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Candy Crush TV Show Leads To In-Game Mario Lopez

The live-action Candy Crush game show debuts Sunday at 9PM Eastern on CBS. Along with guiding show contestants through the live-action casual puzzle game on the show, host Mario Lopez will also be appearing in each of the three Candy Crush Saga games for weekly TV tie-in events.   Yeah, it’s Candy Crush Saga, one…

New Crash Bandicoot Trilogy Makes The Old Games Better

The Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy takes the level data from the three original PlayStation classics and adds new graphics, sounds and challenges. It’s not quite a remaster and not really a remake. Whatever it is, it’s really good. Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot: Warped are three amazing games…

30 Minutes With Call of Duty WWII: Thrilling, But Familiar

Last week at E3, I got to play multiple rounds of Call of Duty: WWII’s multiplayer. While the core experience feels similar to previous games, a focus on presentation and a new story-based mode made things much more interesting than recent entries in the series. My main takeaway from my time playing Call of Duty:…

The Necromancer class comes to Diablo III on June 27. The Rise of the Necromancer DLC pack will be available for $14.99 on PC and consoles. A Diablo III: Eternal Collection will also be available on Xbox One and PS4, bundling the original game and the Necro update for $39.99.

The Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy for PlayStation 4 features Crash’s sister Coco as a playable character across all three remastered games. Apparently she utilized time travel to inject herself. That’s so Coco. Speaking of time traveling, the game drops on June 30.

Announced last weekvia hoodie unzip, the eight remastered maps of Call of Duty: Zombie Chronicles will be available May 16 on the PlayStation 4 for $29.99. A copy of Black Ops 3 will be required to play.  

Call Of Duty Zombies Chronicles Announced A Few Feet From YouTuber’s Bathroom

Leaked all to hell and confirmed today via unzipped hoodie in a YouTube video, Black Ops 3 players are getting an extra dose of DLC in the form of Zombies Chronicles, a collection of eight remastered zombie maps from Black Ops, World At War and Black Ops 3 on May 16. You can follow the…

Call of Duty: WWII multiplayer will have women in it, confirmed Sledgehammer’s Michael Condrey. Women soldiers were first introduced to the series in Ghosts’ multiplayer mode. Making up approximately half of humanity, women played a big part in World War II, but some fans are already concerned about the game’s “realism.”

Here’s Our First Look At Call of Duty: WWII

Described as “gritty” and “visceral” and “boots on the ground” and all of the other buzzwords you’ve come to expect from a military shooter, here’s Call of Duty: WWII, coming November 3 for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. This one is developed by Sledgehammer Games, the studio last responsible for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare…

Modern Warfare Remastered‘s Map Pack Is Even More Expensive Than The Original

The game’s Variety Map Pack DLC came to Xbox One and PC yesterday, and some players are upset about the price tag. Though it came out on PS4 late last month thanks to a timed-exclusivity deal, the arrival of four new maps and a handful of loot boxes on both of the other platforms yesterday…

Activision Announces Call of Duty: WWII

The next Call of Duty is probably set during World War II, as is evidenced pretty strongly by its title, Call of Duty: WWII. Activision announced the game today, adding that there will be an official “reveal” next Wednesday at 1pm ET. We’ve known about Call of Duty: WWII since last month, when it was…

There’s a Reason Black Ops II Still Has So Many Fans

If you’ve never experienced Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, now is a great time to jump in: the 2012 shooter is now backward compatible with Xbox One, meaning that the player base will probably jump up significantly. Good thing, because it’s one of the best Call of Duty entries in years. The single-player campaign…

Call of Duty: Black Ops II is now available for play on the Xbox One via the magic of selective backwards compatibility. The shooter has been topping BC request chartssince Xbox One backwards compatibility became a thing.

Method Man does CoD multiplayer. Two new voice packs for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare dropped today for PS4 and Xbox One (with PC coming soon.) $3.99 gets you the dulcet tones of rapper/producer/actor Method Man, while the UK Special Forces pack featuring the voice of Ghost from Modern Warfare 2 is free.

Report: The Next Call Of Duty Is Call Of Duty: WWII

Eurogamer sources have confirmed that a series of images leaked last week via YouTube are referencing this year’s entry in the long-running series, Call of Duty: WWII. YouTube channel TheFamilyVideoGamers received the images from an anonymous source last week. Both the email received and the images it contained were shown on a video on the…

Destiny Gets The Toys It Deserves

When a game is as pretty as Destiny can be, it deserves more than some Mega Bloks sets. McFarlane Toys sets things right this fall with a trio of Guardians, a fur-lined questgiver, a sporty ride and a $150 replica of a highly sought-after weapon. Announced last week, the official images do not do McFarlane’s…

The Crash Bandicoot trilogy PS4 remaster will be out on June 30, Activision said today. New trailer right here! It’ll be $40 for the package.

Activision Has Big Layoffs Despite Surpassing Financial Targets

Activision Publishing laid off a number of employees across several companies this week, Kotaku has learned. The publisher let go of staff at Infinity Ward, Beenox, and other internal studios as well as their corporate office, according to sources, despite saying yesterday that they had surpassed their revenue targets for 2016. From what we’ve heard,…

Activision Says Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare ‘Didn’t Resonate’ With Fans

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare didn’t live up to Activision’s expectations, the publisher said today, offering a surprisingly candid assessment of the most recent entry in their yearly shooter franchise. On an earnings call, Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg said that Infinite Warfare’s sales underperformed and that the sci-fi setting “didn’t resonate” with Call of Duty…

No New Skylanders Game For 2017

After releasing new installments every year since its 2011 debut, toys-to-life pioneer Skylanders is taking the year off. Announced during Activision’s 4th quarter 2016 financial results conference call, Skylanders is sticking to new toys and digital content for 2017. With a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Paradeand a Netflix animated series recently renewed for…