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neogaf.com - 1/17/2009
Forbes Cover Story: Activision's Unlikely Hero -- Bobby Kotick (Feb 2009 Issue)
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Robert Kotick's mother dates his compulsive capitalism to toddlerhood, when young Bobby sold her ashtray to a friend who had come over for a playdate. He netted $3. After that the moneymaking ideas never stopped pouring out. By junior high Kotick had his own business cards and ran an array of ...

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Bobby Kotick becomes Forbes February cover boy
GoNintendo — ... issue of Forbes. Either that, or he can’t stop thinking of the millions and millions of dollars he has. The full Forbes article can be found below…just be prepared for a bit of a journalistic slant. EA also teamed with MTV to sell Rock Band, a shameless knockoff of Guitar Hero that added drums, bass and a microphone to the world of make-believe rock stars. EA says it is returning to an “auteur model” of designing games, taking bigger chances on fewer ideas. Full article here Link This entry was posted on Saturday, January 17th, 2009 at 6:10 pm and is filed under ...

Forbes: Rock Band "a Shameless Knockoff of Guitar Hero"
Kombo.com — ... to their website, reflecting their recent cover story in which they look over the dominance which Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has helped to maintain in the video game marketplace-- "Activision's Unlikely Hero," they call him. However , ...

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