ACTIVISION’S
CALL OF DUTY
4: MODERN
WARFARE
NAMED BEST
GAME OF E3
2007 BY G4
TELEVISION
Santa
Monica, CA –
July 20,
2007 --
Activision,
Inc. (Nasdaq:
ATVI)
announced
today that
Infinity
Ward’s Call
of Duty® 4:
Modern
Warfare™ was
awarded
“Best Game
of E3 2007”
and “Best
Xbox 360
Game of E3
2007” honors
from G4
Television,
the last
word on
gaming,
technology,
animation,
interactivity
and internet
culture for
males 18-34.
Call of Duty
4: Modern
Warfare was
among
several
highly
anticipated
games
showcased at
the E3
Business and
Media
Summit, the
video game
industry’s
annual trade
show, which
was held in
Santa
Monica,
California
on July 11 –
13.
“We are very
pleased that
Call of Duty
4: Modern
Warfare
earned top
honors at E3
2007,” said
Will Kassoy,
senior vice
president of
global brand
management,
Activision,
Inc. “These
awards are a
testament to
the talented
team at
Infinity
Ward and
their unique
ability to
combine
creativity
with
technological
innovation
to deliver
ground
breaking
entertainment
that appeals
to gamers
worldwide.”
Grant
Collier,
president of
Infinity
Ward added,
“we are
extremely
thrilled to
be bringing
home G4’s
top honor,
among a
showing of
strong
contenders,
from this
year’s E3.
The team at
Infinity
Ward has
been eager
to share
their
excitement
in creating
Call of Duty
4: Modern
Warfare, and
E3 provided
the perfect
forum to
showcase the
title among
our peers,
retailers
and media.”
Call of Duty
4: Modern
Warfare, the
new
action-thriller
from the
award-winning
team at
Infinity
Ward,
delivers the
most intense
and
cinematic
action
experience
ever. Armed
with an
arsenal of
advanced and
powerful
modern day
firepower,
gamers are
sent to the
most
treacherous
hotspots
around the
globe to
take on a
rogue enemy
group
threatening
the world.
As both a
U.S. Marine
and British
S.A.S.
soldier
fighting
through an
unfolding
story full
of twists
and turns,
players use
sophisticated
technology,
superior
firepower
and
coordinated
land and air
strikes on a
battlefield
where speed,
accuracy and
communication
are
essential to
victory. The
epic title
also
delivers an
added depth
of
multiplayer
action
providing
online fans
an all-new
community of
persistent,
addictive
and
customizable
gameplay.
Call of Duty
4: Modern
Warfare will
be available
this fall
for the Xbox
360™ video
game and
entertainment
system from
Microsoft,
PLAYSTATION®3
computer
entertainment
system, and
Windows® PC.
The games
are not yet
rated by the
ESRB.
Headquartered
in Santa
Monica,
California,
Activision,
Inc. is a
leading
worldwide
developer,
publisher
and
distributor
of
interactive
entertainment
and leisure
products.
Founded in
1979,
Activision
posted net
revenues of
$1.5 billion
for the
fiscal year
ended March
31, 2007.
Activision
maintains
operations
in the U.S.,
Canada, the
United
Kingdom,
France,
Germany,
Ireland,
Italy,
Scandinavia,
Spain, the
Netherlands,
Australia,
Japan and
South Korea.
More
information
about
Activision
and its
products can
be found on
the
company's
World Wide
Web site,
which is
located at
www.activision.com.
Cautionary
Note
Regarding
Forward-looking
Statements:
Information
in this
press
release that
involves
Activision’s
expectations,
plans,
intentions
or
strategies
regarding
the future
are
forward-looking
statements
that are not
facts and
involve a
number of
risks and
uncertainties.
In this
release they
are
identified
by
references
to dates
after the
date of this
release and
words such
as “will,”
“will be,”
“remains,”
“to be,”
“plans,”
“believes”,
“may”,
“expects,”
“intends,”
and similar
expressions.
These risks
and
uncertainties
include, but
are not
limited to,
the further
implementation,
acceptance
and
effectiveness
of the
remedial
measures
recommended
or adopted
by the
special
sub-committee
of
independent
directors
established
in July 2006
to review
Activision’s
historical
stock option
granting
practices,
the board
and
Activision;
the outcome
of the SEC’s
formal
investigation
and the
derivative
litigation
filed in
July 2006
against
certain
current and
former
directors
and officers
of
Activision
relating to
Activision’s
stock option
granting
practices,
and the
possibility
that
additional
claims and
proceedings
will be
commenced,
including
additional
stockholder
litigation,
employee
litigation,
and
additional
action by
the SEC
and/or other
regulatory
agencies.
Other
factors that
could cause
Activision’s
actual
future
results to
differ
materially
from those
expressed in
the
forward-looking
statements
set forth in
this release
include,
without
limitation,
other
litigation
(unrelated
to stock
option
granting
practices),
sales of
Activision’s
titles,
shifts in
consumer
spending
trends, the
seasonal and
cyclical
nature of
the
interactive
game market,
Activision’s
ability to
predict
consumer
preferences
among
competing
hardware
platforms
(including
next-generation
hardware),
declines in
software
pricing,
product
returns and
price
protection,
product
delays,
retail
acceptance
of
Activision’s
products,
adoption
rate and
availability
of new
hardware and
related
software,
industry
competition,
rapid
changes in
technology
and industry
standards,
protection
of
proprietary
rights,
maintenance
of
relationships
with key
personnel,
customers,
vendors and
third-party
developers,
international
economic and
political
conditions,
integration
of recently
acquired
subsidiaries
and
identification
of suitable
future
acquisition
opportunities,
limitations
on our
ability to
issue stock
and options,
foreign
exchange
rate
changes, and
the risks
identified
in
Activision’s
most recent
annual
report on
Form 10-K
and recent
reports on
Form 8-K.
The
forward-looking
statements
in this
release are
based upon
information
available to
Activision
as of the
date of this
release, and
Activision
assumes no
obligations
to update
any such
forward-looking
statement.
Forward-looking
statements
believed to
be true when
made may
ultimately
prove to be
incorrect.
These
statements
are not
guarantees
of future
performance
and are
subject to
risks,
uncertainties
and other
factors,
some of
which are
beyond our
control and
may cause
actual
results to
differ
materially
from our
current
expectations.
(c) 2007
Activision
Publishing,
Inc.
Activision
and Call of
Duty are
registered
trademarks
and Modern
Warfare is a
trademark of
Activision
Publishing,
Inc. All
rights
reserved.
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360, Xbox
Live, and
Windows are
either
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trademarks
or
trademarks
of Microsoft
Corporation.
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is a
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trademark of
Sony
Computer
Entertainment
Inc.
"PlayStation",
"PLAYSTATION"
and "PS"
Family logo
are
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of Sony
Computer
Entertainment
Inc.
All other
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and trade
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