Tag archive: Ward

The people at Activision, the publishers of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, were very happy on Thursday night. At the annual British Golden Joystick Awards, CoD4 scooped the Nuts All-Nighter Award, ESA PC Game of the Year, GamesRadar.com Online Game of the Year and Virgin Media Ultimate Game of the Year. Unlike the other big British game awards, the Baftas, the Golden Joysticks winners are chosen by the public, not experts, and this year… Read More

TiVo was busy making news in the last day or so as it unveiled the winner of its

Dell last week unveiled two new high performance laptops which are targeted towards professional workstation users and make use of Intel Core Duo processors. The new Dell Precision M90 and Dell Precision M65 have starting prices of $2,239 and $1,849 respectively and are available now. The Precision M90 and Precision M65, said Dell, sport a range of features designed to satisfy the needs of engineers, artists, developers and other like… Read More

The end-of-year holidays are important for Internet retailers, and eBay definitely wants access to the spending frenzy as it issues press releases touting celebrities' successful purchases, including consumer electronics grabs by Jessica Simpson, Sela Ward, and Eva Longoria. However, a less pleasant side of eBay is emerging: strong increases in hijacked member accounts, auction fraud, and counterfeit goods being sold over the… Read More

Video game publisher Activision today said they had begun shipping Call of Duty 2, the sequel to the run away WII game Call of Duty. Developed by Infinity Ward, Call of Duty 2 is priced at $49.99 and rated T for Teen. It is available for the PC now, with an Xbox 360 version expected Nov. 15. Call of Duty 2, Activision said, is powered by a new Infinity Ward gaming engine. It is set across three Allied campaigns: Russian, British and… Read More

“We were able to get unanimous agreement from the members of the committee,” Stephen Ward, the general manager of IBM's Personal Systems Division, said in a telephone interview. Ward is to become chief executive of Lenovo, which is headquartered in Beijing, once the deal closes. The merger of the IBM PC business with China's biggest PC maker

All of the unforgettable heroism, villainy and epic adventure of George Lucas's STAR WARS trilogy comes to the ultimate home-entertainment format for the very first time around the world this September from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, ending the wait for the most-anticipated DVD release ever. The four-disc collection will be released on Sept. 21 in the U.S. and Canada, with international release dates… Read More

Activision has acquired Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward a week before the firm's critically acclaimed World War II-based first-person shooter launches for the PC, the publisher has announced. According to Activision, the company has exercised an option to acquire the remaining 70 per cent of outstanding common stock in Infinity Ward, making them a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision and adding them to a stable of FPS… Read More

Offering a second sample of Infinity Ward's imminent World War II shooter that picks up immediately following the events depicted in the first CoD demo (story). Mirrors of the 160 MB file are available on 3D Downloads, 3D Gamers, FileFront, FilePlanet (registration required), Filerush, FileShack (registration required), Gamer's Hell, GameTab, Pixelrage, and Worthplaying. Read the full article

Turning the tables on record labels, makers of the most popular Internet song-swapping network are suing entertainment companies for copyright infringement. Sharman Networks Ltd., the company behind the Kazaa file-sharing software, filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing the entertainment companies of using unauthorized versions of its software in their efforts to root out users. Entertainment companies have offered bogus versions of… Read More