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Modern Warfare 2 DLC Could Generate $140 Million

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 already proved that it was not only a successful title, but also an incredibly well-selling one. The game had already generated $550 million for its publisher, Activision, and this was the last time it finished counting the money, last week. Since then, the title most likely sold a whole...

26 November 2009
03:06 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Contains Three Hidden Game Mods

Activision tried to wash some of the egg off Infinity Ward's face when it announced that, in spite of all the protests and boycotts, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 outsold the original MW. But, all you PC gamers out there that feel frustrated that you can't sting your new “public enemy no.1” off ...

23 November 2009
14:01 GMT

Only 3 Percent of Modern Warfare 2's Buyers Were PC Gamers

13 days have passed since Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 was launched, and the game keeps making the headlines. Prior to its official launch, the title faced some serious controversy regarding its PC version. Infinity Ward, the game's developer, announced that it planned to remove the dedicated servers from it, a...

23 November 2009
03:56 GMT

Weekend Reading: On the Biggest Entertainment Launch Ever

Activision was right. Bringing in 550 million dollars in revenue in the first five days on sales, Modern Warfare 2, the sequel created by Infinity Ward, has become the biggest entertainment release in history, beating out videogames like Grand Theft Auto IV and movies like The Dark Knight and the various Harry Potter...

21 November 2009
10:21 GMT

EndWeekGame: 20 November

Florian Totu: Just yesterday, I finished the single-player campaign of Modern Warfare 2 and, even if I think that it was a very short game, I have to admit I liked it. The title was intense, frantic, captivating and the airport massacre was right up my alley, as I really enjoyed acting like a sociopath. A lot of peop...

20 November 2009
16:31 GMT

Modern Warfare 2

Modern Warfare 2 does not live up to the hype that surrounded it before the release date and to the standard set by its predecessor, which was released in late 2007. It ticks all the points on the list: there are better graphics, there's a bigger “What the Hell?” moment, there are tougher characters,...

20 November 2009
08:00 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Is the Biggest Entertainment Launch in History

Activision is reporting that Modern Warfare 2 is estimated to have brought in no less than 550 million dollars in revenue in the first five days on sale. Microsoft statistics also show that the title has been played for more than 5.2 million hours in the multiplayer modes and that 11 million Xbox 360 Achievements wer...

19 November 2009
04:25 GMT

Activision Assigns a Third Studio to the Call of Duty Franchise

Call of Duty and the latest installment in the series, Modern Warfare 2, have been plastered on the headlines of pretty much everything that was news for the past couple of days. With a five-day total sale of $550 million, the game is officially the biggest selling thing in entertainment, across all areas and domains...

19 November 2009
03:48 GMT

A First Look at Modern Warfare 2

As soon as I started Modern Warfare 2, I couldn't shake this familiar feeling I was having, that I was there before, that I did that somewhere else, a Matrix-like deja-vu. The game starts with the same test run of your abilities to set your difficulty level that the original Modern Warfare did, with the small ad...

18 November 2009
14:31 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Gets Dedicated Server Workaround

Many believed and even more feared that Modern Warfare 2 would change the way we looked at video games and the people involved with them forever. Well, the game did just that, but in at least one way that no one could have ever anticipated. After releasing cheats for the game before it was even officially launched, t...

17 November 2009
07:06 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Relies on Animation

Modern Warfare 2 is now out and estimates are saying that millions of gamers will be playing it before the end of the year. The first game in the series, which was released in late 2007, has set the bar pretty high in terms of graphics and image realism and Modern Warfare 2 is set to offer a whole new experience, tak...

16 November 2009
14:21 GMT

Activision Shipped 3 Million Modern Warfare 2 Copies to the UK

Even with the PC market bent over a wooden horse and padded with a spiked lash, everyone knew that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was going to make more money than most countries sweat and toil for in months. Still, ideas like “big” and “huge” are never enough to make an impact. Vague concepts...

12 November 2009
14:31 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Cheats Are Already Available

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 hasn't even been picked up from the shelves properly, and some of Infinity Ward's new ideas for the game's multiplayer have already been torn to pieces. One of the things that IW used as an argument when it removed the dedicated servers and force-pushed IWNet into the gam...

