A New Cold War – Call of Duty: Black Ops II Announced and Dated for Nov.13

Just when I think I’m done with the Call of Duty series, they manage to say something I can’t help but get excited about. While we all knew that another Call of Duty title was a foregone conclusion this holiday season, and that developer Treyarch was almost certainly working on a sequel to 2010′s bestseller Black Ops, there’s still something...

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Robert Bowling has Resigned from Infinity Ward

  Vocal front man and creative strategist for Infinity Ward Robert Bowling has announced earlier today via twitter that he’s leaving his position at Infinity Ward. Bowling, who became the voice and representative for the Call of Duty series after the meltdown between Activision Blizzard and Infinity Ward’s old co-founders, Jason West and Vince Zampella, led to their departure (and...

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Modern Warfare 3 Gets a Woeful Run-up to Launch.

On top of the ridiculous expectations and pre-order numbers, Modern Warfare 3 has a lot of hype to live up to. As long as it doesn’t stray to far from the already formidable recipe, it will succeed whether we want it to or not. Regardless of post-release sales, Activision/Infinity Ward have seen a few troubling events leading up to their launch. Over...

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Get CONNECTED With Call of Duty: Elite

By now you have probably heard of Call of Duty: Elite, Activision’s answer to Halo Waypoint, which is to say a bit of software that tracks your stats across multiple Call of Duty games as well as allowing you to find groups of players that you may or may not find more appealing than the random fish in a barrel...

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You Aren’t Ready for This Much Modern Warfare 3

The Modern Warfare series has created perhaps the most refined multiplayer experience ever.  Seriously, these games have changed… well, THE game, as it were.  Every multiplayer game since, typically of the shooter variety, has the marks of this huge, multi-million dollar beast somewhere upon its design.  How could they not?  This game is huge, so huge that they have created...

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Modern Warfare 3 Coming to Steam

Valve, the most gracious of video games hosts, announced today that the PC version of Activision’s much anticipated title, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, will be released on Steam.  This means that you can now reserve your copy on Steam and have it ready to play in the early hours of November 8, when it is scheduled for a...

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Kanye West to perform at Call of Duty XP

If nothing else, Call of Duty XP is huge. Currently, the convention has presented a million dollar tournament prize, a life-sized version of MW2’s Scrapyard map, and the promise for all sales to go towards Activision’s Call of Duty Endowment (a non-profit organization that helps returning troops get back to civilian lives quickly). Well, the event just grew a little...

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Assassin’s Creed and much more coming to the PS Vita!

If there’s any name that’s going to be quite dominant when the PS Vita comes out, it’s going to be Ubisoft. During Sony’s Gamescom 2011 conference, they unleashed a massive list of series coming to the new portable console, with a few standing out more than others. One of the biggest members of this list, of course, is Assassin’s Creed....

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Modern Warfare 3 also coming to the Wii

After seeing the previous Nintendo versions of nearly all the other Call of Duty games have resulted in, Activision has decided to try hard anyways by announcing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to have a Wii release. The game’s planned to come out on the same day as the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 versions, and there’s no current...

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Infinity Ward whines and kicks their feet at ModernWarfare3.com

Not too long ago, Call of Duty series developer Infinity Ward finally sent a legal report to National Arbitration Forum in hopes to take down the URL ModernWarfare3.com and receive the rights to the domain. The site was registered back in 2009 and, a short while earlier this week, it literally redirected people to the official site for EA’s Battlefield...

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