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Activision boss Bobby Kotick - no stranger to pissing everyone off - has said he believes that Halo developer Bungie is the "last remaining high-quality independent developer".

Ouch.

"Bungie are a very unusual company," Kotick told the America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications, and Entertainment conference. "They're probably the last remaining high-quality independent developer...that has sort of has institutional skills and capabilities. And they're a real company."

Companies such as Valve and Gearbox may have a thing or two to say about that Bobby.

Source: CVG

Activision boss Bobby Kotick says that we should expect to see the Call of Duty franchise become richer, deeper and more engaging.

Kotick told attendees at the Deutsche Bank 2010 Technology Conference that over the next five years technology will allow for a more engaging and emotional experience from the popular shooter franchise.

"I think when you see Black Ops this holiday, that’s going to give you a great sense of how different the games will visually look. But if you look at that game, it’s only going to get richer, the characters are only going to get deeper, the stories are only going to get more engaging.

"The characters you see on the screen are going to be much more realistic than they are today. They’re going to be more compelling, they’re going to be more believable, there’s going to be so many more things you can do from a gameplay perspective than what we can do today.

"When you see innovations like Kinect or Move, where you now have the ability to use voice to actually control what you see on the screen, and for motion to control what you see on the screen, those are going to be big changes in the interface that will probably broaden the appeal of videogames."

Source: VG247