Call of Duty

Twelve Minutes Of The Modern Warfare Remastered Campaign

If any last generation shooter deserved a remaster, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was at the top of the list. I got to sit down with the campaign today. Here’s a playthrough of “Charlie Don’t Surf” for you to enjoy. Modern Warfare Remastered will release alongside Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare on November 4th…

Modern Warfare Remastered Requires Infinite Warfare To Run

A lot of Call of Duty fans are more excited over the remastered version of the original Modern Warfare than Infinite Warfare’s future shenanigans, but they can’t have one without the other. Either a full digital purchase of Infinite Warfare or the physical disc is required for the remaster to run. Modern Warfare Remastered is…

Pro Gamer Phillip “Phizzurp” Klemenov Killed In Car Crash

Phillip “Phizzurp” Klemenov, a professional Call of Duty player and streamer, has died in a car accident in Colorado. He was 23 years old. The crash occurred early Sunday morning as he was returning home from dinner with his girlfriend Adrianna Lemuss and another friend. He had only been streaming hours earlier A local CBS…

Banned From Twitch, ‘Bikini Streamer’ Finds Success (And Haters) On YouTube

Zoie Burgher knows exactly what you see when you tune into her Call of Duty streams. She knows that viewers judge her and people assume the worst because of how she presents herself. Burgher is currently blowing up on YouTube anyway, thanks to a recent ban on Twitch. Twitch, a popular livestreaming service, has rules…

The most recent Black Ops III DLC added more Gobblegum power-ups to the game’s Zombies mode. Here’s a snippet of a match we played with the Newtownian Negation Gobblegum activated: “Zombies killed fall straight up.” We’re still divided on whether Gobblegum is worth focusing on in Zombies. Thoughts?

Black Ops III‘s New Micro-Map Is Full Of Amazing, Tiny Details

The biggest challenge in Micro, the “fun” multiplayer map in Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s final batch of downloadable content, is pulling yourself away from the massive cupcakes and copious amounts of alcohol long enough to shoot other people. Luckily it’s easy enough to create a custom game where you can explore the over-sized…

Nukes Return To Call of Duty, Fans Cheer

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is bringing back one of the most infamous killstreaks. The tactical nuke is coming back and fans can’t wait to blow each other into the dirt. Tactical Nukes first showed up as a killstreak in 2009’s Modern Warfare 2, totally destroying the map and instantly winning the round for the…

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will launch a beta for preorder holders on October 14th. The beta will be first available on Playstation 4.

Next Call of Duty Has ’80s Zombies With David Hasselhoff And Pee-wee Herman

While Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare takes place in the future, its initial Zombies experience is firmly rooted in the past. In Zombies in Spaceland, four aspiring actors are transported to a zombie-infested space theme park by Paul “Pee-wee Herman” Reubens. Reubens plays a once-popular horror actor who lures the player characters to an abandoned…

Why We Crouch

The crouch. One of humanity’s most basic movements. Humans have been crouching since they figured out that going to the bathroom standing up only worked half of the time, but in video games we sometimes need a little prompting. This post originally appeared 12/3/15. We’ve been crouching in video games for decades—pull the joystick down…

Watch A Whole Mission From Call of Duty: Modern Warfare‘s Upcoming Remaster

Though Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is coming later this year, people might be more excited about the remastering of Infinity Ward’s classic Modern Warfare. A brief teaser of Modern Warfare’s graphical update was shown off at E3 this year, but Activision has since published nearly eight minutes of footage from one of the game’s…

The Orion vs Activision Steam removal saga continues. Trek Industries’ David Prassel says that Activision contacted him with evidence that certain in-game assets were directly ripped from Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. The artist responsible has apparently been fired. Check the update to my original story for more.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s next zombies map has a dragon. Not a wall dragon, but an actual flying dragon. It also looks like the Ray Gun Mark 3 will finally make an appearance. The “Descent” DLC hits PS4 first on July 12. Might be time to dust off my zombie-killing boots and give…

After A Fan Revolt, Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare‘s Creators Are Trying To Win People Over At E3

The creators of the newest Call of Duty are attempting to turn the tide at E3 in Los Angeles this week. They’re up against a month-long sea surge of negativity the likes of which even this series has never seen. Working in their favor this week: what they’re showing of the new Call of Duty…

Jon Snow Is The Pouty Face Of The Enemy In Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare

After years of portraying a heroic bastard on Game of Thrones, Kit Harington takes a turn at being a right bastard as the villain of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Harington is “the face of the enemy” in the next CoD, which drops on Nov. 4. The marketing office of Activision says Harington’s addition to…

Activision’s Call of Duty XP fan festival is coming to Los Angeles September 2-4, after a hiatus. It will feature the Call of Duty World League Championship and hands-on with the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered multiplayer.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Is Now Backwards Compatible On Xbox One

Maybe this will please some fans who are still mad about Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare—the Xbox 360 version of Black Ops is now compatible with Xbox One, Microsoft said today. Call of Duty: Black Ops was one of the most-requested backwards-compatibility games, along with Skyrim, Red Dead Redemption, and Black Ops II. It’s on…

Activision Responds To The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Mass-Dislike Campaign

Since Monday, YouTube users have been flooding the reveal trailer for Call of Duty Infinite Warfare, mashing the dislike button in what appears to be a game to see how high a number they can hit. As of publication time, the trailer’s got 447,096 dislikes, but that number is likely to skyrocket. And Activision’s aware…

People Are Mass-Disliking The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Trailer

It may surprise you to hear that YouTube, a place well-known for civility and intelligent discussions, is full of people saying mean things about the new Call of Duty trailer. As of right now, the video has 221,657 dislikes, and that number is going up by a few hundred every minute. This mass-dislike campaign has…

Here’s the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Debut Trailer

I’ll cut to the chase: It’s Call of Duty. There’s shooting. There are spaceships. There’s a “Space Oddity” cover. That’s right, besides the ground combat for which the series is known, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare takes players to space, allowing them to pilot a spacecraft. The Italian trailer seemed to first hit the Call…