Get ready for a twist, “Call of Duty” fans.
Even though the new “Call of Duty: World At War” is succeeding with consumers and critics by sticking to the successful adrenaline-fueled formula of its franchise predecessor, new downloadable content coming to the game in 2009 will represent a break from 2007’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.”
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Filed under: News, Peripherals

Some Guitar Hero: World Tour players are reporting sensitivity issues with the drums — basically, that they have to pound the hell out of them to register a hit. If you’re tired of having to go all Keith Moon all the time, Activision and Neversoft have a solution for you, and it’s [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm

If you’re interested to see how Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour’s 16 shared songs match up to one another, look no further than YouTube. While there are certainly others (and undoubtedly more to follow suit), user Gurra100 has a playlist of [...]

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Filed under: Culture, Driving, Simulations, Business

THQ has filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard over the trade dress and copyright of an off-road racing game, reports law blog Patent Arcade. THQ alleges that SCORE International Baja 1000: The Official Game, releasing this month, infringes on the trade dress (box art) of its Baja: Edge of Control.
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Reader DarthMetalHope was scanning boards in advance of picking up Guitar Hero: World Tour today, and notices that for those who already have it, some are seeing sensitivity/operability problems with the drum kit. Enough that it’s raising a big stink, and Activision has noticed.
One PS3 gamer on IGN’s boards says:
I went and started the drum [...]

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Anyone who bought Rock Band at launch last year knows well the travails of defective plastic instruments. And with Guitar Hero World Tour launching today, are Activision and Red Octane about to face similar issues? According to Kotaku, numerous reports are already circulating across forums of players having problems with defective drum kits, with the [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Peripherals, Rhythm

Many of us will find it easy to imagine the following scenario, having lived it a little over a year ago with the release of an alarmingly similar title — hordes of rhythm game junkies returned home last night from midnight [...]

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Still flagging this as rumor, but it sounds like GameStop and Activision might have bargained a deal that allows your neighborhood McGame chain to retail Call of Duty: World at War a day early. PlanetXbox360 says it spoke to a manager (incidentally, the writer’s friend, which is why this remains rumor), who verified that at [...]

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Hope everyone’s had a good chance to fan themselves and hose off following Thursday’s introduction to Grace Kim, the former Activision PR rep turned Guitar Hero Rock Band vixen in this month’s Playboy. Remember a while back, the survey that asked if anybody’s played video games in the nude? Apparently Grace does.
So, my hair — [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Business

We so totally didn’t see this coming. THQ has snapped up the publishing rights to 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. You know, the video game adaptation of the hip hop icon’s legendary quest to regain stolen treasure in the Middle East alongside the G-Unit. Hey, [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Business

We so totally didn’t see this coming. THQ has snapped up the publishing rights to 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. You know, the video game adaptation of the hip hop icon’s legendary quest to regain stolen treasure in the Middle East alongside the G-Unit. Hey, [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Business

We so totally didn’t see this coming. THQ has snapped up the publishing rights to 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. You know, the video game adaptation of the hip hop icon’s legendary quest to regain stolen treasure in the Middle East alongside the G-Unit. Hey, [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm, Business

Guitar Hero: Metallica may still not be “officially” announced by Activision, but a tipster sent us a YouTube clip revealing the teaser for the game in Guitar Hero World Tour’s “videos” section. Making this situation even more inane is that Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm, Business

Guitar Hero: Metallica may still not be “officially” announced by Activision, but a tipster sent us a YouTube clip revealing the teaser for the game in Guitar Hero World Tour’s “videos” section. Making this situation even more inane is that Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm, Business

Guitar Hero: Metallica may still not be “officially” announced by Activision, but a tipster sent us a YouTube clip revealing the teaser for the game in Guitar Hero World Tour’s “videos” section. Making this situation even more inane is that Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, [...]

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Filed under: Video
Guitar Hero trailers are usually about capturing the authentic feeling of rocking out — so much so, that, say, Slash erupts from your body. But for the trailer for Guitar Hero World Tour’s Wii version, Activision rented out that same fake apartment set that everyone seems to use and made an ad that [...]

