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Yes! That Really Is The Head Of Activision Acting Opposite Brad Pitt In A Movie


June 10, 2011
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Activision’s Bobby Kotick Wants To Buy… MySpace

According to “three people familiar with the matter”, Reuters is reporting that a group of investors including none other than Activision boss Bobby “What, Me Worry?” Kotick is in talks to buy dying social networking site MySpace.


September 27, 2010
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Activision Boss Replies To Schafer’s ‘Total Prick’ Comment

Once upon a time, game designer Tim Schafer called Activision honcho Robert Kotick “a total prick”. (“Once upon a time” being this past July). Then, Schafer said his remark was an “accident”. The “total…” exec has retorted.


August 6, 2010
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Bungie, Blizzard Both "Enormous" Investments

We already knew The folks behind World of Warcraft and Starcraft are hard at work on a totally new massively multiplayer online game. We didn’t know that Activision Blizzard was pouring gobs of money into it.


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.


July 5, 2010
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Activision Wants "More Value" For Call Of Duty Xbox Live Players

The Call of Duty games have massive following for mulitplayer on Xbox 360. But is the series going to make the leap to a massively multiplayer online game? Nothing is confirmed yet.


January 19, 2009
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Bobby Kotick Hits The Cover Of Forbes, Does Not Worry

Activision boss Bobby “What, Me Worry?” Kotick is hot stuff right now, and in Bobby’s world, it doesn’t get much hotter than appearing on the cover of Forbes, wielding a plastic guitar like a battleaxe.


December 5, 2008
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Activision Boss Was 2008′s Equal-Second-Best CEO

Business types Marketwatch are giving out awards! Important ones! Ones like “Best CEO 2008″. Eligible were CEOs from all walks of life. Mining companies, banks, you name it. And who came second? Bobby Freakin’ Kotick.


March 6, 2008
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User-Generated Guitar Hero Content At Least Five Years Away

Making your own songs within a game like Guitar Hero, then self-publishing those songs, is a big deal, right? So you’d expect companies like Activision would be toiling day and night to get that kind of power into consumer’s hands, right? Notsomuch. As part of his address at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference yesterday, Activision boss Bobby Kotick says that while his company recognises that it’s a big, big deal for a game like GH to incorporate its own user-generated content, he also says that making that kind of software available is “not easy”, and that it won’t be happening within the next five years. It will happen, he reiterates, just not soon. In the meantime, users will have to instead prepare for things like tournaments and playing for cash, which Kotick says are “the evolution of the medium”. [Pic]


March 5, 2008
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Activision Get Heavy With Record Labels

More from Activision boss Bobby Kotick’s address at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference: Activision are waking up to just how much money artists can make by appearing on Guitar Hero (HINT: it’s a lot). So, they figure, if artists are making money off Guitar Hero, then Activision can start making money off those artists. And their labels.