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Gamer Husband: Free To A Good Home
A frustrated Utah woman listed her Call of Duty-playing husband on her local Craigslist as free to a good home, “if acceptable replacement is offered will trade.” “I am selling my 22 year old husband. He enjoys eating and playing video games all day. Easy to maintain, just feed and water every 3-5 hours. You…
By Brian Crecente Published November 21, 2011 -
This Dude Banks a Knife Off a Helicopter in Modern Warfare 3, And So it Begins
People have been landing insanely improbable kills in Call of Duty for years now, but of all the videos I have seen, this one is the craziest. The knife literally banks of a helicopter, then falls onto the soldier underneath it. In conclusion, stay inside.
By Chris Carolan Published November 21, 2011 -
79.9 Years Is Too Damn Long To Play Call of Duty
In 79 years, I’ll probably be dead. So will the vast majority of our readers, save for the little assholes on Xbox Live. For reader Jeremy (not an asshole!), 79.9 years is apparently how long it will take him to reach “Prestige” in Call of Duty Prestige is, of course, the highest ranking CoD players…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 21, 2011 -
Call of Duty: Elite‘s 404 Page Is Wonderful
Call of Duty: Elite is suffering a rocky rollout. Things haven’t gone as expected, but in good time, Activision will hopefully get things ironed out. Until then, there’s this. The above 404 image appears when you try to enter “status” on the Call of Duty: Elite website. It sums up how many feel about the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 21, 2011 -
A Children’s Treasury of Insane Throwing-Knife Kills in Modern Warfare 3
Last night we were sent the clip of the insane bank-shot knife kill you see above, courtesy of the unwitting victim felled by it. We have no illusions that this is the first WTF knife kill for a game that’s been out for two weeks, and played by millions online since its release. Another year,…
By Owen Good Published November 20, 2011 -
Infinity Ward Bans 1,600 Modern Warfare 3 Cheaters, Asks What You’re Lookin’ At
Robert Bowling done tole you now son, so don’t sit there and act all surprised-like. Yesterday Bowling, the Infinity Ward creative strategist, tweeted that another 1,600 cheaters have been banned since Four Zero Two promised them a ass-busting back on release day. “Any attempt to cheat, hack, or glitch in #MW3 will not be tolerated.…
By Owen Good Published November 19, 2011 -
Are These the Best Modern Warfare 3 Players in the World?
There appear to be at least two Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 players in the world who have essentially leveled up 800 times each. Eight hundred times. The Call of Duty games have something called Prestige Mode. It allows a player who has reached the higher online level in the game’s multiplayer to give…
By Brian Crecente Published November 18, 2011 -
GameStop Alone Sold 600,000 Memberships to Call of Duty’s Elite Service
Call of Duty Elite’s launch was rocky, Activision tells us, missteps were made, but we’ve never had any sense of just how many paying customers it might have attracted, until now. During their third-quarter earnings report yesterday, GameStop spilled the beans on just how many people picked up the paid version of the community-building, stat-tracking,…
By Brian Crecente Published November 18, 2011 -
So 53% of Battlefield 3 Players On Xbox 360 Also Played Call of Duty
Not content with the knowledge that Modern Warfare 3 was always going to sell a ton more copies than supposed rival Battlefield 3, gaming research firm Raptr decided to track how many hours people spent actually playing both games. Using a combination of data from a 10-million “gamer network” and a 6000-person survey, Raptr found…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2011 -
Modern Warfare 3 Developer Pleads for Better Metascores, Discovers That’s a Stupid Idea
Why someone from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 developer Sledgehammer would consider its fan-voted Metacritic score worth a get-out-the-vote tweet is utterly beyond me. It is by far the most polarizing title among gaming’s annual releases, so a user score of 1.7 is probably to be expected, given how much gaming’s snobs cognoscenti despise…
By Owen Good Published November 17, 2011 -
It’s Going to Take a “Couple of Weeks” to Make Call of Duty Elite Fully Functional, Says Developer
It wasn’t the numbers that knocked Call of Duty: Elite on its ass the day it went live, it was the questions. Speaking with Kotaku earlier this week Daniel Suarez, vice president of production at Activision, walked us through how one of the most experienced online gaming companies in the world was blindsided by the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2011 -
Call of Duty Pulls In More than Three-Quarters of a Billion Dollars in Five Days, And Other Insane Numbers
Following in the footsteps of the last three Activision military shooters, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 had a record-breaking, money-printing first five days, pulling in more than $775 million in worldwide sales, Activision reports. “With $775 million of sales of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in its first five days, Call of Duty…
By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2011 -
Innovation Has Never Been the Cornerstone of the Video Game Industry
As expected, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is a huge seller and is breaking all kinds of sales records. It’s been parodied on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and is being blamed for the loss of the Louisville Cardinals this past weekend. The game has its fans and it has its critics, and…
Scott Patterson Published November 16, 2011 -
Black Ops Finally Surrenders Top Slot on Xbox Live—to Modern Warfare 3
Fending off challenges from Gears of War 3 and Battlefield 3 during their launch weeks, Call of Duty: Black Ops at last met its match this past week—in its successor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Xbox Live’s Major Nelson reports Modern Warfare 3 was the console service’s most popular game for the past week,…
By Owen Good Published November 16, 2011 -
Call of Duty Thief Escapes in Waiting Getaway Car
Is it just me or are Call of Duty thefts starting to sound more and more like missions from the game? The latest snatch and grab of the Activision shooter happened last week when a man swiped ten copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from a display stand at a Tesco in the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 16, 2011 -
Call of Duty Elite Is Coming to PC. One Day.
The stat-tracking, community-driven Call of Duty: Elite is still missing in action. Problems have continued to plague the free and premium versions. It’s still broken Previously, Elite‘s developers stated in a now-erased tweet that it “cannot guarantee if or when a version will be available for the PC.” Now, it looks like there will be…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 16, 2011 -
Elite Update: Blah, Blah, Blah, It’s Still Broken
A week after the tremendously successful release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, a game that more than 6.5 million people picked up on the first day, the massive community-driven, stat-tracking element of the game remains unstable at best. Call of Duty: Elite was meant to herald a new era for the annual Activision…
By Brian Crecente Published November 15, 2011 -
Reviews
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: The Kotaku Review
Liquid fast, meticulously polished, wickedly consuming: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 doesn’t deliver stories or engender emotion in its players, but rather deals in raw adrenaline. A match of Modern Warfare 3 is punctuated by the rush of a well-placed shot, the anger at a surprise, unjust death. Infinity Ward’s latest iteration on the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 15, 2011 -
The Hell Is Up with Chickens in Modern Warfare 3?
World War III throws the globe into chaos. Cities are being destroyed. People are fighting. People are dying. And what are the chickens doing? Dancing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was released on Nov. 8. It has chickens. MW3: SPAZZMATICA CHICKEN POLKA DANCE [YouTube Thanks, Scott!] You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2011 -
Belgium Mom Wraps Up a Profanity-Laced Call of Duty Session With Some Gunfire
This charming foul-mouthed hardcore gaming mom helps to elucidate some of the problems we all stumble across while playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 online. Some weapons, she points out, are a little overpowered. The game allows you to transition to the scope view on a gun a bit too quickly and other players…
By Brian Crecente Published November 14, 2011