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Despite the fact that the multiplayer Elite service is already a fact of life for much of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 playing community, the development team at Beachhead believes that they still have something to prove following the initial problems that they experienced when Elite was launched back in Novemb... |
26 April 2012
17:41 GMT |
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After a week during which a number of users of the Elite service for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 have complained about Hitler and Aryan videos that were appearing as staff picks, publisher Activision has finally solved the issue and has apologized for any offence it might have caused.
A statement from publisher A... |
18 April 2012
05:29 GMT |
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Pioneer has many products in its portfolio, but it is clear enough that the company has a special liking for multimedia consumer electronics, like its two new AV receivers.
Pioneer Electronics Inc. has issued a long and detailed press release in which it describes all the perks of having an Elite-branded AV receive... |
4 April 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Markus Persson, aka Notch, has recently told fans that he was interested in creating a space based video game as his next project, and it seems that the indie developer already has a clear vision of what he plans to create.
Speaking to PC Gamer the developer said, “I want the space game that’s more like ... |
24 March 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Yet another high-profile video game creator has attacked the concept of an used game market, saying that it is making it harder for teams to create high-quality games because of the higher risks now involved in the creation and sales process.
Speaking to Gamasutra, David Braben, who is responsible for the creation o... |
20 March 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has assured PC-based fans of the Call of Duty franchise that it is still working on a version of the Elite service for their platform, although it is not yet clear when it might be actually launched.
Noah Heller, who is one of the producers working on Elite for the PC, has to... |
16 March 2012
06:54 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has said that it no longer looks at the Call of Duty franchise as an annual launch event but as a year-round activity, with the company always investing resources and interacting with the player base in order to keep the series in top shape.
Eric Hirshberg, who is the Chief E... |
5 March 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Cooler Master's latest Elite series case is one that does not exactly do its best to stand apart from its siblings, probably looking to be as affordable as possible while still deserving the “Elite” moniker.
The case that Cooler Master is now shipping bears a price of 39.90 Euro, which translates i... |
24 February 2012
05:56 GMT |
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The new Elite subscription service for the Call of Duty series is, according to the developers working on the first-person shooter franchise, a way of offering the player base options and differentiating between the hardcore crowd and the casual players.
Speaking to Kotaku, Robert Bowling, the main creative director... |
25 January 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has offered details and a clear launch plan for the next 18 content drops that will arrive for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 first-person shooter, all the way up to the month of September of this year.
Overall gamers that like the multiplayer side of the game will be abl... |
25 January 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Video game publisher admitted that it sent passwords to Call of Duty Elite users in plain text but insisted that it was storing all personal information in encrypted databases that are always secure.Activision sent a statement to Eurogamer saying, “All Call of Duty Elite personal data, including passwords are s... |
1 December 2011
10:47 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that the 1 million membership mark for the premium part of its Call of Duty Elite service has been reached in just six days after the November 8 launch, which coincided with that of Modern Warfare 3.Activision says that the big interest in Elite is one of the rea... |
23 November 2011
05:15 GMT |
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The Call of Duty Elite multiplayer oriented service from Activision Blizzard has had some rough weeks since it was launched, but the publisher is now promising that all the issues linked to it will be eliminated by the start of December.Daniel Suarez, who is the vice president of production working on Call of Duty El... |
21 November 2011
09:53 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that it has added the Founder benefits to the Call of Duty Elite multiplayer service and that all those who are eligible for them should log into the official site in order to claim them.The company says that those who have Founder status should have a green skul... |
16 November 2011
07:03 GMT |
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Thirteen might be an unlucky number to some but here at Softpedia we had another very busy gaming week, with a full review now available for the just launched Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the first person shooter from Infinity Ward, Raven and Sledgehammer Games and publisher Activision Blizzard.We also have a Quic... |
13 November 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Publisher Activision has announced that it is actively working to fix a number of problems that the player base has been reporting with the Call of Duty Elite service, which was launched on consoles alongside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the FPS title from Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games. A Twitter message c... |
9 November 2011
02:29 GMT |
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The executives at publisher Activision and the developers at Beachhead Studios have announced that the launch of the PC version of the Call of Duty Elite service will be delayed, meaning that players will not get it along the physical copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 next week.Those who plan to play the new f... |
