Call of Duty

By Justin McElroy Usually PR reps aren't so cavalier about dropping big news, so we're going to go ahead and posit that the team at Only the Games must be exceptionally attractive and/or cunning, because they managed to get an Activision rep to tell them during the X08 event in Toronto that Treyarch's Call o...

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By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online In his latest report from Infinity Ward HQ, community confidant Fourzerotwo brings word that the Call of Duty 4 battlefront could see some changes soon. No less than eight new multiplayer playlists are in development, of which...

By Ross Miller Bionic Commando Rearmed swings in next week; launching later on Euro PSN, $5 more on PC Carmack: Xbox 360 Rage 'a little blurry,' 'key scenes' same as PS3 Street Fighter II HD beta gets bandaged See Call of Duty: World at War's co-op gameplay

By Ross Miller British model Gemma Atkinson to suit up for Red Alert 3 Xbox 360 DLC has brought in $240 million Phantasy Star Portable sells like a Monster in Japan Rock Band 2 for Wii won't skimp on features Bungie: Halo can learn from Call of Duty 4 John Madden impersonator in Blitz: The League II

By Ludwig Kietzmann We have a lot to learn from their success too, they did some very innovative things to keep people going and their experience-rewards system was something that we paid a lot of attention to." Is that any way to talk about your main Xbox Live competitor? Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Bungie...

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By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters Details about the next Medal of Honor have allegedly been leaked in a recent survey sent out by EA, according to French site JeuxVideo (translation). The document supposedly refers to the game as "Medal of Hon...

By Ross Miller Fight the Foo with the Rock Band 2 gameplay debut Gears of War 2's 'Day-One' map, multiplayer bots revealed SKU too? Xbox 360 Elite for $400 at Amazon Have you herd? Capcom reveals sheepish Flock for XBLA, PC, PSN New Call of Duty 4 playlists being tested this weekend

By Christopher Grant Lastly, where's Call of Duty 4? Infinity Ward's superb shooter has been a staple of the NPD charts since its release in November and now, for the first time, it didn't make the top ten. Makes sense: after selling over ten million copies, people have to stop buying it some day. Nevertheless, we...

By Ross Miller New Xbox 360 update doesn't do anything 9 million answer Call of Duty 4, DLC breaks records Microsoft's Greenberg claims victory in battle for 'core user' over Sony Condemned 2 demo hits Xbox Live Xbox 360 power supply cited in Little Rock fire

By Ross Miller Another analyst says Wii Fit will push Wii shortages PS3 promises: in-game XMB, video store, and PSN cards in '08 Famitsu publisher backtracks on E3 DS prediction Microsoft's Shane Kim: 'Still enjoyment to be had' from 360 HD DVD drive

By Ross Miller Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3 Although we already referenced it in a post from yesterday, we couldn't help but once more show off Geek Pulp's dirty little secret: Metal Gear Selleck: Guns of the Private Eye: Tactical Moustache Action. Must. Buy. Now. Check out the highlights for today:

By Ross Miller Reminder: Xbox Live scheduled for maintenance Xbox 360 nearing two million sold in UK Steam adding Assassin's Creed, over 40 other titles from Ubisoft Call of Duty 4 map pack delayed a week, now hitting XBL April 10 Guitar Hero III squeezes out version for BlackBerry

By Ross Miller Sierra and Radical Entertainment remove multiplayer from Prototype Former Xbox Europe exec foresees the extinction of consoles Wii Wheel (aka: plastic shell) sold separately for $14.99 Frontline footage from Call of Duty 4's new Broadcast map

By Ross Miller Wii getting cell phone shovelware, thanks Gameloft Sony: PSP has 10-year life cycle World in Conflict console 'reinvention' subtitled Soviet Assault Madden turns 20 on Aug. 12, 'Collector's Edition' announced Call of Duty 4 map pack comes to PSN late April

By Ross Miller Cheaters branded on Xbox Live, Gamerscores reset Call of Duty 4 DLC in the works for PC Wonder Boy, Fantasy Zone coming to North American VC Darwinia rated by ESRB for Xbox 360 Darwinia+ confirmed for Xbox Live this Fall Raiden Fighters Aces demo on Japanese Xbox Live

By Richard Mitchell You see that Xbox? That's a custom Mass Effect Xbox 360 Elite. There are six of them on the planet and we got one. Of course, we could have been greedy and kept it, but no. That's not how we roll. We're giving it away. Sure, there are other things going on this week -- you can peruse them below -- but we kn...

By Ross Miller Xbox 360 sales up 40% in UK after price cut Sony comments on leaked PSN release list Call of Duty 4 patch now available for PS3 Original Metal Gear Solid coming to PSN in Japan Persona 4 to school Japan in July Watch Mario Kart Wii played with and without Wii Wheel

By Justin McElroy Infinity Ward spokesman Robert Bowling ("fourzerotwo" to the l33t kids) let fans of the game know that PS3 players should be receiving a new feature patch for Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat this week. But according to a few tipsters and ...

