Call of Duty

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…

By Nathan Grayson Published September 12, 2014

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…

By Nathan Grayson Published August 25, 2014

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…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2014

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.

By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2014

Watch The New Call of Duty Blow Up A Bridge

Most of the Call of Duty news since Advanced Warfare was first announced has focused on the multiplayer. That’s understandable. But it also means that one of the shooter franchise’s other important assets hasn’t had a chance to shine through: its unique ability to make blow up iconic pieces of architecture. Cue giant bridge explosion:…

By Yannick LeJacq Published August 12, 2014

Microsoft Offering The First Console To Ship With a 1TB Drive

Today at Gamescom, Microsoft announced that they’re launching a Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Xbox One bundle on November 4. Notably, the included console comes with a 1TB internal hard drive—double the size of the standard console’s HDD. The bundle costs $499.99, and includes an Advanced Warfare-branded console with a 1TB hard drive, a custom…

By András Neltz Published August 12, 2014

This Year, Call of Duty Might Actually Shake Things Up

For a few years now, new Call of Duty games have been met with cynical weariness. There’s this feeling that, despite yearly iterations, the franchise hasn’t actually changed much. Whether or not this pessimistic outlook has always been warranted is debatable, but it’s hard not to give it some credence when considering that last year,…

By Patricia Hernandez Published August 11, 2014

Watch The Advanced Warfare Multiplayer Reveal Live, Right Here

Kevin Spacey can’t help you now. It’s time to find out what Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare‘s multiplayer has in store for fans this fall, and we’ve got the live event streaming. The event kicks off at 1pm Eastern time, with Activision showing footage and detailing the features that define the Advanced Warfare multiplayer experience.…

By Mike Fahey Published August 11, 2014

Your PC Must Be This Advanced To Run Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare [UPDATE}

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the first “pure next-gen” entry in the endlessly popular shooter series, but what does that mean for PC gamers? In short: nothing. Nothing whatsoever. UPDATE: Activision says these are the wrong specs. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare‘s specs are the same as Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ on PC. Exactly…

By Nathan Grayson Published August 8, 2014

Ridiculous Argument On Xbox Live Takes A Suddenly Civil Turn

You often hear of people (and children) bickering on Xbox Live, especially within the communities of shooter games like Call of Duty: Ghosts in this example. But you rarely hear about them making peace just shortly after calling each other bunches of **** with **** who should go **** with **** in the ****. And,…

By Tina Amini Published August 8, 2014

Infinity Ward Picks Up Two Naughty Dog Veterans For Key Spots

Two more important cogs in the machine at The Last Of Us developer Naughty Dog have exited the studio, with two leads making the move to Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward this week. Naughty Dog is losing lead game designer Jacob Minkoff and narrative design lead Taylor Kurosaki, who will be taking on the…

By Phil Owen Published August 2, 2014

Gamescom Call of Duty Multiplayer Reveal To Be Streamed On Xbox Live

Activision allots the first half of of the hype cycle for each year’s Call of Duty to its solo campaign, but when we arrive at Gamescom in just two weeks, the multiplayer half of the super hypeness for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will begin. And you’ll be able to watch this big event from…

By Phil Owen Published August 2, 2014

Call Of Duty Bummer: They Opted Not To Have Teleportation Grenades

The new Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, futuristic-looking as it is, will not have teleportation grenades. So it was reported in a VentureBeat profileof CoD:AW studio Sledgehammer Games. Too unrealistic. Here’s VentureBeat talking to Sledgehammer’s Michael Condrey about where they draw the line between CoD-suitable and CoD-nope: Condrey said that the team also had to…

By Stephen Totilo Published July 29, 2014

Burglar Caught Thanks To Xbox Live

Xbox, stop robbery! Wait, what do you mean that’s not an actual Kinect command? Eurogamer reports that a pair of robbers had their burglary plans foiled thanks to Call of Duty and Xbox Live, of all things. Here’s what happened: in April, two armed men broke into a home. When they found the house was…

By Patricia Hernandez Published July 23, 2014

Yo, Fred Durst Is Streaming Call Of Duty On Twitch

2014, you are a strange and wonderful year. Streaming right now on Twitch is Fred Durst, who 15 years ago as the frontman for Limp Bizkit was one of the most famous people on the planet. Today, however, he is a man playing Call of Duty: Ghosts, struggling with HDMI outputs and generally sounding like…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2014

Former Dictator Manuel Noriega Is Suing Over Call of Duty

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is taking Activision to court over his depiction in Call of Duty: Black Ops II Noriega appears in a Black Ops II mission called “Suffer with Me” as both an in-game character and in news clips. Courthouse News Service reports that Noriega, who is currently serving a prison sentence in…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 16, 2014

The Honest Modern Warfare Trailer, Now With More Underage Racists

I’ve been waiting for Smosh to do an Honest Game Trailer for Call of Duty‘s Modern Warfare trilogy, and they do not disappoint. “Suit up for the least realistic war franchise since Contra.” My favorite moment comes during the multiplayer montage, when everything goes a little crazy. It’s the most accurate representation of the feeling…

By Mike Fahey Published June 28, 2014

What A Call of Duty In Vietnam Could’ve Looked Like

Remember when rumors were swirling about a Call of Duty game set during the Vietnam War? In 2010, when it seemed like Activision was going to Southeast Asia, the publisher delivered the first Black Ops (which featured a handful of missions set in Vietnam) instead. That game was darkly paranoid but now-circulating concept art, spotted…

By Evan Narcisse Published June 24, 2014

Ice-T Celebrates Call of Duty Wins by Dancing with His D***

It’s a good thing that the veteran rapper/actor doesn’t livestream his video game sessions, huh? During an interview with Conan O’Brien last night, Ice-T talked about his well-documented gaming habit. As you’d expect from a guy who rapped about thug life back in the day, he loves to trash-talk. But the most, um, pointed anecdote…