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Activision Blizzard has bought itself back from financially troubled majority owner Vivendi. The publisher today announced that it and an investor group led by CEO Bobby Kotick purchased more than 600 million shares back from the French media conglomerate for $8.2 billion. Now an independent company with most of its …

Activision has spelled out all the gorey details for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2’s upcoming Revolution DLC in a new video preview. The pack includes four new competitive maps, as well as a new zombie map and mode, and new weapon. Treyarch hopes to shake up the competitive scene …

Activisionannounced today (opens in new tab)that (total shocker) they’re going to be offering a couple tiers of pre-order options for their most hardcore fans. For those eagerly awaiting the launch ofBlack Ops 2 (opens in new tab), you’ll now havethree options (opens in new tab)to choose from when laying down …

In a move that lawyers called “cynical,” Activision sent out a payment of $42 million today to the group of former Infinity Ward employees that are alleging Activision skipped the bill on Modern Warfare 2 employee royalties. “I can confirm for you that it happened today,” a lawyer for the …

Infinity Ward’s dated the Xbox 360 version of the first Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection with this new trailer. Come March 20 – which, gosh, is just over a week away – MW3 fans who’ve held off on subscribing to Activision’s Call of Duty Elite service will be able to …

Real actual army-soldier Rob Riggle presumably knows a thing or two about the business of Marining: you don’t make Lieutenant Colonel by setting off claymores or absorbing Pavelow attacks, after all. Indeed, the Marine-slash-comedian’s skills are such that he can apparently stand in the middle of Modern Warfare 3’s next …

Here’s three new trailers for Silicon Knights’ upcoming X-Men: Destiny, each highlighting a different set of X-Gene powers that can be gained by donning the appropriate X-spandex. There’s a look at some of the powers for Havok, Emma Frost and Juggernaut, as well as the host of better-known mutants who’ll …

Taking the stage at Call of Duty XP last night, Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling let the crowd know that big changes are in the works for the Modern Warfare franchise, most of them relating to the games’ balance. Some of the biggest complaints from fans, he said, came from the …