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Activision vs. Infinity Ward and the Future of Call of Duty
Mar 3rd
Yesterday, it was reported that Infinity Ward’s CEO and CTO (Vince Zampella and Jason West, respectively) left the company under fairly unclear circumstances. All we knew was the following: Activision’s human resources department had concluded an investigation into claims of “breaches of contract and insubordination by two senior employees at Infinity Ward” and that the [...]
Impressions of Impressions
Mar 1st
Tom’s hardware had an article on their site about their impressions of the Starcraft II Beta. So naturally, I’m going to dissect it. In effect, my impressions of their impressions. Attention stat whores: Blizzard has accomodated you. “That was almost a decade ago, and Blizzard, you’ve come a long way, baby. I had an opportunity to [...]
Bobby Kotick Regrets Decisions That Caused Him To Not Be More Rich
Feb 22nd
“All my life, I’ve been the rebel in the X-wing fighter, and then one morning I woke up and I was on board the Death Star.” – Bobby Kotick, speaking at the DICE Summit 2010 in Las Vegas Excuse me? This douchebag took the stage at the DICE Summit and started spewing bullshit in an [...]
StarCraft II Beta Live…If You Still Care
Feb 18th
The beta for StarCraft II began today. Or yesterday. Maybe early this morning. Honestly, I don’t really care, but I suppose there are plenty of people who still do. In my humble opinion, the hype-machine started far too early for Blizzard’s latest iteration of the big daddy of the modern RTS, and I …
The PC as a “platform”
Feb 18th
Microsoft and Sony have it easy, in a way. Xbox Live and Playstation Network are easy methods of integrating a multiplayer experience because everyone has the same operating environment, the same hardware, the same software. The PC is a different issue altogether. The PC is a platform, in a sense, but only in the respect [...]
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