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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 |
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Just in time to catch the Modern Warfare 2 launch, Microsoft decided to initialize its own war, that against pirated Xbox 360 consoles. The company issued a huge ban across Xbox Live on all modded rigs and an overwhelming amount of players were outraged by this decision. Discussions of a lawsuit even began to emerge,... |
23 November 2009
06:31 GMT |
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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 |
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For a long time the Valve powered Steam service has been thought to dominate the digital distribution market on the PC, but there was little data related on how much of the market share it had. Now the customer report which Stardock, creators of the rival Impulse service, released shines light on the issue.Brad ... |
23 November 2009
03:23 GMT |
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This Sunday, you can check out the Softpedia review for Modern Warfare 2, which is already selling like hotcakes, read the journal related to playing Dragon Age: Origins, read a Weekend Reading piece linked to videogames and movies or check out the EndWeekGame piece we've put together. But you can also take a lo... |
22 November 2009
09:41 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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Modern Warfare 2 might have set yet another record when it came out as it determined no less than 2 million Xbox Live users to get on the service at the same time, probably in order to enter multiplayer matches as soon as the game is released.But it seems that the huge launch, probably coupled with the decision by Mi... |
20 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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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 |
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After what Modern Warfare managed to do in just five days, generate $550, that is, it's no wonder that Activision gathered all its people, put them in a room and told them to think of absolutely anything and then add “Modern Warfare” to its name. It seems like one of the things to expand the franchis... |
20 November 2009
07:24 GMT |
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When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was still doing push-ups and washing latrines with its toothbrush back in boot camp, the COs of the game had some very different ideas for the first-class private. While the young soldier was beefing up to become the greatest entertainment release in history, the developers had a c... |
20 November 2009
03:37 GMT |
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Activision has recently announced that Modern Warfare 2 managed to bring in 550 million dollars for the company in just five days, becoming the biggest entertainment release in history, beating not just Grand Theft Auto IV but also The Dark Knight. And Booby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer of Activision, has take... |
20 November 2009
02:55 GMT |
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As expected, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 from Infinity Ward and Activision has taken the top spot in the United Kingdom videogame chart and it will probably hang around for some time as players get to experience the content offered by the sequel and as millions of multiplayer matches are played. The biggest upcomi... |
19 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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A survey conducted by the Entertainment Software Association is showing that 42% of American adults are interested in giving or in receiving a videogame or more as presents for Christmas, which is good news for an industry that has seen sales fall this year over the same period in 2008 and hope that the shopping spre... |
18 November 2009
13:11 GMT |
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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 |
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Even before the release date arrived, Modern Warfare 2 was marked by controversy. The PC version of the game was set not to offer dedicated servers and multiplayer is limited to 9 versus 9.The biggest point of discussion related to the first person shooter created by Infinity Ward and published by Activision is the c... |
17 November 2009
05:00 GMT |
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If you've ventured through the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, then you've already gotten a taste of what the developers think of Russia and its residents. As any good American that has lived through the Cold War or been raised on movies inspired by that period, the writers behind ... |
17 November 2009
04:30 GMT |
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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 |
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Modern Warfare 2 and its launch have been plagued by quite a few controversies. There was an unfortunate promotional video pulled hours after it was released, there was the terrorist level where the player shoots civilians and we have seen a boycott organized by Direct2Drive initially and then joined by Impulse and G... |
14 November 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Florian Totu: Wow. This is a bit of an odd moment for me. I've got nothing. Nothing new at least. I wasn't really over with Borderlands when I plunged into Dragon Age: Origins, but I was into the second Playthrough. Now, it's well over a week since I started fiddling with the intricate and treacherous ... |
13 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Yesterday we talked about how Regie Fils-Aime, the president of Nintendo of America, said that New Super Mario Bros Wii, which was set to be released later during the month and marked the first time as Mario videogame, would support four-player multiplayer on the Nintendo home console, would be selling better than Mo... |
13 November 2009
