Call of Duty

At Least Call Of Duty’s Commercials Are Still Fun

Say what you will about Call of Duty’s diminishing returns as games, but even those unmoved by perks and tangos can usually enjoy the ridiculously OTT trailers Activision puts together to sell the series. Take this new one today. It’s for some DLC. A few maps, that sort of stuff. But they went out and…

Call of Duty‘s DLC Will Turn You Into Michael Myers from Halloween

That quick tease Activision gave this morning of Call of Duty‘s new maps “doesn’t look anything like Call of Duty,” I said. Well, there’s a reason you’re lugging around a fire axe. One map, “Fog” will turn you into Michael Myers, the killer from Halloween. Completing a field order in fog turns you into the…

It’s official. Confirming the earlier rumor, the Onslaught DLC for Call of Duty: Ghosts will release Jan. 28. Activision released the following short trailer detailing the first episode of a four-part Extinction-mode story. It doesn’t look anything like Call of Duty.

This Poster Says Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ First DLC Arrives Jan. 28

This is reportedly a GameStop promotional poster dating Call of Duty: Ghosts’ first DLC installment, Onslaught for Jan. 28. It was tweeted out yesterday and picked up by the Call of Duty enthusiast site CharlieIntel It describes four new maps—Fog, Bayview, Containment and Ignition—and two bonus weapons. Episode one of the Extinction-mode narrative announced back…

The Call of Duty: Ghosts That Could Have Been

The most recent Call of Duty release was pretty much a bust, but what if it looked a bit more like this? Would you play it then? Can you imagine the reaction it would have gotten? I believe most of it would be somewhere between stunned, mouths agape and a frantic running/yelling combination in the…

Call of Duty’s Dog Gets The Action Figure He Deserves

2013 may have been The Year of Luigi, but it was also The Year of Riley, Call of Duty: Ghost’s canine companion giving the series its first awesome character in years. That’s a feat worth celebrating with a custom action figure. Made by sigsauerp226r, and shared by Infinity Ward, the presence of a Hesh figure…

Call of Duty, BioShock Infinite More Enjoyable As Text Adventures

As they did lastyear, the team at PC Gamer are ringing in the new year by celebrating the biggest games of the old year. And by celebrating, I mean re-doing them as text adventures. There are two of them so far, both of them shooters, one which was fairly terrible, the other which, well, let’s…

Onslaught. Devastation. Invasion. Nemesis. + Extinction x4 The four DLC packs coming to Call of Duty Ghosts through 2014 will also include a four-part episodic adventure in the game’s co-op players vs. aliens Extinction mode, as explained today in the new Season Pass trailer for Ghosts.

Confusing U.S. Military Lingo Explained

Before Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 made “Oscar Mike” (“on the move”) famous, I confess that I’d never heard the expression before. But that’s just one phrase in a rich vocabulary of U.S. military slang. Website Global Post has a glossary of military terms, some of them appearing within the last decade, some of…

Here’s Another Call of Duty: Ghosts Comparison For Xbox One and PS4

Last month, we saw Call of Duty: Ghosts compared on PS3, Xbox 360, and PS4. In the following video, you can finally see the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game compared. It’s really getting harder and harder to tell the difference. At least for me. Can you spot any discrepancies? It’s a YouTube…

How Much Did You Spend On Gaming In November?

We’ve made it through November, a month packed with two next-gen console releases and a bunch of new releases from some of gaming’s biggest franchises. Now we’ve got time to pause and reflect on the damage we did to our wallets over the past 30 days. How much did you pay for games in November?…

Call of Duty: Ghosts Compared on Xbox One and Xbox 360

Last time we saw a Call of Duty comparison,it was between every console except for the Xbox One.That’s not very useful for those of you that are curious about the Xbox One! Thankfully, VideoGamerTV has a graphics comparison here—it’s between the 360 and the Xbox One. As you might expect, the Xbox One version has…

Xbox One Call of Duty Offers Better Framerate than PS4, Say Reviewers

The furor that kicked up two weeks ago over Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ native resolution on the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One appears to have gotten its sequel. With reviews of the Xbox One version trickling in today, some are saying the Xbox One does not suffer the framerate drops that were reported in…

Okay, Maybe Call Of Duty: Ghost‘s Spawning Could Use Some Work

Now I’m no first-person shooter expert, but I’m pretty sure you shouldn’t be able to kill the same opponent four times in ten seconds. Not only does YouTube’s Gold Glove kill one guy four times in that time span during this Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer match, he kills another two enemy players while he’s…

Meet The Guy Who Got The Xbox One Early

Before Monday, André Weingarten figured he was out of luck. A devoted Xbox user from day one—he replaced two red-ringed 360s—Weingarten didn’t have a preorder down for the newest console. Then, lo and behold, Target had them in stock online. And then, incredibly, Weingarten had an Xbox One on his doorstep four days later. “I…

No, Call of Duty: Ghosts Did Not Make $1 Billion on Its First Day

Call of Duty: Ghosts didn’t get the usual triumphal announcement from Activision that it was the biggest entertainment launch of the year. Because, one assumes, it was not. Activision did say that $1 billion worth of Call of Duty was on retailers’ shelves. Why is that worth bragging about? Well, this video is why. Here…

Wild Offer of Free Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed Floods Canada Stores

So, let’s get this straight. In Canada this weekend, take any Xbox 360 or PS3 game—good, bad or ugly; GOTY or shovelware—trade it in, and get a free copy of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Call of Duty: Ghosts or Battlefield 4. Is that right? Is someone smoking crack up there? Not you, mayor ……

Melodic Duty: check out this awesome ‘gun sync‘ by Ash100HD performed in Call of Duty: Ghosts. It took nine hours to make, but the gun sound effects almost feel like they’re a part of the original song, right?

Call of Rupees: check out this unexpected Zelda easter egg in Call of Duty: Ghosts…if you’re squinting, the award is for ‘most bushes cut and pots smashed.’ And the award to the left? It might just be a TARDIS… (via r/Zelda)

2013 Call of Duty Lifts Scene From 2009 Call of Duty

Is it recycling? A homage? A cry for help? All of the above? As you can see in the above video by YouTuber satantribal, parts of the prologue of Call of Duty: Ghosts, released yesterday, mirror the ending of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, released in 2009. (Ghosts is the one on the right.)…