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Call Of Duty Is Skipping 2023

Call Of Duty Is Skipping 2023

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Call of Duty fans, breathe easy — you WILL be getting a new game in the series this year. After that, though… Bloomberg reports that for the first time in nearly twenty years, the Call of Duty franchise will not release a game on an annual schedule. Instead, the series will go dormant for 2023, though we’re sure they’ll make up the difference by loading whatever game comes next with lots of DLC material. “Games as a service” and all that. So why skip a year? Does it have something to do with the Microsoft buyout? No, not really — the takeover hasn’t been finalized yet; Activision is still technically independent. According to Bloomberg it has more to do with the last game released, 2021’s Call Of Duty Vanguard, not performing to sales expectations. There are rumblings from the top that the series is perhaps coming out too frequently and a more sparse release schedule could bring the numbers back up. We don’t know much about the 2022 game that

Yes, It’s True — Microsoft Just Bought Activision

Yes, It’s True — Microsoft Just Bought Activision

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Living on the West Coast means you’re often behind a lot of people in finding things out. Often I first learn about a thing through waking up in the morning and booting up social media and seeing everyone else’s reactions to something insane I don’t know about yet. It took me a few scrolls to piece together what happened while I was asleep THIS time, but eventually it dawned on me that Microsoft just announced it had purchased Activision Blizzard. My immediate reaction: “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” You wouldn’t buy the nuclear reactors in Chernobyl post-meltdown. You wouldn’t buy the Titanic post-sink. Who on Earth would look at Activision the way it currently is, with more scandals per square inch than any other video game company, and think “Oh boy, sign me up for some of that! Here’s 68 billion dollars!” I guess Microsoft would? But the more I thought about it, the more I realized this might not be such a bad development. Microsoft has publicly

Play Overwatch For Free Thanksgiving Week

Play Overwatch For Free Thanksgiving Week

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Blizzard Entertanment’s Overwatch certainly doesn’t need extra promotion. Whenever a new character is introduced, the fans do the promoting for Blizzard, creating thousands of fanarts and flooding the Internet with them in 24 hours. The co-op team shooter is ingeniously built with Internet culture in mind, introducing colorful characters while giving you JUST enough story to spin your imagination and create your own narratives. But if Blizzard could pick a new promotional campaign, this is the one we’d have no argument with: they’re making the entire game free for a week. Thanksgiving Week — a time when millions of people will have time off to sample Overwatch. Beginning Tuesday, Nov. 20 at 11 AM Pacific / 2 PM Eastern, anyone can download the game and play with any of the 29 introduced characters, including new Ashe. Depending on your system of choice, Overwatch won’t be ENTIRELY free — going online with Playstation 4 or XBox One requires a PSN or XBox Gold subscription respectively. But you likely already have one

Blizzard Entertainment Planning to Change Battle.net Name

Blizzard Entertainment Planning to Change Battle.net Name

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In a post today on Battle.net, Blizzard Entertainment announced that the company is changing the longstanding name of its website, Battle.net, to something new. There will apparently be a transition away from Battle.net at some point. Blizzard instead wants to refer to its various products and services with the Blizzard name instead. Blizzard Streaming and Blizzard Voice are specifically pointed out in the statement for this. You can read Blizzard’s full statement on the change below. We’re going to be transitioning away from using the Battle.net name for our gaming service and the functionality connected to it. Battle.net technology will continue to serve as the central nervous system for Blizzard games—nothing is changing in that regard. We’ll just be referring to our various products and services using the Blizzard name instead. You’ve already seen this recently with things like “Blizzard Streaming” and “Blizzard Voice,” and more changes are on the way. When we created Battle.net, the idea of including a tailored online-gaming service together with your game was more of

Activision Blizzard Studios Moving Forward With Film and TV Content for Video Game Franchises

Activision Blizzard Studios Moving Forward With Film and TV Content for Video Game Franchises

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Earlier this week during BlizzCon, Activision Blizzard officially announced the launch of Activision Blizzard Studios, a new film and TV studio division of Activision and Blizzard to develop original content based on the company’s video game franchises and intellectual property. Nick van Dyk, formerly of Disney, has been named the co-president of the studio, with another senior creative executive to be announced soon. Properties that the studio will be developing film and TV projects for include Skylanders, Diablo, Hearthstone, and StarCraft. The first production for the studio will be an animated TV series, Skylanders Academy, based on the Skylanders and Spyro the Dragon franchise. The show is currently in production and has Eric Rogers (Futurama) as its showrunner. The show is set to feature Justin Long (Ask Me Anything, Alvin and the Chipmunks) as Spyro, Ashley Tisdale (Phineas and Ferb, High School Musical) as Stealth Elf, Jonathan Banks as (Breaking Bad) as Eruptor, and Norm Macdonald (Saturday Night Live, Mike Tyson Mysteries) as Glumshanks. Harland Williams and Richard Horvitz are

Activision Blizzard Buys Candy Crush Maker For Almost $6 Billion

Activision Blizzard Buys Candy Crush Maker For Almost $6 Billion

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Activision Blizzard has revealed that they are to buy King Digital Entertainment, the creators of the hugely popular mobile game Candy Crush. The deal will be worth around $5.9 billion and give Activision Blizzard control of one of the most played games in the world, with the Candy Crush series regularly seeing more than half a billion active users every month. According to Activision Blizzard, the purchase makes sense because it allows the publisher to broaden its demographic and audience significantly. While many of its biggest franchises such as Call of Duty and Destiny are popular with males, more than 60% of the players of Candy Crush and other King Digital Entertainment’s games are female. The audience is also readily available because all a player needs is a smartphone and not a dedicated games console. This is important for the company as they have seen increased profits thanks to previous diversification, particularly with the Skylanders franchise. In a statement, Activision Blizzard chief executive Bobby Kotick said: “With a combined global

Activision Announce ‘Skylanders Giants’

Activision Announce ‘Skylanders Giants’

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New Game to Build on the Landmark Success of its Predecessor, Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure™ Next Chapter in the Franchise Introduces More Than 20 New Figures Including Super-Sized Giants and Characters Featuring Light Technology Global Marketing Partnership With Toys”R”Us Grows Alongside The Game Santa Monica, CA – February 7, 2012 – Bring Your Toys To Life™. This novel premise takes a monster step forward with the worldwide unveiling of Skylanders Giants, the follow-up to the most successful kids’ IP launch of the year.¹ Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), will debut the sequel at the North American International Toy Fair in booths 3151 and 3251 at the Javits Center in New York City from February 12-15. Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure uniquely combined collectible real-world toys with an epic virtual game world, creating a new platform for communal play that was embraced by parents and kids everywhere. Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure was the #1 best-selling kids’ franchise worldwide in 2011, as well as the #1 overall new

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Now Available

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After a year of anticipation, after the breakout success of the first-ever Call of Duty® XP live fan event, and after pre-order numbers that toppled even those of 2010’s mega-seller Call of Duty®: Black Ops, the ultimate shot has at last been fired. Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 is now available at retail worldwide. Also launching today alongside MW3, is the revolutionary new social gaming network Call of Duty® Elite, conceived expressly to help Call of Duty®’s 30 million devoted fans Play Together Better™.

Activision Blizzard to Webcast Analyst Day Remarks on September 1, 2011

Activision Blizzard to Webcast Analyst Day Remarks on September 1, 2011

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Activision Blizzard, Inc. today announced that members of senior management, including Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, Inc., will be giving a corporate presentation at its analyst day event on Thursday, September 1, 2011 from approximately 9:15am Pacific Time to 1:00pm Pacific Time.

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