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Activision and Infinity Ward: A Tale of Two Suckers

Posted March 6th 2010 by Frankie Aguilar.

So I'm sure anyone who was interested by this title knows a little bit about this whole situation but for those of you who are curious/unaware here it goes. Mega gaming company Activision has been in the business of buying up/merging with top tier companies for a while, starting with Raven studios way back in '97, and most notably Vivendi (basically for Blizzard) in 2008. Most of the time when a huge corporate machine buys up smaller awesome companies, and I'm looking at you EA, they do so for the IPs, not for the people. This cutting out the fluff mentality has lent itself to trouble, with the mass layoffs of Blizzard employees post merger, which totaled close to 300, causing quite a stir. More recently, Activision has come under heavy fire for its handling, or mishandling, or what it calls "breaches of contract and insubordination" by senior employees at Infinity Ward. Infinity Ward, which was bought by Activision in 2003, is the developer behind the insanely popular Call of Duty franchise, whose most recent outing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, was the biggest entertainment launch in history.

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Mario's Ancient Japanese Origin

Posted December 1st 2009 by Frankie Aguilar.

Just awesome! Mario

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Something we can all appreciate

Posted October 9th 2009 by Frankie Aguilar.

Everyone get nostalgic from time to time. Most of us just take a few seconds to reflect and let it pass. Some, however, do something about it. The video that follows is artist Robert Burden's attempt at reclaiming a bit of his childhood. He succeeds in every way. Not only is this bad ass, it's a bit touching. And the music is good too :)

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