12 November 2009
07:12 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Cost Less than Activision Estimated

Modern Warfare 2 is now out and millions of gamers are estimated to play it before the end of the year, bringing in tens of millions of dollars in revenue for Activision. The publisher is estimating that the title will be one of the biggest videogame releases of all time and, to some people's surprise, it seems ...

12 November 2009
05:32 GMT

PC Version of Modern Warfare 2 Unplayable Until November 10

Modern Warfare 2, the biggest videogame release of 2009, is set for November 10. But, as always, it is the best kept secrets that are most widely under assault and the title has apparently already arrived in the hands of some eager players, mainly from torrent sites but also from a few retail stores that have broken ...

9 November 2009
05:02 GMT

Infinity Ward Might Work on New IP

Infinity Ward has become a development studio associated with the Call of Duty brand and the Modern Warfare series. Their collaboration with Activision goes back a lot and players are already talking about Modern Warfare 2 and its 2011 release date. But it seems that the developers themselves might actually be intere...

5 November 2009
18:01 GMT

GameStop Is Getting Ready for Modern Warfare 2 Onslaught

Modern Warfare 2 arrives on November 10 and GameStop is one of the companies set to benefit a lot from the launch. The brick and mortar retailer, which has been threatened by the development of digital distribution services, needs this king of big releases to get people in the store and to consolidate its position in...

5 November 2009
05:10 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Servers Are Limited to 9-vs-9 Matches

If PC gamers didn't have enough reasons to hate Infinity Ward for what it's doing to Modern Warfare 2, the company just gave them a whole-new box of ammunition. Feeling like the PC still had an edge on the console versions of MW2, the company decided to even things out. So, the maximum number of gamers that...

5 November 2009
05:07 GMT

The Wii Can't Deliver the Modern Warfare 2 Experience

Modern Warfare 2 is set to be released on November 10 by Activision and Infinity Ward on the PC, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony. One very important platform missing from the list is the Nintendo Wii, a device that received a port of the original Modern Warfare when it came out in 2007. Bu...

4 November 2009
15:41 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Preorders Are a Record-Breaker

GameStop has managed to break one of its records with the help of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. What was previously the biggest recorded number of preorders for a single title has been shattered by Infinity Ward's first-person shooter. The game, promising to outdo the first Modern Warfare, generated a huge amo...

4 November 2009
09:31 GMT

Killstreak Rewards for Modern Warfare 2 Now Public

One of the most interesting innovations that the Call of Duty series spawned in recent years is the idea of Killstreaks, rewards offered to the gamer based on the amount of players they take out in a row in multiplayer matches. The rewards are gameplay important and have a tendency to create a feedback loop, enhancin...

3 November 2009
05:16 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Perks Released

With the official release date for Modern Warfare 2 nearing for all platforms on November 10, more and more information related to the title appears. Last week, Activision was forced to offer an official statement after leaked footage showing a mission allowing the player to assault an airport with terrorists and now...

2 November 2009
05:34 GMT

Activision Responds to Modern Warfare 2 Leaked Footage

A leaked video, showing off a French version of Modern Warfare 2 being played, popped up yesterday displaying a level of the single player campaign, apparently the fourth, which assaults them with some pretty disturbing images.The spoiler heavy gameplay (those who wish to go into the experience untainted need not rea...

29 October 2009
05:40 GMT

Aliens vs Predator Might Lose Dedicated Servers Too

Computer and Video Games went over to Rebellion to get some new information regarding Aliens vs Predator. In their search for updates, they found out a few new things about its technical compatibilities and the developer's view of the title. Of course, with the entire scandal that erupted over Modern Warfare 2 a...

29 October 2009
04:52 GMT

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Will Have a Classic Multiplayer Setup

Infinity Ward managed to make more people angry with the introduction of IWNet than it ever thrilled with its amazing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Its decision to completely discard the traditional multiplayer setup for first-person shooters in favor of the matchmaking system has raised so many voices of discontent,...

