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Legion coming next year from Peter Watts alongside Crytek’s shooter sequel; narrative will follow supersoldier fighting aliens in New York City.
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CEO Robert Kotick sees little financial value in fledgling markets, remains dedicated to existing titles.
Despite the incessant popularity of the iPhone/iPod Touch gaming market and the global phenomenon that is social gaming, Activision CEO Robert Kotick says he’s not interested in tapping into those gaming sectors.
Speaking with Reuters recently, Kotick said Apple’s App Store isn’t an area best suited for “dedicated gamers.”
“We don’t view the App Store as a really big opportunity for dedicated games,” he said.
He went on to say, according to Reuters, that investing in games for tablet devices, including Apple’s iPad, is not in Activision’s immediate future. However, Kotick did say it might be a course of action for the publisher someday.Addressing the social gaming movement spearheaded in part by free-to-play games on Facebook, Kotick recognized the popularity of this demographic, but he said making money off users in this sector is difficult.
“It’s a different question assessing it as a business opportunity. Right now, we don’t see an opportunity for us to participate in that market,” he said.
Activision’s current-quarter balance sheet is expected to be rosy, as the publisher released Call of Duty: Black Ops in November. The Cold War-era shooter has made over $650 million to date and is the fastest selling entertainment property of all time. On top of that, next week Activision will release World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the latest expansion to World of Warcraft, which recently surpassed a gargantuan tally of 12 million registered users.
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VGA host keeps things cryptic.
A little more information has seeped out about the new BioWare title due to be announced at the Spike VGA event next week, courtesy of awards host Geoff Keighley.
A brief clip posted on Spike and reproduced below sees Geoff explaining that the short trailer released earlier this month is a “three second sneak preview of a much longer piece that’s going to premier at the VGAs.”
He doesn’t give anything concrete away but does reveal “that it’s not all set in that location that you see. You may see something else in there that will get you pretty excited.”
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Prove it in new World Cup competition.
England won’t host the 2018 World Cup, but that doesn’t mean you need to be rubbish at FIFA 11.
You can can prove that by winning the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2011.
The tournament started yesterday and will run for six mini-seasons, each starting on the first day of every month. The top two players of each league go through to the June 2011 Grand Final, as does one winner from each of the 10 live qualifying events to be held between now and then.
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PlayPack offers unlimited access to a range of titles for $9.99 per month, currently available free for early micro-console owners.
Cloud gaming service OnLive has announced a new flat-rate price option which gives users access to over 40 titles with unlimited access.The titles announced today include Unreal Tournament 3, Fear 2 and Prince Of Persia.
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Case for Prototype 2 gathers strength.
The third in a series of teaser images for a zombie-related videogame set to be unveiled at the Spike Video Game Awards has hit the internet.
“We’re here to help,” reads the image, which you can see below.
The scrawled message, “Don’t ever leave the green zone!” is set against a silhouette of a soldier holding the hand of a young child.
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Doctor gets funding to find out.
Not all videogames are bad and violence inducing – some can alleviate symptoms of one of the world’s worst diseases: Parkinson’s.
A British doctor has been awarded £35,000 to research the benefits that playing Wii can have for people with Parkinson’s. Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren, who was reported to have been paid half a million quid by Nintendo to advertise Wii Fit, is interested to see how the research turns out – she has a close friend with Parkinson’s.
The Wii helps Parkinson’s sufferers by physically and mentally challenging them – a process that can slow the degradation of nerve cells.
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November Facebook game chart shows a closing gap on Zynga’s rule.Inside Social Games’ chart for monthly users of Facebook games reveals that US-based digital media and social game developer Digital Chocolate has managed to grow the user-base of its Millionaire City game by 800,000 users in a typically quiet month for the platform.
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Well Loki Loki, Loki’s playing Loki, too.
Chris “Captain Kirk” Hemsworth will reprise his role as Thor in SEGA’s movie tie-in game. The publisher has also signed scrawny-faced British actor Tom Hiddleston to reprise his role as tricksy Norse god Loki.
Their involvement is noted as a fresh batch of Thor: God of Thunder screenshots tumble out of the sky. We’ve gallerised them below.
SEGA will hope that by signing the stars of the Thor movie, we’ll believe that this adaptation will be better than the dreadful Iron Man and slightly better – but still dreary – Iron Man 2.
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Threatens quality and risks burning out gamers.
Mega publisher Take-Two has promised gamers it won’t release new titles in the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead series every year.
Take-Two’s policy with its most popular games is in direct contrast to Activision’s, which releases new titles in the Call of Duty and Hero franchises every year.
Analysts have long called for more regular output from Take-Two’s big hitters, but president Strauss Zelnick told Reuters the publisher was less reliant on GTA these days than it has been in the past, and is even on track to achieve profitability in a year without the release of a new GTA for the first time in a decade.