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Guitar Hero World Tour 'Risky Business' TV ad
Activision is pulling out all the stops for the October 26 release of Guitar Hero: World Tour with some Risky Business-inspired ads featuring well-known celebrities. Each ad will feature the rich and famous dancing about in their underpants and doing their best Tom Cruise impression to Bob Seger’s [...]

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It’s easy to empathize, because we’ve all been there, or close. You have your 9 to 5 job, it’s a good gig, the work’s interesting. Then an amazing once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes along and you have to sneak out to chase it. Grace Kim, as Activision’s PR lead for Guitar Hero, was in that spot a [...]

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It’s easy to empathize, because we’ve all been there, or close. You have your 9 to 5 job, it’s a good gig, the work’s interesting. Then an amazing once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes along and you have to sneak out to chase it. Grace Kim, as Activision’s PR lead for Guitar Hero, was in that spot a [...]

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It’s easy to empathize, because we’ve all been there, or close. You have your 9 to 5 job, it’s a good gig, the work’s interesting. Then an amazing once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes along and you have to sneak out to chase it. Grace Kim, as Activision’s PR lead for Guitar Hero, was in that spot a [...]

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I firmly believe that the most important aspect of a skateboarding title is its soundtrack. There was a point in time where my MP3 collection consisted solely of music from Activision’s Tony Hawk series, and now EA has revealed the soundtrack for both Skate 2 and Skate It, consisting mainly of songs I already [...]

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I firmly believe that the most important aspect of a skateboarding title is its soundtrack. There was a point in time where my MP3 collection consisted solely of music from Activision’s Tony Hawk series, and now EA has revealed the soundtrack for both Skate 2 and Skate It, consisting mainly of songs I already [...]

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I firmly believe that the most important aspect of a skateboarding title is its soundtrack. There was a point in time where my MP3 collection consisted solely of music from Activision’s Tony Hawk series, and now EA has revealed the soundtrack for both Skate 2 and Skate It, consisting mainly of songs I already [...]

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Looking for something to spend lots of money on for the Guitar Hero fan in your life this holiday season? Look no further than the newly announced Premiere Edition Wireless Controller for Guitar Hero from Logitech. Featuring a wooden neck, rosewood fingerboard, metal frets, metal tuning pegs, and the new touch-sensitive neck slider, this [...]

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Looking for something to spend lots of money on for the Guitar Hero fan in your life this holiday season? Look no further than the newly announced Premiere Edition Wireless Controller for Guitar Hero from Logitech. Featuring a wooden neck, rosewood fingerboard, metal frets, metal tuning pegs, and the new touch-sensitive neck slider, this [...]

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Looking for something to spend lots of money on for the Guitar Hero fan in your life this holiday season? Look no further than the newly announced Premiere Edition Wireless Controller for Guitar Hero from Logitech. Featuring a wooden neck, rosewood fingerboard, metal frets, metal tuning pegs, and the new touch-sensitive neck slider, this [...]

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A filing with the U.S. Trademark office suggests that Activision is considering releasing a game called Guitar Hero: Modern Hits. It’s for a "computer game software and related instruction manual sold together" and a "video game comprised of a cartridge or DVD sold as a unit with a video game controller."
There are no other details [...]

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Filed under: Culture, Business

Activision president and CEO Mike Griffith will take a break from having money fights in the office lounge to deliver one third of the keynote address at the upcoming International Consumer Electronics Show. Being held January 8-11 in Las Vegas, Griffith’s speech will take place on Friday at 11am following Thursday’s companion [...]

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Activision president and CEO Mike Griffith will take a break from having money fights in the office lounge to deliver one third of the keynote address at the upcoming International Consumer Electronics Show. Being held January 8-11 in Las Vegas, Griffith’s speech will take place on Friday at 11am following Thursday’s companion [...]

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It’s easy to empathize, because we’ve all been there, or close. You have your 9 to 5 job, it’s a good gig, the work’s interesting. Then an amazing once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes along and you have to sneak out to chase it. Grace Kim, as Activision’s PR lead for Guitar Hero, was in that spot a [...]

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