How important is Modern Warfare 3 to Activision? It’s being co-developed by three separate studios: Infinity Ward (still going after the exit of the studio’s founders), Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software. Glen Schofield comes to Activision from EA, where he worked on the first Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno.
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It looks like LulzSec are back at it again, and this time they have News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch in their crosshairs.
The off-again, on-again hacking group has just announced via Twitter that they have hacked two Murdoch-owned publications in the United Kingdom: The recently shuttered News of the World and daily tabloid The Sun. …
NBC announced today that Meet the Press will team up with Facebook to host the final GOP primary debate before the New Hampshire primaries.
The event will take place at 9 a.m. ET in the Chubb Theatre at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, NH, and air live on MSNBC and New England Cable News (NECN). It will also be streamed …
Are patent infringement lawsuits endangering app development?
PaidContent is reporting that developers are withdrawing their apps from both the U.S. Apple and Android app stores for fear of being sued over intellectual property rights that they may not even be aware of. The report describes a mass exodus of European developers from …
LimeWire may have shut down last year, and finally settled its five-years-long lawsuit with the RIAA this May, but that doesn’t mean that its troubles are over. Now, the former file-sharing company is being sued by a representative of more than 12,000 independent record companies that feel the RIAA settlement unfairly favored the big …
So far Activision’s only shown a handful of single-player levels from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, one of this year’s most anticipated games. I talked about two levels from the solo campaign–”Hunter Killer” and “Mind the Gap”– in my E3 2011 coverage and a comparison between Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3, and recently got the …
Did you watch the Women’s World Cup final yesterday? It was thrilling. And guess how many tweets per second were being bandied about Twitter? A record-breaking 7,196—also thrilling from a more nerdacious perspective.
(MORE: Japan Beats U.S. in Thrilling Women’s World Cup Final)
Even crazier is that another soccer game—Paraguay …
The fears of a generation have been confirmed, as a new survey reveals that more than 50% of parents use social media as a way of spying on their children—and that even more would do so if they knew how.
The survey of 2,000 British parents, carried out by OnePoll, found that 55% of respondents use social media to track their kids’ …
Could Google, the world’s largest search engine, be causing our memory banks to atrophy? Maybe, say four Columbia University researchers, who believe Google’s instant-retrieval search mechanics could be training our brains to jettison information we’re sure of quickly finding again with a few taps on a keyboard.
Times certainly have …
You’re a girl, you’re just back with your date from a night on the town, the candles are lit, the mood’s set, and all you can think of is…gimme some World of Warcraft? That’s essentially (alright, more like “sort of”) what a study commissioned by Doritos (yep, Doritos, the snack chip) found after surveying thousands of men and …
If there’s one thing that unites everyone on the internet, it’s frustration with passwords.
No-one likes having to remember them. People have poor memories and just get lazy. It’s so much easier to type mom’s dog’s name than to try and memorize a 16-character string of random letters and numbers. Especially if mom helpfully called her …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
Social networks have been in the news lately. Last month MySpace was sold and we learned that Justin Timberlake and his partners have decided to …
