Call of Duty

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Needs More Kevin Spacey: The Winners!

Last week I asked our image manipulation to rectify the egregious lack of actor Kevin Spacey in games other than the new Call of Duty. Now we have too much Kevin Spacey. See for yourself. This week’s big winner is the ever-amazing Ganonthegreat1. His entry is incredibly subtle, and I should probably explain it. The…

Why Modern Warfare‘s ‘All Ghillied Up’ Is One Of Gaming’s Best Levels

Few people admit to buying modern military shooters for their campaigns, and it’s not hard to see why. The Battlefields and Call of Dutys are derided for being simplistic shooting galleries that hold the player back. But what if it didn’t have to be that way? What if some game had already done it right?…

Video Games Get Gun Silencers All Wrong

You round a corner. You think you’re in the clear but—oh no!—an enemy is standing guard. How will you ever bring him down without alerting other guards? Aha, your pistol has a silencer. One mouse squeak gun shot later and you’re free. Except that’s not how silencers work at all This video from RagnarRox debunks…

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s PC system requirements have now been revealed on the game’s Steam page. Unsurprisingly, the game is a meaty one—requiring 55 GB of free hard drive space and 6GB of RAM for its minimum requirements. Read the full list of specs below. Also: keep in mind, these are the minimum requirements.…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Needs More Kevin Spacey

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the regular Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare trailerswe’ve been getting over the past few months, is that there needs to be more Kevin Spacey in video games. Let’s fix that. Why are we limiting one of America’s finest actors to a single virtual stage? Not everyone enjoys playing…

“What you’re seeing is Advanced Warfare,” says Kevin Spacey’s Jonathan Irons at the start of this official gameplay launch trailer for November 3’s installment of the Call of Duty series. Well, there you go then.

This Week In The Business: Save Our Spines

QUOTE | “There was a time when spines were pulled out of players, and we don’t have to do that anymore.” – Veteran designer Sid Meier, explaining why he thinks game designers should create a “positive climate.” Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “I can absolutely say that…

Apparently The Scariest Part Of Alien: Isolation Is… A Door

Oh god just look at it. Look at it standing there. All door-like. Also today, we’ve got clips from Call of Duty, Forza Horizon 2, Battlefield 4, League of Legends and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe…

Last-Gen Call of Duty Buyers Will Get A Free PS4/Xbox One Upgrade

I get the impression that Sony, Microsoft, and Activision reeeeally want you to buy a new console. Activision has announced a cross-buy deal in which all PS3/Xbox 360 digital purchases of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will also net you the PlayStation 4/Xbox One version as well. This applies to all purchased DLC (season passes…

This Week In The Business: A Vigorous Brainwashing

QUOTE | “We do all the things we can to essentially brainwash people into liking it before it actually comes out.” – Former Call of Duty director Dave Anthony, addressing a Washington think-tank about how Call of Duty is marketed and why it’s applicable to unpopular national security measures Elsewhere in the business of video…

The man who wrote and directed Call of Duty: Black Ops argues that the U.S. government should put soldiers in schools to protect them. David Anthony—who is now a fellow at political think tank The Atlantic Council—made his remarks during a talk titled “The Future of Unknown Conflict,” where he also described marketing as a…

Hackers Charged With Stealing From Valve, Microsoft And More

Two hackers, one from the United States and one from Canada, have plead guilty to U.S. federal charges regarding an elaborate international scheme involving the infiltration of gaming companies Valve, Epic, and Zombie Studios as well as attempted sales of counterfeit Xbox One development kits well before the console was released to the public. The…

Watch Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s Multiplayer Right Here

Can’t wait to go head-to-head against a bunch of other exo-suit-wearing players in the next Call of Duty? You can get a taste of what it’ll look like in a livestream that’s happening right now. Twitch broadcaster AliA is currently streaming Advanced Warfare‘s online portion over on his channel. If you want to see how…

Somewhere Amidst The Explosions Is A New Advanced Warfare Game Mode

We’ve seen the single-player and multiplayer modes of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Now it’s time for a little cooperative survival. Well, eventually time. First we dance. The first minute and a half of this “Power Changes Everything” trailer is dedicated to showing us some incredibly cool visuals from the story mode and online multiplayer.…

Rudy Giuliani Will Defend Activision In Call of Duty Lawsuit

In July, ex-military dictator Manuel Noriega filed a lawsuit against Activision over his depiction in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Today, Activision filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, calling it “absurd” in a press release issued this morning. Activision has recruited former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani’s law firm to handle the…

Terrorists Are Using First-Person Shooters To Spread Their Message

“ISIS has refined the mechanics of the sale of violence.” Writing for the New Yorker website, Jay Caspian Kang thoughtfully examines how the terrorist group invokes well-worn motifs from shooters like Call of Duty in its recruitment materials. Much like the organization’s use of modern social media, selling prospective recruits by promising a life “better…

I’m Pretty Glad The Original Doom Wasn’t A Modern Shooter

This isn’t the Doom you know. It’s… it’s something else This video combines some mods (including the ever popular Brutal Doom) and clever After Effects usage to re-imagine Doom—first-person shooting’s great grandcyberdemon—as a modern shooter in the vein of, say, Call of Duty or Counter-Strike. I’m mixed on this. On one hand, that actually looks…

Call Of Duty Vs Minecraft Sure Is… Something

Live-action Call of Duty vs Minecraft? In Korean? Yeah, OK. Sure. Why the hell not? Let’s do this. It’s not, like, the greatest thing I’ve ever seen, but this video is pretty slickly put together—verging more into low-budget film-making territory than hobbyist schlock cinema. The choreography is stylish, the effects are refreshingly un-horrible, and the…

Father Takes Kids To Israel To Teach About Real War

When Carl-Magnus Helgegren’s young sons revealed how obsessed with Call of Duty they’d become, he decided it was time to teach them some things about war. And have them taught by people in the business. “They were talking to me like it was a cool game, and everybody else was playing it, and it had…

Nice Controller, Call Of Duty

We firstsaw the Call of Duty Xbox One console and controller this morning, but the pic was tiny and generally unhelpful. So here’s a better look. I…kinda like it! It’s like an expensive, militarised coffee machine.