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About two years ago, it was reported that Bungie, the makers of games like Myth and Halo, are working on a brand new project simply referred to as 'Destiny'. In November last year, several captivating art images from the game have surfaced. More concept art showed up (including the impressive-looking image above), so have a looksy if you wish...

With no explanation, Activision appears to have pulled all of its James Bond titles from Valve Software's digital game delivery service, Steam. In other words, games such as Quantum of Solace, Blood Stone and 007 Legends currently cannot be purchased from Steam...

Activision revealed that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 overshot the $1 billion mark in retail sales across the globe, according to Chart-Track. The game launched on November 13, 2012. In comparison, Modern Warfare 3 reached $1 billion in retail sales in 16 days...

According to GameStop, Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 sold over 1 million copies, quickly positioning the game to break records for the well-known retailer. "'Black Ops II' is shaping up to be our biggest game launch of all time," Tony Bartel, president of the Grapevine, Texas-based chain, said yesterday in an e-mail...

The French media corporation, Vivendi, is presumably on the lookout for possible bidders for its stake in Activision Blizzard; that's according to five sources. Activision Blizzard is currently one of the leading video game publishers (in fact the largest game publisher) on the US market and Vivendi owns a 60% stake...

Well over a year ago, we've learned that Telltale Games, the devs behind the recent Sam and Max games, have secured the rights to publish a "multi-year, multi-platform, multi-title" series of games based on comic series The Walking Dead. The video game series has already hit the market and has been doing rather well...

And another one bites the dust. Activision has shut down development studio Radical Entertainment, best known for its Prototype games. Here's an explanation from the publisher (via Kotaku): "Although we made a substantial investment in the Prototype IP, it did not find a broad commercial audience...

Check it out, folks. Activision unveils its next venture into the shooter realm - Call of Duty: Black Ops 2: VIDEO: codblackops2reveal.flv The game is in development over at Treyarch and will be released on November 13 this year for Xbox 360, PC and PS3.

Following recent reports, the announcement for Activision's shooter sequel, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, is almost here. No info or media has been released just yet, although the official web site has gone live, so you can check it out if you wish...

Activision sends word that they are going to deliver a brand new Bond game called 007 Legends. They describe the title as "a first-of-its-kind Bond video game," which features "an original, overarching storyline tying together six classic Bond movies, concluding with this year's highly-anticipated 23rd installment - Skyfall...

Activision is rather happy it seems. Well, it seems that their new Call of Duty game is selling like hot cakes once more so they have every fucking reason to be happy. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has broke the theatrical box office, book and video game sales records for 5-day worldwide sales...

Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg just confirmed that Modern Warfare 3 "drove the largest day one shipments in our history and in the industry's history." Also, "pre-orders for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 outpaced pre-orders for Call of Duty: Black Ops by a wide margin, setting a new industry record in making it the most pre-ordered game of all time" (thanks PCG)...

Modern Warfare 3, the latest installment in Activision's ever-popular shooter series Call of Duty, has received waves of positive reviews. While the game's score on Metacritic has reached an impressive 90, the user reviews score is currently 2...

Activision release a video for the soon-to-be-launched action adventure Spider-Man: Edge of Time, showing off the game's combat: VIDEO: SpiderManeotCombattr.flv

As ridiculous as that headline sounds, you're gonna have to see it with your own eyes to believe it. Make sure you keep a close watch at 01:00 (a familiar face appears): Yes, that was Bobby Kotick. It might be a minor role or rather a cameo, but it looks like he managed to find himself in it. Wonder why? Oh and looks like Brad's asking him for money in this particular scene (that's bound to go well). Source: Kotaku via CVG