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US stocks ended February on a down note, marking four consecutive months of decline - the longest losing streak since 2002

Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium 2008 Conference, Activision chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick said that Take-Two did not fulfull the company's acquisition requirements

Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games took the top spot on the UK all formats sales chart for the third consecutive week according to data released by Chart Track

The 8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards were announced this evening at GDC in San Francisco, with Valve's Portal taking the highest honour

The NPD Group has released US videogame sales figures for the month of January, reporting sales of USD 1.18 billion

Following the announcement of record financial results yesterday, Activision has confirmed a batch of sequels to its most popular franchises.

What drives commercial success in our industry? What does it take to make great games that sell?

Activision Inc has posted its financial results for the three months ending December 31, 2007 with a record net revenue figure of USD 1.48 billion, up 80 per cent on the equivalent period the previous year.

Senior executives from Sony and Activision have expressed caution over supposed growth of in-game and digital advertising, despite counterparts from other digital companies such as Google remaining optimistic about its potential.

Activision has announced that combined data from NPD, Chart Track and GfK shows that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the best-selling game worldwide in 2007.

In a blog post from Microsoft's Major Nelson, the company revealed that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the most popular game on the Xbox Live service for the week ended January 14

Activision has announced that its Guitar Hero franchise has set an industry record, surpassing USD 1 billion in North American retail sales in just 26 months

The NPD Group has released its US hardware and software sales data for the month of December, bringing the year's total sales to USD 18 billion

NPD has released its US sales data for December 2007, showing a 28 per cent increase from a year earlier

Activision's Beenox studio is to ramp up the production of original content for its publisher and owner following the success of Bee Movie Game — the first title it has created from scratch.

Following up on our earlier report, it appears that money is definitely the issue behind the lack of Guitar Hero III controller compatibility with Rock Band on the PS3

Activision has announced that, based on better than expected consumer response to its holiday slate worldwide, it is raising its net revenue and earnings per diluted share outlook for the third quarter and for fiscal year 2008

According to data released by The NPD Group, Activision was the number one US console and handheld publisher for the first eleven months of calendar 2007

Activision has issued a statement refuting Harmonix' claim that the company was deliberately blocking the release of a controller compatibility patch for Rock Band

US game industry sales hit USD 2.63 billion in November, up 52 per cent, according to sales data released today by the NPD Group

Rock Band developer Harmonix is claiming that a patch designed to allow the use of PS3 Guitar Hero controllers is being blocked by Activision

A fact sheet on the newly-live Activision Blizzard web site seems to have announced the forthcoming release of Call of Duty 5 and Guitar Hero IV - both titles that have previously not been mentioned.

What we currently know about the new mega-publisher

Following yesterday's headline news that Activision and Vivendi have merged their games businesses to form a new company called Activision Blizzard, industry sources have indicated to <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> that the deal was a surprise to all