| | Norway’s Mass Killer could be declared clinically insane | Geoffrey Tim - November 30th, 2011 | Anders Behring Breivik, the ethnocentric Norwegian gunman who mowed down scores of people (many of whom were children) killing 77 in a bombing and shooting rampage in Norway earlier this year, could be declared legally insane. The terrorist, who took on the guise of an obsessed World of Warcraft player to avoid suspicion and who ... [»] |
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| Black Ops sold over 23 million, MW3 to sell more | Gavin Mannion - September 2nd, 2011 | Activision has been chatting to analysts ahead of the release of MW3 in a few weeks time and a certain slide was shown that is pretty incredible to look at really. As we can see from the image above World at War sold 9 million HD copies to ... [»] |
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| Norwegian terrorist used video games for training and cover | Geoffrey Tim - July 25th, 2011 | Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing religious fundamentalist who’s confessed to the terrible attacks in Oslo and the Norwegian island retreat Utøya that left at least 93 people dead and a further 96 wounded has been linked to a 1500 page manifesto that recommends Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 as a simulator for honing combat training skills, and MMO World of Warcraft ... [»] |
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| Domodedovo terrorist bombing – Modern Warfare 2 to blame | Miklós Szecsei - January 26th, 2011 | Yep, it’s this whole thing again. Russian news channel, Russia Today, has aired a report that links the tragic Domodedovo Airport terrorist bombings to Modern Warfare 2. At the same time they have reconfirmed my conviction that humanity is, in fact, completely retarded.On Monday 24 January 2011, a suicide bomber killed ... [»] |
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| British MP Blames Counter-Strike for Race-Related Killings | Geoffrey Tim - November 18th, 2010 | Recent race-related xenophobic shootings in Malmo, Sweden, in which an obviously disturbed 38-year old man killed one person and tried to do the same with a further 15 have inexplicably been linked to video games. Perpetual scapegoat Counter-Strike, specifically.That’s according to video-game hating British Labour VP Keith Vaz, anyway. Despite the killings obviously being fuelled by hatred, the killer who was involved in a “year-long campaign of violence against dark-skinned Swedesâ€must have been a gamer. Because only gamers shoot people.“The recent ... [»] |
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| Call of Duty : Black Ops Reviewed – Trey Magnifique | Geoffrey Tim - November 9th, 2010 | Have you ever had an establishment’s burger – the world’s most perfect food – so delicious it bordered on life-changing, and then returned later only to be fed a dry, tasteless slab of meat; limp, soggy lettuce sandwiched by stale bread? For many – justified or not – this was the experience of playing Treyarch’s biennial Call of Duty ... [»] |
Score 9.0/10 |
| Call of Duty Black Ops vs Modern Warfare 2 (Screenshot Comparison) | Gavin Mannion - October 29th, 2010 | Gamingbolt has put together some screenshot comparisons between Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops and when you see them side by side it’s pretty unbelievable how fantastic Black Ops looks. Like really unbelievable… but I guess this is what happens when you compare screenshots from a released game to an upcoming ... [»] |
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| Gaming’s biggest waste of time – have you done worse? | Gavin Mannion - August 25th, 2010 | There was a story I read this morning about a gamer, Glen McCracken, who is on a quest to reach level 70 in Modern Warfare 2 without killing anyone. So far he’s played for 2 hours and has managed 0 kills, 89 deaths and is on level 5. He gets points ... [»] |
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| Modern Warfare 2 accidently offering free SNK games | Gavin Mannion - August 11th, 2010 | File this one under both WTF and “Are You Serious†as it is possibly the weirdest glitch I have ever seen. Apparently there is a bug in Modern Warfare 2 which is unlocking a bunch of SNK games for you for free if you follow these simple instructions. ... [»] |
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| Flamebait Friday Debate – You don’t deserve multiplayer unless you pay extra for it | Nick de Bruyne - August 6th, 2010 | Video games are changing. Gone are the days when people bought games, played them for a while and then moved on. With titles like Call of Duty and Halo, we now see many gamers buy a title, play through the single player, and then literally spend the next couple of months playing the game.You are getting hours, days, months and in some case even years of gameplay out of a single title these days, and ... [»] |
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| Blacklight: Tango Down – Review | Nick de Bruyne - July 30th, 2010 | Blacklight: Tango Down has arrived on the downloadable scene as the first attempt to offer a solid online shooter on consoles since Battlefield 1943 came out last year.
Published by Ignition Entertainment and developed by Zombie Games, Blacklight: Tango Down is described by its creators as a mixture of Call of Duty and Blade Runner. That sure sounds ... [»] |
Score 7.6/10 |
| Call of Duty Developers Rubbish Subscription Rumours | Geoffrey Tim - July 20th, 2010 | That video we posted yesterday suggesting the groundwork had been laid for a Subscription-based Call of duty model? Absolute Rubbish, according the the two development teams behind the main series. Infinity Ward (or what’s left of them, anyway) and Treyarch have ... [»] |
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