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News Sony: Bungie Deal Is "Great News For Gamers"
Sony's issued a semi-gloating statement in regards to the announcement that legendary Halo developers Bungie will go multiplatform with their next IP
The company described the deal with Activision as "great news for gamers". This is great news for all gamers, said SCEA's Patrick Seybold in a statement. When Bungies amazing talent...
News Bungie: We're Still Independent Yo, New IP Has A "Concrete Path"
Unless you missed our post earlier (how
?), you should know that Bungie's signed a "ten-year contract" with Activision today regarding the publication of their next "multiple platforms" IP. Despite the announcement, Bungie's keen to stress that they will be staying completely independent. In addition to that, Bungie's community...
Bungie, the legendary development studio responsible for creating the entire Halo franchise (to date) has announced that they've signed a ten-year publishing agreement with Activision who will remain exclusive rights to the studios "next big action game universe"
The deal notes that Activision will have the rights to publish said games on...
News New Call Of Duty Game To Be Announced This Week On GameTrailers TV
Geoff Keighley's done it again
He's gone and scored one of the biggest exclusives imaginable. The next teaser trailer for this year's upcoming Treyarch Call Of Duty game. Apparently the trailer will "put all the rumors to rest." Juicy. The show's on really late Friday, but rest assured the trailer will be uploaded to GameTrailers and...
News Infinity Ward To Be "Essentially Closed" After Next Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack Is Released
Here's some incentive for those of you still working hard at Infinity Ward crafting Modern Warfare 2's next over-priced DLC pack: Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey reckons the studio will be closed when the content's finished up
What with all the legal drama and defections going down at the once market leading studio, Hickey reckons the studio will...
News Jazz, Demolishor & Shockwave All Join Transformers: War For Cybertron, Get Trailered
In this post we've included three teaser trailers for Jazz, Demolishor and Shockwave -- all of whom are "in" Transformers: War For Cybertron
.. As pre-order bonuses. That's right, if you buy the game from Best-Buy, Amazon or GameStop (US folks) you'll respectively be rewarded with Jazz, Demolishor or Shockwave. Naturally it's best to go the...
News Blur Trailer Tells You Pretty Much Everything You Need To Know
Bizarre Creations' first Playstation 3 racer Blur is not particularly far away at this point, but we're still yet to get our hands-on the game like our XBOX owning brethren
Thankfully this trailer pretty much details everything you need to know about it. The game's due next month.
News DJ Shadow Mentions "The Next One" In Regards To DJ Hero
If you played the original DJ Hero, or enjoy the notion of spinning discs and its culture, you're probably already familiar with DJ Shadow
The disc-jockey recently appeared on BBC's Radio One, and was asked about the original DJ Hero experience. To which he responded, "it was interesting, I'm actually working on the next one as well. But yeah,...
News Ironhide's Ready To Kick Hide In The Transformers: War For Cybertron
Hot-headed Ironhide's been announced as part of the cast for Activision's upcoming tradition Transformers title, Transformers: War For Cybertron
He'll be joined by Decepticon counter-part Skywarp, who had the ability to teleport in the original series. He'll have cloaking technology in the game, for the sake of balance we assume. Urgh. Everytime a...
We've gone a little quiet on the whole Activion, Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment drama
There's not much to tell really. The once high-profile studio has suffered a pretty enormous exodus, and Activision blogger Dan Amrich reckons there's more to come. Posting on a Bobby Kotick Facebook group (ahem), the Activision man stated there was still...
News HMV Kinda Sorta Expose The Next James Bond Game, James Bond: Bloodstone
Bond's appearance on the big-screen may be put on indefinite hiatus, but that ain't stopping Activision from pumping out a (hopefully) good Bond based video game
Said game has long been rumoured to be rumoured to be a racing game, espcially since Bond's voice-actor for the still secret title Adam Croasdell revealed that the game was to be a mixture...
News Tony Hawk Drops "Tony Hawk: Shred" Bomb
We don't like doing the whole "this dude said this thing on Twitter and that's now become news" too often, but we suppose when Tony Hawk totally just announces the name of his next game, there's a story there
Boasting that he probably just sent a PR team "reeling", Hawk outed that his next game will be called "Tony Hawk: Shred"...
News Sledgehammer Developed Call Of Duty Game "Will Broaden The Audience"
How exactly do you broaden the audience of one of the biggest selling games in video game history? No idea, but Activision's COO Thomas Tippi [really? - Ed] seems to think newly formed studio Sledgehammer Games' Call Of Duty project will do just that
Speaking with the LA Times, Tippi said Sledgehammer's take will bring "innovation" to the...
