| | Rumour: Call of Duty Black Ops 2 is coming, will include an overhauled multiplayer | 
Darryn Bonthuys - March 29th, 2012 | A year in gaming just wouldn’t be complete without a new, annual version of the long-running Call of Duty series, and with Activision having wrapped up their Modern Warfare trilogy, it’s time to once again delve deeper into one of their other in-game universes.
Call of Duty Black Ops, despite being released back in 2010. is still going strong today, with industry rumours pointing to the Treyarch developed ... [»] | 
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| Oh no! Terrorists are using Call of Duty to plan their attacks now! | 
Darryn Bonthuys - March 20th, 2012 | When it comes to tabloid journalism, you can’t beat the Sun. They’re a newspaper that somehow manages to sell boatloads of their rag that contains poorly-researched articles, with very little evidence to back up their sensationalist claims.
We’ve spoken about such UK tabloids before, here, here, here and here. So lots of coverage then, for stories which don’t do much to encourage responsible ... [»] | 
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| Bobby Kotick’s become a Coke fiend | 
Geoffrey Tim - February 17th, 2012 | No, the Activision-Blizzard executive gamers love to hate doesn’t have dusty white powder under his nose - instead, he’s been appointed to the Board of Directors of multi-national beverage giant, The Coca-Cola Company. According to Coca-Cola, Kotick’s job will be to use his experience to grow Coca-Cola’s business and engage with its customers through ... [»] |
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| Call of Duty: Police Warfare | 
Gavin Mannion - February 14th, 2012 | I’m quite a fan of the the Call of Duty series and while I generally stop playing after 2 –3 months I’m never sad when they announce a new one.
But at the same time I want something different and this may actually be it, it’s called Call of Duty Police Warfare ... [»] |
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| Guinness says CoD: Black Ops has Greatest Video Game Ending | 
Geoffrey Tim - February 13th, 2012 | Once upon a time, Guinness, the organisation behind world records and mucky black booze of life used to be a reputable organisation that produced books full of completely objective, distinct and wholly verifiable world records. Now that they’re branched out in to video games, their “records” have become decidedly more subjective. They’ve now fingered Call of Duty: Black Ops ... [»] |
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| Activision says new Call of Duty looks “fantastic,” full of innovation | 
Geoffrey Tim - February 10th, 2012 | With two sets of developers working pretty much all the time, there’s a new Call of Duty every year. It makes sense for publisher Activision to do this; every year, the new Call of Duty ends up decimating the previous year’s sales tally. As the biggest property in the world’s biggest entertainment industry, there’s no denying that Call of Duty makes money - and of course there’s be ... [»] | 
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| Activision confirms the blatantly obvious | 
Gavin Mannion - February 10th, 2012 | I will tell you no lies, Geoff and my Internet has gone down this morning and so we are scrambling like crazy to find stories over the phones to post.. and this is a nice easy one. During an investor call yesterday Activision confirmed that it is indeed ... [»] |
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| Mass Effect 3 to strike a balance between RPG and shooter | 
Geoffrey Tim - February 7th, 2012 | For Some, the first Mass Effect had just too much RPG, while others loved tinkering with stats, long inventories, armour and weapon upgrades. Mass Effect 2 was different; it was more of a shooter, eschewing much of the fiddly RPG mechanics in favour of pure action. That, understandably, upset fans of the first, while making a bunch of new ones. So how does Bioware keep everybody happy with the third game? ... [»] |
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| 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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