As part of Activision's "Ratings Are Not a Game," a sponsored survey concluded that parents overwhelmingly agree that the ESRB rating system is a highly effective and influential tool for determining what videogames are appropriate for their children to play.

3D game engine developer Trinigy announced the conclusion of a Tools & Middleware License Agreement for PS3 with Sony, thus its Vision Game Engine will become available for PS3 game titles and can be licensed by companies from all over the world.

3D game engine developer Trinigy announced their cooperation with Intel regarding the official launch of the new Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Quad Core processor. Its latest Vision Engine 6.0 has been build to support an arbitrary number of CPU cores.

While Activision will not finalize other financial results for Q2 until after the internal review regarding the grant practices it is being investigated for, it did release preliminary numbers. Net revenues for Q2 dropped from $222.5M to $188.2M, but it still exceeded expectations as earlier projections had estimated for a mere $130M, so Activision actually performed 45% stronger than anticipated.

Activision and Valve today announced an agreement to distribute four of Activision's PC games (Call of Duty 2, Gun, Call of Duty and United Offensive expansion) using Steam.

It's time to relive the 80s with Activision Hits Remixed for the PSP! With more than 40 classic Atari 2600 games, WiFi multi-player functionality and the ability to play anywhere, you'll soon be saying tubular and bitchin' again!

Check out the following new screens from Activision's X06 2006 lineup:

• Call of Duty 3 (X360) - 4 New Screens
• DOOM (X360) - 10 New Screens
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (X360) - 4 New Screens
• Tony Hawk's Project 8 (X360) - 9 New Screens
• World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions (X360) - 4 New Screens

It's time to relive the 80s with Activision Hits Remixed for the PSP! With more than 40 classic Atari 2600 games, WiFi multi-player functionality and the ability to play anywhere, you'll soon be saying tubular and bitchin' again!

The Ant Commandos filed a counter claim against Activision and RedOctane, claiming that both Activision and RedOctane are violating Federal Antitrust legislation pertaining to the Guitar Hero game and controller bundle, and that RedOctane actually the trade dress, being copied the color, shape, and placement of the five fret buttons located on the controller.

Xbox Live Vision is a next-generation camera that allows gamers to chat via video in real time with their friends and family, send photo messages, put their own face in a supported game, and customize their gamertag on the Xbox Live network. Four previously released games will receive automatic updates on Xbox Live Arcade, making them Xbox Live Vision-enabled

Already revealed last week, It's time to relive the 80s with Activision Hits Remixed for the PSP! With more than 40 classic Atari 2600 games, WiFi multi-player functionality and the ability to play anywhere, you'll soon be saying tubular and bitchin' again!

Check out the following new screens from Activision's Games Convention 2006 lineup:

• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (PC) - Screens & Trailers
• Call of Duty 3 (ALL) - Screens
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance (ALL) - Screens
• Tony Hawk Project 8 (ALL) - Screens

Activision is delivering big-time fun to the palm of gamers’ hands this fall with a diverse line-up of titles for the PSP, NDS and GBA platforms, such as GUN Showdown, Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts!, Spider-Man: Battle for New York, and console gaming in Activision Hits Remixed.

AGEIA Technologies and Trinigy today announced at the GC Developers Conference that Trinigy's Vision Game Engine will be integrated with AGEIA PhysX technology.

It seems at least one X360 fan got lucky as he was able to purchase Microsoft's Xbox Live Vision camera, a month ahead of its scheduled Sept. 19 release date, at his local Toys 'R' Us. The package includes a headset, the camera, 1 month of Live Gold, and a registration key for fan-fave Uno. Whether this is a across the board occurance at Toys 'R' Us is not yet known, as it looks now this is merely a stocking error, but it does mean the cameras are already in stores, albeit get in the back.

Activision released its financial numbers for Q1 of fiscal 2007, and while revenue dropped from $241 to $188 million, and net losses went up from $3.6 to $18 million, the overall results were better than expected, mainly due to strong sales of X-Men: ToG and Over The Hedge. The subsequent conference call revealed that Enemy Territory: Quake Wars has a tentative release date set for Q4 2007 (ends March 2007) and executives were impressed by the popularity of the two Call of Duty 2 mappacks, which garnered a total of nearly $1 million.

Activision Value has entered into a distribution agreement with Big Fish Games under which Activision will be the exclusive distributor of three titles for the PC.

Activision announced today that it has signed award-winning composer Joel Goldsmith, known for Stargate: Atlantis, Witchblade, Helen of Troy, to score the soundtrack for Call of Duty 3, his console video game debut in a career that spans more than twenty years.

When Activision signed its license agreement with Marvel, it included rights for Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Iron Man through 2009. While the first three franchises all received games, Iron Man was the only one holding out, until the recent announcement of the movie. News has been rather quiet on that front, and according to Gamespot, the reason is because Activision simply no longer holds the rights to it, effectively cancelling any game they had in development.

Comic fans can see their favorite Marvel characters in action when Activision showcases the highly anticipated Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Spider-Man 3: The Game and Spider-Man: Battle for New York games in the Activision/Marvel booth #4315 at the International Comic-Con Convention in San Diego from July 19 through July 23.

A regulatory filing with the SEC reveals that Activision has been sued by one of its shareholders over its issuance of stock options, in particular backdating, a practice that involves changing the date of a stock option from the day it was actually issued to an earlier date, usually when the stock was trading at a lower price, which makes the option more valuable. As many as sixty companies are currently under investigation for similar practices.

Activision today announced that it has opened a publishing office in Seoul Korea through the acquisition of CSR Entertainment's software distribution operations. The new office will enable Activision to fully leverage its product portfolio in the territory, particularly the upcoming online multiplayer action game Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

Macrovision and in-game advertising provider Double today announced that they have come together to launch a new in-game advertising offering via the Trymedia Network of online portals, ISPs and e-commerce sites.

NecroVisioN is a next-gen First Person Shooter that starts in the rage battlefields of World Word I and leads player to much darker and brutal underground world of vampires and demons.

Check out the following new screens from Activision's E3 2006 lineup:

• Spider-Man 3 (ALL) - Trailer
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (ALL) - Features, Screens & Trailer
• Tony Hawk's Project 8 (PS2/Xbox/PS3/X360) - Features, Screens & Trailer
• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (GBA/NDS/Wii) - Features, Screens & Trailer
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - Features, Screens & Trailer
• The Movies: Stunts & Effects - Screens & Trailer
• X-Men: The Official Game (ALL) - Screens
• World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions (ALL) - Features, Screens & Trailer
• Over The Hedge (ALL) - Screens
• Cabela's African Safari - Trailer