News Aerialbots & Stunticons Join The War For Cybertron
Long-time readers of the site will know we're overwhelmingly excited at the prospect of a good "traditional" Transformers game in Transformers: War For Cybertron
And thus with the announcement of representation from both the Aerialbots and Stunticons, our excitement goes up that little bit more. Both Air Raid and Breakdown will break away from their...
News Modern Warfare 2 Developer Infinity Ward Continues To Bleed Employees
Infinity Ward is dead at this point
Seriously, if you're still clinging onto that Call Of Duty and Modern Warfare brand, you may aswell stop. That's not to undermine Treyarch's efforts. They're a good studio that make good games. It's just that Infinity Ward are were the life-blood of the franchise. But that's studio's now all but dead. With gaffers...
News Pachter: Respawn Announcement Is "The Ultimate Screw You To Activision"
If you read PushSquare yesterday you'd know that the fired Infinity Ward gaffers, Vince Zampella and Jason West, have formed a new studio with EA under the guise Respawn Entertainment
Industry analyst Michael Pachter reckons this is a huge "screw you" to Activision. This is the ultimate screw-you to Activision and the ultimate...
News Fired Call Of Duty Staffers Zampella & West Sign Up With EA, Form Respawn Entertainment
Remember those fired Infinity Ward staffers Vince Zampella and Jason West? Y'know, the ones who practically created the Call Of Duty franchise
Yeah, erm, they just signed a new publishing deal with EA. Their new studio's named Respawn Entertainment. The new studio will retain full control over the IPs they develop, while EA will handle worldwide...
News Modern Warfare 3 Being "Held Hostage" By Fired Infinity Ward Staff
If you've not been keeping up with the whole Activision vs
ex-Infinity Ward men debacle, you probably wouldn't know that Jason West and Vince Zampella - ex-gaffers at Modern Warfare 2 studio Infinity Ward - were fired by the company's parent Activision and later reacted by issuing legal action against the company. Well Activision's just released a...
Microsoft's "exclusivity" in regards to Modern Warfare 2's "Stimulus Map Pack" has turned out to be incredibly brief, as publishers Activision has just announced that the DLC's due on Playstation 3 mere weeks after its XBOX 360 debut - on May 4th in the US and May 5th worldwide
That's according to Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling anyway, who made the...
News Call Of Duty 7 (This Year's Treyarch One) Announced In Next Month's OPM
Readers snagging their subscriber copies of this month's Official Playstation Magazine are spreading word of a big Call Of Duty unveil due in May
That's right, the magazine'll have an exclusive look at Treyarch's next game in the Call Of Duty franchise when the issue hits stands on May 16th. There's a whole host of Call Of Duty 7 rumours right...
When we were younger, we dreamt of being a Transformer
We'd be a Ford Capri, with missile launchers coming out of our headlamps, and big Batman prongs on the top of our head. It's exciting, then, to hear that the upcoming Transformers game Transformers: War For Cybertron (which incidentally looks really good) includes a character creation mode...
News Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Heading To PS3 In September
If you missed yesterday's blow-out on Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, you'd probably do well to head over here first
Done? Ok, so a few more details for you on Spidey's amazingly/noir outing: the game's story is being penned by Marvel's Dan Slott and will be hitting stores this September. If you're in the US, you'll be able to read more about the...
News Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Looks Edgy, Appears To Have First-Person Stuff
After the jump is the debut trailer for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
If you want to go watch it, hit the jump. We won't mind. Done? Pretty rad, right? The game's focused on some weird tablet thing that shatters and alters reality. Key thing you should know: there are multiple permutations of Spider-Man. Revealed in this trailer is the classic...
News Retail List Leaks Big Activision Releases Call Of Duty 7, DJ Hero 2 & James Bond Racing
We don't know how they've done it, but VG247 has got their hands on a release schedule from British retailer GAME
Amongst many interesting discoveries, the listing outs a number of key Activision titles for release in October. Amongst the big hitters are Call Of Duty 7 - the latest foray into the military shooter franchise by spin-off developer...
News Bizarre Creations, You Mean You're Not Just Working On Blur?
CVG are reporting that Liverpool based developer Bizarre Creations are not just working on their upcoming combat racer Blur
Nuh-uh, they've got two projects up their sleeve. Ged Talbot, Blur's co-lead designer told CVG:"We do have a couple of other projects on the go and they haven't been restricted or slowed down [by Blur's development]...
