12 Feb

One of the stronger franchises to be born out of the waning platformer boom of the 5th generation, Spyro the Dragon spanned eight games and gained a solid following before settling down in 2008. Never one to let sleeping dragons lie, Activision has announced that it is bringing the pint-sized reptile back into the limelight […]

10 Feb

Activision has already made headlines earlier this week when they revealed that they were canning both the Guitar Hero and True Crime franchises in favor of deeper focus on the digital space and their main franchises. More details on the restructuring plans of the industry’s largest publisher have been steadily coming through the cracks since, […]

10 Feb

In the traditional fourth-quarter earnings call to investors, Activision-Blizzard revealed a major re-prioritization effort going forth, that leaves one of gaming’s biggest franchises in recent memory in the dust. “[C]ontinued declines in the music genre” is the cited reason by the corporation for its retiring of the Guitar Hero brand, putting to bed one of […]

24 Jan

In the ever-continuing lawsuit for the ages, the court involved in Activision v. Zampella and West case agreed to the former’s initiative to add rival publisher Electronic Arts to the list of defendants. This act by the court also brings previously redacted evidence back into possible use in the proceedings, evidence which includes secretive emails […]