Modern Warfare 2 has not only shattered all records for day one sales for a video game, it did it despite the furore over Activision’s price. Which turns out to be much cheaper than Grand Theft Auto...

ELSPA has just announced that Modern Warfare has broken every sales record in the book. In just one day, the game sold an estimated 1.23 million copies and generated £47.7 million of revenue at retail. The previous...

After halving the work force of 7 Studios yesterday, Activision has now shut Shaba Games, according to Kotaku. Shaba, which employed 30 staff, worked most recently on Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. Kotaku’s sources suggest that the closure...

Activision acquired 7 Studios, developer of Scratch the Ultimate DJ, in April 2009. Since Scratch is targeted at the same market as Activision’s DJ Hero, the acquisition led to a lawsuit from Scratch publisher Genius, alleging “intentional...

No one leaves Activision to join a casual or web-gaming business, for the simple the reason that they just don’t get it. EA’s recent weakness is a strength, if only they can stop the brain drain. The...

What a nice way to celebrate the launch of your new game: fire dozens of the staff who worked on it. Internal Activision studio Raven Software has laid off 30-35 staff, according to GI.biz. The studio have...

World of Warcraft’s servers have been down for a couple of month now, but the end appears to be in sight. GamaSutra reports that the Chinese government has now approved a “limited beta” to start on July...