Posts tagged activision-blizzard 
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 personalization pack out on Xbox 360, next week on PS3 and PC
If you've ever wondered what it'd be like to have a bacon gun, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 solves that mystery with the personalization pack. The downloadable content is available now on Xbox 360 and is scheduled for release April 12 on PS3 and PC. ...
Rumor: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 deploys 'Uprising' DLC on April 16
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is arming its second DLC pack, titled 'Uprising,' for April 16, at least according to this supposed promo material. Posted on Twitter by a user claiming his friend found it at Best Buy, the card discloses an April 16 release date for the Uprising DLC, which according to it ...
Diablo 3 PS3 footage looks about right
After Blizzard announced that Diablo 3 was coming to PlayStation 3, many of us may have wondered just what it looked like in motion. As it turns out, it looks an awful lot like Diablo 3. ...
Blizzard announces digital collectible card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Blizzard's PAX East announcement is Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, a cross-platform digital collectible card game for PC, Mac, and iPad set in the Warcraft universe. The game is free-to-play, with booster packs of five cards available. Blizzard has a price of around $1 in mind for the packs; ...
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm infects 1.1 million in 48 hours
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, the second salvo in Blizzard Entertainment's three-pronged sequel to the beloved RTS, has managed to entice 1.1 million gamers in its first 48 hours. The 1.1 million figure accounts for sales across both retail and digital. Predecessor StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty ...
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct launch trailer lingers on
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct honed its senses and held on to make it to retail shelves today in North America. The Wii U first-person shooter crawls across the oceans for its European and Australian releases on Friday, March 22. ...
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm review: Zerg rushing towards resolution
In music theory, there's a series of notes called a tritone interval. (I'm a writer and a Rock Band player, not a musician, so bear with me, band members.) The tritone consists of three different whole tones: The first sets the stage, marks the spot on the musical scale that our ear can attune ...
Editorial: SimCity, Diablo 3 and a review of customer service
I don't like writing game reviews. I'm a news guy, comfortable moving within and reporting on the binary conclusions of business in the video game industry. Reviews are emotional. Always have been. With SimCity and Diablo 3, I think the already tempestuous machine of game reviews in this industry ...
Activision: Don't expect 'Destiny' in 2013
Despite being available for pre-order at major retailers, Bungie's recently revealed Destiny isn't going to launch in this calendar year. An Activision Blizzard press release sent out today noted: "Activision has not included [Destiny's] launch in its 2013 outlook and there should be no speculation ...
Angry Birds Trilogy swoops onto Wii U, Wii this year, 1M sold
On the back of a million copies sold on PS3, Xbox 360, and 3DS, the foul-tempered fowl of the Angry Birds Trilogy are raging onto the Wii U and Wii later this year. Considering the series' crazy numbers on smaller screens, a million sales are maybe not surprising, but those games weren't going at ...