16:11 GMT |
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This week has been all about playing Dragon Age: Origins and not much else. This has resulted in five diary type installments you can read right now. But we also have the regular Weekend Reading feature, a fresh edition of EndGameWeek and an assortment of other news pieces we think are worth reading.On Monday, we fou... |
13 November 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Modern Warfare is released worldwide on the PC, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, and the PlayStation 3, and initial reports are showing that it could actually live up to the Activision hype of “the biggest videogames release ever.” Michael Pachter, who is an analyst of the videogame market for Wedbush Morgan,... |
12 November 2009
16:21 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Before the official release date of October 20, Borderlands wasn't seen as a shiny star by analysts. Maybe because it was mainly seen by them as a first-person shooter more than an RPG, and, as such, they believed that the game would find it very difficult to compete with Modern Warfare 2. But it wasn't int... |
12 November 2009
04:31 GMT |
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In a surprising move Reggie Fils-Aime has stated that he firmly believes the Nintendo developed and published New Super Mario Bros Wii will sell better than Activision blockbuster Modern Waefare 2. The new Mario experience is being released for the Nintendo home console while Modern Warfare 2, the first person shoote... |
11 November 2009
12:51 GMT |
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DICE and its Battlefield Bad Company 2 are beginning to make a trend out of doing everything that Infinity Ward did with Modern Warfare 2, but in reverse. When IW said that it would remove dedicated servers, DICE jumped out and announced that it wouldn't, and when the MW2 servers got limited to 9 vs. 9, Bad Comp... |
11 November 2009
04:09 GMT |
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The fact that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 copies were out on the street before the official November 10 release date is neither a surprise, nor is it news. Just yesterday, we saw the title being pirated and redistributed, with one game snatcher even arrested for the crime. But, to see that Modern Warfare 2 is bein... |
10 November 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard, the publisher of Modern Warfare 2 and the successful Call of Duty franchise of videogames, has announced that it will donate 1 million dollars to military veterans through the newly created Call of Duty Endowment (aka CODE), with the stated aim of making sure that veterans can be quickly employed... |
10 November 2009
05:01 GMT |
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There are a lot of games that end up on the market well before their official release dates and there's nothing the publishers and developers can do at this point but accept the fact and deal with the losses. Well, Activision will have none of that and has decided to take a hands-on approach on the smuggling bus... |
9 November 2009
07:10 GMT |
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Digital download services Impulse and GamersGate have announced that, like Direct2Drive, they will not be selling copies of Modern Warfare 2, the upcoming first person shooter from Infinity Ward and Activision, because of its use of the Steamworks service for things such as authentication and patch delivery.The state... |
9 November 2009
06:54 GMT |
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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 |
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This week, we've got a review of Halo 3: ODST up (no Master Chief included), a Weekend Reading piece dealing with China and videogaming nationalism and an EndGameWeek about what we're set to play in our spare time. But there are also some new stories you might want to take a look at.On Monday, a list of the... |
8 November 2009
10:51 GMT |
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Activision, as the publisher, and Infinity Ward, as the developer, are getting ready to release Modern Warfare 2 on November 10 for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the PC, and the title is expected to be one of the biggest successes for the company and one of the largest launches in videogaming history. But what ... |
6 November 2009
17:51 GMT |
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Direct2Drive, the digital distribution service owned by IGN, has announced that it will not be selling Modern Warfare 2, the most recent entry in the very successful Call of Duty series, because Infinity Ward and Activision have decided to include Steamworks, created by Valve, in the release itself.The statement deli... |
6 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Several forums, most of them on the shady side of the Internet where pirates congregate, are reporting that the PC and the Xbox 360 versions of Modern Warfare 2 have already been leaked or sold early by some retailers and that pirates have ripped the contents and are offering them online.The leaks are unusual, given ... |
4 November 2009
05:30 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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The attack on those people who play games, now a majority of the adult population in most developed countries, seems to be getting more and more bizarre. After being portrayed as being anti social and being blamed for every bit of violence in modern society, gamers are now said to be unable to actually detect roadsid... |
30 October 2009
15:41 GMT |
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September was a good month for the videogames industry, as shown by the figures put out by the NPD Group for both hardware and software, with the decline of the previous months reversed and with revenue pretty much equal to that registered in the same month of 2008. But it seems that October might bring more pain to ... |
30 October 2009
04:09 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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