Call of Duty

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…

By Evan Narcisse Published June 24, 2014

Yo, Check Out This Wolf’s Hair

Check out this wolf. This is a wolf from The Witcher 3. Check out how his hair moves when he runs. Look at that hair. That is some hair, buddy. This latest glimpse of the future of hair-tech comes from a video by Nvidia about how their excellently named HairWorks program lets game developers make…

By Kirk Hamilton Published June 23, 2014

The Next Seven Shooters I’m Excited About

Just another bland, brown shooter, right? I’ve always been a fan of shooters—and it’s not like they’re unsung heroes by any means—but there’s this misconception out there that they’re all the same carbon copies of one another. The misconception reasons that all shooters are boring military shooters with the same characters and roughly the same…

By Tina Amini Published June 20, 2014

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Barely Looks Like It Happens on Earth

Hoverbikes. Super-jumps. Lots of neon. The next installment in Activision’s blockbuster FPS series is the most future-y one yet. Get ready for a lot of fancy screens and overlays! If not for the presence of recognizable stuff like lamps and doors with knobs, you’d think this game was happening on a far-off planet. It’s not.…

By Evan Narcisse Published June 9, 2014

Frozen, Done In The Style of Call of Duty Videos

Even beloved Frozen can lend itself to the Call of Duty montage style, provided few key changes—namely, adding dubsteb, obnoxious cuts, horns, and silly text. The result of the transformation is hilarious, as this video made by MemeMaster420 shows. I appreciate that it doesn’t just make some bad Doritos joke either—instead, it also incorporates jokes…

By Patricia Hernandez Published June 2, 2014

The Problem With Far Cry 4‘s Box Art

Far Cry 4‘s box art depicts a man wearing a lavish pink suit using what might be a religious statue as a throne. He has blonde hair and fair skin and his hand rests on the head of a man of color who kneels, passively, clutching a grenade in his hands. It’s caused quite a…

By Nathan Grayson Published May 22, 2014

Quickscope Simulator Is Everything That’s Horrible About Call of Duty

In Quickscope Simulator, there’s only you, Doritos, endless headshots, and weed. Just like our lord no-scope 360 would have wanted it. This game might make 0 sense to you if you’re never watched a stereotypical montage video—they’re basically Call of Duty videos full of obnoxious elements like dubstep and people screaming over every single kill…

By Patricia Hernandez Published May 16, 2014

If Hearthstone Videos Were More Like Call of Duty Videos

You can expect a few things when you watch a Call of Duty montage—like dubstep, horns, dramatic text about no-scopes, and weed references. It’s kind of eyeroll-worthy, so it’s probably not surprising to hear that when you give Hearthstone videos the same treatment, something very silly happens. I’d say that card games weren’t meant to…

By Patricia Hernandez Published May 13, 2014

Call Of Duty Store Display

Eye-catching store display for Call of Duty. Via R/Gaming You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

By John Struan Published May 11, 2014

Steam’s Community Is Already Trolling The New Call of Duty

Remember Steam’s tag feature, which lets users label games with anything they’d like—provided the tags aren’t abusive or spoilery? They’ve struck again, and this time, their target isCall of Duty. If you look at Call of Duty’s Steam page right now, you’ll come across this (click to expand to see the text clearly): Notice the…

By Patricia Hernandez Published May 8, 2014

Humble Spring Sale, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Sony 65″ 4K

You probably didn’t have to watch the recent Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare reveal to know whether you’d be picking it up or not. Pre-order your version of choice and get $10 Best Buy credit. [Best Buy] Humble Spring Sale Humble has launched their Spring Sale, which runs for two weeks, has flash sales, and…

By Shane Roberts Published May 6, 2014

Report: Neversoft Merging With Call Of Duty Developer Infinity Ward

The studio that created Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater will soon be no more. According to an internal memo from Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg obtained by Giant Bomb, the 20-year-old studio is merging with Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward, and the Neversoft name is being retired. Neversoft was formed in July 1994 by Joel…

By Mike Fahey Published May 3, 2014