Call of Duty

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…

What We Can Learn From The First COD: Advanced Warfare Screens

In the year 2054, a private military corporation (PMC) emerges with the power to rescue humanity from a war devastated by a global attack on its infrastructure. We’ve seen the Spacey trailer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfighter Warfare. Now let’s see what the first three screens can tell us. Right off the bat, I’ve…

The Internet Reacts To The New Call of Duty

Surprise! There is a new Call of Duty this year. Usually, Call of Duty reveals are met with a lot of cynicism and snark about how stagnant the franchise had supposedly become. But this year? This year things are a little different. It’s future warfare, for one. FUTURE. Also, the game stars Kevin Spacey and…

Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare Is Real, Here’s The Debut Trailer

Because Modern Warfare isn’t modern enough any more. The next Call of Duty game is called Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Here’s the game’s first trailer. If you thought the second Black Ops game took some technical liberties, hoo boy. This one is going full-blown science-fiction. Note that the game doesn’t just star the vocal…

The Next Call Of Duty Stars…Kevin Spacey?

UPDATE – Looks like Spacey is actually in the game. Way more here. There was a bunch of Call of Duty stuff teased earlier today that, yawn, was about as interesting as watching people complaining about Call of Duty. This little trailer, though, is interesting If there’s one thing that could revive my interest in…

How A Dumb Gaming Rumor Spreads

Let’s take a quick trip into the strange world of video game rumors—and see how easy it is for misinformation to spread across the web. Today, rumors about the next Call of Duty popped up on a website called Bubblews.com. According to the article—posted under the byline “newsoftheday”—the next Call of Duty will be set…

Snoop Dogg Makes Call Of Duty Way More Fun

If your Call of Duty experience has been feeling a little repetitive lately, you can mix it up with the newest DLC, which replaces all voiceover with Snoop Dogg saying things like “You’ve lost the lead man, get your shit together!” Check out some of his best lines in this video from OutsideXbox. 30 Snoopiest…

Call of Duty Player Loses Game, Calls SWAT Team

Usually, the worst you can expect a Call of Duty opponent to do is to be a little salty after losing a match—maybe they’ll curse a little, maybe they’ll rate you badly on Xbox Live or something. But calling a SWAT team on you? Dang, bro. The New York Post reports that a prank caller…

Call of Duty Player Tricks Others Into Virtually Killing Themselves

One of the best ways to play Call of Duty, or really most first-person shooters, is to ditch the guns and the traditional deathmatch and whatever modes. If you’ve never played it, knife-only matches can be a lot of fun. They can also be the perfect set up for some hilarious trickery. Enter the always-entertaining…

Artists, Even Game Developers, Are Weird. That’s A Good Thing.

Video games have their rockstars. But they’re not the same kind of rockstars as the ones who strut around in dresses made of meat or go on talk shows to argue about their Twitter feuds. Compared to pop music or Hollywood, games often seem like they have a culture of celebrity that’s far more subtle.…

New Call of Duty DLC Has Snoop Dogg Announce Your Kills

Wait, what? A few things. Why does this exist and why didn’t this already exist? Regardless of the answers to these pressing questions, Call of Duty: Ghosts now officially has the best announcer in all of first-person shooters. The lines weren’t written by Snoop Dogg, but they may as well have been considering how naturally…

If It Bleeds, You Can Kill It As The Predator In Call Of Duty

It took a lot of self-control not to headline this post showcasing footage of Call of Duty: Ghost’s second DLC with something like ‘Playing As The Predator In Call of Duty Looks Beast*,’ just so you know. But it really does look awesome. This first video by sTaXx may be in Spanish, but it’s footage…

An Inside Look At A Call of Duty Championship

As a four-man team of pro gamers was crowned world champion of Call of Duty in Los Angeles Sunday night, confetti swarmed and fans cheered and it was easy for me to forget, as I stood to the side, that this championship bout was not a public event. Sure, thousands or millions of people may…

Predator Confirmed for Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ Next DLC

Call of Duty: Ghosts’ developers teased quite the interesting cameo last week for the game’s second DLC, Devastation. Their new gameplay trailer now confirms that 80s intergalactic hunter Predator will indeed join the battle. The expansion will also feature a four new maps: Ruins, Behemoth, Collision and Unearthed (Predator needs its jungle environment!), a unique…

If Video Game Covers Were More Honest

Over at Complex Gaming they’re having some fun adding “honest” blurbs to popular game covers, asking “What if games told the truth before you dropped $60?” Honestly, I’d probably buy them for the blurbs alone. For example, I still have not finished The Last of Us — I know, I am a communist for this.…

Call of Duty Teases a Predator Appearance in Next DLC

“It uses the jungle.” In anticipation of the April 3 release of its upcoming Devastation DLC, Infinity Ward—developers of 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts—released a video on Instagram (spotted on Polygon) that uses the signature visual distortion and sound effects of the Predator hunters from the movie franchise of the same name. The most recent…

16 Hours Of Gaming + Too Much Energy Drinks = Kidney Failure, Coma

“I was playing Call of Duty”, Norwegian teenager Henrik Eide Dahl told The Local. “Then everything went dark and I passed out.” Dahl, 14, had been playing the shooter on his school’s LAN with friends when, taking a break in the cafeteria, he collapsed. Rushed to hospital, his kidneys failed and he slipped into a…

Gallery of Call of Duty: Ghosts concept art and graphic design by Thomas Szakolczay

Wacky Titanfall News Report Has Halo, Call of Duty Shooting Each Other

Look, we can’t say that Next Media Animation’s segment on today’s hot release actually, y’know, makes sense, as far what the moving images signify. But it’s fun to watch. And, hey, it’s Francis! Think he knows he’s in this? The best part of NMA’s take on Titanfall has to be its terrible approximation of the…

Killstreaks: Tell Us How You Really Feel

Ah, the killstreak. A single idea that changed the face of multiplayer shooters. All these years later, has its time finally come? Is it time for the world to leave the killstreak behind? The killstreak is a multiplayer game feature popularized by Call of Duty, but these days the concept turns up in other games…