We’ve been eagerly anticipating this unofficial mash-up of LEGO and Halo for more than two years Initially promised for an early 2010, the Battle of the Brick, a 27-minute LEGO Halo movie, finally premiered today on Gametrailers We’ve been following Alex Kobbs, and his impressive LEGO Halo works, for nearly half a decade. So grab…
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…
The nifty Steam Game Stat tracker shows that about 210,000 people are currently playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. That’s compared to the distant second place Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which hit a peak at 78,000 or so players today. [Thanks Kent]
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. This morning I hopped online to see how the past four year’s worth of Call of Duty games were doing online. Yes, people still do play the original…
If you want to get the best graphics out of your Xbox 360 play-through of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim you may want to hold off on installing it to your console’s hard drive. At least for now, developer Bethesda says. Early reports of graphic issues with the almost universally beloved role-playing game led the…
THQ denies reports that they have mislaid 25 four-foot purple dildos destined for the Netherlands and France as part of a promotion for their open world, tongue-in-cheek video game Saints Row: The Third. Inside Gamer PC , citing several sources, first reported on rumors of a pallet of the three-pound sex toys, each affixed to…
More than 6.5 million people bought copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in North America and the United Kingdom in the first 24 hours of its release pulling in more than $400 million, Activision said today That makes it one of the largest entertainment launch in history, with sales of more than $400…
AT LEAST IT’S NOT TEAM JUGGERNAUT –Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson tweets out about prepping for the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Steam Hacked, Valve Investigating Possible Credit Card Theft A message sent just now from Valve Corporation head Gabe Newell says credit card numbers and other personal information were inside a database…
You might think you’re ready for a zombie uprising, but I bet you’re wrong. Sure, you’ve got the survival guides, the canned goods, the power generator, water and concrete slab shelter. But do you have a crate or two of Hornady’s Zombie Max bullets? No? Well then you’re fucked. Anyone who’s watched a half a…
The man behind monster hits FarmVille, Mafia Wars and CityVille is scrambling to reclaim some of the stock options he handed out to long-time employees, the Wall Street Journal reports Citing several employees, the Wall Street Journal article says Zynga CEO Mark Pincus and a cadre of executives decided last year that they needed to…
Call of Duty Elite remains basically down and out three days after the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Activision said today they will be extending all one-year paid memberships to the service by 30 days to help make up for the outage. They are also extending the ability to sign up as…
Waze isn’t a game, not really, but I can’t help using it like one. My wife gets viciously car sick when I drive, maybe because of how I drive. So she does a lot of the driving in our family, which leaves me with a lot of time to help her navigate and play games…
MATHMATICAL! –Game Informer executive editor Andrew Reiner explains via a picture on Twitter how he figured out his Skyrim score. Here’s the Tube Terror in Modern Warfare 3 That’s Freaking Out the Brits Depictions of terrorist attacks on London’s Tube are just one of the ways military shooter Call of Duty courts controversy in this…
Elite, Call of Duty’s answer to stat tracking, community building, help guides and original videos, remains mostly unusable nearly two days after the service’s official launch. But teams are working around the clock on fixing the problems, Activision tells Kotaku “We are being challenged by a response beyond any of our expectations on day one,”…
As with Battlefield, Call of Duty has a long history of games. The first in the series came out back in 2003. This excellent video from GamerSpawn takes us from that first Call of Duty, through the launch of Modern Warfare up to this month’s release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Sit back…
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. Decried for being in “incredibly bad taste” by the UK’s Mediawatch campaign, the Call of Duty series has for years depicted graphic and shocking moments in fictionalized…
Marvel Cosplay –Photos from the photo shoot with Cosplay Photographer Jay Tablante and cosplayers Yaya Han, Riki Le Cotey, Megan Marie and Marie Claude Bourbonnais as seen over on Marvel Should You Buy Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3? Yes. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the Madden of this generation, a video game…
The population of the planet just hit 7 billion people. The total number of hours played online in Call of Duty: Black Ops, released one year ago, just exceeded 2.8 billion, according to Activison.
It’s sort of a no-brainer, what with the rocketing success of the Call of Duty franchise. But Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick confirmed today that not only will 2012 see the release of Diablo III, but also a new Call of Duty game. Is it the game Sledgehammer was said to be working on before…
A 27-year-old man fought off an armed teenager in a dark parking lot when the would-be robber demanded his copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 at gunpoint, Kansas City police say. The 18-year-old was arrested earlier today after following a customer from a GameStop. When confronted by the teen, the 27-year-old fought for…
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