"Activision today announced that it will be retaining a handful of Vivendi Games' franchises that are a "strong fit with its long-term strategy". The games that have been confirmed as being added to Activision's stable include the Crash Bandicoot, Spyro The Dragon and Ice Age franchises, as well as Prototype and "a second new IP that has not been announced as of yet."

The downside of this announcement is that other Vivendi Games (namely Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Brütal Legend, WET, 50 C..."

"VideoGamer.com: First off, thanks for taking the time to answer some of our questions on World in Conflict. We were wondering why you decided to make a port of the game for Xbox 360 and PS3.

Petter Sydow: Having worked on the PC platform for the last 10 years, and with the strategy genre having a much larger presence on the consoles lately, it seemed like a natural next step. The PC as a gaming platform only covers a fraction of all the gamers that are out there, and we wanted to bring Wor..."

"World in Conflict is an RTS that delivers action and coordinated team play amidst a showdown between the Soviet Union and the US, with destructible 3D battlefields, team-based multiplayer and a focus on fast, hard-hitting battles. WiC on PS3 and X360, now scheduled for fall 2008, will get additional single/multiplayer content, which will be made available to PC users as addon."

"Nominees:

• 'Crash of the Titans,' written by Christopher Mitchell for Sierra Entertainment
• 'Dead Head Fred,' written by Dave Ellis and Adam Cogan for D3 Publisher
• 'The Simpsons Game,' with lead writer Matt Selman, written by Tim Long and Matt Warburton, dialogue by Jeff Poliquin for Electronic Arts
• 'The Witcher,' with lead story designer Artur Ganszyniec, dialogue by Sebastian Stepien, additional dialogue by Marcin Blacha and writers Sande Chen and Anne Toole for Atari
• 'World in Conflict,' s...

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"The highly acclaimed Sierra RTS World in Conflict is now available for download on GamerGate, the online download-and-play service. The press release was short but sweet:

World in Conflict is now available on GamersGate.
Prepare yourself for the most intense strategy game ever created.
* 9.5 out of 10 Gamespot.com Editor's Choice
* 93% PC Gamer Editor's Choice
* 5/5 Stars Gamespy.com"

"It is an oft-heard complaint that real-time strategy games are all pretty much the same.

These days they really only come in two flavors; games where you are required to build a base and wage war from there, and games that require you to wage war to earn the reinforcements that are needed to be victorious. The latter often leaves you feeling not quite ready to attack, yet forced to do so anyway, because no reinforcements will come unless you do. The economic aspects of the first however, g..."

"Can a Real Time Strategy game ever find a true home on consoles? It’s one of those deep questions that has seen four generations of console gamers argue the merits of a controller over a keyboard and mouse with their PC counterparts deep into the early hours of many drunken nights. To date, it has been no contest as the genre has excelled solely on PCs, with console ports merely coming off as cheap substitutes. But the next-generation machines have bridged the gap between the PC and console m..."

"Earlier this year we longingly gazed ahead into the year of gaming lying ahead of us. There was so much to look forward to. At this point, some of it has been release while some of it has been pushed out of 2007 and into 2008 (hopefully not beyond). With that in mind, and having just visited Santa Monica for this year's E3, we decided to take an updated look at the rest of this year's future because there's oh so much to be excited about.

The following are lists of your IGN PC Editors' mo..."

"We've had the open beta of World In Conflict for about a week now, and have been putting it through its paces. This article will look at what kind of performance you can expect out of this game. The first half of the article will look at DirectX 9 version of the game versus the DirectX 10 rendered version of the game, to measure the performance difference, and quality difference, between the two. For the second half of this article, we will run a range of cards through the World In Conflict's..."

"Sierra has announced details on what the Special Edition of upcoming PC and Xbox 360 strategy title World in Conflict will contain. Along with the usual fluff (in this case, bonus DVD from The History Channel, behind the scenes videos, and special packaging), the company revealed that the Special Edition is to ship with an authentic piece of the Berlin Wall."

"World in Conflict is a strategy game that delivers intense action and coordinated team play amidst the war the world feared most – an apocalyptic showdown between the Soviet Union and the United States, with completely destructible 3D battlefields, aggressive team-based multiplayer action and a focus on fast, hard-hitting battles."

"World in Conflict is a strategy game that delivers intense action and team play amidst the war the world feared most – an apocalyptic showdown between the Soviet Union and the US, with completely destructible battlefields, team-based multiplayer and a focus on fast, hard-hitting battles. Accoding to a 2 page article in the latest GamePro magazine, WiC is also coming to the Xbox 360, scheduled for Q4, although no further confirmation could be obtained."

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"World in Conflict, the upcoming action-oriented RTS from Swedish dev house Massive Entertainment, has been garnering plenty of attention for its fast-paced multiplayer design, but few details have been released so far about its single-player side. GameSpot AU caught up with lead designer Nicklas "Cece" Cederstrom at last month's GO3 Conference in Perth, Australia, to talk more about what solo campaigners can expect.

GameSpot AU: Why has all the focus on World in Conflict been on the multi..."