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New Call of Duty Game Brings “Meaningful Innovations” This Year, Activision Says

Activision has already started talking about the new Call of Duty game that it will publish at the end of the year, promising to investors that it will bring “meaningful innovations to the franchise.” Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has sold a huge amount of copies, breaking records set by the previous in...

10 February 2012
05:42 GMT

Analyst: GTA V Will Beat Call of Duty in 2012

Grand Theft Auto V might be little more than a trailer at this point but many analysts are expecting the Rockstar made video game to become one of the best selling titles of 2012 when it is released, presumably at some point in early autumn or late summer.Jesse Divnich, who is an analyst watching the video game indus...

28 December 2011
08:20 GMT

Sledgehammer Is Hiring for Next Call of Duty Series

Publisher Activision Blizzard has already confirmed that a new Call of Duty video game is being prepared for the fall of 2012 and developer Sledgehammer Games seems to be involved in its creation, judging by a new job ad that the company put out.The listing talks about “an unannounced high-end console title&rdq...

7 December 2011
10:31 GMT

Job Listing Indicated Call of Duty Will Move to New Console

A new job listing on the official Treyarch website seems to indicate that the company and publisher Activision Blizzard are aiming to bring the Call of Duty franchise to a new hardware platform.The job ad talks about “bringing our hugely successful game to a new console.”The actual text does not mention w...

5 October 2011
10:23 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

Black Ops Gets New Rezurrection DLC

Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that its first-person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops will get a new map pack, called Rezurrection, which will be launched on August 23 on Xbox Live for the price of 1200 Microsoft Points and will also be offered on the PlayStation Network and on the PC at a late...

4 August 2011
08:19 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

Call of Duty: Black Ops Fourth DLC Map Pack Is Possible

Call of Duty: Black Ops may be getting a fourth downloadable map pack later this year, as its development studio, Treyarch, mentioned that fans should keep their eyes peeled for more news.Call of Duty: Black Ops is one of the best-selling games of all time, managing to topple sales records left and right since its re...

29 June 2011
18:31 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC Offers Great Value for $15

Treyarch, the developer of Call of Duty: Black Ops, has revealed that the downloadable content released for the game is more than worth the pretty steep $15 (or 1200 MS Points) price tag. Call of Duty: Black Ops was the biggest entertainment release of last year, and the First Strike Map Pack released for it back ...

15 April 2011
15:31 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Might Get Modding Tools in May

A Treyarch developer sent out a Twitter message which mentions that a set of modding tools for the first-person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops will be launched during May, allowing players on the PC to create their own content, presumably limited to maps and maybe simple battle scenarios. Here's the entire m...

14 April 2011
16:31 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Not Ruled Out by Developer

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, a direct sequel to last year's record-breaking Black Ops shooter, isn't being ruled out by the game's developer, Treyarch. Activision's Call of Duty series is breaking records left and right, as after the massive success of 2009's Modern Warfare 2, which arrived ...

4 April 2011
15:51 GMT

More Info About Raven Involvement in Call of Duty Project

The text for a career opportunity on the official site of Raven Software offers evidence that the developer is involved in the development of a new Call of Duty video game, although it’s not clear whether it's the title that will be delivered in 2012 or one that is just starting the production process. The jo...

24 March 2011
06:39 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops PS3 and Xbox 360 Get Hotfix

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops have just received a hotfix designed to quickly solve some of the key issues reported by players. Treyarch, the development studio behind Black Ops deployed a patch for the Wii version of the game earlier today, and has now published a hotfix for b...

18 March 2011
08:00 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Developer Impressed by Battlefield 3 Engine

Treyarch, the developer of the recent Call of Duty: Black Ops shooter, is quite impressed with the new Frostbite 2 engine in the upcoming Battlefield 3. DICE really impressed everyone with its series of direct gameplay videos from the future Battlefield 3, showcasing its all-new Frostbite 2 engine. Treyarch, on...

