Activision has launched the first Modern Warfare 3 DLC collection on Xbox 360.
Aimed at Modern Warfare 3 players who don’t subscribe to Call of Duty Elite, it bundles together the Elite content released in January, February and March on 360.
Priced at 1200 MP (£10.28), the DLC features four multiplayer maps and two fresh Spec Ops missions. (more…)
GAME Group will go into administration this week if it doesn’t secure £180 million to pay its creditors, according to The Sunday Times.
The specialist retailer, which has been the subject of multiple doomsday reports over the past few weeks, reportedly has a £21m rent payment due on Sunday, more than £10m owed in deferred VAT, £40m owed to video game suppliers and a £12m wage bill shortly requiring payment.
Any potential investor in the company would have to pay the firm’s six banks – including Royal Bank of Scotland – £100m, as well as the above mentioned debt, reports MCV.
Both US giant Walmart and Comet owner OpCapita have reportedly tabled offers for the company, though lenders are said to be sceptical that the latter has the means to rescue the firm. (more…)
GAME has confirmed the contents of the memo to VG247.
Its stores will not not stock the games, or the Kinect Star Wars Xbox 360 bundle.
It seems that two more publishers, Microsoft and Activision, will not be supplying high street retailer GAME with their latest releases.
A report from MCV, based on a leaked GAME memo, suggests that Activision’s Cabela Big Game Hunter 2012 and Zhu Zhu Babies, along with Microsoft’s Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure won’t be stocked.
The games join a long list of releases that consumers will be unable to find in the stores, including Mass Effect 3, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City and Ninja Gaiden 3. (more…)
Industry leading MMO lost 100,000 active users in most recent quarter – 700,000 less than previous period.
Activation Blizzard reported a net loss of 100,000 World of Warcraft subscribers for the three months ending December 31st, according to financial documents filed by the company.
An aggressive marketing campaign featuring Chuck Norris during the quarterly period may have acquired enough new subscribers to negate further losses to its established user base.
Three months prior to the fourth calendar quarter, Activision Blizzard revealed that the longstanding MMO had lost 800,000 subscribers – seven per cent of its total user base at the time. That followed another exodus of about 300,000 customers in the first six months of 2011.
But Blizzard appears to have decelerated the reduction, ending the quarter with 10.2 million subscribers after seven years of business. (more…)
Upcoming action title Prototype 2 will be the first Activision title to include an Online Pass type system.
The publisher has taken a different approach to the traditional Online Pass method by only offering free codes in a limited number of copies.
It all takes the guise of Radnet – a content portal that gives fans 55 free pieces of additional content spread across the seven weeks following the game’s release in April. (more…)
Blockbuster beats Avatar to become fastest entertainment product to reach the milestone.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has smashed through the $1 billion barrier just 16 days after release, Activision has revealed.
The feat makes it the fastest entertainment property ever to reach the milestone, beating the blockbuster movie Avatar’s 17 day record. (more…)
The biggest entertainment launch of all time.
That’s no mean feat. As has just been revealed by Activision, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sold 6.5m copies in the UK and US alone in its first 24 hours on the market.
That means it sold 75 copies sold a second throughout its first day on retail shelves.
Factor in the limited hours of most retailers and that actually works out to around 200 copies per second. (more…)
Last October Marvel and Activision announced a brand new X-Men title that would be free from a movie tie-in. It has taken 11 months, but we finally have a launch trailer.
A new breed of mutant heroes will invade game consoles this autumn in X-Men: Destiny. The all-new original video game casts players as new mutant recruits in a rich, branching storyline that features a deep element of choice and gives players ultimate control of their destiny.
Legendary James Bond adventure returns on PS3 and Xbox with new gameplay modes, increased multiplayer options and full Playstation Move compatibility.
The world’s most famous secret agent is back! Activision Publishing, Inc. today declassified the existence of GoldenEye 007: Reloaded, which will make its grand debut on the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360 for the first time ever.
Built on a brand new engine that delivers striking visuals, blistering fast gameplay and the ability to play using the PlayStation Move with Sharp Shooter peripheral, GoldenEye 007: Reloaded is the complete James Bond experience shooter-fans have been waiting for and will launch in stores later this fall. (more…)
Sony gamers will finally be able to get their hands on the second COD Black Ops DLC on June 10th.
Call of Duty: Black Ops’ Escalation map pack will be released for PlayStation 3 on June 10th.
The DLC features four new multiplayer maps and the Zombies mode’s new Call of the Dead expansion, which stars George A. Romero, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund and more.
Black Ops’ developer Treyarch will mark the launch of Escalation on PS3 with another double XP weekend, according to Eurogamer. It will run from Friday, June 10th to Sunday, June 12th.
Escalation is already available for Xbox 360 and PC.
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