We were all surprised to discover early this morning a smiling Robert Kotick, Activision Blizzard president, apparently landing his first acting gig opposite Brad Pitt in upcoming sports drama Moneyball. More »
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. More »
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. More »
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. More »
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.
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.
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]
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.
