call of duty
PSN to charge for 2nd hand gaming?
In a week where we were hit with the news that XBL are increasing costs, now we hear Sony are looking for a new revenue model – the second hand market (which generates all its profit for the retailers, and none for the console makers, publishers or developers). Sony are looking to capitalise on online gamers by charging them to… Continue »
MOH single player details
Gametrailers TV sat down with executive producer Greg Goodrich to discuss the new Medal of Honour game, and the origins of its controversial story. He explained that one unit is out hunting Al-Qaida terrorists in Afghanistan. “We’re still telling the soliders’ story, doing it right and honouring a community of individuals as we’ve always done,” Goodrich said. “It’s inspired by… Continue »
Activision: Blizzard working on new IP
We’ve posted about the Activision earnings call a lot today but more news keeps trickling out. Now it’s Blizzard’s turn. Activision’s answer to Darth Vader, CEO Bobby Kotick, jumped in to talk about Bungie and Blizzard. Interestingly, he outlined Blizzard spending huge money on a new IP. Speculation of such a thing came about originally around 2006/7 when Starcraft II… Continue »
Modern Warfare 2… demo
This press release just shipped from Acitivison. Normally we don’t copy/paste press releases here, but it’s worth reading, for humour reasons: Santa Monica, CA – August 4, 2010 – Cliffhanger, the breathtaking and epic mission from Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2, is now available worldwide for download as a single player demo on the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace and on… Continue »
Sexy COD: Black Ops screenshots
Quick to hush the forore around Activision and their former Call of Duty creators, Infinity Ward, having a very public spat, we’ve been given screenshots of the Treyarch-developed COD: Black Ops title that manages to look a lot like every ‘nam film ever made. Which could well be a good thing. Continue »
Call of Duty: Black Ops
The unsung studio in the Call of Duty franchise is the whipping-boy of Activision, Treyarch. The development studio who hasn’t been treated like trash by their employer (or, they have been but are more willing to please their overlords) has now begun “leaking” information on the next iteration of their Call of Duty efforts. Following on from their efforts, COD3… Continue »
Infinity Ward – falling to pieces
Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward started life as a developer in refuge from the overlords at EA after working on their first title, Medal of Honour. After some time with Activision and creating one of the worlds most popular FPS titles, it appears history is repeating itself. Originally Activision sacked the studio heads for insubordination, which prompted class-action lawsuits,… Continue »
British soldier hones MW2 perks in real...
Reports are coming in from Afghanistan at the sight of a British soldier who saved the lives of his fellow troops. How did he do it? Well, the insurgent lobbed a grenade down at the British soldiers, but the plucky Brit picked up the grenade and lobbed it back at him… as if he were playing a videogame. “I remember… Continue »
