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Activision is putting internal studio Vicarious Visions in charge of the next Skylanders game, dubbed Swap Force. The game – which doesn't have an official release time frame yet – lets players combine the top and bottom halves of 16 Swap Force characters for 250 combinations. These unique... More

Update: Vicarious Visions has deleted the photo featuring the mysterious new Crash Bandicoot from its facebook page. Does it mean anything? Or are we reading into it a little bit too much? Thanks to to JB for pointing out the evaporating photo! ------------------------- A photo posted on Vicarious Vision's... More

Vicarious Visions was developing a prototype for a new strategy game in the Call of Duty series. Too bad it's never coming out. A video for the prototype was discovered recently on animator Steve Nelson's online portfolio . The gameplay is reminiscent of the classic SEGA Genesis title General... More

I know that LinkedIn is ostensibly for business people to connect with each other and build professional networks, but the site's alternate function of leaking unannounced products before their time sometimes seems larger. Today's edition features Activision's Vicarious Visions studio working... More

The fallout from Activision's labor reducing efforts continue today, with reports that the company's Vicarious Visions studio has been hit with layoffs. According to Develop , "around fifty" employees have been let go from Vicarious, which has largely worked on licensed games and Wii... More

UPDATE: Activision confirmed that its Guitar Hero division is closing, DJ Hero is being killed, and that True Crime Hong Kong is being canceled in its fourth-quarter conference call this afternoon. Our condolences to everyone who lost their jobs. ORIGINAL STORY: Activision's quarterly financial conference... More

First it was rumors of a Rock Band 3 keytar. Now a Nintendo Power article reveals the next guitar-based Activision music game, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, features a Quest mode replete with a rock fantasy storyline. What the hell is going on in the struggling music space?! According to the article... More

UPDATE: Activision has confirmed the layoffs at developers Neversoft and Radical Entertainment. The company is also closing Luxoflux (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen). IGN recieved a statement from the company that says the layoffs are due to the company putting out fewer games in the coming year... More

Raven Software’s Marvel Ultimate Alliance was one of the best comic based video games we’ve ever played. Meanwhile Marvel Comic’s 2006 Civil War storyline has been one of the biggest comic events in recent history. Combing the two seemed like the perfect fusion. But comic fans are notoriously... More