17 March 2011
18:21 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Gets Double XP Weekend on All Platforms

The huge number of Call of Duty: Black Ops players will be thrilled to hear that this weekend rewards their online activity with double XP on all platforms. Call of Duty: Black Ops is the best selling game of all time, and with the First Strike downloadable content pack reaching the PlayStation 3 this week, after ...

4 March 2011
04:15 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Gets Demo Featuring WMD Mission

Video game publisher Activision and developer Treyarch have announced that they have launched a demo version for their first person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops, allowing all those interested to play through one of the most interesting levels of the game, called WMD. Those who have not bought the game and have ...

3 March 2011
04:23 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Gets Patch 1.07 on Xbox 360

Call of Duty: Black Ops has just received its Title Update 7 for the Xbox 360 platform, bringing new features, eliminating known bugs and improving other areas of the shooter. Call of Duty: Black Ops has been under heavy strain on the Xbox 360 platform, with Treyarch, its development studio, launching the First St...

1 March 2011
04:15 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

Call of Duty: Black Ops Bugs Experienced by a Minority of Players

Gamers who have experienced bugs while playing Call of Duty: Black Ops are in the vast minority, at least according to Mark Lamia, boss of the game's development studio, Treyarch, who shared his view on the recent scandals around the first-person shooter. Call of Duty: Black Ops has sold a huge amount of copi...

18 February 2011
04:35 GMT

Next Call of Duty: Black Ops Patch Set to Resolve Leaderboard Issues

Call of Duty: Black Ops is set to receive yet another patch in the near future, which is scheduled to fix some of the scoring and leaderboard issues that are affecting the first-person shooter. Call of Duty: Black Ops has been a massive success for its publisher, Activision, and developer, Treyarch, even if the st...

16 February 2011
04:25 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops PC Gets Patch 1.06 Through Steam

Treyarch, the development studio behind Call of Duty: Black Ops, is keeping extremely busy, and has just deployed patch 1.06 for the PC version of the game through Valve's Steam online digital content delivery service. Call of Duty: Black Ops managed to break sales and profit records when it was launched back...

10 February 2011
03:05 GMT

Many PS3 Black Ops Players Are Happy with the Game, Treyarch Says

"Hundreds of thousands, if not millions" of Call of Duty: Black Ops players on the PlayStation 3 are more than happy with the shooter title, even if it was affected by plenty of problems up until now, according to Treyarch's Josh Olin. Call of Duty: Black Ops has been suffering from a lot of issues on all pla...

9 February 2011
05:45 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Was a Huge Inspiration for Call of Duty: Black Ops

Call of Duty: Black Ops, the biggest entertainment release of last year in terms of sales and profit, was largely inspired by its predecessor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, according to a designer from Treyarch. Call of Duty: Black Ops racked up a huge amount of money since its launch back in November, and has j...

8 February 2011
04:40 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Studio Would Love a Near-Future Call of Duty Title

Treyarch, the studio behind the massively successful Call of Duty: Black Ops game, revealed through the voice of its game design director that a near-future Call of Duty title would be "fantastic." The studio proved that it was more than Activision's second Call of Duty team with Black Ops, a title that manag...

7 February 2011
04:45 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops PS3 Security Measures Detailed

The recent outbreak of piracy on the PlayStation 3 has forced Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch to "turn on" the security measures it has built into the game for that specific platform. The PlayStation 3 was pretty much piracy-free for quite a long time, but in recent months, things became extremely hecti...

4 February 2011
15:51 GMT

Weekend Reading: The Future of Call of Duty

It's been a pretty hectic week for Call of Duty fans, as we found out some interesting rumors about where the hugely popular first person shooter franchise will be heading and what studios will work on it. First off, let's do a quick recap, just in case you missed some of the big news. Wedbush Securit...

