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Call of Duty: Black Ops is officially the biggest entertainment launch of all-time – and platform holders Microsoft and Sony are delighted with its success. With a record breaking performance on Xbox Live, home to the world’s largest Call of Duty gaming community, Call of Duty: Black Ops has already …

As was revealed by MCV this morning, Activision has confirmed that Black Ops has not just shattered Call of Duty records – it’s also re-written the entertainment launch books. The publisher has revealed that the game sold an astonishing $650m of stock in its first five days on the market. …

It was the week Take That reformed. The week a new Harry Potter movie premiered.But the real winner in the entertainment war? It was a video game. Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops led a software market boom last week. Day one sales stood at 1.4m units, generating 58m in …

Treyarch, which has for a long time been seen as the underdog to Call of Duty series’ creator Infinity Ward, does not get the credit it deserves for the role it has played in the series according to Activision boss Bobby Kotick. When a Joystiq interviewer referred to Treyarch as …

A record-breaking performance from Call of Duty: Black Ops has seen it rocket to the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. However, the new COD wasn’t the only new release on the market this week – there was the little matter of Microsoft’s Kinect …

Sales of 2m units in its first five days on release has seen Call of Duty: Black Ops shatter UK sales records and effortlessly claim the position of UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats No.1. The numbers represent an estimated revenue of 81.9m. The numbers are 13 per cent better than …

UK animation and design studio continues Call of Duty contributions

Ahead of the release of the first sales numbers of Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops today, the state media of Cuba has denounced the title, claiming that it stimulates sociopathic attitudes”. Much of the reaction stems from the game’s opening mission, which sees players taking part in an attempted …

We are yet to receive any firm sales numbers for Call of Duty: Black Ops from publisher Activision, but stats from Xbox Live suggests the game is well on track to rival the records set by its predecessor Modern Warfare 2. As noted by Treyarch’s community manager Josh Olin, last …

Bookmaker Paddy Power has opened the betting on the race to be the UK’s official Christmas No.1 video game, and the early favourite is perhaps not surprisingly Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops. The company is currently offering odds of 1/6 on the game. So far it has only released …