27 October 2009
06:54 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Will Feature Third-Person Shootouts

A Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 clip started flying around the net just the other day, which was shot from a third-person perspective. Nobody really knew what to make of it. It could have been a special feature of the game, a cleverly disguised multiplayer spectacle, a new play mode or just a fake. Well, things got ...

27 October 2009
04:09 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Uses Steamworks

Infinity Ward, as the developer, and Activision, as the publisher, have announced that the upcoming Modern Warfare 2 is set to use the Steamworks suite from Valve to handle a variety of elements of the game experience, from patching and updating the title to offering achievements on the PC, providing anti-cheating me...

26 October 2009
06:44 GMT

These Are the Minimum System Requirements for Modern Warfare 2

With the release date quickly nearing Activision, as the publisher, and Infinity Ward, as the developer, have released the minimum system requirements for those players who are interested in picking up Modern Warfare 2 on the good-old PC. The follow-up to the 2007 best-seller is also coming to the PlayStation 3 from ...

23 October 2009
04:30 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Is Biggest PC Investment for Infinity Ward

When news got out that Modern Warfare 2 for the PC, set to be released on November 10, would not be supporting dedicated servers and would replace them with a fresh IWNet system created by Infinity Ward, fans reacted by being angered, quickly mentioning petitions, protests and boycotts.Robert Bowling, who is the...

21 October 2009
05:13 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Might Lose Dedicated Servers on the PC

The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 is about to adopt a huge change for the multiplayer mode. Dedicated servers are about to become obsolete, as developer Infinity Ward plans to implement the new IWNet, a new feature that will give them "a lot more control and structure" for the PC version of the game. "This is the fi...

20 October 2009
02:32 GMT

Full Co Op for Modern Warfare 2 Broke the Immersion

Modern Warfare 2 is slowly creeping towards its release date of November 10 and with the substance of the game pretty much known at the moment, the developers are taking some time to actually explain why some of the choices related to the upcoming experience have turned out this way.In a day and age when most shooter...

16 October 2009
04:47 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Offers Avatar Rewards and Gear

Infinity Ward has confirmed, via the official Twitter feed of the company, that when Modern Warfare 2 is released to the public on November 10, the Xbox 360 version of the game, the one expected to have the biggest sales, will be bringing items that can be employed on the Avatars of the users and even Rewards offered...

13 October 2009
04:51 GMT

Activision Initially Not Interested in Modern Warfare

Modern Warfare is already an established brand in itself. Infinity Ward and Activision are set to deliver the second videogame bearing the name on November 10 this year and players will no doubt line up to pick it up. The original title managed to move no less than 14 million units since it was released and it is sti...

8 October 2009
05:41 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Achievements List Unveiled

Modern Warfare 2 is set to be released on November 10 and gamers are now pretty much in the know regarding the plot of the title and what new mechanics it is set to offer when compared to the original.In order to slake the thirst of fans until the release date, which is about a month away, Infinity Ward and Activisio...

6 October 2009
16:31 GMT

First Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack Comes in Spring 2010

Modern Warfare 2, the first person shooter from Infinity Ward and Activision, is set to be released on November 10, 2009 and will probably attract millions of gamers. Some of them will buy the videogame for the single player campaign, which will probably be as tight and explosive as that from the first title in the s...

1 October 2009
07:19 GMT

No Demo Planned for Modern Warfare 2

Infinity Ward has delivered the news that it is not planning on putting together a Modern Warfare 2 demo and that the game will not even get a beta stage, closed or opened, before it is released on November 10 on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the PC through Games for Windows Live. The T...

29 September 2009
05:25 GMT

Infinity Ward Not Developing Modern Warfare 3

Modern Warfare 2 is just around the corner. The shooter, which has been put together by Infinity Ward and is published by Activision, is set to be released on November 10 and it's carrying so much clout that a lot of companies delayed their games so as not to stand in the way of this firepower-packing behemoth. ...

22 September 2009
05:23 GMT

Xbox 360 Modern Warfare 2 Bundle Officially Announced

Microsoft has announced that it will be launching a Modern Warfare 2 bundle when the game is released in about two months. The price of the package will be set at 400 dollars and players will likely queue up to get it when it is out.The bundle that gamers will be able to pick up on November 10 will include a Modern W...