8 January 2011
10:01 GMT

Rumor Mill: Raven Could Be Creating Call of Duty Game

A new job listing from developer Raven suggests that the studio could be the fourth one that is working on the Call of Duty franchise for publisher Activision Blizzard, joining long-running creators at Infinity Ward and Treyarch and the new comers at Sledgehammer Games. The link to Call of Duty comes with a job list...

6 January 2011
15:01 GMT

More than 600 Million Hours Logged into Call of Duty Since Launch

Activision Blizzard, as the publisher of the first person shooter blockbuster Call of Duty: Black Ops, has sent out data showing that more than 600 million man hours have been spent with the video game in the close to two months since it was released worldwide on November 9, on the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStatio...

30 December 2010
05:10 GMT

Call of Duty Multiplayer Should Be Attributed to Treyarch

Activision boss Bobby Kotick has once again highlighted the major contribution development studio Treyarch brought to the company's extremely successful Call of Duty franchise, even if the series was originally developed by Infinity Ward. Activision, seeing as how it is in the midst of some fierce legal battl...

27 December 2010
18:01 GMT

EA Boss Criticizes Call of Duty and Activision

EA CEO John Riccitiello went on the offensive against rival company Activision, its most prestigious franchise, Call of Duty, and the developer of the most recent game in the series, Treyarch. While it isn't the first time this has happened, Riccitiello cast some serious doubts over the large games publisher ...

22 December 2010
18:01 GMT

Treyarch Details CoD: Black Ops PS3 Issues, New Update Coming Soon

Development studio Treyarch has just issued a formal statement to all PlayStation 3 Call of Duty: Black Ops owners in which it talks about the recent issues that plagued the game since patch 1.04 went live, at the beginning of the week. In case you don't know, the studio updated Call of Duty: Black Ops for th...

17 December 2010
04:25 GMT

People Are Happy with Call of Duty: Black Ops, Studio Says

Treyarch boss Mark Lamia talked about his studio's latest game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, during the Spike TV Video Game Awards, and revealed that, judging by the reaction so far, gamers were extremely happy with the game, despite many glitches and lag problems.Lamia has unveiled to Joystiq that, as of right now,...

14 December 2010
04:10 GMT

PC Version of Call of Duty: Black Ops Gets More Patches

Treyarch has signaled that it plans to deliver more patches for the PC version of its hit shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops in the coming months, aiming to support the game for as long as players are interested in the multiplayer experience. Josh Olin, who is the community manager working at Treyarch, stated, &ldquo...

6 December 2010
05:09 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Wii Gets New Patch Today

Treyarch is continuing the patching process for its latest game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and has just revealed that a new patch for the Nintendo Wii version of the game will be released today.Call of Duty: Black Ops was the biggest game to be released this year, and has broken sales records around the world, not onl...

24 November 2010
17:21 GMT

Infinity Ward Has Been Reconstructed, Says Vivendi

Vivendi, the company controlling Activision, has said that the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops, the new first person shooter developed by Treyarch, shows that the studio is able to create complex gaming experiences which can compete with the best products coming out of the studio Infinity Ward.Jean-Bernard Lev...

23 November 2010
13:31 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Sets 650 Million Dollar Sales Record in Five Days

Publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that their first person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops has managed to record sales of more than 650 million dollars in its first five day period of worldwide sales, breaking the record for an entertainment launch, established by the previous installment Modern Warfare 2, w...

19 November 2010
03:09 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops

It must be hard to be one of the developers working on the Call of Duty franchise these days. This is a series which brings in a huge percentage of Activision's revenue and probably contributes more than, let's say, DJ Hero 2 to the profits of the company. This is a franchise which is used to setting record...

18 November 2010
05:23 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops – Rooftop Chases and Flying Killing Machines

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the new first person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, allowing the player to experience the covert ops conflicts between the United States and Russia during the era of the Cold War.Call of Duty knows its linear and the developers know that the only way to d...

