03 Aug

Square Enix seems to be shifting the corporate gears a bit. Once a titan of unique IP, these days, the publisher seems eager to acquire and distribute some pretty deftly chosen outside titles. First there was Batman: Arkham Asylum (in Japan), and now Square is picking up one of Activision’s recently discarded games. True Crime: […]

21 Jul

Honestly, we are surprised it took Activision this long. A report from Fusible has noted a July 15th filing of an official complaint (opens as .pdf) by Activision as means of domain dispute against www.modernwarfare3.com, which redirects traffic to the official page for EA’s upcoming Battlefield 3. The measure, Activision’s first complaint, cost the company […]

12 Jul

In a bout of either amazing guerrilla marketing foresight (the URL was registered in 2009) or the greatest coincidence EA could hope for, people connecting to www.modernwarfare3.com will be redirected to the official website for Battlefield 3. The registration of the site has been done with privacy settings in place, so there are currently no […]

22 Jun

It now seems more than likely that Infinity Ward co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella’s lawsuit against former parent company Activision will head to trial. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge deemed their claims as having merit this past Thursday, one of the last stages before a case heads into court. Their lawsuit was originally […]