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Next week’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare could sell 70 per cent fewer units than 2012’s Black Ops 2. It could also fall 40 per cent short of last year’s COD: Ghosts, according to estimates from Cowen and Company which says that the series is now in a state of …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare to make MLG debut in November
Major League Gaming will host its first official Call of Duty tournament this November, the eSports organization has announced. MLG will host and stream the world premiere Call of Duty eSports tournament and broadcast for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare between November 28th-30th. The event is scheduled to air exclusively …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare supports free next-gen upgrades
Activision doesn’t want you to hold back on buying the next Call of Duty should you be hoping for a next-gen console this Christmas. Buyers of either the PS3 or Xbox 360 versions of the game will be able to upgrade to the next-gen SKUs for free. On PlayStation, the …
Read More »Analyst doesn’t expect Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare to match Ghosts sales
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare could sell up to 15 per cent fewer copies than its predecessor Call of Duty: Ghosts, one analyst has predicted. That would equate to around 17m sales in calendar Q4. Cinemablend reports that Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia believes that gamers might be sceptical of …
Read More »Activision on Destiny launch: ‘We shouldn’t underestimate the power of UK games retail’
Over 1,000 UK games retailers opened at midnight last night to herald the launch of Destiny. And Activision’s UK MD Roy Stackhouse says there is no better advert for the power of the High Street retailer. "UK retail has done an outstanding job," he told MCV last night. "There is …
Read More »Actually, Call of Duty pre-orders spiked 385% last week
As it turns out, Call of Duty had a pretty good Gamescom after all. You may recall that yesterday we published a story about pre-order spikes during Gamescom. Amazon UK revealed to us the impact Gamescom had on its big games and the numbers surprised us a bit. It revealed …
Read More »As Call of Duty joins list of Wii U absentees, what now for Nintendo’s core gaming bid?
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the latest major triple-A franchise to abandon Wii U. Activision calls it a ‘judgment call,’ and it is a sound judgment. Call of Duty struggled to perform even on Wii, let alone on Wii U with its significantly smaller install base. Why bother investing …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Wii U release shot down by Activision
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will not be making an appearance on Wii U, developer Sledeghammer Gamers has confirmed. Responding to a fan on Twitter, Sledgehammer co-founder Michael Condrey explained the decision to skip Nintendo’s current console hardware ultimately came down to the call of publisher Activision Blizzard. "No WiiU. …
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Read More »Sledgehammer says Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare approaches photorealism
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare looks so good that some people are going to mistake it for TV. That’s the claims by developer Sledgehammer in a new video, which you can see below, as reported by GameSpot. "Because our subject matter is very advanced and technical, and we’re kind of …
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