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Black Ops Fan Base “a smaller percentage of the broad audience who like Bond”

Black Ops Fan Base “a smaller percentage of the broad audience who like Bond”

Peter Collier, part of the development team of Blood Stone, says Blood Stone's sales will not be eaten up by Black Ops' sales this Holidays, thanks to the wider audience that James Bond has. "If I w... Read More

Analysts say Halo: Reach has ‘no chance’ of outselling Black Ops

Analysts say Halo: Reach has ‘no chance’ of outselling Black Ops

Industry analysts say the hugely successful, recently released Microsoft title, Halo: Reach has 'no chance' of outselling the upcoming megaton, Call of Duty: Black Ops. Microsoft made it clear that ... Read More

Bobby Kotick Thinks Bungie Is The “last remaining high quality independent developer”

Bobby Kotick Thinks Bungie Is The “last remaining high quality independent developer”

Bobby Kotick, perhaps the gaming industries most hated personal, has stated that Bungie are the "last remaining high quality independent developer". The claim might just come from the fact that A... Read More

Bobby Kotick: Traditional Companies like Microsoft, Sony, EA “are going to really struggle in the future”

Bobby Kotick: Traditional Companies like Microsoft, Sony, EA “are going to really struggle in the future”

Activision boss Bobby Kotick says traditional console making companies such as Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, will face a "struggle" trying to figure out an online dominance in the future, somethin... Read More

CoD Paid Service Incoming?

CoD Paid Service Incoming?

"New service offerings" which are supposed to "enhance" online grossings from Call of Duty games are "in the pipeline," Activision has revealed. That probably means that Activision will be enhancin... Read More

Dedicated Servers Will Come At A Price For Black Ops

Dedicated Servers Will Come At A Price For Black Ops

Activision have just announced that they will be having dedicated servers for their upcoming Treyarch developed Cold War based First Person Shooter, Call of Duty: Black Ops, but guess what- you wi... Read More

Can Halo: Reach Outsell Call of Duty: Black Ops? Microsoft Thinks So

Can Halo: Reach Outsell Call of Duty: Black Ops? Microsoft Thinks So

With two megaton First Person Shooters, Microsoft's Halo: Reach and Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops, looming large on the horizon, comparisions are bound to be drawn between them. Both of them ... Read More

Black Ops Multiplayer Is And Always Will Be Free

Black Ops Multiplayer Is And Always Will Be Free

Mark Lamia, head of Treyarch, developers of the upcoming Cold War FPS, Call of Duty: Black Ops, has said that his team plans on “supporting the hell” out of his upcoming game, and assured tha... Read More

Black Ops will be better than Modern Warfare 2, says Activision

Black Ops will be better than Modern Warfare 2, says Activision

Activision have declared that their upcoming Cold War FPS, being developed by Treyarch, will be the best Call of Duty title released till date, trumping Modern Warfare 2, their previous, hugely succes... Read More

Starcraft II crosses 3 million mark

Starcraft II crosses 3 million mark

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has sold over 3 million copies worldwide in the first month of its release, building on the game’s momentum as th... Read More

Black Ops Could Have Been 3D

Black Ops Could Have Been 3D

Josh Olin of Treyarch told CVG that 3D for Call of Duty: Black Ops wasn't a "big focus" for the studio, but he did not give a definitive answer. "We've looked at it," Olin said. "I think that games... Read More

World at War was the last of its kind, CoD ‘won’t go back to World War II’

World at War was the last of its kind, CoD ‘won’t go back to World War II’

For those who will curse Modern Warfare forever for taking Call of Duty away from the World War backdrop (if such people exist), we have bad news for you. Treyarch's World at War, the fifth entry into... Read More

GoldenEye 007 Multiplayer Trailer

GoldenEye 007 Multiplayer Trailer

We have a new trailer for GoldenEye 007 which shows what to expect from the Multiplayer mode in the game. Judging by the trailer here is what you should be expecting: Split screen and Multiplay... Read More

Rock Band 3 Tracklist Leaked?

Rock Band 3 Tracklist Leaked?

Apparently, a Harmonix staff member was going through the tracklist of Rack Band 3 on his computer at GamesCom, and a person nearby taped it. Here's the supposed full tracklist: -Dio - Rainbow i... Read More

Guitar Hero 6: Warriors of Rock Full tracklist

Guitar Hero 6: Warriors of Rock Full tracklist

Activision has released the fcomplete tracklist for their upcoming Rythm game, Guitar Hero 6: Warriors of Rock. Here's the entire list. -A Perfect Circle - "The Outsider" -Aerosmith - "Cryin'" -A... Read More

Activision Reveals Q4 Line-up

Activision Reveals Q4 Line-up

Activision revealed its Q4 line-up for 2010. GoldenEye remake for the Wii will be released this November, and Bizarre Creation's Blood Stone is scheduled for a 'Winter 2010' release. Tony Ha... Read More

CONFIRMED: Call of Duty: Black Ops- Zombies

CONFIRMED: Call of Duty: Black Ops- Zombies

Remember the popular Zombie mode in Treyarch's previous Call of Duty title, World at War? It seems as if that mode will be making a return in Call of Duty: Black Ops, according to Best Buy. The Har... Read More

Activision: Infinity Ward Will Return

Activision: Infinity Ward Will Return

That sounds ominous. Evil publisher Activision, best known for milking the crap out of any half decent money spinning game they get on their hands, and for curbing the creative process at their dev... Read More

Modern Warfare 2 bugs again, demoes start ‘thinking’ they’re full games

Modern Warfare 2 bugs again, demoes start ‘thinking’ they’re full games

As we all know by now, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's demo was released last Wednesday, a year after the game's release. Surprisingly, though, the demo of Modern Warfare 2 comes with free SNK XBLA ... Read More

Call of Duty 8- First Few Details

Call of Duty 8- First Few Details

Studio co-founder Glen Schofield leaked on his Twitter page that Call of Duty 8, the next CoD game, being developed by Sledgehammer and due out next year, will feature real life military situations. "... Read More