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Looks Like the Next Black Ops Is a Little More Modern
Call of Duty developers Treyarch have only ever made games set in the past. Whether that be the Second World War or the Cold War, doesn’t matter, their games have never seen the 1990s, let alone today. But that looks like it’s set to change with the next game in the series. What will surely…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 30, 2012 -
There’s Morse Code on the Call of Duty Website. Here’s What It Says.
It’s quick as can be but there’s an obscure teaser for Activision’s next big first-person shooter on the Call of Duty website. The concentric circles on the loading screen for CallofDuty.com contain morse code. You probably know what it says already, but it’s safe to consider this a sneaky sort-of confirmation from Activision. (If not,…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 30, 2012 -
Modern Warfare 3 is Finally Releasing New Maps for PC Gamers
Ha ha, but who plays Modern Warfare 3 on PC amirite? Well, people do in numbers enough that Activision’s finally decided to sell them the “Content Collection 1” made available to Xbox 360 gamers earlier this year. It’s the first post-release content to become available for this version of the game. Content Collection 1 will…
By Owen Good Published April 28, 2012 -
Pre-Order Cards Show Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 As Coming November 13th
Rumors have pegged this year’s Call of Duty as a sequel to the Treyarch-developed Black Ops. Now, an image of Target pre-order cards running on IGN appears to confirm the title and show a release date of November 13th. If you’re keeping score, that’s one week after Halo 4 The release date follows rumors of…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 27, 2012 -
First Black Ops 2 “Screenshots” Leaked Via Special Effects Company
Some images, reportedly originating from the website of Hollywood special effects company Reel EFX (but since pulled), look like they could be our first look at the next Call of Duty game. Or at least some parts of it. For a while now, Activision has been teasing the game with shots of a gun-toting “quadcopter”,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 -
The Star of the Next Call of Duty Could Be This Machine-Gun Quadcopter
The sun sets every day. And it rises, too. You can depend on things like that. Just like the yellow gas giant we orbit around, you can also depend on a new Call of Duty game coming out this year. No surprise there, right? But what kinds of terrible, death-dealing technology will it feature, you…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 23, 2012 -
Another Day, Another Death Threat From Gamers to The People Who Make Video Games
“The very first death threat I got was when we decided not to support dedicated servers in Modern Warfare 2,” Robert Bowling, the former public face for the Call of Duty series, recently told me. That was in 2009. He’s had many more since, including batches of them every month throughout last year. “They were…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 23, 2012 -
On May 1, A New Call of Duty Game Will be Revealed
A new Call of Duty game reveal? Already? It’s OK. I’m as shocked/speechless/breathless as you are. Activision has updated Call of Duty’s official site with a new splash page saying that, on May 1, there’ll be a “World Reveal”. Given the increasing buzz/chatter flying around it’s probably for either Black Ops 2 or, as was…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 22, 2012 -
If Activision is Releasing “Call of Duty: Eclipse” They Picked a Good Day to Do It
I was on the fence about posting this because, I mean, “Black Ops 2 coming out in November?” Stop the presses, that’s like “Call of Duty is coming out this year”-type news. But the game does seem to have a clever codename, unless the codename is actually its title. Rumor has it that the marketing…
By Owen Good Published April 22, 2012 -
Spectacular Modern Warfare 3 Thowing Knife Kill Foiled by Pesky Portable Radar
YouTube user TehPadre would have had a pretty spectacular cross-map throwing knife kill on his hands, if not for the courageous efforts of a portable handheld radar. Missed it by that much! Good thing TehPadre checks his replays after every long-distance throwing knife attack. If not he never would have known the man that shot…
By Mike Fahey Published April 20, 2012 -
The Call of Duty Tactics Game That Never Happened
Infinity Ward may have created Call of Duty but publisher Activision has always wanted to take the hit war-game series into different directions. Most of those efforts stalled—like the third-person variant that dev studio Sledgehammer was working on—and the public never gets to see what might have been But what you’re seeing above is animation…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 19, 2012 -
Norway Killer’s Court Testimony Reveals How He Used Call of Duty to Train
It’s already a matter of record that Anders Behring Breivik wrote about using Call of Duty to hone his marksmanship before he shot 69 people to death last year. But yesterday he testified in a Norwegian court about the roles that the first-person-shooter series and World of Warcraft played in his life leading up to…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 19, 2012 -
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Call of Duty: Elite Abandoning Japanese
The much ballyhooed Call of Duty: Elite online service will not be available in Japan. Square Enix, Call of Duty‘s publisher in Japan, revealed that a Japanese version isn’t happening due to localization issues. According to Square Enix, the game’s original publisher, Activision, worked hard to get localized versions of Elite released in different territories.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2012 -
Is This an Official Poster for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2?
It’s looking more and more like this year’s Call of Duty is going to be a sequel to 2010’s Black Ops. A retail source forwarded the following image from a poster received today. It’s been widely speculated that this year’s Call of Duty game will be a sequel to Black Ops, which was developed by…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 18, 2012 -
Pro-Hitler Video is a Call of Duty Elite ‘Staff Pick’
You’d expect to see videos showcasing epic killstreaks and particularly inventive death-dealing chosen to be highlighted as staff picks on Call of Duty Elite‘s Theater pages. You might not expect to find Adolf Hitler there, though. And yet, there he is. Alongside how-to videos where players show other players how best to wield certain weapons,…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 16, 2012 -
Call of Duty Might Finally be Running Out of Puff
For years now, through thick and thin, one thing has remained constant in this business: every holiday season, a new Call of Duty game arrives and outsells the last one. Except for this year, that is, because it looks like 2011’s Modern Wafare 3 will, at the rate things are going, sell less copies than…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 15, 2012 -
Conan O’Brien Debuts Call of Duty: Teenage Girl Edition and Keeping Away From the Kardashians
Black Ops 2? Forget that noise. Late-night funnyman Conan O’Brian has the scoop on Activision’s not-actually-real bid to win over a segment of the population who probably isn’t playing the company’s hit FPS franchise. Call of Duty: Teenage Girl Edition led the way in a segment of fake video games that the red-haired talk show…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 5, 2012 -
A Real Shooting Range for Call of Duty Fans
Machine Guns Vegas, a company in…Las Vegas which lets you shoot…machine guns, likes to entice customers with themed package deals. One of those is called the “COD”, and lets fans of Activision’s Call of Duty series squeeze off rounds from some of the series’ most prominent firearms. For $170 per person, you get 25 rounds…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 2, 2012 -
The Nasty Twitter Hate Sent To the Former Face of Call of Duty
We know that Twitter is a forum rife with negativity, just as surely as we know that Xbox Live contains the same. But it’s still sobering to look at the kind of venom that was spewed in the direction of Robert Bowling, who recently resigned as the public face and “creative strategist” of lead Call…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 28, 2012