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No, Call of Duty: Ghosts Did Not Make $1 Billion on Its First Day

Call of Duty: Ghosts didn’t get the usual triumphal announcement from Activision that it was the biggest entertainment launch of the year. Because, one assumes, it was not. Activision did say that $1 billion worth of Call of Duty was on retailers’ shelves. Why is that worth bragging about? Well, this video is why. Here…

2013 Call of Duty Lifts Scene From 2009 Call of Duty

Is it recycling? A homage? A cry for help? All of the above? As you can see in the above video by YouTuber satantribal, parts of the prologue of Call of Duty: Ghosts, released yesterday, mirror the ending of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, released in 2009. (Ghosts is the one on the right.)…

Call of Duty: Ghosts Isn’t the Year’s Biggest Entertainment Launch

In each of the past four years, Activision has followed Call of Duty‘s release date with a triumphal announcement that the latest edition of the game was “the biggest entertainment launch” of the year or in history, comparing it to blockbuster movie franchises since there was no other game to come close. They didn’t say…

Call of Duty: Ghosts: The Kotaku Review

Three men huddle around a campfire, eager to hear the story of an elite force of highly-feared soldiers. Ghosts, they’re called. Two of the men listening—the sons, Logan and Hesh Walker—are skeptical. Surely the tale-spinning father doesn’t expect them to believe such an outlandish story? They’re skeptical, but we know the story is true, because…

Call of Duty Makers Explain Why Resolution Is Lower On Xbox One

When word came out last month that upcoming dog simulator Call of Duty: Ghosts runs at a higher resolution on PS4 than it does on Xbox One, the reactions were loud and angry. Was this a launch-day anomaly, or will all multi-platform games perform better on Sony’s console? Today, the people who make Call of…

Call of Duty‘s original working title was “Medal of Honor Killer,” reports GameSpot. Mission accomplished, I’d say.

Megan Fox Stars in the Latest Call of Duty: Ghosts Live-Action Trailer

You’re gonna live ’til you die in Call of Duty: Ghosts which, for millions on Tuesday, will be about 16 seconds after spawning. A bombed-out, bro’d out Vegas stars alongside Megan Fox (Bad Boys II, as “Stars-and-Stripes Bikini Kid Dancing Under Waterfall”) in the live-action launch trailer Activision just pushed out for its megabazillion-dollar franchise.…

Meet the Specialists of Call of Duty‘s Extinction Mode

Extinction, the horde mode replacing (or so it seems) zombies for Call of Duty: Ghosts will feature four classes specific to the mode, according to this post yesterday afternoon from the game’s developer. The classes are rather meat-and-potatoes: Weapon Specialist, Tank, Engineer and Medic. The first two are your offensive classes, the second two are…

Fans Trash Call Of Duty Booth At Games Expo

Someone at Activision thought it would be a good idea to hand out $200 editions of the next Call of Duty game to the first 500 people who could get to the game’s booth at the Milan Games Week. No other rules. Just get there first. Surprise: it was not a good idea. Not sure…

‘Extinction Mode’ Among the Rumors Trickling From Call of Duty: Ghosts

With about a week to go before the latest Call of Duty hits shelves, this is high season for pre-release leaks from those who managed to cajole an early retail copy out of someone. Did you know Call of Duty: Ghosts is on two discs for the Xbox 360? Yeah, well, neither did I. There’s…

That’s One Way To Sell The Basic Wii U

With a new Wii U Deluxe set coming out on November 1 featuring two Mario games, how can Nintendo possibly sell new Wii buyers on the basic unit? How about an exclusive Skylanders: Swap Force figure? The Limited Edition Skylanders: Swap Force Wii U Basic Set is actually a pretty good deal, especially if you’re…

There’s a Musical Surprise In Skylanders: Swap Force

I was not expecting this at all. Don’t click if you don’t want to spoil it. As if aintricately lovely score by Lorne Balfe — the man behind the music for the first two Skylanders games, Assassin’s Creed III and Beyond: Two Souls — wasn’t enough, Vicarious Visions audio designer Matt Pirog put together this…

An Entire Scottish Island Is Now An Ad For Skylanders

Know for its scenic mountain vistas and sheep farms with an economy based on fishing, tourism and whiskey-distilling, Scotland’s Isle of Skye is now the first real-world location officially twinned with a video game setting. One of the prettiest places on the planet, now a Skylanders: Swap Force marketing tool. I suppose pairing The Skylands’…

Attention Skylanders parents, you’re going to Toys R Us tomorrow morning. Swap Force launched this past weekend with some important elements and travel powers unrepresented. The twelve new figures going on sale tomorrow morning exclusively at Toys R Us should help fill in the blanks.

The Most Convenient Portable Skylanders Game Yet

Now that the console version of Skylanders has finally caught up with the portable one in terms of jumping, the 3DS version of Skylanders: Swap Force ups the ante, letting players load all of their toys into the game at once. The previous installments of Skylanders for the 3DS only allowed players to load two…

Skylanders: Swap Force: The Kotaku Review

It’s taken 40 long years, but it’s finally happened. I’ve finally become an adult, and it’s all thanks to the latest Skylanders game. I just don’t understand the Swap Force The first Skylanders game gave us a batch of toys we could place on a portal to use as characters in a well-crafted action role-playing…

Skylanders: Swap Force Buyers’ Guide: What You Need, What You Don’t

You would think that on the third installment of Activision’s highly-successful toys-meets-games series they’d give folks the option to just buy the game by itself. Ha ha! We’re not getting off that easy. Every Skylander figure released thus far will work on Skylanders: Swap Force. You could play through the entire game using only first…

There’s Far Too Much Eminem In The Call Of Duty Dog Music Video

I just want to listen to some music and look at dogs, but no — here’s Eminem droning on and on about shitting on his microphone and making stupid G-Unit puns. Oh wait, I guess this is supposed to be a video for Eminem’s “Survival”, the song that debuted in part during a Call of…

New Destiny Trailer Shows Off Spectacular Next-Gen Goodness

Here’s the latest trailer for Activision’s upcoming MMO/shooter, Destiny. This one’s set on the moon, and is designed to introduce us to one of the game’s enemy races, “The Hive.” Apparently the moon is going to be a centerpiece for Destiny—the shtick is that you play as a “Guardian” of the Earth, set out to…

What Happens When You Mix Skylanders And Disney Infinity? Don’t.

Two games dependent on physical toys that interface via magical portals? Of course it’s tempting the drop a Skylander down on the Infinity base to see what happens, but we don’t. Not if we want happiness to survive. Skylanders Meets Disney Infinity [The Warp Zone – YouTube]