News Modern Warfare 2 Trumps San Andreas, Becomes Second-Best Selling Game In The UK Ever
We're shaking our heads here
Bemused. Look, we know Modern Warfare 2's a good game. We said as much in our review. But really, it's not that good. It's a shooter, you have guns, they fire. Man, the UK's video games sales data people GfK Chart-Track have just announced that Modern Warfare 2 has become the second best selling game of all time. It's...
News Soundwave Superior... Constructicons Inferior!
Bored of the Bayformers and Megan Fox pouting? Us too
We want a real Transformers experience, and thankfully Activision's latest title, War For Cybertron, looks set to capitalise on that. Aside from being a new Transformers game that actually might be good, the game's going to have three-player online co-0p, multiplayer, and epic God Of War-esque...
News Activision Practically Kill Call Of Duty In A Sweep Of Announcements
Remember Call Of Duty? Yeah it was a big deal for a little while
It'll continue to be a big deal for a while longer. But it kinda sounds like the franchise is done. In a whole pile of drama starting yesterday, Activision has fired the Infinity Ward bosses Vince Zampella and Jason West. Activision's also filed a document citing a human resources...
News Blur Brings Its Destructive Racing To The PS3 On May 28th
Bizarre Creations' announced that its power-up focused racing title Blur will hit the UK on May 28th
The game was due in November but has since been pushed back for an extra lick of polish or two. Interestingly, that's in a similar window to Disney's destructive racer Split/Second. Decisions, decisions. Although arcade racing games are one of our...
News Blur Looks A Bit Better In Its Latest Trailer
It's a funny one Blur
It's coming from a team with a fantastic heritage — the Metropolis Street Racer and Project Gotham Racing franchises were both absolutely fantastic. But Blur's never looked quite so exciting; particularly not for a Bizarre Creations game. This latest trailer makes more sense however. It's clear Bizarre are aiming for a super...
News Transformers: War For Cybertron Is Heavy On Optimus Prime, Kinda Awesome
It's been a long time since that semi-decent Transformers game on the PS2
What with the recent Bayformers movies, we'd given up hope of a more traditional Transformers experience. Thank goodness for High Moon Studios, who appear to be keeping our dream alive with Transformers: War For Cybertron. The big shoot-out with Omega Supreme at the end...
News Modern Warfare 2 Gets Patched All Over Again
It never seems to be longer than a few days before we're posting about yet another Modern Warfare 2 patch
We know the popularity of the game has lead to plenty of exploits but, this is kind of ridiculous. The latest patch should fix the predator missile on care package exploit, plus more rebalancing for the shotguns. Oh and earning negative XP no...
News Transformers: War For Cybertron Barely Announced, Getting Preorder Bonuses
Y'know, we might be just having a blonde moment, but until we read about Transformers: War For Cybertron's preorder bonuses, we didn't even know the game had a multiplayer component
It must do though, because if you preorder the title from GameStop, you'll unlock Shockwave as a playable character in the multiplayer mode. Awesome. Does the game even...
News Activision Confirm New Call Of Duty, Guitar Hero & Tony Hawk By Year End
Activision's confirmed during a consumer call tonight that there will be new iterations Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk and Spiderman by the time 2010 is done and finished
The Call Of Duty title in development is believed to be set in Vietnam, and is being developed by Activision's secondary CoD team Treyarch. Robomodo confirmed they are...
News LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars Coming Later This Year
Activision's announced LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is coming to the Playstation 3 and PSP later this year
The game's set during the first couple of seasons of the animated series, which you probably haven't watched.The LEGO Star Wars franchise is a massive hit with fans, bringing in sales of over 20 million units worldwide. Were thrilled...
News Modern Warfare 2 Patch Fixes Care Package Exploits & Other Stuff
Gah, it feels like every week we're posting about another Modern Warfare 2 patch that fixes some glitch or other
Take the latest patch, which fixes the following: Care Package, Emergency Airdrop, and Sentry Gun marker grenades sprint speed normalized Fix for "infinite care package" exploit Sentry Guns: Improved placement detection,...
Feature Against All Odds: Uncharted Quality vs. Modern Warfare Quantity - willxcore Discusses
Someone grab that little dude with the funny suit from Braid because I'm about to take you on a trip through time
Rewind the clocks back to November 2006 when Sony released the Playstation 3 upon the world. It was met with feverish anticipation and was considered the second, err, third coming of the great Playstation home console series. All was...
News Modern Warfare 2 DLC To Hit Playstation 3 About A Month After XBOX 360
Microsoft announced at E3 that they'd given Activision lots of money secured "exclusive first looks" at the upcoming Modern Warfare 2 DLC, but until today the exact context of that statement had not been revealed
However, Eurogamer are reporting today that Modern Warfare 2 DLC will receive a period of timed-exclusivity on the XBOX 360, for 30 days...
