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Activision Teams Pros With GI Joes
Activision is teaming up with nonprofit troop support organization Pro vs. GI Joe for the Activision Showdown series, pitting pro-athletes against our troops overseas in games like Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. Call of Duty seems like a rather odd choice of games to play with troops who regularly see live combat, which is…
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Call of Dookie: Modern Walmart
Something about this story is a little too perfect. But let’s take it at face value. This guy went into a Walmart customer bathroom and found the commode bowl filled with Call of Duty. Writes blogger Kevin Gannon: I was looking at the guns and huge knives while Carlos was in the bathroom. He came…
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Rumor: Call of Duty Moving on to Vietnam?
Citing a confidential source, That VideoGame Blog says Activision is pursuing licenses for Vietnam War-era music, as well as Cuban, Soviet Union and African music. They also infer that Treyarch will be the developer. TVGB says that Noah Heller is involved with this supposed CoD 7; he was the senior producer on World at War,…
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Study Says Playing Shooters Improves Vision
How’s your “contrast sensitivity”? What’s that? Well it helps you see in the dark, and read, and it degrades in old age. But a study found it improves in gamers who play shooters. The research, reported in the latest edition of Nature Neuroscience, took a very deep look at how games affect vision. The results…
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Original Call Of Duty Coming To Xbox Live, PlayStation Network
The original PC title that launched the Call of Duty franchise is finally getting the console treatment, as an ESRB rating reveals an impending release on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Not only does the ESRB rating for Activision’s Call of Duty suddenly include the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the European review…
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The Art of War
War is a theme that has always been found in the video game medium; leaps in game presentation have typically corresponded to some kind of combat themed game. In the more than 15 years since the introduction of the first-person shooter genre, and nearly 10 since tactical shooters came on the scene, the progressive immersion…
By Owen Good
