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Call of Duty XP’s Real-Life Achievements and Badges of Honor
Activision has a long and storied history of making some of the best video game patches in the business. Or at least they did during the Atari 2600 era. At Call of Duty XP, Activision returned to its patch-making ways, rewarding XP attendees for braving real-life and virtual challenges. For example, should you wait in…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 2, 2011 -
Guns! Guns! Guns! A Tour of the Call of Duty XP Armory
Hey, you like guns? Then you should really be at Call of Duty XP this weekend. They got guns! Lots of ’em. They even have a FGM-148 Javelin and an alien head. Just head to “The Armory.” Or take a journey with me through the magic of photo galleries! The various arsenals of many Call…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 2, 2011 -
How Modern Warfare 3 Changes the Call of Duty Multiplayer Game Yet Again
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. Activision offered a first look at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 the night before Call of…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 2, 2011 -
Call of Duty Elite ‘Premium’ Membership Costs $50 A Year, Includes All This and More
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. At the war game maker’s Call of Duty XP gathering, Activision…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 2, 2011 -
Enjoy, Modern Warfare 3’s New Multiplayer Trailer
Say what you will of the basketcase this franchise’s singleplayer has become, one thing it still does very well is multiplayer. Which, you know, is the reason 95% of people buying this game buy this game. So…it doesn’t really need a trailer at all! But thanks for making one anyway, Activision. Appreciate it. Call of…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 2, 2011 -
Whatever Happened to That Third-Person Call of Duty Game?
Confirming something that was, well, already pretty clear earlier this year, Sledgehammer has said that helping Infinity Ward develop Modern Warfare 3 meant it had to abandon its planned third-person Call of Duty game. “We came on board to make a third person action adventure game, in the Call of Duty franchise, and we were…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 2, 2011 -
Hate Map Packs? You’ve Got Nobody to Blame But Yourselves (Or Your Friends)
Whenever a multiplayer game’s map packs are revealed- and Call of Duty is often the worst offender in this regard – people on the internet wail and gnash their teeth. And rightly so, in many respects, since you’re rarely getting much value for your dollar. All that wailing counts for naught, though, because as far…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 2, 2011 -
A Stroll Through A Bullet-Riddled Parisian Neighborhood in Modern Warfare 3
The record, they tell me, is level 28. We’re nowhere close to that when death comes quickly to both of us. That’s the way you die in Modern Warfare 3’s Spec Ops Survival Mode: In pairs. Death can come to the two players one at a time, but typically it’s sudden and bunched up. At…
By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2011 -
A Remote Controlled Airplane Took This Real Call of Duty Photo
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. Snapped by website Pro Paintball, this is an overhead shot of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 1, 2011 -
Modern Warfare 3 ‘Hardened Edition’ Details Leak, Includes Year-long Elite Membership
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. Wired reports that it received a photo of an advertisement for Modern Warfare 3‘s “Hardened Edition”…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 31, 2011 -
How Silicon Knights Guided X-Men’s Destiny
In this behind the scenes video for X-Men Destiny, Denis Dyack and the team at Silicon Knights explain how they went about crafting a new chapter in the tale of Marvel’s mighty mutants. There’s a trick to crafting a tale of super-powered comic book characters. On the one hand, you have to capture the breathtaking…
By Mike Fahey Published August 31, 2011 -
The First Look at the Call of Duty Convention
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 In the photos, there are Xbox 360 consoles and monitors. And there are large displays and lights. Tickets are $150…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 31, 2011 -
The Voice of Spider-Man 2099 is a Real Prince
To a generation of Spidey fans, Christopher Daniel Barnes is the voice of Peter Parker. To a generation of Disney fans, he’s better known as Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid Back when Disney made The Little Mermaid, voice actors in animated films didn’t need to be big-name actors from television and movies. All they…
By Mike Fahey Published August 29, 2011 -
Yes, Modern Warfare 3 Is Coming To Steam
Valve today confirmed that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will indeed be using Steamworks and sold on Steam. Taken in light of the franchise’s history of being sold on Steam, this isn’t exactly surprising news, but with Battlefield 3 giving the service a pass, it’s probably worth noting. The game’s availability on the service…
By Brian Crecente Published August 29, 2011 -
This is Easily The Single Worst Piece of Marketing at PAX
If you visited any of the restrooms at PAX (well, the Men’s rooms anyway. I don’t know about the ladies’ rooms. I could have checked, but… er, anyway). If you visited any of the men’s rooms at PAX, you probably saw this Prototype 2 sticker on the inside of the stalls and stuck above the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 27, 2011 -
The Voice of Edge of Time‘s Spider-Man is So Dreamy
Why do we have freaky giraffe-necked Andrew Garfield playing Spider-Man in the 2012 film reboot when the voice of Spider-Man from the cartoons and games looks this good? You may not know Josh Keaton’s face, but you know his voice. He’s been Spider-Man in the cartoons, the video games, and anywhere else they’ve needed a…
By Mike Fahey Published August 26, 2011 -
Celtic Rockers Dropkick Murphys Performing at Call of Duty Con
Kanye West isn’t the only musician performing at the first-ever Call of Duty convention, Irish-punk rockers Dropkick Murphys will be closing the first night of the show, Activision said today. The band is performing opening night at 8 p.m. on Sept. 2 at the Call of Duty XP event. Then on Sunday night Kayne West…
By Brian Crecente Published August 25, 2011 -
Another Year, Another Expensive Car Based On a Video Game
Welcome to 2011. Where not only are video game franchises annualised, but expensive, real cars bearing their branding are as well. The Call of Duty Jeep Wrangler, which was released last year in honour of Call of Duty: Black Ops, will be re-released this year, only now with Modern Warfare 3 branding all over it…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2011 -
Blizzard Launches Diablo III Community Site, Beta Sure To Follow
The official community site for Blizzard’s hot-hot-hotly anticipated dungeoneer Diablo III has launched, giving the game’s hordes of fans a centralized place to post about, you know, how mad excited everyone is about the game. The activation of the community site seems to underline a high probability that the Beta will be released soon, at…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 24, 2011 -
Rise From Your Graves, It’s Black Ops Rezurrection Day
It’s time to strap on your space suit, dual wield your space guns, and take out some space zombies on the moon, as Activision and Treyarch launch the all-zombie Rezurrection map pack for Black Ops on the Xbox 360. What you see above is perhaps the most bizarre Call of Duty screenshot I’ve ever posted,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 23, 2011