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Activision Saw Modern Warfare 3 Leak As Opportunity to Talk to Fans

Eric Hirshberg, who is the Chief Executive Officer at Activision Publishing, told the audience at the Creativity and Technology event organized by Advertising Age that, “I said, like it or not our launch just started. And it wasn’t on our time table, and we didn’t instigate it, but it’s out th...

20 January 2012
15:11 GMT

Call of Duty Studio Is Looking For Staff to Work on Next Generation Technologies

Infinity Ward, the developer behind the massively successful Call of Duty franchise, has posted a job listing for an animator who needs to be interested in working with “next generation technologies.” We’ve been hearing plenty of rumors about next generation consoles, like the PlayStation 4 or Xbox...

19 January 2012
03:49 GMT

Law Rules Activision Suit Against Electronic Arts Can Go Ahead

A Superior Court in California has ruled that video game publisher Activision Blizzard can go ahead with a lawsuit against rival Electronic Arts and argue that it is entitled to get damages because of the way EA courted developers Jason West and Vince Zampella while they were working at Infinity Ward. Activision has...

23 December 2011
10:10 GMT

The Best User-Created Modern Warfare 3 Custom Modes Will Be Made Public

Infinity Ward’s creative strategist, Robert Bowling, has confirmed that the studio has hand picked some of the most popular user-created game modes in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s multiplayer and will make them available, albeit with some modifications and enhancements, to all players of the first per...

16 December 2011
22:31 GMT

Modern Warfare 3 Gets New Game Modes During the Weekend

One of the main sources of information on the future of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has suggested that the first person shooter might soon get a number of new multiplayer games modes as both Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard work to make the game attractive in the long term.A Twitter message from Robert Bowlin...

15 December 2011
05:51 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Player Gets 5,000 Day Ban

A fan site that focuses on the first-person shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has posted information showing that at least one gamer who cheated in the game has received a 5,000 day ban, which translates into about 15 years, from the developers at Infinity Ward. Robert Bowling, who is the creative director at t...

14 December 2011
02:30 GMT

1,600 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Cheaters Are Now Banned

Infinity Ward's creative strategist, Robert Bowling, has revealed that more than 1,600 players of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 have been banned after cheating or using exploits to their advantage within the game.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 had the most successful entertainment launch of all time, but with t...

21 November 2011
05:06 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Review (PC)

Without a doubt one of the biggest releases of the year is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, at least if you factor in the millions of dollars spent by Activision hyping it up and making sure that every gamer knows it's coming. With the promise of continuing the story set up in the first Modern Warfare, of addi...

11 November 2011
09:41 GMT

Sledgehammer Felt Pressure While Working on Modern Warfare 3

Sledgehammer Games saw the opportunity to work on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 as a perfect way to deliver their best work, even if this meant working under a lot of pressure. Michael Condrey, who is the co-founder and the chief operations officer at Sledgehammer Games, stated, “I’d be dishonest if I s...

10 November 2011
02:40 GMT

Analyst: Modern Warfare 3 Might Sell 19 Million Units

Colin Sebastian, the analyst who watches the video game industry for Baird Equity Research, has suggested that the recently launched Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 first person shooter will sell between 18 and 19 million units before the end of the four quarter of the year.This means that the revenue generated for Ac...

9 November 2011
05:13 GMT

Modern Warfare 3 Producer Wants Success for Both Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is now out and while fans of the series are busy going through the single player and gaining the first ranks in multiplayer, industry watchers are eager to see how its rivalry with Battlefield 3, the DICE made and Electronic Arts published FPS, plays out.But at least one high level exec...

9 November 2011
03:40 GMT

Modern Warfare 3 Pre-Orders Reach 9 Million Copies

Atul Bagga, who is an analyst working with Lazard Capital Markets, has said that the pre-order numbers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the first person shooter from developers Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games and publisher Activision, have gone over the 9 million copies mark.This is estimated to be more than ...

8 November 2011
05:12 GMT

Analyst: Modern Warfare 3 Will Outsell Battlefield 3 by 2 to 1

The analyst Michael Pachter, who is watching the video game industry for the firm Wedbush Morgan Securities, has stated that he believes that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will sell twice as many copies during this holiday season as Battlefield 3.Pachter believes that Modern Warfare 3, which is being created by Infi...

25 October 2011
05:44 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Launch Trailer Focuses on Story

Just after DICE and EA published the launch trailer for Battlefield 3, Activision, together with Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games, have revealed the launch trailer for their own Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.There's a real shooter war that's going to happen in the following weeks between the two aforem...

24 October 2011
06:39 GMT

Infinity Ward Says Modern Warfare 3 Emphasizes PC Experience

Robert Bowling, who is the creative strategist at Infinity Ward and well known for talking to the community about the company's upcoming games, has said that the team has put a lot of emphasis on the PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.He says that the developers of the new game combine the best traits ...

