Infinity Ward
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 »
Activision is a police state
It’s hard to believe the darling child of Activision’s game development roster has come down to a series of lawsuits, which claim that working for Activision was like working under a police state. The suit claims that Activision subjected Infinity Ward employees to secret “interrogations” and placed security guards at the office exits ahead of the termination of studio heads… 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 »
More employees leave Activision
A while ago we reported on Activision sacking insubordinate Modern Warfare devs, and now it seems the problem persists as more and more development staff leave the outfit to join their two ex-honchos in a new studio. Lead designers Zied Reike and Steve Fukuda, as well as programmer Rayme Vinson have left for the new studio, called Respawn Entertainment (the… Continue »
MW2 makes a cameo on Family Guy
Robert Bowling (fourzerotwo)makes a nice little cameo in the latest episode of Family Guy but only in his GamerTag form. Take a look at the below. Continue »
Modern Warfare 2 Mapathy Trailer
Fun, and as light hearted as it is light on footage, the Stimulus map pack ‘Mapathy Trailer’ popped up on webs last night. The trailer features some sufferers of Infinity Wards fictional ‘Mapathy’ syndrome and some mild hilarity ensues. What they don’t play up is the crazy price the maps are going to cost when released. Video below. Continue »
Modern Warfare 2 ‘stimulus...
Robert Bowling guested on Major Nelson’s podcast Friday; and while he was their decided to spill the beans on the pricing for the pack. 5 maps of which 2 are remakes of older maps are going to cost 1200 Points!!! 1200 points…..are you kidding with me? Dice are giving away free maps for Battlefield at the end of March? A… Continue »
The Best MW2 kill you will see today
Playing MAG at the weekend was at times a tuff slough but when things got really bad I kept saying to myself ”At least I’m not being killed by a douche bag camping with a thermal sight or worse grenade launcher spammers!! The opposite team in this video was no so lucky. Here are the 2nd MW2 Mythbuster video as… Continue »
