Gaming

Call of Duty Modern Warfare breaks record!

Nov 21st, 2009 | By Startup Addict | Category: Gaming

Call of Duty – Modern Warfare 2 smashes the gaming box office with an all-time industry record, of $550 million in sales in its first five days of release. Grand Theft Auto IV, is now a gleaming second place with $500 million of sales generated in its first five days. This has solidified the Activision [...]



PushButton Game Engine going Flash

Mar 29th, 2009 | By Startup Addict | Category: Gaming

Do you want to develop games with someone’s code and market to 100 million players? Enter PushButton Game Engine.
The PushButton Engine is an open-source game engine and framework that’s designed for a new generation of games. This game engine helps you spend less time with code conventions and more time designing fun experiences.
According to [...]



$500 Million Week for Grand Theft Auto

May 7th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Gaming

When I watched Take-Two interactive bounce 44% in one day on the Grand Theft Auto news, I remember thinking how difficult a nose-bleed valuation like that would be sustainable. Apparently not so difficult, according to NYTimes, 3.6 million units were sold on the first day and $500 million in sales in the first week for [...]



Vivendi buys 52% stake in Activision

Dec 3rd, 2007 | By Startup Addict | Category: Gaming

Vivendi known for the wildly popular World of Warcraft purchased a 52 percent controlling stake in Activision in a equity and cash deal totaling 9.8 billion.
Activision has a long list of hits running from Guitar hero to theTony Hawk Series. The combination of Vivendi’s 9.3 million World of Warcraft subscribers and Activision’s console [...]



World of Warcraft on your mobile

Nov 28th, 2007 | By Startup Addict | Category: mobile gaming

World of Warcraft is going mobile (yeah….will it work…I know). Vello is a well funded Israeli startup I reported early this year… it was founded in 2005. It took a second round (series B) of financing of 7.5 million this fall from Benchmark Partners and Blue-run partners. Supposedly World of Warcraft has [...]