{"id":6824,"date":"2010-07-21T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"call-of-duty-is-closest-thing-this-generation-has-to-a-star-wars-activision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6824-call-of-duty-is-closest-thing-this-generation-has-to-a-star-wars-activision","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty is \u201cclosest thing this generation has to a Star Wars,\u201d \u2013 Activision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>StarWars is one of the most pervasive cultural icons of the last 50 years. &nbsp;The household status of names like &ldquo;Luke Skywalker&rdquo; and &ldquo;Han Solo&rdquo; are testament to this, and phrases such as &nbsp;&ldquo;may the force be with you&rdquo; have virtually been absorbed into our modern western lexicon. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So it made me think when Activision&rsquo;s Eric Hirshberg recently said that &#8220;the Call of Duty franchise is a force of nature. I think it is the closest thing this generation has to a Star Wars,&rdquo; and that &ldquo;it&#8217;s unique and bigger than any musical act or any movie franchise in that capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&rsquo;m not disputing that CoD is big. It&rsquo;s crazy big. But StarWars?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision publishing CEO makes bold claim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}