24 October 2011
03:15 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Engine Is Streamlined Like a Porsche

Glen Schofield, the general manager of Sledgehammer Games, the co-developer of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, has praised the engine of the new title, dismissing any criticism that it's an old technology with little improvements in regards to the previous Call of Duty games like Black Ops or Modern Warfare 2.Ac...

18 October 2011
17:21 GMT

Former Dead Space Developer Felt Pressure from Modern Warfare 3 Development

One of the leading developers working on the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has stated that despite his capable team and well put together development process he still experienced a lot of pressure when working on the game because of its huge importance to the gaming world.Glen Schofield, who is the co-found...

3 October 2011
05:12 GMT

Elite Is a Necessity for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Developer Doesn't Care About Huge Sales

Infinity Ward's creative strategist, Robert Bowling, is convinced that his team isn't interested all that much in the sales figures of the studio's upcoming project, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, as its main goal is making sure those who do buy it have a great time.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is e...

26 September 2011
04:39 GMT

Infinity Ward Confirms No Prestige Edition for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Video game developer Infinity Ward has announced that the company and publisher Activision Blizzard have no plans to launch a Prestige Edition of the upcoming first person shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.The Prestige Edition for previous titles in the same franchise have come complete with such gizmos as night...

19 September 2011
05:47 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Story Is Longer Than Modern Warfare 2

We've heard a lot about the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 first person shooter, coming from studios Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games, including many details about the multiplayer, but the CEO of Sledgehammer, Glen Schofield, has now talked about the single-player campaign in the new shooter.The Cal...

14 September 2011
15:51 GMT

Call of Duty Delivers 'Epic Realism' and Awesome Moments, Activision Says

Activision publishing boss Eric Hirshberg talked about the company's biggest franchise, the Call of Duty one, emphasizing the core principles of the series that make it such a big success with millions of people all around the world.One of the biggest titles of the year is going to be, without a doubt, Call of D...

6 September 2011
05:00 GMT

Call of Duty Elite Will Cost 49.99 Dollars for One Year

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

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Has Folding Scopes, Smart Grenade Launcher

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is going to introduce quite a lot of new things to the first-person shooter franchise, as developers Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games want to make the experience even more dynamic. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is set to once again smash sales records later this year, when Activ...

29 August 2011
05:25 GMT

PC Version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Will Have Dedicated Servers

Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that the PC version of its upcoming first person shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will have dedicated servers, even if the company is still worried about how they could be used to compromise the integrity of the multiplayer side of the game.The developers a...

18 August 2011
05:47 GMT

Wii Version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Created by Treyarch

Yesterday, after announcing better-than-expected financial results for the quarter that ended on June 30, publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that the Nintendo Wii home console was set to get a version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 this year. And now the company has also confirmed that development work...

5 August 2011
07:48 GMT

No More Commando Perk for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Video game developers Infinity Ward have announced that the wildly popular Commando perk that was offered in Modern Warfare 2 will no longer be available in the next version of Call of Duty, which is set to be launched during the fall. The change has been confirmed by Robert Bowling, who is the creative strategist...

1 August 2011
18:31 GMT

Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 Developers Talk About Their Games

Seeing as how this fall we'll see a major battle between two military-themed first-person shooters, Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the developers of these games have talked about the rivalry created between them, how sales will impact things, and how the games are quite different after all. ...

29 July 2011
18:01 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 New York Conflict Different from 9/11 Attacks

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the new first-person shooter from Activision, will see Russia continue its invasion of the USA, targeting New York, but the attacks won't take people back to the terrorist ones that hit the American city on September 11, 2001, at least according to one of its developers, Infinity ...

28 July 2011
17:11 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Developer Wants to Buy Battlefield 3

Robert Bowling, the creative strategist of Infinity Ward, one of the developers of the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, talked about the brewing rivalry between the title and Battlefield 3, while confirming that he'll buy the rival game, largely because it offers a different experience than Call of Duty....

22 July 2011
17:21 GMT

Multiple Call of Duty Studios Keep the Franchise from Getting Boring

Activision has quite a few studios working on its prized Call of Duty franchise and this, at least according to the founder of the series, Infinity Ward, makes the yearly iterations different from one another and keeps the titles from becoming boring. The Call of Duty series has become a behemoth in the gaming ind...

22 July 2011
14:21 GMT

CoD: Modern Warfare 3 Uses Modern Warfare 1 Mentality, Addresses Campers

The upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is set to have a similar mentality with the original Modern Warfare game, Call of Duty 4, and tries to eliminate the possibility for campers to take advantage of the map layouts in the multiplayer mode of the new shooter.The Call of Duty series has become a huge phenomenon,...

18 July 2011
17:21 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Rigorous Testing Gets Detailed

The upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is being rigorously tested by many teams in order to find and eliminate all of the issues, glitches and exploits that might appear once the game is released later this year, by Activision. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is by far one of the biggest games that are schedul...

