To lose a million users may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose 6 million looks like carelessness. World of Warcraft may be in imminent danger of losing its crown as the largest massively-multiplayer online role-playing game...

The relentless march of AAA titles and their expansion packs continues with news from Activision that the World at War Map Pack 1 for Call of Duty 4 has sold 2 million downloads at $10 a pop....

Last week, Activision announced that it would be shifting the Chinese licence for World of Warcraft from The9 to Netease. This is pretty bad news for The9. To quote their 2007 20-F annual report filed with the SEC: “99%...

Opening weekends are a staple of Hollywood reporting, and Activision is getting in on the act. The World at War Map for Call of Duty 4 had “more than one million downloads… during its first weekend of...

Well, that may be a slight exaggeration, but Activision has appointed the former COO of Yahoo to head up the Guitar Hero division. Dan Rosensweig is a heavyweight new media guy, with a key role in creating...

According to this Variety report, Activision has thrown a public paddy regarding its ownership of Double Fine’s Brutal Legend. The game was an unfortunate casualty of the triage that went on following the Activision / Vivendi merger,...

Infinity Ward this week posted some COD 4 usage stats on their blog. By 3rd January 2009, 10,006,606 unique users have played the game on Xbox 360 and have connected to Xbox Live at least once after...