The CEO of Publishing, Eric Hirschberg is trying to break down their old image as the evil empire.

Hirschberg is beginning to attempt to come true on the promise he made when he joined Activision to change peoples impressions of it.

He began: "Who would be wished to be cast as the bad guy in your own or as the villain or the evil empire? I think that the case is drastically overstated in terms of the reality that I see. I see a very creative company that gives its developers the tools and the resources they need to do great things, that isn't afraid to [delay] games if that's what it takes to get them right. It's about putting a human face on the company. It's about being transparent and honest and human in our dealings with our community."

Hirschberg continued: "We got a lot of props and a lot of pleasantly surprised people in our reaction to that. People assumed that we would go silverback gorilla crazy, and we didn't. I'm not sure that there was any way we could have messaged it any better and not gotten that response from that portion of the audience. I think we made the right choice."

Thanks Gamasutra.

By Ewan Aiton