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From the Director of Alien, Blade Runner, New Content for Call of Duty Elite

Call of Duty Elite, Activision’s bid to make their billion-dollar shooter more community driven, will be getting some “exclusive episodic entertainment” from the likes of Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Ridley Scott, the company said during a recent presentation. Speaking to a gathering at the 13th Annual Pacific Crest Global Technology Leadership Forum in Vail,…

By Brian Crecente Published August 10, 2011

A Deep Look at Modern Warfare 3‘s Spec Ops Survival Mode

We’ve written quite a bit about Modern Warfare 3‘s Spec Ops survival mode. Think of it as a sort of Horde mode but with the ability to call in riot shield -wielding soldiers and attack dogs. Here’s an official look at the game. You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at [email protected].…

By Brian Crecente Published August 9, 2011

Battlefield 3, Meet a Supersonic Jet

At this year’s Gamescom gaming expo in Germany, EA and DICE are bringing a Mig-21 to the Battlefield 3 booth. They used a red semi-truck! Battlefield 3 is facing off with rival title Modern Warfare 3, and unless the Activision booth has, I dunno, more impressive military hardware, chalk up a Battlefield 3 win in…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 9, 2011

Hooray! Now We Know Why Bobby Kotick is in that Brad Pitt Movie

Bobby Kotick’s cameo in Moneyball, even after it was confirmed by Activision, remained quite the WTF mystery of June. Why was he appearing as the Oakland A’s owner in a sports flick? Did he know Brad Pitt? Did he know the director? Was this some hint at a Call of Duty movie? Actually, yes, he…

By Owen Good Published August 6, 2011

Activision Is Getting Sued over a Music Game. Again.

A few years back, it was all the rage for musicians to sue Activision over appearances in Guitar Hero. Courtney Love was doing it, The Romantics were doing it, No Doubt was doing it, even Axl Rose was in on the action Now, Johnny-come-lately Adam Levine, lead singer for Maroon 5, wants a slice, suing…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2011

Black Ops’ Rezurrection DLC is One Small Step for Zombie-Kind

Nacht der Untoten. Verruckt. Shi No Numa. Der Riese. These names strike terror in the hearts of anyone that dared venture into the undead playgrounds of Call of Duty: World at War. The zombie story started there. It ends on the Moon. Due out on August 23 for the Xbox 360, the Rezurrection donwloadable content…

By Mike Fahey Published August 3, 2011

Modern Warfare 3 is Also Deploying to Wii

Not one to exclude 87 million customers, Activision confirmed today that it will release a Wii version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 this year. Typically, the Wii versions of Call of Duty games launch alongside their HD counterparts.

By Michael McWhertor Published August 3, 2011

Call of Duty: Black Ops Getting A Resurrection This Fall

Activision will release the fourth Call of Duty: Black Ops “content pack,” named Resurrection, by end of September on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, the company says. Resurrection will follow First Strike, Escalation and Annihilation. Details still to come…

By Michael McWhertor Published August 3, 2011

Everybody at the Call of Duty Convention Gets a Free Modern Warfare 3

Activision sweetens the pot for fans considering attending the first-ever Call of Duty XP convention in Los Angeles next month, revealing additional details on what fans can expect to get out of the show, including a free copy of the Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition. $150 is a lot to ask fans to spend on…

By Mike Fahey Published August 3, 2011

If His Demands Are Met, He Guarantees Battlefield 3 Will Triumph Over Modern Warfare 3

In today’s online multiplayer shooter edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter WhoKnew? lists the tweaks he believes will lead to more people playing Battlefield 3 than Modern Warfare 3 this fall Dear EA / DICE, While the internet is filled with Battlefield 3 vs. Modern Warfare 3 propaganda that pretty much defines fanyboyism at…

By Mike Fahey Published August 2, 2011

Square Enix Brings Activision’s True Crime Reboot Back From the Dead

The True Crime game canned by publisher Activision earlier this year has been revived. It just won’t bear the True Crime name at its new home, Final Fantasy, Deus Ex and Hitman publisher Square Enix. Gamasutra reports that the game once known as True Crime: Hong Kong has been snapped up by the Japanese publisher.…

By Michael McWhertor Published August 1, 2011

Digging Into Diablo III’s Beta and Player-Paid Auction House

Our own Michael McWhertor spent the better part of a day last week meeting with Blizzard and playing through a healthy chunk of Diablo III What did he find out? Plenty. For instance, Blizzard is going to require gamers to stay online at all times to play their game. There will also be an auction…

By Brian Crecente Published August 1, 2011

The New York Yankees of First-Person Shooters Welcomes the Negative Feedback

I couldn’t get Robert Bowling to use the words Battlefield 3 in a sentence. He’s an Infinity Ward guy, which means he’s a Call of Duty and Modern Warfare guy. And I guess that means that, in public, he’s not going to try to talk about Battlefield 3, the latest taste-test challenge to the mighty…

By Stephen Totilo Published July 28, 2011

Battlefield 3 Isn’t Competing With Modern Warfare 3, But it Still Wants to Win

The way I see it, Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 aren’t really competitors. They’re just two modern shooters that happen to be coming out two weeks apart from each other. When I suggest this to Kevin O’Leary, brand manager for Battlefield 3, he’s quick to agree. But he’s also quick to…

By Brian Crecente Published July 28, 2011

These Two Indie Games Are Worth $250,000 to Activision

While not actively engaged in being an evil video game empire, Activision engages in a little independent game developer philanthropy in the form of the Activision Independent Games Competition, the first and second prize winners of which just received a massive influx of development capital. Meet Dstroyd and Rigonauts: Broadside Activision Publishing created the Activision…

By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2011

Activision had Plans for High-Definition GoldenEye All Along

Depending upon the consoles you own, the bad news about GoldenEye: Reloaded may still be the good news. It is most definitely a high-definition remastering of last year’s title reboot on the Wii. But given the much larger shooter constituency on the PS3 and 360, and online multiplayer’s vastly greater viability on those consoles, that…

By Owen Good Published July 24, 2011

Oslo Terrorist Used Modern Warfare 2 as “Training-Simulation”, World of Warcraft as Cover

The accused shooter in yesterday’s massacre in Norway has been linked to a 1,500 page manifesto that recommends using Call of Duty to train combat skills for an upcoming war with Islam. Anders Behring Breivik also suggests that an obsession with massively-multiplayer role playing game World of Warcraft, which he was known to play, is…

Owen Good and Michael McWhertor Published July 23, 2011

X-Men: Destiny Takes a Voice of Protest to the City by the Bay

San Francisco is a city long associated with rights movements, idealism, and rallies for peace, making it a useful backdrop for X-Men: Destiny. But Silicon Knights isn’t planning on a Summer of Love when the game arrives this fall. Shown off at a preview event Wednesday at Comic-Con, Destiny will present three different stories for…

By Owen Good Published July 21, 2011

X-Men Destiny Shows Off the Uglier Side of Marvel’s Mutant Menace

The San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing, making it the perfect time to parade out some ugly X-Men cosplayers, courtesy of Activision’s X-Men Destiny The new generation of X-Men making their debut in X-Men Destiny this September look decidedly last-generation, don’t they? Perhaps not the three main characters, a trio of mutant teens just…

By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2011

Activision Boss Says DJ Hero Helped Kill Guitar Hero

I like video games. I like turntables. I like DJ Shadow, I like the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, the Scratch Perverts. Yet I’ve thought DJ Hero was a stupid idea from the moment the series was first announced. Not only did its lumping together of hip-hop, dance and electronica dilute the series’ focus, but being…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 21, 2011