16 September 2009
05:29 GMT

Mad Catz Brings Many Modern Warfare 2 Peripherals to All Platforms

As you all know, this fall we will see many high-end titles appear for a variety of platforms all around the world. Among them, one of the most highly anticipated will be Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. Set to arrive on November 10, its publisher will employ a h...

27 August 2009
11:01 GMT

Infinity Ward Talks About Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Open Beta

A multiplayer mode is critical for many games out there because it offers players more reasons to keep playing it and, for those who don't have a lot of money to invest, a great dose of entertainment in the long run, after the single player campaign is finished. But it is a tricky thing for developers, as they ...

21 August 2009
04:19 GMT

Fans Will Shape the DLC for Modern Warfare 2

There's no doubt that Modern Warfare 2 will be one of the biggest videogame launches of this fall and Activision is working hard to hype up the title while also creating a community around the game able to sustain it on the long term.And part of this public outreach effort is to make sure players know that their...

12 August 2009
06:30 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition Will Be Limited in Number

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will be, without a doubt, one of the biggest titles to appear this fall, fact admitted even by competitors of large publisher Activision. Being the follow-up to one of the most critically acclaimed titles of 2007, it will certainly be welcomed by gamers with open arms and wallets. The ...

11 August 2009
15:01 GMT

50 Cent to Lend Voice for Modern Warfare 2

Activision's Call of Duty franchise is one of the biggest-selling series of all time, garnering the large corporation quite a lot of profit every year one of its iterations appears on the market. One of this year's biggest launches will definitely be Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the sequel to the critica...

10 August 2009
03:51 GMT

Call of Duty 4 Hacks Will Be Solved, Infinity Ward Says

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is one of the biggest games to appear in recent years. It has brought critical acclaim to the first person shooter series and has really changed the way development studios look at the single and multiplayer sides of their creations. Given the fact that it is still one of the most play...

4 August 2009
16:41 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Might Get Dedicated Controller

The gaming industry is a very big one, meaning that profit needs to be extracted by every means possible, especially in these tough economic times that have had an impact on the purchasing power of the end user. But one title that is definitely on the must-buy lists of many gamers around the world is Call of Duty: M...

24 July 2009
14:31 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Gets Night Vision Goggles with Its Prestige Edition

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is one of the biggest games set to appear this fall, right before the holiday season begins. This, coupled with the huge amount of popularity that the first Modern Warfare enjoyed and the recent inclusion of the Call of Duty moniker, will guarantee a lot of big sales for its publisher, ...

15 July 2009
03:52 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Gets Back Call of Duty Moniker

A lot of video games will appear this fall for a lot of platforms, but one of the most important is Modern Warfare 2, the sequel to the hugely successful Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Developed by Infinity Ward and set to be published by Activision, the game is eagerly anticipated by a lot of people. But, as it se...

10 July 2009
16:51 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Pushes Singularity into 2010

2008's holiday season was filled with high-end releases, especially in terms of blockbuster sequels, from the range of Gears of War 2, Resistance 2 or Fallout 3. This led a lot of people to spend their small budget on such titles, thus neglecting new properties like Dead Space or Mirror's Edge. Seeing this...

9 July 2009
16:41 GMT

The Removal of Call Of Duty Makes Modern Warfare 2 Less Known

The Call of Duty franchise is one of the biggest series of video games currently owned by Activision. It has seen a lot of success, especially with its latest two titles, CoD 4: Modern Warfare, and CoD: World at War, each managing to sell a lot of units and making the brand even more known across the world.But as gam...

25 June 2009
16:41 GMT

Infinity Ward and Bungie Need to Tackle New Titles, Says Gearbox Boss

Game development is often a risky business, especially when studios that have experience in one genre or a specific franchise approach new things or genres that aren't completely grasped by its staff.That is why studios like Infinity Ward or Bungie, which have specialized in the Call of Duty and Halo projects, r...

25 June 2009
03:04 GMT


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