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Maxim's Hometown Hotties show their support for Blur
While Activision may have decided to delay the release of Blur from this fall to sometime in 2010, they haven't forgotten about the upcoming action-racing game from developer Bizarre Creations . Far from it, in fact, as Blur has been designated one of the official sponsors of Maxim 's 2009 ...
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Blizzard: Diablo III "is not going to be out next year"
Blizzard is currently targeting the release of StarCraft II for the first half of 2010 and their next World of Warcraft expansion pack, Cataclysm , is due out sometime in 2010 as well. But what about Diablo III ? Blizzard first announced the action-RPG sequel nearly 18 months ago but ...
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Modern Warfare 2 gets promoted at NASCAR race Saturday
Tomorrow is the last race of the season for the NASCAR Nationwide Series and in the pack trying to win at the Homestead-Miami Speedway will be driver Joey Logano. His number 20 car will be outfitted with a special Modern Warfare 2 - GameStop design that was made specifcially for this race. ...
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Modern Warfare 2's writer claims "the airport level was a risk we had to take"
It's been the talk of the internet ever since its presence was leaked online a few weeks before the game came out. But the now infamous "airport level" in Modern Warfare 2 has certainly generated a lot of debate both among gamers and the mainstream media over whether or not it is ...
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Infinity Ward: Modern Warfare 2 PC already outselling Call of Duty 4
Even though the market share for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 is only a small percentage of the total sales for the first person shooter, the sheer number of units sold for the Infinity Ward -developed game in its first days could still be in the six figure range for the PC port. ...
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StarCraft II web site gets updated with screenshots, articles and more
It's been a few months since there's been a lot of new content uploaded to Blizzard 's StarCraft II web site. That changed today as the site added an additional 17 new screenshots for the upcoming sci-fi RTS blockbuster (we have reproduced them and put them in our ever growing StarCraft II ...
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Rumor: Activision to start third Call of Duty dev team?
The Call of Duty game franchise that began with Infinity Ward 's first game in the shooter series in 2003 has established a pattern in its later releases. Infinity Ward works on the games that are released in the odd-numbered years ( Call of Duty 2 in 2005, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ...
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Star Trek Online dev video readies battle stations
Download HD Trailer The universe is a hostile place, and sometimes diplomacy can only go so far, as any experienced star ship captain can attest to. However, new captains don't need to be caught unaware. In this developer video, members of the Cryptic Studios team working on Star Trek ...
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Activision Blizzard to launch new Sledgehammer Games dev studio
While Activision Blizzard has experienced some downsizing in the past few months (reducing the size of Raven Software and shutting down Shaba Games) the publisher apparently feels that sometimes you need to expand as well. Today the company officially announced the launch of their new ...
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Activision: We chose to pull airport scene from PC Modern Warfare 2
. Yesterday reports hit the Internet that the infamous "airport scene" in Modern Warfare 2 's PC version had been removed from the game via a patch for Russian audiences. Today the game's publisher Activision has confirmed that is in indeed the case but said the decision was made on their ...
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Hackers claim to create dedicated servers for Modern Warfare 2
We suspected that the second that the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 was released somebody, somewhere, would try to create some kind of dedicated server hack for Infinity Ward' s first person shooter. It looks like that someone has created some kind of way to get into the dev console and ...
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Russian patch for PC Modern Warfare 2 removes airport level
The backlash against the controversial airport massacre level in Modern Warfare 2 continues. GameRiot reports via a Russian language web site that the PC and Steam versions of Infinity Ward 's recent shooter have removed the scene from the game for Russians players via a patch Just in case ...
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Will Modern Warfare series get a spin-off title?
Activision love to drag game franchises down into the ground if they are successful. Witness the three different "Hero" music game titles they have released this year. So it's not surprising to hear that Infinity Ward' s Modern Warfare shooter series might be getting a spin-off of its own. ...
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Rumor: Are these the first Fallout Online screenshots?
Interplay has been releasing some concept artwork on their message boards for the MMO game they are officially calling " Project V13 " but is actually their attempt at a Fallout MMO . Now a fan site, The Vault Wiki, claims they have secured the first actual in-game screenshots of the ...
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It's official: BlizzCon 2010 won't be in Las Vegas after all
Blizzard fans who had hoped to be rolling sevens and pulling on some one armed bandits in Las Vegas next year during BlizzCon can now hold off. Our sister site Wow.com is now reporting that their previous story of BlizzCon 2010 being held in Vegas in late July isn't happening after all. The ...
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Review: League of Legends
The Warcraft III map Defense of the Ancients (or DotA) is becoming much more of a separate genre of its own, thanks to the many imitators. One of the first was the game Demigod , created by the folks behind the Total Annihilation and Dungeon Siege games. Now there are a few more, such as  ...
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Review: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 PC
All right. It's time to separate the men from the geeks. You may have read a bunch of reviews of how great Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is but we bet that most of them have concentrated on the console versions. After all of the hubbub about no dedicated servers, no mod tools and only 18 ...
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Is BlizzCon heading to Vegas in 2010?
Last August at BlizzCon , Blizzard VP Paul Sams hinted that they might be changing the venue for future versions of their (sort of) annual fan convention. Since its start the event has been held at the Anaheim Convention Center (close to Blizzard's own headquarters) but the 2009 edition made it ...
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New Starcraft II screenshot reveals new (and big) Zerg unit
It's not been a good fall season for StarCraft II fans. We've learned that Blizzard 's upcoming RTS sequel won't be released this year but has been pushed back to the first half of 2010. We've also learned that not even the beta test will happen this year either.So when something new is ...
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Did Modern Warfare 2 PC sell over 375,000 copies in its first day?
With Modern Warfare 2 now out in stores and available to download and play via Steam for the PC version, Activision is now bragging about how many copies and how much money the first person shooter generated in its first 24 hours on sale. A new press release from the publisher states that ...
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