17 November 2010
18:41 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Diary - Experiencing Emotion in 3D

Call of Duty: Black Ops has just been released for the PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and DS last week by Treyarch and published by Activision.I've been going through the single-player portion of the game with the help of Nvidia's 3D technology, and I can safely say that it seriously augments the...

16 November 2010
05:52 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops – Soyuz Capsules and Free Will

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the new first person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, allowing the player to experience the covert ops conflicts between the United States and Russia during the era of the Cold War.The fourth or fifth mission of Call of Duty: Black Ops moves the action to a...

15 November 2010
18:41 GMT

Kotick: Second Team View of Treyarch Unfair

Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard, has stated that the current view of developer Treyarch as the second string team when it came to Call of Duty video games is unfair, given the amount of work they have put into the multiplayer element in Modern Warfare 2 and the current success of rece...

15 November 2010
06:29 GMT

Quick Look: Call of Duty: Black Ops

Call of Duty: Black Ops was one of the most anticipated games of the year, as its predecessor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, set a sales record, and because Treyarch, its developer, promised to deliver a lot of new features and extra modes, as opposed to the previous game made by Infinity Ward.So, did Treyarch mana...

12 November 2010
17:21 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops PC Gets Patch Released Through Steam

Call of Duty: Black Ops on the PC has just been patched, thanks to a new update released by its developer, Treyarch, through Valve's Steam digital content distribution platform.Black Ops was eagerly awaited by millions of gamers around the world, but PC and PlayStation 3 owners were disappointed by lots of glitc...

12 November 2010
04:13 GMT

Rumor Mill: 2011 Call of Duty Might Have Marines in Space

Call of Duty: Black Ops, the new first person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, has just been released but rumors are already starting to pop up about what kind of video games the series might receive during next year.The speculation comes after a Activision financial report session d...

11 November 2010
17:41 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Also Has Bugs and Glitches on the PlayStation 3

After yesterday's sudden report that Call of Duty: Black Ops suffers from intense lag on even the most powerful PC setups, it seems that the PlayStation 3 versions of the game are also suffering from an array of bugs and glitches, as reported by members of the Treyarch forum.Call of Duty: Black Ops has been one ...

11 November 2010
03:33 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Gets 1 Million Players on Xbox Live

A representative of developer Treyarch, the team which put together the first person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops, has said that no latter than 1 AM Pacific Time on launch day more than one million gamers were playing the multiplayer element of the game using the Xbox Live multiplayer service offered by Microsoft ...

10 November 2010
04:56 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Plagued by Lag and Glitches on PC

PC gamers have been eagerly awaiting Call of Duty: Black Ops, one of the most expected games of the year, but it seems that the Treyarch-developed title is plagued by lag and a few interesting glitches.It seems that no matter the PC configuration, either mid-range or high-end machines, the game has performance spikes...

10 November 2010
03:54 GMT

Weekend Reading: Why Call of Duty: Black Ops Will Win Through Content

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the latest installment in Activision's hugely successful first person shooter franchise, and is getting ready to hit the global market on November 9, for the PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and DS.The game looks set to break the records set by its predecessor, Call of Duty: M...

6 November 2010
08:01 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Wii Gets New Details, Will Feature Zombie Co-Op

Call of Duty: Black Ops on the Nintendo Wii has just been detailed by its senior producer, and it seems that the version will have almost all of the features seen in the full pledged PC, PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 editions, including multiplayer, co-operative missions and the special Zombies mode.A couple of big leaks ha...

5 November 2010
04:33 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Will Get Lots of Digital Content in 2011, Activision Says

The importance of the Call of Duty franchise to Activision has once again been emphasized during a recent investor's call, with the company's CEO, Eric Hirshberg, confirming that the series will get the "largest lineup of new digital content" in 2011.Call of Duty: Black Ops is shaping up to be one of the mo...

5 November 2010
03:57 GMT


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