Posts Tagged ‘Activision’

Price Hikes by ActiVision and Microsoft…. Long Overdue?

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

The recent announcement by ActiVision to up the price for Modern Warfare 2 a notch in the United Kingdom has angered many gamers. Microsoft, quickly following suit with Forza Motorsport 3, didn’t do anything to stop the usual “don’t support this” and “I will pirate that” posts flooding popular gaming forums.

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Time to get your claws out, bub

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a video game developed by Raven Software, the same people that brought us X-Men: Legends I & II, and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (They like colons). They’ve certainly established themselves as one of (if not the) top comic book…

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€60 for Prototype? ActiVision, Are You Kidding Me?

Friday, May 29th, 2009

The highly anticipated multi-platform title Prototype opened up for pre-orders via Steam yesterday and publisher ActiVision has, in all its wisdom, set the price at €59.99 for mainland Europe. A whopping €60 for a digitally distributed PC game? Is that supposed to be some kind of joke?

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Check Your HUDcast 010: Whooping Death

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Everyone is present and accounted for, although, both Mike and Jenni are sick with a bad case of what Mike describes as “Whooping Death”. The show must go on despite the illness, and this week’s show was a good one. Topics discussed include 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, Star Ocean 4, Activision’s earnings, Xbox Live and it’s policies regarding sexual orientation info in your profile, and the Japanese court ruling that the R4 is illegal.

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