The tenth installment in Activision’s shooter series may experience initial slow sales as gamers wait for the PS4 and Xbox One.
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The Dog from Call of Duty: Ghosts Is Incredible
The E3 demo for Call of Duty: Ghosts was straight from the cookie cutter. But then came Dog.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies Shambles Over to Android, but You’ll Need a Sony Phone to Play
You can now play Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies on an Android phone. Hooray! But not just any Android device: only Sony’s Android-based Xperia S, Xperia Ion and Xperia Play smartphones. Boo.
If you have an iPad or iPhone, …
‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 2’ Trailer Shows Robots, Horses and One Grizzled Vet
With Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, developer Treyarch is promising the unthinkable: It’ll crack the mold that made Call of Duty into publisher Activision’s crown jewel and one of the most successful video game series of all …
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Call of Duty XP 2011: T-Wolves’ All-Star Kevin Love on FPS Success
Activision’s kicking off their first-ever Call of Duty XP fan fest this year and they’ve got a weekend full of multiplayer reveals, real-life paintball combat and even a Kanye West closing concert lined up for attendees. Among the highlights is a $1 million tournament where regular joes get to face off against celeb and pro athlete …
Spec Ops Survival Mode Gets Detailed in New ‘Modern Warfare 3’ Trailer
A few weeks back, I talked about my hands-on experience with the new Survival Mode in the Spec Ops multiplayer portion of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Activision’s finally released a video showing off some of the features that I got to see and implement.
You’ll see the upgrade system interface in action in the clip as well as a few …
Norway Attacks: Killers May Play Video Games, but Video Games Don’t Make Killers
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.
Usually, dubious connections are made via …
Activision’s Field Generals Talk ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’
How important is Modern Warfare 3 to Activision? It’s being co-developed by three separate studios: Infinity Ward (still going after the exit of the studio’s founders), Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software. Glen Schofield comes to Activision from EA, where he worked on the first Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno.
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Modern Warfare 3: Blowing Up Wall Street and Hands-On with Spec Ops
So far Activision’s only shown a handful of single-player levels from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, one of this year’s most anticipated games. I talked about two levels from the solo campaign–”Hunter Killer” and “Mind the Gap”– in my E3 2011 coverage and a comparison between Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3, and recently got the …
Deathmatch: ‘Battlefield 3’ vs. ‘Modern Warfare 3’
Video game grudge matches rarely come this perfectly designed.
This fall, Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 come out within weeks of each other, trying to capture the free time of millions of gamers worldwide. But, it’s not just the fact that both titles are realistically styled war games set in what’s pretty much the …
Activision Unveils ‘Call of Duty Elite,’ a Facebook for Frags
What happens when one of the biggest publishers of standalone AAA video games merges with the company responsible for global phenomenon World of Warcraft? You get Activision Blizzard, currently the top dog in the video game market. But, for a while now, that’s all we’ve gotten. Industry watchers have been left to wonder when a true …