14 July 2011
17:21 GMT

Analyst: Modern Warfare 3 Can Sell More than 20 Million Copies

Michael Pachter, who is the outspoken analyst who is watching the video games industry for research firm Wedbush Morgan, has announced that he believes the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard might reach the sales mark of 20 million copies when it launches later in the y...

12 July 2011
05:50 GMT

40 Respawn Entertainment Developers Worked on Modern Warfare 2

Respawn Entertainment, the video game developer that was created by former Infinity Ward leaders Jason West and Vince Zampella, has posted new information on its website showing that no less than 40 of its current staff have been engaged in the creation of hit title Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. At the moment, R...

4 July 2011
15:01 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Has Revised Killstreaks

The upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has a completely revised killstreak system, as the community strategist of its developer, Infinity Ward, confirmed through Twitter that the team has completely overhauled how the system works. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 impressed a lot of gamers through the multiplay...

1 July 2011
18:21 GMT

West and Zampella Versus Activision Modern Warfare 2 Case Will Go to Court

The lawsuit that the co founders of Infinity Ward, Vince Zampella and Jason West, have filled against publisher Activision Blizzard is now likely to go to trial after a judge has ruled that the two have merit in their claims and should be able to present their case at length.A judge for the Los Angeles Superior Court...

20 June 2011
04:56 GMT

Console Battlefield 3 Is Better than PC Modern Warfare 3, Says EA CEO

One of the biggest battles of the year in terms of video game launches is set to be the one between Battlefield 3, from developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, from Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard.And the main executive of EA is keen to emphasize how the E3 presence of ...

13 June 2011
05:44 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Officially Arrives on November 8

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, after receiving a bombastic gameplay video and some relatively official details yesterday, now has a concrete release date from Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games, its developers, and Activision, its publisher. Modern Warfare 3 was rumored for quite some time, and even saw some majo...

25 May 2011
04:35 GMT

Activision Reveals Modern Warfare 3 Leak Was Unexpected, Changed Plans

An internal memo from the leaders of video game publisher Activision Blizzard reveals that the company changed its plans about the official reveal of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 when the big leak from Infiniti Ward happened. Activision was apparently already preparing to officially reveal the first-person shoot...

23 May 2011
04:57 GMT

Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Has Close to 20 Confirmed Maps, Some Might Be DLC

A huge cache of information on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which is being developed inside publisher Activision Blizzard by studio Infinity Ward, has been made public and, while most players seem to be interested in the single-player campaign, it seems that the multiplayer will offer significantly more content th...

16 May 2011
18:41 GMT

Infinity Ward Responds to Modern Warfare 3 Leak with Trailers, No New Information

Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has been very tight lipped about the Call of Duty title it plans to launch during the fall of this year, but it's media strategy has been undone by a massive leak of information about the game apparently coming from more than one man inside developer Infinity Ward. The...

16 May 2011
05:39 GMT

Here Are the Full Details on the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Single Player Story

A series of leaks about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 began appearing last week but only now has a huge cache of information about the game, which is under the development of a team at Infinity Ward, been made public.The leak includes almost all of the story details so be warned that the rest of the article incl...

16 May 2011
04:54 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Announcement Next Week

Activision's next Call of Duty game might actually be Modern Warfare 3, as one of the game's voice actors, Craig Fairbrass, who played Gaz and Ghost in the first two games, confirmed working with the studio on its next project. Activision has been silent about its next Call of Duty game, preferring to fo...

4 May 2011
04:45 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Reveal Coming in April

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will be officially revealed to the world in April, at least according to a new report that cites inside sources. A huge part of Call of Duty fans are eagerly awaiting any sort of news about the next title in the first-person shooter franchise, but, up until now, we've had to dea...

30 March 2011
17:21 GMT

Battlefield 3 Developer Says Rivals Are Getting Lazy

Swedish studio DICE, the company behind the upcoming Battlefield 3, has revealed that its competitors, including Infinity Ward, the creator of the hugely popular Call of Duty series, are getting lazy and aren't modifying their tools. Battlefield 3 is powered by an all-new graphics engine, called Frostbite 2, ...

15 March 2011
04:40 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 PS3 Security Patch Out Now

The new security patch for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the PlayStation 3 has just been released by Infinity Ward through the PlayStation Network online service. The recent hacking scandals on the PlayStation 3 have put a serious dent in the security of many games, especially their online modes, including Cal...

8 March 2011
04:15 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Won't Run on a New Engine

Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling said on his Twitter account that creating a new engine for the next game in the Call of Duty series, presumably Modern Warfare 3, would be "counter productive." Activision's Call of Duty series is currently one of the most profitable franchises in the gaming in...

4 March 2011
17:21 GMT

Incoming 2011 – Call of Duty

What we know Well there's precious little information actually available about the next Call of Duty game, with the usual tactics of publisher Activision being to hold the new game under heavy wraps as the downloadable content for the current one is being delivered, with a big reveal probably coming at some p...

25 February 2011
09:11 GMT


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