4 November 2011
05:21 GMT |
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In order for Battlefield 3 to be competitive against Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the new Battlelog feature will have to measure up well against the Elite service from Beachhead and Activision when it comes to making the first person shooter experience more social.Speaking to Gamasutra Patrick Liu, who is one of t... |
20 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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With both Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 launching during the next few weeks one leading developer in the first person shooter genre has said that the market can support more than one big franchise and that the market is seeing both of them more as services than simply as products.Speaking to Indust... |
19 October 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Video game developer Beachhead and publisher Activision Blizzard have announced that the Career page in the Elite service will be opened up and filled with stats from Call of Duty: Black Ops later during the week.The beta stage for the Call of Duty: Elite service has ended and the Connect, Compete and the Improve sec... |
19 October 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision believes that companion services like Call of Duty: Elite will become a necessity for all mainstream releases in the coming years, because player communities will request them from developers.Jamie Berger, who is the vice president in charge of digital content at Activision Blizzard, h... |
27 September 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is one of the biggest video game launches of the fall season but it seems that for publisher Activision Blizzard the release of the accompanying Elite service might be the more important event.The developers working on it at the Beachhead studio are saying that having a solid and succes... |
12 September 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that the new Elite subscription service for the Call of Duty series will cost a gamer 49.99 dollars for one year, which is a little more than 4 dollars for one month.The service is set to be launched at the same time as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the first p... |
5 September 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Video game developer Sledgehammer Games has said that their project for a third-person shooter set in the Call of Duty universe was pretty far along in the development process before being canceled, but that the team is very happy with the work it has done on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Speaking to Gamespot, G... |
2 September 2011
17:31 GMT |
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A rich feature set and high performance usually targets equally rich prospective customers, but it looks like Sharp really took things up to eleven by resurrecting the Elide brand of LCD TVs. One would have thought that the 7-inch Sharp Galapagos tablet would be enough of an attention bringer for its maker, but it l... |
4 August 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard and the development teams at Infinity Ward and Beachhead, which have been working on the Call of Duty Elite service, have announced that the beta stage for it will no longer be launched on the PC.
This means that those who are interested in getting a sneak peek at Elite wil... |
18 July 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that it will launch a new fan event centered around its most important first-person shooter franchise, called Call of Duty XP 2011, set to take part in Los Angeles on September 2 and 3 of this year. Activision says that the new convention is designed to allow th... |
1 July 2011
05:50 GMT |
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The most hardcore fans of the Call of Duty franchise might not be too pleased with the announcement of Elite, the subscription-based service that will be launched this fall, but to the Activision executives who have thought up the idea, it's important to deliver a new service that, in some ways, turns video gami... |
15 June 2011
05:47 GMT |
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When Call of Duty: Elite, the subscription-based service for the upcoming first-person shooters in the series from Activision Blizzard, was announced a lot of players were annoyed at having to pay in order to access extra content.But the developers at Beachhead who are working on the service say that a monthly paymen... |
14 June 2011
07:22 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has caused quite a stir with the announcement of the new Elite subscription system that will be launched later in the year and will deliver extra content for Call of Duty: Black Ops and for the upcoming Modern Warfare 3.Eric Hirshberg, who is the leader of the Activision Publi... |
2 June 2011
10:31 GMT |
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A number of stories have talked about a new subscription-based service, named Call of Duty Elite, which will be launched alongside Modern Warfare 3 during the fall, offering extra content for fans of the series who are willing to pay, but publisher Activision Blizzard says that those who love the multiplayer componen... |
31 May 2011
17:51 GMT |
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While it might have seem as though HP was done with the display releases for a while, this appears to not be the case now that yet another display has appeared, slightly bigger and better than a certain predecessor.HP may be best known for its computers, but it definitely deals in other things, like monitors, even v... |
17 May 2011
04:30 GMT |
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It appears that Delkin figured it might as well build upon the UHS specifications and create a line of SDHC memory cards, dubbed Elite 633, which don't mind demanding solid prices in exchange for performance and reliability.Nowadays, cameras and video recorders are constantly improving and the resolutions at wh... |
11 April 2011
04:01 GMT |
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It seems that releasing new case fans is not all that Cooler Master is up to, as there seem to be two Elite series cases on the way, one for small and one for large personal computers.High-end, intricate PC cases may be the ones that get most of the media's attention, but they are not suited for the bulk of the... |
