| | Ubisoft wants more (and more) Assassin’s Creed. Do You? | 
Geoffrey Tim - January 26th, 2012 | I love the Assassin’s Creed Franchise. Well, I fell in love with it after the second game, at any rate. Since then? There’s been a new Assassin’s Creed game every year and it seems that Ubisoft is only too happy to annualise the series. While some might feel that regular, annual iterations will only dilute the brand and led to gamer fatigue, Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot believes otherwise.The regular releases, he says, are necessary to "satisfy the demand". ... [»] | 
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| Jailed Megaupload boss is no longer the greatest MW3 player in the world | 
Darryn Bonthuys - January 26th, 2012 | In case you haven’t heard, Megaupload is mega-dead. The Feds came down on the file-sharing service with the wrath of Kratos last week, seizing its assets and jailing key staff members.
One of those members, was none other than piracy czar Kim Dotcom himself, the founder and owner of the site that openly flaunted anti-piracy rules and softly encouraged users to share all the files that they ... [»] |
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| Call of Duty Elite maps are locked to a single profile | 
Geoffrey Tim - January 26th, 2012 | Usually, when you buy content on Xbox Live it locks itself to both the profile that bought it, and the hardware itself - so you can usually log in with any profile on that same machine and play whatever DLC, maps or extras were purchased. It seems that’s not the case if that DLC happens to have come through Call of ... [»] | 
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| Are gamers ready for World War II again? | 
Geoffrey Tim - January 25th, 2012 | Though it really started with conqueror and Wolfenstein 3D, a couple of years back after the explosive success of games like Medal of Honour and Call of Duty the world became inundated with World War II themed games. First and third person shooters, flight simulators, real-time strategy games and even sneaky-stabby stealth games all had that World War II flavour - until gamers got bored of the setting. According to Rebellion's ... [»] |
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| Has Infinity Ward begun work on a next-gen Call of Duty? | 
Darryn Bonthuys - January 19th, 2012 | Love or hate the franchise, there’s no denying that Call of Duty is here to stay. With studios dedicated towards pumping out annual titles, Activision has been basking in the success of their favourite franchise, seeing as how last years Modern Warfare 3 has netted the publisher over a billion dollars so far.
Of course, the military gravy train can’t keep chugging along forever as ... [»] |
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| Call of Duty Elite iOS application now available | 
Gavin Mannion - January 12th, 2012 | Colour me surprised but how did Activision create a huge service like Call of Duty Elite and not have an iOS application ready to go at the start? It just seems like an obvious addition to what is already quite an intriguing service. But what’s important is that ... [»] |
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| These are Xbox Live’s most popular games for 2011 | 
Geoffrey Tim - January 10th, 2012 | Microsoft’s Major Nelson’s gone and released their list of the most popular games , as recorded by Xbox Live for 2011. Here’s something that shouldn’t comes a surprise to anybody; The most played game in 2011 was a Call of Duty game. A little surprising is that the the second game is also Call of Duty, this time ... [»] |
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| Activision secures the domain BlackOps2.com | 
Gavin Mannion - January 10th, 2012 | So are you excited for the brand new and totally unique direction Activision is going to be taking the Call of Duty franchise this year? If so you are totally deluded and being ever so rude by keeping whatever you’re smoking to yourself. Activision aren’t going to change ... [»] |
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| Call Of Duty to feature “enhanced” content on a regular basis | 
Darryn Bonthuys - January 5th, 2012 | Say what you like about Call Of Duty, but last years annual iteration proved to be a smash hit with fans once again, selling millions of copies and netting Activision a tidy billion dollars in the process.
With COD providing a popular online playground filled with bullets and C4 explosives, fans have been having a literal blast so far, but it seems ... [»] |
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| Call of Duty and Battlefield are turning you into a war criminal | 
Darryn Bonthuys - December 5th, 2011 | It seems that your favourite games may just be in breach of certain real world laws, specifically the Geneva Convention and Hague protocols. Yes, as ridiculous as it sounds, the online millions of players who regularly engage in a few vigorous games of “shoot ‘em up and teabag ‘em when they’re down”, in certain realistic contemporary wartime shooters, has drawn the attention of ... [»] | 
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| Call of Duty: The Noob and the Vet trash talk | 
Darryn Bonthuys - December 2nd, 2011 | You’ve got to hand it to Activision, they really know how to put together an advertising campaign. The first trailer for Modern Warfare 3 featured the manly Sam Worthington and the slightly less round Jonah Hill duking it out with international militias, as real world representations of the Call of Duty characters, all to the tune of some great AC/DC ... [»] |
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| Call of Duty Elite Is No Longer Broken, Trailer Shows Why It’s Awesome | 
Nick de Bruyne - November 29th, 2011 | Call of Duty is finally up and running the way that it should have been when Modern Warfare 3 was released in November.
Now, I don’t have much to compare it to except to its direct rival, the Battlelog online system for Battlefield 3 and let me tell you that it has done well to completely consume my life, making me peak through ... [»] |
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| The $60 retail game model is broken | 
Geoffrey Tim - November 28th, 2011 | 5th Cell, the guys behind the ambitious and frankly fantastic Scribblenauts, believe that the games industry is broken. With boxed retail prices of games hitting $60 a pop, only a handful of games have a chance of making a profit. That needs to change. Speaking to GameInformer, 5th Cell boss Jeremiah Slaczka claimed that "The $60 boxed game is a broken model.” Continuing, he said "It was always broken, it's just ... [»] |
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| Call of Duty now has a virtual bodyguard agency | 
Darryn Bonthuys - November 22nd, 2011 | There’s a lot of ways to make cash in gaming lately. You can kidnap some random guy from the east, chain him up, and force him to farm gold for greedy World of Warcraft players, or you can gauge how stupid people really are when you sell them virtual real estate.
But for those of us who happen to be kind of terrible ... [»] |
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