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Activision will launch fewer games based on external licenses this year, and it has laid off about 30 employees to make up the difference. The publisher of Skylanders and Call of Duty released a statement to Kotaku which said the cuts were part of regular cost-alignment measures. “Like any successful …

Call of Duty Elite will become positively common with the release of Black Ops II. Activision today announced the premium service’s stat-tracking and community features will be free for all players of Black Ops II, though its DLC map packs will still require a separate purchase. The Elite service formerly …

The Advertising Standards Agency has banned an advert for Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from being broadcast in the UK before 7.30pm. In its assessment, ASA concluded ‘the scenes of violence and destruction, together with the sound effects and music, could cause distress to some children’. And the …

We may only just finished recovering from E3 2012, but in a matter of days comes another huge event located in Southern California. And even though its focus is meant to be on comic books and genre films, video games continue to grow as part of the beautiful rainbow of …