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First Modern Warfare 3 DLC Coming in January
On a video show that’s part of Call of Duty Elite’s premium servive, Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling announced that the “content season” for Modern Warfare 3 will start on January 24th. That’s presumably when the first DLC will go live. It’s not clear if that date is when Elite premium members will be getting the…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 21, 2011 -
How To Hire an In-Game Bodyguard, and Why You Should
Games like Battlefield and Call of Duty are worst when they are played by casual fans, people who may enjoy the occasional match but who don’t take the time to daily hone their skills. I fit neatly into that category. Despite being a big fan of military shooters, I’m not very good at them. But…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2011 -
This Modern Warfare Missile Was Very Well-Fired
A missile “threads the needle” in Modern Warfare 3 in this amazing clip by YouTube user KingGreqo If you’re ever wondering why you’re getting killed so much playing MW3, it’s because you’re playing against people who can do this. Threading the Needle [YouTube]
By Stephen Totilo Published December 14, 2011 -
You Can Be Temporarily Banned from Modern Warfare 3 For 5000 Days
People are getting hit with 5000-day bands in Modern Warfare 3, and the people behind the game say it’s intentional. “Yes. If you see this message, it means you’ve been Permabanned (for something bad),” Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling Tweeted today in response to online news site MP1st wondering about the image atop this story We…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 13, 2011 -
Modern Warfare 3 Gets a Bundle of Tweaks with Tonight’s ‘Hot Fix Update’
A slew of multiplayer tweaks will take effect in Modern Warfare 3 via an update to the game tonight, according to Infinity Ward. They include nerfing the Type 95 and fixing Dome map exploits. Read the full change list
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
For the Right Price These Gamers Will Die For You
This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: “I will take bullets for you,” it read. And he did. Contact made, cash transfer confirmed, Londoner Toby Smith met me on a bluff overlooking the border between Iran and Turkmenistan on an early December afternoon armed with an M416 assault rifle.…
By Brian Crecente Published December 12, 2011 -
Call of Duty Maker Gets Teabagged As Charlie Sheen Watches
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 picked up the award for best shooter during Spike TV’s Video Game Awards show tonight, but not without causality. The rules of the VGA acceptance speech are: If you go past your allotted time, a cosplaying soldier teabags you on stage. When Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling blew…
By Brian Crecente Published December 10, 2011 -
Video Game Awards Show Host Gets Teabagged. This Ain’t the Oscars.
If you win an Oscar and ramble through your acceptance speech, the orchestra will drown you out and the cameras will cut away. But, if you’re a game developer and you prattle too much at the Spike Video Game Awards, you might have a man drop his crotch on our face. It’s called teabagging. It’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 10, 2011 -
Modern Warfare Played on a Truly Enormous HD Screen
Cowboys Stadium is home to the world’s second largest HD screen. Who wants to watch football on that when it screams video games? That’s exactly what one lucky dude did with his three lucky friends. This was the grand sweepstakes prize as part of a Modern Warfare 3 promotion. When completed in 2009, the screen…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 9, 2011 -
Battlefield‘s Taken a Piece of Call of Duty‘s Pie, Says Peter Moore
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 left an inch-deep bootprint on video gaming’s biggest retail month, and dominated most measures the popular press use to designate big-game-itude. Yet Peter Moore, the Electronic Arts chief operating officer, is insisting his label’s Battlefield 3 drew blood from the year’s biggest commercial release. “I think when the dust…
By Owen Good Published December 8, 2011 -
Red Cross Won’t Go After You For Playing War Games
Virtual war crimes won’t lead to real world prosecution, the International Committee of the Red Cross clarified today. While the international humanitarian group has discussed whether the Geneva and Hague conventions should be applied to the fictional recreation of war in video games it isn’t doing so to potentially prosecute gamers. Rather, they say, they…
By Brian Crecente Published December 8, 2011 -
Modern Warfare‘s Most Magical Kills Involve Sliding Care Packages, Levitating Cinderblocks
YouTube user AmazingFilms247 keeps posting ridiculous Modern Warfare 3 (and Modern Warfare 2) multiplayer videos on YouTube. They show just how amazing Activision’s popular shooter is at breaking its own rules of physics. Care packages on ice! Levitating cinderblocks! And more… enjoy!
By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2011 -
It’s Time for a War Game that Respects the Geneva Conventions
Despite its inherent brutality, war has rules. Laws of war have been around in one form or another since Biblical times. They govern the treatment of prisoners of war, the expediency of death on a battlefield. Could they, should they also pertain to the depiction of virtual war in video games? That’s the question the…
By Brian Crecente Published December 5, 2011 -
Games Animator Blames Ridiculous NHL Promotion for Vaporized Profits
A company that supplies 3D mapping technology for games like Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed saw a £3 million drop in its profits this year, and blamed the fact it spent way too much time animating a bunch of dumbass superheroes Stan Lee thought up for the National Hockey League The “NHL Guardians” was…
By Owen Good Published December 3, 2011 -
How To Unlock Call of Duty’s Robotron-esque Dead Ops on Your iPhone or iPad
Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies is a fun, slick iPhone and iPad game in its own right, supporting both single player and multiplayer marathons sessions of first-person shooter survival against hordes of zombies. But the game’s Dead Ops Arcade mode is almost more fun. The weird thing is, you have to do a little…
By Brian Crecente Published December 2, 2011 -
War Crimes in Video Games Draw Red Cross Scrutiny
One of the world’s largest and most respected humanitarian groups in the world is investigating whether the Geneva and Hague conventions should be applied to the fictional recreation of war in video games. If they agree those standards should be applied, the International Committee of the Red Cross says they may ask developers to adhere…
By Brian Crecente Published December 2, 2011 -
Why Modern Warfare 3 Remains an Un-Game
Republished from Rock, Paper Shotgun. Last Wednesday Kotaku republished (with permission, of course) my review of Modern Warfare 3′s single player campaign. A review in which I described it as an “un-game with a core of nastiness”. This caught the attention of Kill Screen’s Brendan Keogh, who wrote a riposte to my piece on the…
John Walker | Rock Paper Shotgun Published December 1, 2011 -
So This Call of Duty Ad is Much Better
OK, so that first Jonah Hill x Sam Worthington Call of Duty ad was…OK. A little cheesy, a little much, but OK. Their newer, second commercial is much better. Less effects, less bombast. Just two dudes from different sides of the tracks hangin’ out, talking tactics. It drags in parts, and Hill’s leaner face is…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2011