USA Today’s Game Hunters took a look at the slew of upcoming 2011 titles including sequels to Modern Warfare, Saints Row and Uncharted among others. Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter is concerned about Nintendo’s high-profile sequel, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Pachter had harsh words for the game and the publisher.

Duke Nukem Forever has caused market analyst firm Wedbush Morgan to chop $25 million off its first-quarter revenue estimates for publisher Take-Two Interactive. Wedbush Morgan had expected the long, long awaited installment in the shooter series to sell at least three million copies. Reviews for Duke Nukem’s latest hurrah have been scathing and the sales reflect as much. Wedbush Morgan now acknowledges DNF will be fortunate to sell even half of the three million originally projected.

Not everyone is supportive of Gamers’ Voice initiative to report Activision to the Office of Fair Trading. Gamers’ Voice submitted a complaint over the overwhelmingly buggy nature of CoD: Black Ops on PS3 and PC. The PS3 version was patched early this morning and it addresses many of the major issues gamers were having. Prior to this, renowned videogame analyst Michael Pachter had choice words for Gamers’ Voice. Pachter said,”They sound like a crybaby to me.”

SCEE had very positive things to say about the performance of PlayStation Move in Europe. According to Sony, Move sold around 1.5 million units since its launch in September. In North America, Sony has not divulged sales figures for PlayStation. Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter seems to know why.

Videogame trade-in programs are the devil. That’s what a lot of videogame publishers would say if they could speak candidly on the matter. That’s the difficulty of selling a physical product. With digital games, consumers are only purchasing the license to play the product. In essence, they don’t own anything. Steam could be one of the first services that allows you to trade-in your digital games for credit towards a new purchase.

Activision is one of the biggest and richest videogame developers in the world. Its merger with Blizzard Entertainment has generated an incredible amount of revenue from World of Warcraft subscriptions, in addition to Activision’s own Modern Warfare titles. Activision announced it had sold over 20 million Call of Duty map packs to date. Considering each map pack costs between $10 and $15, Activision has earned at least $200 million from map packs alone. When you add revenue from millions of copies of Modern Warfare 2, you’ll see that Activision needs its own vault to store all its money.

The Call of Duty franchise have spawned some of the most popular multiplayer games of all time. Whenever a new CoD comes out, it’s consistently one of the most played games on Xbox Live and PSN. Such popularity has generated record breaking sales that are just waiting to be exploited. Wedbush Morgan Securities believes now is the time for Activision to announce a service in which gamers would pay to play Call of Duty online.

As E3 2010 draws closer, many of us are making guesses on what will be some of the biggest announcements. One of the videogame industries favorite and most outspoken analysts Michael Pachter has chimed in on his predictions for E3. On the latest episode of Pach-Attack! Pachter enlightened us on three things he thinks will happen at E3.

On last weeks episode of the Bonus Round on Gametrailers, Michael Pachter seemingly ousted Jaffe’s upcoming game as a new Twisted Metal. Although the comment appeared to be a joke, the internet took Pachter seriously. Jaffe once again denied everyone’s suspicions.

In an interview with Eurogamer, Pachter says he spoke to Respawn about whether they would make a Halo game. They didn’t rule it out, but did want to wait until a complete team was assembled before trying to figure out what game they should make. Pachter thinks taking on Halo is a natural move for Respawn.