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Battlefield Publisher Predicts Call Of Duty Will Collapse ‘In 2-3 Years’

EA, publisher of the upcoming Battlefield 3, responded today to a call from their competition for cooler rhetoric with some heated trash talk.


August 19, 2011
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Call Of Duty Makers Say Competitor’s Anti-Call Of Duty Talk Harms The Gaming Industry

EA CEO John Riccitiello, head of the company making this year’s premiere Call of Duty competitor, Battlefield 3, recently said he hopes that he hopes Call of Duty would “rot from the core”.


April 23, 2011
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Leaked Memo: There’s Just No ‘Appetite’ For Guitar Hero Now

Publisher Activision put its Guitar Hero business on ice earlier this year, signalling the end of a genre that was once white hot, but quickly flamed out. Why did Activision just bail on this formerly billion dollar business instead of taking it in a radical new direction?


July 14, 2010
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The Man Behind Sony’s Fake Exec Hero Moves To Activision

Activision Publishing’s new head honcho may be the man behind Sony’s tie-wearing, trash-talking fake spokesman Kevin Butler, but that doesn’t mean the largest publisher in the world will be getting their own fake executive hero soon.