GDC 2010: Sony Reveals Support For PlayStation Move

During Sony's press conference at GDC 2010, the company unveiled the official name for their much-anticipated motion controller, the PlayStation Move. During the conference they mentioned that over 30 publisher had already vouched for supporting the peripheral, but until now the full list had yet to be revealed. More »

Sledgehammer Making Call of Duty 2011, Could Be Spinoff

Activision have announced that Sledgehammer Games, the company headed by ex-Visceral Games employees, will be working on the Call of Duty franchise, specifically, a game that will be released in 2011. More »

Update: Former Infinity Ward Heads Sue Activision

The ugly split between the former heads of Infinity Ward and Activision continues to send shock waves throughout the industry. The latest development is the lawsuit filed today by Jason West and Vince Zampella against Activision. In a statement released by their legal team, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, West and Zampella are suing for compensation from the sales of Modern Warfare 2, and the right to control "Modern Warfare-branded games." More »

EA Takes Aim At Modern Warfare With Bad Company 2, Medal Of Honor

With the release of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 upon us, some have suggested that this game has the best chance of challenging Modern Warfare's position on top of first person shooters. This perception of direct competition is well founded, the DICE team has clearly gotten a lot of inspiration from Modern Warfare, while at the same time retaining the feel of a Battlefield game. This could potentially be a killer combination which publisher Electronic Arts seems ready to capitalize on. Bad Company combined with the Medal of Honor franchise are looking to dethrone Call of Duty as king of shooters, but will they be successful? More »

January NPD: Mario Outsells Mass Effect 2

January's NPD results have been published, and they show some interesting figures from the perspective of sales figures as it wasn't a new game that stole the show.

The NPD results, which show sales statistics for the region of North America, showed that New Super Mario Bros. Wii was the top selling game during January. Mass Effect 2 performed pretty well too, despite only being released for a few days of the month. More »

Activision: Tony Hawk Ride Concept 'Compelling' Despite Poor Sales

Last year's iteration of Tony Hawk brought a new concept to the franchise, a skateboard peripheral. Despite it being a commercial failure, selling a mere 114,000 units in its first month, Activision still finds the concept "very compelling." During a conference call, Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith revealed that the company plans to continue making Tony Hawk games with the peripheral. More »

LEGO Star Wars III Announced

LucasArts and TT Games has today announced in a press release a new iteration in the LEGO Star Wars Franchise with LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. This new title in the series will again be published by Activision. More »

Top Selling Games in Key Markets Revealed

Recent sales figures from the three largest global game markets, the United States, United Kingdom and Japan have shown that Modern Warfare 2 was the highest selling game in 2009. Coming in at a combined 11.86 million units, 8.82 million in the US, 2.8 million in the UK and a mere 238,000 in Japan, Infinity Ward's blockbuster easily took the top spot. More »

Just Dance Retains Top Spot From Modern Warfare 2

Ubisoft's Just Dance has managed to prove that last week wasn't a complete anomaly, as it retained the top sales spot in the UK weekly charts compiled by Chart Track. More »

Modern Warfare 2's Infamous Public 'Private' Match Bug Gets Patched

Modern Warfare 2 has been plagued by bugs since its launch last month, and Infinity Ward have struggled to keep on top of things. They are trying though, and they've just put out a patch which fixes the most recent high profile bug, entitled Public "Private" Match. More »

Complete Collection of Call of Duty: World at War Maps Now Available

North American fans of Call of Duty: World at War are getting a little something this holiday season. Activision has bundled together in a "complete collection": all nine multiplayer maps and three co-op zombie maps associated with each of the map packs. More »

Xbox Live Launches Individual Music Game Stores

Microsoft has just announced that they will be adding a special area on the Xbox Live Music section on the Dashboard for Rock Band, Guitar Hero, and LIPS, allowing people to browse songs without having to load up each game's individual in-game stores.

As with the in-game stores, you can search and sort though track, as well as listen to previews of the songs before you buy them. The games benefiting from this update are Guitar Hero 5, Guitar Hero World Tour, Band Hero, Lips, Lips: Number One Hits, Lego Rock Band, The Beatles: Rock Band, and the regular version of Rock Band. More »

Modern Warfare 2 Continues Its UK Sales Dominance

Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues to sit pretty at the top of the UK video game sales charts, which are compiled by Chart Track. It's also quite difficult to see anything knocking it off its perch any time soon. More »

Modern Warfare 2 Javelin Glitch Fixed on Xbox 360

Microsoft's Major Nelson earlier reported that the patch for Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox 360 to fix a few prominent glitches was good to go, and indeed it has now been released.

The 1.06 upgrade for Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox 360 fixes the ever annoying Javelin glitch, as well as the unlimited care packages glitch. Microsoft had been banning Xbox Live accounts caught using the glitch, no word if those will remain banned, but for now the bannings will cease. More »

Analyst: Modern Warfare 2 Made Quarter of November Sales

Analysts in the United States are claiming that Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 may have contributed as much as 25 percent of the total amount of video games sold throughout the month of November. More »

Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed 2, Mario Retain Their UK Dominance

Not massively surprising, but Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed 2 and New Super Mario Bros. Wii have continued to hold the top three spots in this week's UK video game sales charts. It wouldn't be hard to see them retaining the three spots up until the new year either, as the amount of new releases slows down. More »

Call of Duty Franchise Tops $3bn In Revenue

Activision have announced that the Call of Duty franchise has managed to generate more than $3bn in revenue since the series first appeared only 6 years ago in 2003. The game has now appeared on a host of major platforms, including more recently the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii and it means that more than 55 million units have now been sold . More »

Modern Warfare 2 DLC Could Hit $100M In Sale

If the sales numbers of Modern Warfare 2 weren't high enough, lest we forget the impending downloadable content (DLC) to be bought for the title. According to Broadpoint AmTech analyst, Ben Schachter, sales of DLC map packs and other DLC could potentially account for over $100 millions in revenue. Here's exactly how Schachter put it, courtesy of IndustryGamers.com,

As with the last two CoD titles, the game itself should maintain its $60 launch price until the next iteration (due in large part to the value of its online gameplay), but ATVI will also benefit significantly from the high-margin DLC potential enabled by the packaged product's success. We estimate that ATVI will generate at least $100mil-$140mil in gross revenue from Call of Duty DLC in 2010.

Schachter and his team's math is based on sales DLC map packs Activision released for last year's Call of Duty: World at War. World at War had three DLC map pack, and with that much revenue in the balance for Activision, it's almost a certainty that we'll see three DLC map packs for Modern Warfare 2. That's the real highlight. More »

Modern Warfare 2 Holds Off Super Mario, Assassin's Creed 2

Modern Warfare 2 had a massive week following its launch, but sales in the UK have declined considerably since with a reported 86 percent decrease. It wasn't the only high-profile launch around that time though and some of the others have started to register. More »

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Review

Modern Warfare 2 is the fourth title in the Call of Duty series from developer Infinity Ward and is a direct sequel to their previous title, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. As with the original, the story takes place in multiple locations all over the world and the player assumes the role of multiple soldiers from different factions. The game also features three separate modes to play through. There's a single player campaign which sequels the original, two player co-op that varies from level to level, and a full multiplayer mode to keep players involved for ages. More »