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Denying request for summary judgment, the Los Angeles Superior Court gave Activision the green light to go to trial with its $400 million contract interference lawsuit against Electronic Arts over Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella. More »
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People are getting hit with 5000-day bands in Modern Warfare 3, and the people behind the game say it's intentional. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5867807&view=rss&microfeed=true After making over three-quarters of a billion dollars in five days, Modern Warfare 3 hit a billion dollars in just 16 days since launch. According to Activision, Avatar took 17 days. More »
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 picked up the award for best shooter during Spike TV's Video Game Awards show tonight, but not without causality. More »
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Robert Bowling done tole you now son, so don't sit there and act all surprised-like. Yesterday Bowling, the Infinity Ward creative strategist, tweeted that another 1,600 cheaters have been banned since Four Zero Two promised them a ass-busting back on release day. More »
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Liquid fast, meticulously polished, wickedly consuming: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 doesn't deliver stories or engender emotion in its players, but rather deals in raw adrenaline. A match of Modern Warfare 3 is punctuated by the rush of a well-placed shot, the anger at a surprise, unjust death. More »
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World War III throws the globe into chaos. Cities are being destroyed. People are fighting. People are dying. And what are the chickens doing? Dancing. More »
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Call of Duty is reviled among a vocal group of gamers. When they read that the latest iteration of the series is selling well, or is well reviewed, or is being played by a lot of people, they seem to take it personally. That's always baffled me. So on Twitter today I asked the 13,500 or so people who follow me why that is. More »
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's record-breaking, first-day sales are impressive, but almost more impressive is the life these Call of Duty games seem to have online. More »
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Depictions of terrorist attacks on London's Tube are just one of the ways military shooter Call of Duty courts controversy in this year's blockbuster Modern Warfare 3 game. More »
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Banning. If you're playing online and, well, cheating, they're a part of life. The newly released Modern Warfare 3 is no exception. More »
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 wants you. It wants your friends. It wants to chew you and spit you out a walking, talking, stalking killing machine, but to get to you it's gotta go through the game reviewers first. More »
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There are 46 pieces of hidden intel in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. They don't provide back story, enemy locations, maps or, you know, intel. But they do give you some neat achievements. More »
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As Josh from FinalLevelGames was making his way through Modern Warfare 3's story mode, he noticed a particular structure that he was sure he had seen before — in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare's multiplayer. More »
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the Madden of this generation, a video game that manages to soak up so much money, attention and time that it transcends the medium. More »
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Here's a snapshot of what Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 looked like four hours before the game officially hit the U.S. More »
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Battlefield 3 hit stores late last month, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 hits tomorrow. The two series, delivering different takes on first-person shooter warfare, both have a storied history. This mammoth graph charts the history of both series, their games, the sales, the review scores. More »
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Seen here is a new single-player trailer for upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. It's called Redemption. More »
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The latest Modern Warfare game is coming out this fall. The game designers who spearheaded Call of Duty's move from World War II to modern combat left long ago to work on a new title at new studio. More »
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In late August, details leaked about a Modern Warfare 3 "Hardened" special edition, but none for a "Prestige," a more deluxe package that notoriously included night-vision goggles for Modern Warfare 2 in 2009. There are no details yet on a Prestige edition because there will be no Prestige edition for Modern Warfare 3. More »
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Perhaps seeking to amend some past errors as far as supporting their PC userbase is concerned, Modern Warfare developers Infinity Ward have revealed that the third game in the series will feature something many contemporary games feel they can do without: LAN support. More »
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One of the highlights of the Call of Duty XP convention was its paintball field recreation of "Scrapyard," a multiplayer map plucked from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I took a few stinging paintballs to the thigh and bicep for your enjoyment, if you couldn't make it to Los Angeles this past weekend. More »
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One of the many activities on hand at this weekend's Call of Duty XP event—activities that earn attendees badges of honor—is Juggernaut Sumo. The game? Put on a bulky fat suit gussied up to look vaguely like a Juggernaut from Modern Warfare 2's Spec Ops mode and... fight! More »
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Year after year, how can Call of Duty's massive online shooter remain fresh? With Modern Warfare 3, the game's developers have focused on what works—player progression, extensive customization, tons of maps and game modes—and are blowing it out. More »
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Call of Duty Elite, Activision's new social network and stat-tracking service that will launch alongside Modern Warfare 3—and work with last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops—is largely going to be free to use. But there are very good reasons for investing in Elite. More »
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Say what you will of the basketcase this franchise's singleplayer has become, one thing it still does very well is multiplayer. More »
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The record, they tell me, is level 28. We're nowhere close to that when death comes quickly to both of us. More »
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Call of Duty XP is an official COD gaming event that promises to do more than let players play Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer. They'll also get a shot at running a real version of The Pit time course and experiencing the Scrapyard in-game map. More »
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The "Hardened Edition" of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 appears to have had its contents outed earlier than officially planned, contents that include a one year membership to Activision's Call of Duty Elite service and other virtual goods. More »
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It's not a good look. But it is a look. From Sept. 2 to Sept. 3, one of the world's most famous games, Call of Duty, is holding its own convention, Call of Duty XP. More »
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EA execs talks smack about Activision's Call of Duty. Wants it to rot. Predicts it will collapse, and soon. Activision execs rolls their eyes at EA, sigh and suggest there's enough room for EA's Battlefield 3 and all the Call of Duty/Modern Warfares to co-exist. More »
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"You've got a whole group coming down the street at you," my co-op buddy calls out to me. More »
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Hope you like Call of Duty! Because Activision, the game's publisher, is reportedly going on a domain registering spree. More »
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We've written quite a bit about Modern Warfare 3's Spec Ops survival mode. Think of it as a sort of Horde mode but with the ability to call in riot shield -wielding soldiers and attack dogs. More »
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I couldn't get Robert Bowling to use the words Battlefield 3 in a sentence. More »
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A reduction of the number of so-called hotspots on the multiplayer maps of Modern Warfare 3 will alter and accelerate the flow of action in this fall's installment of the Call of Duty franchise juggernaut, one of the game's creators told Kotaku this week in New York City. More »
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A group of Call of Duty glitchers has been called back to Infinity Ward to help the studio test and shore up the game's multiplayer, according to the gang's leader. More »
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Last year, Vince Zampella and Jason West - heads of Infinity Ward and the creators of the Call of Duty franchise - abruptly resigned from the studio and formed a new company. More »
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This fall Call of Duty fans will be able to shoot up their friends in real-world, life-sized replicas of two of the game's maps, grab a bite to eat at the game's fictional burger joint and get their hands on Modern Warfare 3 months before its release as part of a video game convention designed to celebrate the franchise and its fans. More »
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