EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new newsletters. Each week, I’m writing a column on an aspect of gaming world that GamesBeat covers. My colleague Dylan Tweney is writing a column on technology and business called Dylan’s Desk. Together, these columns …
Welcome to the front lines of gaming. I’ve been covering the game industry on a day-to-day basis for about 15 years, mainly by immersing myself in the environment. I play games and I interview people in the game industry daily. …
Call of Duty fans were greeted to a “life imitates art” moment at the Call of Duty XP event this week in Los Angeles. Activision Blizzard recreated the Scrapyard multiplayer battlefield from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 as a …
The Call of Duty XP event took place in a giant hangar on Friday and Saturday in Los Angeles. It was the place to be for 6,000 die-hard Call of Duty fans who are anxiously anticipating the Nov. 8 launch …
Eric Hirshberg, the president and chief executive of Activision Publishing ( a division of Activision Blizzard), is treating 6,000 Call of Duty fans to a celebration of the game series at a huge aircraft hangar in Los Angeles.
At the …
Activision Blizzard chief executive is ready to burst out of the video game business and take over the entertainment industry.
In an analyst event ahead of the company’s Call of Duty XP extravaganza in Los Angeles, CEO Bobby Kotick said …
Just as Blizzard Entertainment has Blizzcon for its game fans, Activision Blizzard is now creating Call of Duty XP 2011, a two-day convention for fans of the Call of Duty games.
The event is a stroke of marketing brilliance for …