20 January 2011
04:28 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has apparently changed the name of its basketball-oriented franchise from NBA Live to NBA Elite, if reporting done by the Official Xbox Magazine is accurate. The Live name has been used for the series for more than 15 years, which is quite a long time for a videogame and makes the decision taken by th... |
27 May 2010
16:01 GMT |
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The Halo: Reach beta is coming in about one month and it will be quite a huge event, with all the players who have picked up last year's ODST having the chance to participate. Developer Bungie has put out a podcast offering the latest details related to the open beta stage and to the changes that long time fans ... |
31 March 2010
16:21 GMT |
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Microsoft, the creator of the Xbox 360 home gaming console, has announced that it plans to release an external 250 GB hard drive for its platform on the Japanese market. The new storage device is set to arrive on March 11 alongside other accessories and will cost interested players 15,540 Yen, which is about 172 doll... |
3 February 2010
15:01 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii price cut that Nintendo announced at the Tokyo Game Show was welcomed by the videogaming industry. After all, the Wii is the most popular of the current generation of consoles, selling about as well as the PlayStation 2 did when it was at similar point in its lifetime cycle and game makers need the d... |
28 September 2009
04:16 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that, between September 22 and October 5, it will be offering rebates worth 50 dollars for all those who buy an Xbox 360 gaming console. This is, basically, another price cut, albeit one that will only last for two weeks, bringing the most complete of the versions of the Microsoft home console... |
23 September 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that Shane Kim, the face that has been long associated with the Microsoft Game Studios and with the Entertainment Business division, should retire from all his positions at the end of the year. Apparently, he plans to exit the videogaming business altogether and retire after about 19 years of ... |
16 September 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Microsoft is a pretty happy company these days, as its Xbox 360 console is very popular and, thanks to its low price tag and multitude of online features, it has been dominating its arch rival, Sony's PlayStation 3 in a lot of territories that were previously loyal to the Japanese console. The number of Xbox 36... |
11 March 2009
17:51 GMT |
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In the gaming industry some franchises have gained the status of cult series, with a big number of fans eagerly anticipating anything remotely related to them and ready to buy them the instant they are available. One such series is Halo, which has become a true phenomenon, despite the fact that the team at Bungie, wh... |
27 January 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is claiming that the approximately 11 million units of Xbox 360 sold in the United States from the product's debut until mid-2008, represent just 25% of the consoles' total sales. In this context, the Redmond giant is looking to push no less than another 33 million Xbox 360 consoles. The soft... |
4 September 2008
06:37 GMT |
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You don't even know what to believe these days. Rumors take all possible shapes, but when we're talking about the games market and gaming hardware, they sometimes tend to be overstretched. This time however, a rumor about Microsoft prepping to launch new Core and Premium Xbox 360 models, enabled with HDMI o... |
8 August 2007
09:09 GMT |
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Early this month, rumors of an Xbox 360 price cut have been circulating on the Internet more than ever. It's obvious really - I myself could say there's a price cut in order for the 360 just like that - as Sony has serious plans of cutting the price on their respective machine (the PS3) and so Microsoft has... |
1 August 2007
04:38 GMT |
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A Circuit City flyer popped up on gaming sites yesterday, apparently showing that 360 gamers had the chance to "save $20 on the purchase of two Xbox Live accessories $19.99 and up," as I found via 1UP.com today. Basically, this meant that if you got yourself two Xbox Live 1600 MS point cards at their respective $19.9... |
30 July 2007
05:03 GMT |
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Even if this picture was soon to be proven to have been made by a 5 year old, I still couldn't have not posted it for you to see. That's right, 360 lovers and hardcore gamers worldwide, the first/upper picture you see on the left (click to enlarge) displays four Xbox 360s, soon to be presented at the E3. Ye... |
11 July 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Now that Microsoft is actually starting to care about its customers and fix all the issues regarding overheating units, disc scratching units and so on, Xbox 360 gamers are in for another treat. This time around, MaxConsole is reporting that XCM is prepping to make an HDMI cable available for both Core and Premium SK... |
26 June 2007
04:25 GMT |
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Tired of reading news or watching behind the scenes/making-of DVDs of your favorite games? If so, here's your chance (not as in "here on Softpedia") to express your video game ideas. The DORITOS are giving you this "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to write your favorite scenery and characters and who knows, mayb... |
20 June 2007
10:37 GMT |
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Just minutes after finishing writing about Nyko's rolling out some extra accessories for the Xbox 360 Elite, I stumbled upon this piece of news. It seems that more and more Xboxers have to deal with overheating machines. But the company isn't sitting there and waiting anymore. They're taking machines b... |
14 June 2007
06:43 GMT |
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