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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…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 26, 2014 -
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.…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2014 -
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…
By Jason Schreier Published September 22, 2014 -
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…
By Yannick LeJacq Published September 18, 2014 -
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 -
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