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Call of Duty: Ghosts for $45

We’re going in hot. Grab today’s mega-release of Call of Duty: Ghosts for the Xbox 360, PS3, and even Wii U for just $45 on its release day. Keep that wallet frosty. [Newegg via eBay] PC gamers can pay $3 more to get the [Steam] version from GreenManGaming using promo code GMG20-P6Y1F-KC19F [GreenManGaming] Follow Kotaku…

Call of Duty: Ghosts: The Kotaku Review

Three men huddle around a campfire, eager to hear the story of an elite force of highly-feared soldiers. Ghosts, they’re called. Two of the men listening—the sons, Logan and Hesh Walker—are skeptical. Surely the tale-spinning father doesn’t expect them to believe such an outlandish story? They’re skeptical, but we know the story is true, because…

If You Think About It This Way, Call of Duty Is Quite a Bargain

Call of Duty, like so many other games, is a better value over time. The more you play it, the less expensive its $60 price tag seems to have been. How cheap? Well, even if you buy all the map packs and play just two hours a week, the cost goes down to a dollar…

‘Offline Play Enabled’ Is Now a Back-of-the-Box Feature

Has this been a thing and we just missed it? Or is this a sign of our increasingly-online gaming future where even the back of a copy of the PS4 version of Call of Duty: Ghosts has to provide a reassurance that, hey, don’t worry, you can still play this game without an Internet connection?…

Call of Duty Makers Explain Why Resolution Is Lower On Xbox One

When word came out last month that upcoming dog simulator Call of Duty: Ghosts runs at a higher resolution on PS4 than it does on Xbox One, the reactions were loud and angry. Was this a launch-day anomaly, or will all multi-platform games perform better on Sony’s console? Today, the people who make Call of…

Call of Duty‘s original working title was “Medal of Honor Killer,” reports GameSpot. Mission accomplished, I’d say.

Next-Gen Games Will Fill Our New Consoles’ Hard Drives In No Time

The PlayStation 4’s internal hard drive is 500GB, and if you buy and start playing just two of its launch day first-person shooters this month, you may already be using more than a 10th of the drive. Welcome to a somewhat different era of console gaming. Above you’ll the see part of the back of…

Megan Fox Stars in the Latest Call of Duty: Ghosts Live-Action Trailer

You’re gonna live ’til you die in Call of Duty: Ghosts which, for millions on Tuesday, will be about 16 seconds after spawning. A bombed-out, bro’d out Vegas stars alongside Megan Fox (Bad Boys II, as “Stars-and-Stripes Bikini Kid Dancing Under Waterfall”) in the live-action launch trailer Activision just pushed out for its megabazillion-dollar franchise.…

Meet the Specialists of Call of Duty‘s Extinction Mode

Extinction, the horde mode replacing (or so it seems) zombies for Call of Duty: Ghosts will feature four classes specific to the mode, according to this post yesterday afternoon from the game’s developer. The classes are rather meat-and-potatoes: Weapon Specialist, Tank, Engineer and Medic. The first two are your offensive classes, the second two are…

Confirmed: Call of Duty Ghosts at Lower Resolution on Xbox One

After a week of rumors and a day after we cited our own sources’ assertions, Activision is now confirming that, yes, indeed, Call of Duty: Ghosts will run in 720p resolution on Xbox One, 1080p on PlayStation 4. Sixty frames per second on both. Technically, the Xbox One will bump Ghosts up to 1080p. On…

Next Month’s Call of Duty Adds… Aliens

A rumor yesterday, an official trailer today: it’s the new co-op mode for Call of Duty: Ghosts. We’ll be shooting aliens. Activision says: “Call of Duty: Ghosts introduces Extinction – an all-new 1-4 player cooperative game mode featuring a unique blend of fast-paced survival action, FPS base defense, scavenging and class leveling…” To contact the…

Fans Trash Call Of Duty Booth At Games Expo

Someone at Activision thought it would be a good idea to hand out $200 editions of the next Call of Duty game to the first 500 people who could get to the game’s booth at the Milan Games Week. No other rules. Just get there first. Surprise: it was not a good idea. Not sure…

‘Extinction Mode’ Among the Rumors Trickling From Call of Duty: Ghosts

With about a week to go before the latest Call of Duty hits shelves, this is high season for pre-release leaks from those who managed to cajole an early retail copy out of someone. Did you know Call of Duty: Ghosts is on two discs for the Xbox 360? Yeah, well, neither did I. There’s…

RPG Elements Keep Us Playing, For Better And For Worse

You spend time or energy, you gotta get something out of it. Self-improvement. Money, maybe. Experience, at least. This simple idea is so powerful and pervasive that of course games have modeled it—experience points, levels, and skill trees (otherwise known as role-playing game elements) are things that have been around for a while. But it…

There’s a rumour that the next Call of Duty runs at 1080p on PS4 and 720p on Xbox One. For those who care, we’re looking into it with Activision, and will get back to you if we hear back.

Forget The Console War. This Is The Dog War.

In a matter of weeks, EA’s Battlefield 4 and Activision’s Call of Duty: Ghosts will represent their respective series in the usual fall battle for the attentions of first-person shooter fans. Predictably, the competition between the two games has recently been heating up. You could say it’s turned into a real… dogfight. How did dogs…

We Are Still Shooting The Hinges, And It Still Sucks

It’s been three years since, up to our eyeballs in snow, bullet casings and blood, we were reminded to “shoot the hinges”. A seemingly insignificant part of Call of Duty: Black Ops had become, through a video capturing one act of patience, a poster child for all that was wrong – and is still wrong…

With Any Luck, Call of Duty Just Made Tea-Bagging Uncool

Nothing against tea-bagging in first-person shooters other than it being played out, stupid-looking and annoying. But I guess it’s also super-hilarious, hence this immortal awards show moment a couple of years ago. Uproarious! Now. Despite the good people at Microsoft’s Halo development team trying to re-dub “tea-bagging” as “victory-crouching“, the former is still a thing.…

There’s Far Too Much Eminem In The Call Of Duty Dog Music Video

I just want to listen to some music and look at dogs, but no — here’s Eminem droning on and on about shitting on his microphone and making stupid G-Unit puns. Oh wait, I guess this is supposed to be a video for Eminem’s “Survival”, the song that debuted in part during a Call of…

Classic Call of Duty Makes Quite An Emotional Fan Film

If you need some gloom to start (or end) your day, look no further. Director Jared Pelletier returns with Call of Duty: Finest Hour, a fan short which takes place during World War II and gives us a taste of the drama that might have went on on a battlefield. Not child-screaming-obscenities-at-you-over-VoIP drama, mind you,…