Call of Duty

Black Ops II Is So Classified It Won’t Run On Windows XP

You knew it was coming, XP users. Every operating system has to call it a day sooner or later, and 2012 – the year Windows 8 is released and DX11 becomes mainstream – looks like it’s the end for perhaps Microsoft’s best-loved gaming OS. I say this now because Call of Duty: Black Ops II…

Here’s Your Final Helping of Modern Warfare 3 Downloadable Content

Coming September 6 to the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the five new maps of Content Collection 4 (two previously exclusive to Elite Premium members) brings the content season to a close, paving the way for Black Ops 2 You know the drill by now, kids. The Xbox 360 version…

Black Ops II Hardened and Care Package Editions Offer Compelling Arguments for Spending More Money [Update]

As it does every year, Activision is stepping up to the plate to represent Call of Duty fans so dedicated that spending merely $60 on a video game does not properly express their love and devotion. A pair of images appearing on NeoGAF in advance of an official announcement demonstrate two ways to pay significantly…

What Makes A Good Knife Kill In First-Person Shooters

What’s the big deal about Counter-Strike? Wasn’t it just a Half-Life mod? Well that Half-Life mod was so popular that Valve developed it into a standalone, multiplayer first-person shooter. People lost hours of their lives playing version 1.6 of the game. And then when Valve released Counter-Strike: Source, an update to 1.6 that ran on…

According to a LinkedIn resume, Black Ops II will also be headed to the Wii U

Black Ops: Declassified Has A Promising Gamescom Debut, But The Jury’s Still Out

Still aching to scratch that FPS itch at school, work, on the bus, or anywhere that isn’t home? And not with virtual controls? Sony’s handheld Vita, with its twin analog sticks, should have been the device to scratch that itch. Sadly, though, the handheld has been light on first person shooters even after six months…

Check Out Black Ops 2‘s CODcasting in Action

In a live demonstration streamed direct from Gamescom in Germany earlier today, Activision and Treyarch showed off Call of Duty: Black Ops 2‘s exciting new multiplayer broadcasting tools. Finally a way for an unskilled loudmouth like me to enjoy Call of Duty! I can imagine my first broadcast bout already. I’ll pick an overlay, set…

The Gamescom Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 streaming live multiplayer event has started! Watch it here

This is Call of Duty‘s New Class Selection In Board Game Form

You can read about how Call of Duty: Black Ops II changes multiplayer class-selection with the introduction of a pick-10 system. It’s all explained right here. Or you can just stare at this board game prototype of the system from the creators of the game. The only thing that would make this better is if…

Our First Look At Call of Duty Running On A PlayStation Vita

We’ve been curious about how Call of Duty will run on Sony’s handheld Vita console ever since we first heard about the game, and today at Sony’s Gamescom press conference, we got a look at Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified in action. You can see the game doing its thing above. It looks… well,…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Vita Will Be Out This November

Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified will be out this November, Sony said today. It will have four-on-four multiplayer, Team Deathmatch modes, and other Vita-exclusive content. Sony will also sell bundles that feature both the game and PlayStation Vita systems. Here are more details from the PlayStation Blog: Developed by the team at Nihilistic Software,…

Black Ops II Multiplayer Blowout: Scorestreaks Replace Killstreaks, Livestreaming Goes Big-Time, Leagues, and More

So much for Call of Duty being gaming’s safely predictable 800lb gorilla. The people making the new Black Ops II are changing multiplayer. A lot. Adios, Killstreaks Black Ops II is still a first-person shooter (set in the high-tech future of 2025, mind you) and players will still be able to spend endless hours virtually…

You Might Have Missed These Important Details In That New Black Ops II Trailer

Breaking down trailers into a step by step analysis, or even just viewing them in slow motion, can reveal a lot of interesting information about upcoming games. Did you notice, for instance, that Nintendo DS on the multiplayer battlefields of Black Ops II? You can totally play Pokémon with it in case you’re bored in…

You’ll be able to see Black Ops II‘s multiplayer played from Gamescom next week via livestream

Mom Learns Lesson After Five Day Modern Warfare Marathon Sends Her Kid to the Hospital

And you thought gaming unto exhaustion was a phenomenon restricted to Asia. Well, somehow, a 15-year-old Ohio boy gamed so hard on Modern Warfare 3 he required hospitalization for dehydration. What’s more, the boy’s own mother told local news he was locked inside his room with the game for “at least four days. Maybe five,”…

This Unconfirmed Campaign Breakdown of Black Ops II Is Making the Rounds

This is going to sound like one of those stories in which a friend of a friend heard something from a janitor’s mother-in-law. This isn’t like last year, when we had the story of Modern Warfare 3 dead to rights in May, six months before the game’s release, thanks to some chatty sources. But we’d…

Black Ops II Looks Great In Super Slow Mo

We’ve slowed yesterday’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer trailer to about 1/20th its normal speed. Because most things look cooler in super slow-mo.

First Look at Call of Duty: Black Ops II‘s Multiplayer

This is your first look at multiplayer in this November’s presumed mega-hit, Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Call of Duty fans, this is why you play, no? The battles appear to be taking place in the game’s near-future of 2025. We’ve got some most unusual knife and tomahawk kills. Some sort of microwave transmitter…

Call of Duty Elite now has 12 million users, according to Activision boss Eric Hirshberg. Paid users: 2.3 million.

The Designer of Call of Duty‘s ‘No Russian’ Massacre Wanted You to Feel Something

Long-time Call of Duty game developer Mohammad Alavi designed Call of Duty IV‘s famous ghillie suit level and Modern Warfare 2‘s notorious interactive massacre of civilians, the level called “No Russian.” In a stellar piece about interactive atrocity, game designer Matthew Burns gets Alavi to explain the intent behind that level, a level in which…