Blizzard Entertainment announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is now available for purchase around the world.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is the sequel to the ’98 hit real-time strategy, StarCraft. StarCraft has been hailed by players around the world as the top real-time strategy game of all time.

“We’ve worked hard to deliver an epic continuation of the StarCraft story line as well as the ultimate competitive real-time strategy game with StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “Combined with the next-generation online environment of the new Battle.net, we believe players will agree that StarCraft II offers an experience unlike anything we’ve ever created, and we’re excited to finally be able to share it with them.”

TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, today announced Activision Blizzard as its latest member.

Activision Blizzard is based in Santa Monica, California, and is a leading market worldwide pure-play online and console game publisher. The company’s Activision Publishing division operates two game development studios in the UK, which are Bizarre Creations and FreeStyleGames.

George Rose, Executive Vice President and Chief Public Policy Officer of Activision Blizzard explains the company’s reasons for joining TIGA:
“At Activision Blizzard we are extremely supportive of TIGA’s campaign to secure Games Tax Relief for the UK development community.

The CEO and president of Activision Blizzard’s Activision Publishing subsidiary named Mike Griffith, has resigned his roles as announced by Activision Blizzard. This is effective from 23rd of April, although Mike Griffith will continue to work for the company as a vice-chairman of Activision Blizzard on a twelve month rolling contract.

It is not clear if Griffith’s resignation is somehow based on the public and messy battle with several of the Infinity Ward studio members, following the ground-breaking success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which was released late last year.

Blizzard Entertainment announced that the Closed-Beta Test for their highly anticipated Real-Time Strategy Game, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has begun.

The company has started to send invitations to thousands of gamers worldwide in order for them to participate in the first phase of the Closed-Beta Test. Beta-Testers have the chance to take a first look at Blizzard’s new revamped Battle.net service while providing feedback on the multiplayer balance of StarCraft II. The new and revamped Battle.net 2.0 will be the online platform for StarCraft II, World of Warcraft, and future Blizzard Entertainment titles.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Surpasses One Billion USD in Worldwide Retail Sales

The Game Continues to Set Retail Sell Records

Activision Blizzard Inc. announced today that Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues to make retails sales crossing the One Billion USD mark worldwide, since its launch in November.

In the first five days of the game’s launch, it sold an estimated 550 million USD worldwide, surpassing five-day worldwide gross figures for such movies as Avatar, Harry Potter and others, according to the internal Activision estimates and box office mojo.

Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Infinity Ward for Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii game consoles and MAC OS X and Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. Published by Activision, the game was released in November 2007 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, September 2008 for Mac OS X and November 2009 for the Nintendo Wii.

The game is followed by its sequel – Call Of Duty – Modern Warfare 2 and is the fourth installment of the Call of Duty Franchise.