GamesBeat Pulse - Give thanks for Call of Duty - November 22, 2010

View this email as a webpage | Forward to a friend November 22, 2010 FORWARD THIS EMAIL JOIN US ON TWITTER / FACEBOOK Breaking all video game records, Call of Duty Black Ops sells $650M in five days Activision Blizzard has another record-breaking hit for second year in row Call of Duty Black Ops has become the fastest-selling video game of all time , selling millions of copies in its first five days. That gives publisher Activision Blizzard a leg up on its rivals for holiday game sales and it shows that second-string studio Treyarch has stepped up to the challenge of keeping pace with the main Call of Duty studio, Infinity Ward. - Dean Takahashi TOP STORIES Steve Perlman shows off OnLive's disruptive MicroConsole (video) November 17, 2010 | Dean Takahashi Reivew: Call of Duty Black Ops shows games can beat the drama and action of movies November 15, 2010 | Dean Takahashi Microsoft moves into social games, allies with CrowdStar November 15, 2010 | Dean Takahashi Ubisoft's billion-dollar answer to Call of Duty: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood November 15, 2010 | Dean Takahashi Microsoft sells 1M Kinect motion controllers in 10 days November 15, 2010 | Dean Takahashi PapayaMobile releases tools for 3D Android games November 16, 2010 | Dean Takahashi OpenFeint finds a way to co-exist with Apple's Game Center for the iPhone November 19, 2010 | Dean Takahashi What October's drop in video game sales means November 16, 2010 | Dean Takahashi Mark Zuckerberg credits games for Facebook's rapid growth November 16, 2010 | Dean Takahashi GameGround raises $5.3M for gamer social networking app November 17, 2010 | Dean Takahashi Steering clear of Zynga, Big Fish Games goes global with casual game expansion November 18, 2010 | Dean Takahashi How to get an app profile in VentureBeat November 17, 2010 | Matt Marshall UPCOMING EVENTS Social Gaming Summit East - December 1, NYC IGNITION - December 2-3, NYC Net:Work 2010 - December 9, San Francisco Mobile World Congress - February 14-17, Barcelona VENTUREBEAT JOB BOARD Game Producer – Online and Social Los Angeles, CA Atari COMPANIES IN THE NEWS Activision Blizzard, OpenFeint, Zynga, Big Fish Games, OnLive, Facebook, GameGround PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Itzik Ben-Bassat, Bobby Kotick, Peter Relan, Jeremy Lewis, Steve Perlman, Mark Zuckerberg,  Anita Frazier Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Join us on LinkedIn Provided by , the leading news source on technology innovation. 50 California Street, Suite 3270, San Francisco, CA 94111 If you would like to no longer receive this newsletter, click here to change your subscription preferences, or click here to unsubscribe. © 2010 VentureBeat