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 next DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops was announced today, as Activision also reported that sales of the game has topped 25 million units, 3 million more than Modern Warfare 2.
Resurrection will feature five maps, all of which will be for the hugely popular Zombie mode. Four are remastered maps from Modern Warfare 2: Nacht der Untoten, Verruckt, Shi No Numa and Der Riese. These maps were the beginning of the Zombie mode and are some of the best maps ever made for the game type.
New DLC for Global Phenomenon Call of Duty: Black Ops Launches on PSN and Windows PC Today
Call of Duty: Black Ops detonates its latest downloadable content pack on PlayStation3 and Windows PC gamers with the release of Annihilation, the third DLC pack for the critically acclaimed and best-selling title.
Fans have logged billions of hours in Call of Duty: Black Ops since its record-setting debut in 2010. Annihilation packs four of the most varied and intense Black Ops maps to date, along with a new Zombies experience filled with countless hours of new gameplay. (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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Activision are now taking sign-ups for this summer’s Call of Duty Elite beta.
You can do this ahead of the subscription service’s full rollout on November 8 alongside Modern Warfare 3.
Officially announced this afternoon, Call of Duty Elite will chronicle a player’s gameplay history in a career record, keeping track of every kill, every game and match progress.
Activision says that “many key features of Call of Duty Elite will be available to Call of Duty players free of charge,” although others will require a paid subscription.
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After the huge data leak last week, Activision’s marketing strategy had been flipped upside down.
This really messed up their timings for when assets were to get released, but in actual fact instead of ruining the start of the marketing push for the game, it actually may have helped them in the long-run, by harnessing the initial hype already generated they pushed out four mini-trailers for fans to sink their teeth into.
“We woke up with a marketing crisis and wanted to go to bed with a marketing win,” Hirshberg explained of the final decision.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, tons of information leaked and trailers released.
So, Modern Warfare 3 then…there’s been a fair bit of hype around the latest Call of Duty title, but all I can think is that Activision’s strategy to (presumably) make as much money as possible from the franchise by releasing a new game every year is going to eventually kill the series, much like the recent demise of Guitar Hero (or at least it’s hiatus).
By pushing for a new release every year, this really makes me wonder whether the quality of gameplay will be compromised. We all know Modern Warfare 2 was filled with glitches/hacked accounts and whatever other nonsense you can think of. So will we see better security and support with the latest title?
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It’s that time again, grab your wallets and rummage around for whatever coin you have to purchase your 1200 MS points and grab the new Call of Duty map pack.
For the die-hard Call of Duty followers you may have already stockpiled some 1200 MS points cards, that way you’re prepared for future map-pack releases, but nevertheless, escalation is now released on Xbox Live.
You’ll be pleased to know that the map pack contains 4 brand new online multiplayer maps — Hotel, Stockpile, Zoo and Convoy.
That’s all good and well, but I think the thing everyone is most looking forward to is the new zombie level, appropriately named ‘Call of the Dead’.
This zombie level will star the likenesses of some recognisable names – Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Robert England (Nightmare on Elm Street), Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead) and Danny Trejo (Machete).
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Black Ops’s second Double XP Weekend hits all platforms this weekend.
Get double the reward for your efforts, and watch that rank fly. Participate in the glorious mayhem starting approximately at 6pm today and continuing through to 4pm on Monday 7th March.
Prior to the weekend, be sure to download the First Strike Content pack for PS3 so you can jump in and get involved!
The South African fun is over, and unless you’re lucky enough to be Spanish (or don’t care about football), you’ll undoubtedly be nursing some kind of World Cup hurt..
Luckily, as always, gaming is here to act as a shining light in the darkest of times, and the 100% free-to-read July issue of Thirteen1 magazine is now available, covering all of the month’s top gaming releases.
There really is little reason to be down with all of this finger-bashing fun to be had.
The much anticipated Crackdown 2 has finally jumped onto the scene, and right onto the front cover of Thirteen1, probably leaping over a massive skyscraper while firing a rocket launcher in mid-air to get there. Does it live up to expectations? Check out T1’s extensive review of all things super-powered to find out.
EA have fittingly released FIFA Online just in time for everyone to right their personal international wrongs, so T1 has jumped straight in there to cover it with a beta hands-on. Will it prove as popular as it’s console counterpart?
The DrunkenGamer has had a great time flying around Cataclysm, the latest mind-blowing expansion for Blizzard’s World of WarCraft, and wishes you was there so much that he’s put together a brand new feature, Wish You Were Here, showing you all of the best areas before it’s released.
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