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What Call of Duty’s Warzone Needs For Cold War

Warzone will be coming to Black Ops: Cold War in December. While the battle royale is exciting to play and also spectate for major tournaments, improvements like better anti-cheat, improved challenges, and map changes could really enhance the Warzone experience for the upcoming year. Basically, stop all the hackers and take some notes from Blackout,…

Call Of Duty Big

Call of Duty big now. Real big. 250 GB on PC big. Last year, Call of Duty was already big. This year, it is bigger. If 250 GB is too big for you, there are bigness options that make it less big, like a non-4k install that brings the big down to 175 GB or…

Call Of Duty Finally Lets PC Players Uninstall Over 100GB Of Stuff

For the longest time, Call of Duty Modern Warfare on PC has made players set aside increasingly—and hilariously—enormous amounts of hard drive space, up to 232GB at last count. This week, finally, players will be able to free up some of that space While it doesn’t sound like the biggest deal, increasing numbers of PC…

Report: Activision Blizzard Closing French Office

Activision Blizzard will be closing its office in Versailles, France, according to Bloomberg The video game publisher’s French location, which handled press, localization, customer support, and marketing for Activision Blizzard games in Europe, employed 400 workers in 2019. The future of the office has recently been a shaky proposition, however, thanks to a massive round…

Hands-On With Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s Multiplayer Alpha

An early look at Black Ops: Cold War’s multiplayer unveils new game modes, promising maps, and plenty of opportunities for scorestreaks. Thanks to an online preview event held by publisher Activision, I was recently able to get hands-on with the multiplayer for this year’s upcoming Call of Duty. Developed by Treyarch Studios and Raven Software…

Crash Bandicoot’s Girlfriend Gets One Heck Of A Glow Up

Remember Tawna, the busty bandicoot who served as Crash’s girlfriend/motivation in the first game? She’s back and buffer than ever as the hero of her own personal universe in Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time. Crash Bandicoot 4‘s October 2 release date is less than a month away and developer Toys For Bob is still…

School’s Out In Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 Due To Covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned schools into a very different place, with numerous countries closing schools or adding new safety measures and rules for children and teachers. These changes are a part of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2’s reimagined School level. The new Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game, out tomorrow, takes all the levels from…

Call Of Duty Cheat Makers Now Very Sorry After Activision Threatens Them

CxCheats, a small company that sells cheats and trainers for a variety of games, will no longer be offering Call of Duty services after receiving legal threats from publisher Activision. They would also like to “apologize for any pain we’ve caused to players of Call of Duty.” The company posted this notice on their private…

Call of Duty’s ‘Games of Summer’ Event Starts Today

Call of Duty players can compete for gold medals and glory today through September 7 in the “Games of Summer” event. Styled around the Olympics, the trials are available for both Modern Warfare and the free-to-play Warzone The Trials featured in Games of Summer will look familiar to anyone who’s been playing Call of Duty:…

Call Of Duty Trailer Recklessly Promotes Far-Right Conspiracy Theory

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s debut trailer—which has already attracted controversy—gives a lot of airtime to Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov and his views. Views which have, in recent years, become a dangerous rallying cry for far-right conspiracy theories and the people who peddle them. The teaser, which was released last week to hype…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Out November 13

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will have a full campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies mode when it releases this November. The game, which was originally teased last week and has had several leaks since, was officially revealed today during a special event mode inside Warzone. It began by having players queue for a special…

Call Of Duty Trailer Replaced Worldwide Over Tiananmen Square Footage

The debut trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has been blocked in China, and subsequently edited everywhere else, after featuring around one second’s worth of footage from the Communist government’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989 When the game was first announced last week, a trailer running for 2:02 was released to…

The Former Boss Of Activision Is Now Making Anti-Trump Dad Rock

That’s it. That’s the post. Let’s Remember Eric Hirshberg:

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2‘s Two-Minute Warehouse Demo Is Damn Good

The warehouse level demo for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 is pretty bare bones. It’s just one skater, Tony Hawk, running two minute sessions through the remake’s version of the very first level from the original THPS. It immediately and without fanfare answers the question “Is this a good Tony Hawk game?” Yes…

Activision Blizzard Boasts Record Results While Employees Protest Pay Inequity

Activision Blizzard boasted of “record results” for Q2 2020 in an earnings report released earlier today, with an eye on long-term growth thanks to the boost received in the previous quarter from the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. This financial victory lap, however, comes just days after workers collaborated on a spreadsheet designed to highlight pay inequity…

This year’s Call of Duty will be a collaborative effort between Treyarch and Raven Software, publisher Activision Blizzard announced during today’s earnings call. This confirms a Kotaku report from last year, in which sources indicated the Call of Duty for 2020 would be a Cold War-based Black Ops 5

Sekiro Getting Boss Rush, New Costumes, and Message System In Free October Update

From Software’s excellent shinobi adventure Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is getting a free update on October 29 to coincide with the game’s arrival on Stadia, publisher Activision announced this morning The update will add an official boss rush mode to Sekiro (modders already did this last July), as well as brand new outfits for the…

Call of Duty’s Warzone Teasers Hint At Map Changes

Cryptic teasers from Infinity Ward reveal that an upcoming live event could drastically change the landscape of Warzone, including the demolition of the map’s worst landmark. Since launch in early March, Call of Duty: Warzone’s map has seen minimal visual changes, but a series of teases about the game’s upcoming season has fans speculating about…

Let’s Rank The Tony Hawk Games, From Worst To Best

So here I am, doing everything I can, ranking Tony Hawk games and hoping I don’t anger fans. The Tony Hawk franchise started all the way back in 1999 and since that first game, the franchise has been chugging along, releasing over 15 games across nearly every platform out there including the PS1, N-Gage, PSP,…

Activision Is Quietly Reversing Unfair Call Of Duty Bans

A recent wave of bans of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone accounts swept up a number of players who said they were perfectly innocent. Now, Activision seems to be quietly cleaning up the mess. Cheating has been rampant in Modern Warfare since the launch of the free-to-play Warzone battle royale, and its developer…