2011
News

Modern Warfare Makers Complain Of Secret Call Of Duty Games

“Don’t worry about it. It’s impossible for you guys to get fired,” Activision boss Bobby Kotick told Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella in 2008, according to a new cross-complaint filed today in a Los Angeles court.


January 3, 2011
News

Activision Threatens 600 UK Jobs Over Loss Of Tax Breaks

Activision’s so incensed over the United Kingdom’s rollback of promised tax breaks for video games development that the publisher is considering the withdrawal of its 600-employee office from the country, according to The Telegraph.


December 30, 2010
In Real Life

Call Of Duty Players Log More Than 600 Million Hours In 45 Days

Lending weight to CEO Bobby Kotick’s claim that Call of Duty is as much a social networking phenomenon as it is a video gaming one, Activision released numbers boasting of online time that, per user, surpasses the Facebook average.


December 2, 2010
News

Call Of Duty’s Publishers Don’t Give A Hoot About iPhone Or Facebook

While Activision remains committed to complete and utter domination of home consoles and the personal computer, it seems the mega-publisher couldn’t care less about emerging platforms like Facebook or the iPhone.


November 2, 2010
News

What Good Can Come From Metallica Meeting Call Of Duty: Black Ops?

About a million dollars worth, actually. Activision and Metallica are teaming for a good cause and a selfish one, with the band headlining the publisher’s Call of Duty: Black Ops launch party and finding unemployed military vets jobs.


October 29, 2010
News

Activision Boss One Of The Most Influential Men Alive, It Seems

That’s according to AskMen, at any rate, who have picked the Activision boss at no. 16 on their list of the 49 most influential men.


September 28, 2010
News

Activision, EA Argue Over Who’s Less Evil

Robert “Bobby” Kotick, Activision CEO and widely reviled video game exec, had unkind things to say about one of his company’s biggest rivals, Electronic Arts, blasting his competitor’s “culture”, its games, and claiming “great people don’t really want to work there”.


September 24, 2010
News

Open Letter From Former Bungie VP To Bobby Kotick

While perhaps not seen in the full context of his talk at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch conference, Activision head Bobby Kotick‘s comments about Bungie did create quite a stir last week.


September 17, 2010
News

Activision Considers Selling Video Game Cutscenes

If Activision stripped all of the cutscenes from StarCraft II, pasted them together into one big movie and charged between 20 to 30 dollars for you to buy it, would you pay? Activision’s Bobby Kotick thinks you would.