Gamers have grown accustomed to waiting for the other shoe to drop when a grisly crime–especially one involving guns or murder–happens. Sooner or later, some media outlet somewhere is going to try to find a link between video games and the horror that one person visits upon another.
Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero. Battlefield vs.Call of Duty. Skate vs. Tony Hawk. Over the last few years, the two biggest video game companies in the world have had a roiling history of name-calling and oneupsmanship. The rivalry between Electronic Arts and Activision has gone beyond mere competitive words, though. One example: Respected game designer [...]
Word has slipped that players will be getting a new Call of Duty game this November, probably because Activision just can’t stay out of the news. Call of Duty: Black Ops is being developed by Treyarch, who crafted 2008’s Call of Duty: World at War. That game, while generally well-received, didn’t achieve the same status [...]
The makers of the mega-popular Halo series have just announced an exclusive, long-term relationship with the publisher of the best-selling Call of Duty franchise. Development studio Bungie will be releasing a new intellectual property exclusively through Activision.
The racing genre in video games tends to operate around two poles. On one end, you’ve got incredibly realistic driving simulations games like the Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport series. On the other end, explosive, arcade-style titles like FlatOut and Burnout defy reality with crash-intensive competitions.
The bitter rivalry between Activision and EA–which has seen developers move from one publishing giant to the other and has had Activision try to block the release Brutal Legend, a game that they rejected–has just kicked up a notch.
According to Kotaku last night, the development studio responsible for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has apparently seen the exodus of two more members. Lead Designer Todd Alderman and Lead Software Engineer Francesco Gigliotti appear to be no longer working at Infinity Ward, if the screen caps from LinkedIn are accurate. Alderman’s responsibilities included [...]
Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it [...]
Stimulus Package, the long awaited downloadable content package for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, hit the intertubes this morning. The pack consists of five maps, three all-new ones and two popular locations from developer Infinity Ward’s first Modern Warfare title. The whole 320 MB kaboodle costs 1200, or about $15.
The other shoe’s dropped with regard to Activision’s plans for their Call of Duty franchise and big changes are a-comin’. A press release issued earlier today outlines the publisher’s roadmap for all things COD and it includes a mention of a new action/adventure game in 2011 by fledgling studio Sledgehammer Games. According to the release, [...]
I’ve been playing a lot of Modern Warfare 2 this week.. Or it’s been playing me, I don’t know. Some seriously heavy interaction is going on, one way or the other. When I take the MW2 disk out of my 360, I am not the same person who put it in.
