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Fallout 3 Gets Another Game of the Year Award

Fallout 3, the post apocalyptic role playing experience from Bethesda, has recently been re-released in a Game of the Year edition, which contains all the patches and expansions the title has received from the developer. Now, the videogame has another award to its name, this one coming from Future Publishing, to just...

2 November 2009
03:50 GMT

Map Pack 3 Coming This Week for World at War

Activision has confirmed that it plans to release a new patch, called 1.6, and a fresh Map Pack for Call of Duty: World at War, eager to rekindle interest in the Treyarch-created shooter just as the Infinity Ward-made Modern Warfare 2 is approaching its release date. Unfortunately, the company did not see fit to name...

14 September 2009
07:49 GMT

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Wins Big at the BAFTA Awards

In a rather weird twist, Call of Duy 4: Modern Warfare, developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, has won three awards at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Game Awards, which were presented in London. The game was released in November 2007 and some people might wonder why the title was eve...

13 March 2009
14:11 GMT

World at War Gets Double XP Weekend

The United States branch of Activision is announcing that players of Call of Duty: World at War will be getting double experience this weekend. This is probably an attempt to make sure that those gamers who play for eight or more hours a day don't end up dominating the game. It's expected that the servers w...

30 January 2009
15:31 GMT

Patch Not Coming Soon for PC Version of Call of Duty

Call of Duty: World at War, the World War II shooter developed by Treyarch using the engine created by Infinity Ward for Modern Warfare and published by Activision, proved a big success with gamers, challenging the likes of Gears of War 2 and Wii Fit in terms of sales over 2008. One might say that the game managed to...

19 January 2009
04:42 GMT

Call of Duty: World at War

I'm torn about reviewing Call of Duty: World at War, Treyarch’s latest game in the Activision published series. On the one hand, it does a lot of things very well. The action is fast and the environment is engrossing. Checkpoints are well placed, co op is well implemented, the mission intros are well direc...

10 December 2008
05:11 GMT

Call of Duty: World at War Gets Double XP Week

Activision announced that a double XP week was due to be launched this Friday in the United States and in Europe. The exact start date is Friday, December 5, at 8 PM GMT. The double XP period will last exactly one week and will end on Friday, December 12 at 7:59 PM. It’s nice to see that a publisher actually kn...

5 December 2008
05:00 GMT

Call of Duty: World at War Occupies the United Kingdom

Call of Duty: World at War, the World War II new installment in the long running franchise, debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, barely edging out Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion for the Blizzard made World of Warcraft MMO.The Xbox 360 version of World at War is at number one in the charts and ha...

20 November 2008
14:51 GMT

Call of Duty: World at War Gets Patch 1.1

There's a trend in PC gaming which says that as soon as a game comes out, a patch is needed to tweak some aspects which somehow turned out wrong. Sometimes, a patch is required to stop game crashing bugs, game mechanics don't work as previously announced or players demand more control over one part of the g...

12 November 2008
04:50 GMT

Call of Duty Success Due to Internal Competition

Recently, Robert Bowling, the director of communication at Infinity Ward, launched a somewhat heated tirade against Noah Heller from Activision, telling him to stop referencing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which was made by Infinity Ward, in all his interviews related to the launch of Call of Duty: World at War, w...

11 November 2008
03:58 GMT

Call of Duty: World At War Xbox 360 Beta Is Now Open

Call of Duty: World at War is definitely shaping up to be a great title. Although the developer of the game, Treyarch, was severely disapproved when it announced that it would have the shooter franchise back to World War II, after the huge success of the latest title which took place in contemporary times, CoD 4: Mod...

5 November 2008
12:31 GMT

Zombies Coming to Call of Duty: World at War

What is it with zombies and videogames? Valve is getting ready to launch Left 4 Dead, a game which is supposed to convey the experience through which a zombie apocalypse survivor will go through while battling his way to safety. Blizzard has recently introduced zombies in World of Warcraft, as a pre-launch event whi...

28 October 2008
03:28 GMT

GameStop Will Be Offering Call of Duty: World At War One Day Earlier

Call of Duty: World At War will certainly be a very interesting game. Set to be the first CoD title developed by other studio than the creators of the first four titles, Infinity Ward, the Treyarch developed shooter will have its action placed, yet again, in the Second World War. The studio is trying to get the hype ...

27 October 2008
00:48 GMT

Treyarch Thinks CoD: World at War Multiplayer Is Great

The Call of Duty franchise is one of the most popular shooter series out there, having brought thrilling single player stories that always shined, though the most valued aspects of all the games were the multiplayer campaigns. In this context, one could say that the latest title in the series, Call of Duty ...

23 October 2008
03:30 GMT

No More World War II for Call of Duty

Call of Duty: World at War, the shooter created by Treyarch using the Call of Duty 4 game engine, will be launched shortly and will again offer the player a chance to participate in World War II, either as an American  fighting on an island in the Pacific or as a Soviet soldier making his way to the Nazi ca...

21 October 2008
15:21 GMT

Treyarch Is Still Considering More World War II Based Call of Duty Games

World War II was the biggest conflict ever waged on our planet, since it engaged a lot of countries and marked their entire history forever. Because it was the host to many epic battles like the ones from Normandy or Berlin, a lot of developers look at it as the backdrop for many of their games. We have seen a lot of...

17 October 2008
03:23 GMT

Call of Duty 5 Beta Launches on Xbox 360, PC Coming Soon

Call of Duty is one of the most popular shooter franchises out there. Activision, the owner of this series tends to make an even bigger profit by having the IP (Intellectual Property) developed by two game studios at once, Infinity Ward, the creators of the first games, and Treyarch. While the latest title from Infin...

14 October 2008
16:01 GMT

Call of Duty Gets Collector's Edition, PC Specifications Announced

You can really tell that the holiday season is coming; publishers are announcing special editions of their games left and right. After Electronic Arts' announcements of the really expensive collector's editions for their Dead Space and Mirror's Edge games, Activision decided to launch a special ed...

26 September 2008
12:01 GMT

Activision Looking for Money from Online Gameplay

When Activision held Analysts Day at the beginning of the week, we were all focused on the interesting announcements: the fact that a new James Bond themed game would be launched in 2009, even if no Bond movie is coming out; the fact that Infinity Ward would be doing another Call of Duty game also set for 2009 and th...

19 September 2008
04:39 GMT

Call of Duty: World at War Gets Release Date

Activision Blizzard is finally announcing a clear release date for Call of Duty: World at War. The North American market will get the game on November 11 and while no clear European date has been announced yet, we surely hope it will arrive in Europe at the same time. The game is set to launch for the PlayStation 3, ...

8 September 2008
05:18 GMT

Call of Duty 5 New Details

Call of Duty 5 is getting "World at War" as a subtitle. Even more, progress is really coming along in the shooter which takes the Call of Duty series back to World War II (guys, if you like history so much, let's mix it up a little; Korea, maybe Vietnam will make much cooler battlefields than another landing in ...

10 June 2008
09:36 GMT


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