Activision, in a touching gesture has promised to donate a million dollars to support army veterans and former soldiers.

These funds will help them lead their civilian lives better and find employment.

The funds will be donated from the profits that the latest CoD games make and will go to Call of Duty Endowment corporation that assists other organisation help soldiers find employment outside the military.

Here’s what Bobby Kotick had to say

This Veteran’s Day, we should all take a moment to reflect on the sacrifices that the brave men and women of our military are making in service of our country. It is a national tragedy to have these men and women put their lives on the line inAfghanistan and Iraq, only to come home to face another battle of finding a new career.  The Call of Duty Endowment and the organizations it supports are devoted to reducing the rate of unemployment among our recent veterans by helping them find jobs and use the skills they developed protecting our freedom to earn a living.  I am honored that we are able to use the popularity of Call of Duty to bring much needed attention to this serious issue and assist veterans when they return home.

Call of Duty: Black Ops just beat Modern Warfare 2 to become the biggest entertainment launch in history. This is a nice gesture.

Call of Duty: Black Ops seems to getting one thing or other leaked in quick succession. First a retail copy and now the full map list have got leaked. It reveals that there are a total of 14 maps present in the game.

You can expect more to be added in the form of future DLCS but for a start, it’s pretty neat.

Black Ops releases on Nov 9 for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

You can view the map details over here

The media got into a frenzy last night, with reports of  Call of Duty : Black Ops retail copies landing into the hands of hackers. It first appeared that a guy flicked a few copies from a factory at Alabama, before selling them to numerous hackers.  Hookedgamers even posted a pic of a guy calling himself, Ungodly Hacker with a pic of a retail copy of the game.

Treyarch’s community man Josh Olin got air of this and was chasing these guys like a madmen threatening them with shut-down and what-not if the game got leaked. We don’t blame him, we would do the same.

However, much to the relief of Activision and Olin, the same guy has disclosed that he does not possess a copy of the game and that it’s unlikely that it will be leaked.

He said that while he was contacted by someone having a copy of the game, it never ended up in his hands. Here’s the full statement ( pardon his English) –

“It did how ever hit the hands of the Runner (the Computer guy) and according to him FBI came and Took It (RIGHT!!) Ha Ha Ha.” Ha ha ha indeed. Also sic. “After speaking with Josh [Olin] no FBI are involved at all but he wants tto know were we got the game from…. NO WERE it landed in our laps but we were scammed END OF Story….”

Piracy has been a major concern for the Industry and this news comes as a relief for Activision, as a possible leak would have resulted in a loss of sales for Black Op, which is poised to overtake MW 2 as the biggest entertainment launch in history.

We will keep you updated as this develops further.