News Big-Bucks Activision Boss Admits Some Activision Games Suck
Probably one of the most hated figures in the video game industry, smug money maker Bobby Kotick has admitted to Game Informer (via Destructoid) that, yep, Activision's Spider-Man games have kinda sucked
Our Spider-Man games have sucked for the last five years, Kotick claimed. They are bad games. They were poorly rated because they were bad...
Maybe next time, we'll drop the clue
But our little game still won't be much fun, yo. It's too obvious. At this stage we're starting to believe that even when something huge, like, say, Final Fantasy XIII or God Of War III launches; Modern Warfare 2 will still be sitting atop the British sales charts. It'll probably still be there in 2011. By which...
Rumour Infinity Ward Hiring For Call Of Duty MMO
Blimey oh riley
Here's not news you expect to report on everyday. According to reports from Destructoid, Infinity Ward are hiring staff to develop an MMO. The company are apparently sniping employees from Sony Online Entertainment and Blizzard to help out on the game, including EverQuest II's Ryan Barker. Destructoid reckon the MMO will run...
News Next Call Of Duty Game Due Out In November, 2010
Treyarch's next foray into the Call Of Duty franchise - widely rumoured to be set in Vietnam - is due for release in November, ahead of the "gifting season" according to CVG
Their source - a "senior UK trade rep" - said Activision had told them to expect the game in the same window as Modern Warfare 2.Activision believes that it can own...
News Guetta Thinks DJ Hero Is Banging, Is Working On DJ Hero 2
Top DJ David Guetta [and the mastermind behind tons of amazing French house - Ed] has hinted he's working on a follow-up to DJ Hero
In an interview with Kelowna, Guetta said, I think its amazing, this game [DJ Hero], and Im going to work on the No. 2 version. Its a really crazy game, he said.After ten minutes, you get the rush that a DJ...
News Full Of Turkey? Ignore This Post About The British Sales Charts.
Guess what's top of the UK sales charts? That's right, Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2
Word. Get all your chart-based excitement right here.
News How About A Nice Fat Christmas Surprise: Modern Warfare 2 Is Still Number One On The UK Charts
Snore-phewwww
Snore-phewwww. Snore-phewwww. Mumble. Mutter. Modern Warfare 2 is still top of the UK sales charts. Mutter. Mumble. Snore-phewwww. Snore-phewwww. Snore-phewwww. Mumble. Mutter. Not a lot else to talk about but Nintendo. Mutter. Mumble. Snore-phewwww. Snore-phewwww. Snore-phewwww. CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 FIFA 10 WII FIT PLUS WII...
News VGAs 2009: True Crime Reboot Unveil Trailer Is Pretty Awesome
So the True Crime games have been of questionable quality in the past, but after seeing the name United Front Games (the people behind Sony's Modnation Racers) and a well paced trailer we're ready to believe: this reboot set in China could be awesome
See what we mean after the jump. <object id="gtembed"...
News Heads Up: Modern Warfare 2 Patch 1.06 Available On Playstation 3 Now, Javelin Glitch Dead
Quick update , Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling has just Tweeted that the 15mb Modern Warfare 2 update is available now
As we posted yesterday, the update fixes the Javelin glitch alongside some other exploits. Quite a few people wrote in yesterday saying they'd stopped playing MW2 until this stuff got fixed. You can jump back in now eh, guys?
News Modern Warfare 2 Patch 1.06 In Certification, Fixes Javelin Glitch & Infinite Care Packages
Infinity Ward are finally readying a patch to fix Modern Warfare 2's much-famed Javelin glitch
The glitch, which makes people go really fast and be all explosive, is already in certification according to Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling. Aswell as the Javelin glitch, patch 1.06 will also fix the infinite care package exploit, aswell as stopping...
News Standalone DJ Hero Controllers Available Now, Still A Bit Expensive
If you've been sitting, waiting, deliberating over whether to pick up another DJ Hero controller - now you totally can
Available via the Guitar Hero Store, dropping $70 will earn you a standalone deck for local multiplayer action. Obviously this is still ridiculously expensive, but hey, the game's a lot of fun so we can't blame you for taking the...
News Modern Warfare 2 DLC Scheduled For Spring Release
If you, like some of those on my PSN friends list, have already put in 40 hours into Modern Warfare 2, you might be getting a bit hacked off with seeing the same maps
We were after just 7 hours, but that's moot. Point is, you want DLC, right? Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling just Tweeted that it's coming - in "Spring". And that ladies and...