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By Ross Miller Gamespot gets hands-on with new Call of Duty 4 maps Microsoft 'not in talks' with Sony over Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive We Love Golf American release to include online play February NPD: Industry sales hit $1.33B, Xbox 360 still trailing PS3 Sony Pictures exec leaving to start game company

By Justin McElroy You may remember last week when we told you about the chock-full feature patch that would be hitting Call of Duty 4 sometime in the near future. Well, friends: The future is now. ... At least, it is for Xbox 360 owners. We're assuming PlayStation 3 players will be getting it soon if they haven't alre...

By Justin McElroy Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling gets it. He knows that even though similar levels in a game like Call of Duty 4 are an important part of creating a coherent world, people want something different in a pack of downloadable content. And that's exactly what they'll be getting, with an upcoming p...

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, GDC Make no mistake, Call of Duty 4 players: Infinity Ward is listening. Continue reading GDC08: Plenty of changes coming with Call of Duty 4 feature patchPermalink | Email this | Comments

By Justin McElroy Make no mistake, Call of Duty 4 players: Infinity Ward is listening. If you need evidence, you need look no further than the slew of updates and changes that are coming to the game in the coming months, which we talked with IW community ...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Culture A newspaper clip for the new Rambo film (via IAMfourtwozero) lauds an Arizona Daily Start review (found here) that calls it, "A nasty, Call of Duty 4 style shoot 'em up!" We're still laughing, but it's interesting to note how they're trying to reach out to a specific au...

By Alexander Sliwinski The Call of Duty 4 fans demanded it and this week Zero Punctuation finally reviews one of the best games of 2007. Yahtzee isn't keen on Americans or patriotic "gun wank" games, so it probably speaks to CoD4's amazing design that he actually seemed to care during that scene (watch the review i...

By Ludwig Kietzmann So anyway, Activision has announced that new downloadable multiplayer maps for its smash-success shooter, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, are "on the way" to the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network. Questions regarding release date, price and quantity went unanswered by th...

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By Ludwig Kietzmann A keyword for Sony in November is "momentum," its $399 wrecking ball finally crashing through a wall of consumer apathy to reach 466k units sold, marking "a 285% increase over the previous month's sales." In other words, "PS3 had the biggest October to November sales increase of any hardw...

By Ross Miller None of these sequels come as a surprise, as they are all critical and commercial successes, but this is the first official confirmation of their existence. According to Activision Blizzard's earlier conference call, 50% of Activision's revenues are derived from franchises it owns ou...

By Richard Mitchell Xbox 360 Fancast 041 -- Organized Sports Football, Guitar Hero III, ninjas, pirates, and moreFanswag Weekly: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Time to replace that Master Chief icon, doncha think?Party Time! Xbox Live is turning 5IVE

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business Squint really hard and take a couple pills of delusion and maybe, just maybe, you can see the difference between Call of Duty 4 on the Xbox 360 and PS3 in the video above. Sure, maybe the dimorphic transgressive bump-mapping is f...

By Ross Miller New PS2 coming to Japan: same price, same size Red Spiderman 3 PSP for Europe and red PSP for Japan Activision hits Q2 financial high, Guitar Hero fuels sales PC Engine devotees arrested in Japan Microsoft talks Xbox 360 lifespan, fails to see irony

By Kyle Orland Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters While Modern Warfare finally brings the Call of Duty series into the present day, "the story itself ... isn't exactly cutting edge." (2) "The story unfolds from an unapologetic 'us versus them, and they are wrong...

By Alexander Sliwinski War is good -- for games. Infinity Ward's latest, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, hits the shelves with resounding applause. It really will be a good quarter for publisher Activision. Call of Duty 4 drops all that feel-good WWII stuff and goes straight for the modern war quagmire resulting in...

By Ross Miller Last Week in Warcraft: October 27th - November 3rd Live at the Jack Thompson debate in Philadelphia Metareview: Hellgate: London Metareview: The Simpsons Game (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PS2) PS Fanboy Week in Review: 10/29 - 11/4 Today's just-add-Wii video: Fan-made Goonies game

By Ross Miller Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Online Developer Infinity Ward is asking community members (registration required) to pick from one of five box arts for the impending Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare launch. The artwork is fairly similar for each of the se...

By Kevin Kelly Filed under: Features, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure, Fighting, First Person Shooters, Online, E3 Forget about Hour of Victory and put Medal of Honor: Airborne on your list if you're eager to get back to some WWII gaming. It'll help bandage the wound left b...

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By Ludwig Kietzmann Nay, the traditional adherence to a mere two dimensions simply isn't modern enough to convey the frenetic excitement and danger found in Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat. Frequent publisher of mass destruction, Activision, has blasted out this 3D screenshot depicting the upcoming shoote...

By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, BusinessA second wave of Xbox 360 Platinum Hits is scheduled to join last fall's elected throughout North America, Latin America, Japan, and the Asia Pacific region on March 16 -- select 'platinum' titles have already hit Europe. The lineups vary by regi...

By Kevin Kelly Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Fighting, First Person Shooters, SimulationsJoystiq stormed the doors of Activision lately, and demanded access to the upcoming Call of Duty 3. We waged a vicious and hard-fought campaign against the ruthless recept...

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