Some interesting stuff and tidbits revealed from Activision's financial report for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
Activision confirms Bungie will not be making an appearance at this year's E3. Bungie responded by saying they are busy working on a new project with some help from Activision and felt the hype for the game would be counter-productive at this stage in the game's development.
Modern Warfare 3 will debut at E3 to go along with the official revelation in gaming magazines around the same time. The game will make use of the "Call of Duty Online" plan worked on by Beachhead studio. The idea is to integrate the game and community much better while also making it easier for Activision to send map packs and fixes. Last year Activision had plans to make this a pay-to-play service but their studios convinced them to make this a free feature for all users.
Activision also claimed more people play Call of Duty Black Ops online than use Facebook on average every day with Black Ops getting about 58 minutes per day compared to 55 for Facebook. Their stat only counts since the first map pack was released on February 1st and not since the game was released in November of last year.
http://kotaku.com/#!5800161/beachhea...l-of-duty-game
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/bungie...presence/3152/