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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC can only be accessed by one player profile per console, forum complaints suggest.UPDATE: Activision aware of ‘unintentional’ problem. Users may have to purchase Elite content twice if they want to play it under a different profile on their Xbox 360 console – something …
Read More »Modern Warfare 3 2012 Season DLC plan outlined
Activision has announced all the downloadable content Modern Warfare 3 players will be able to access from now until September. The publisher already confirmed at least 20 pieces of MW3 Season DLC will arrive over the nine-month period. These extras – which include new maps, modes and missions – are …
Read More »Kids and Call of Duty
David Braben looks at the games rating system and if parents and devs are acting responsibly
Read More »Black Ops beats Modern Warfare 3 by 0.5m copies in UK
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 may have shattered records left, right and centre, but it fell far short of its predecessor in the UK. As revealed by MCV this morning, ERA’s 2011 UK Entertainment charts reveals that Modern Warfare 3 sold 2,814,609 copies in the UK between its …
Read More »Adele demolishes Call of Duty as 2011’s biggest entertainment property
Singing sensation Adele sold over 1m more copies of her latest album than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The FPS loses its crown as the UK’s biggest entertainment property in terms of units sold, although it remains No.1 in value. Call of Duty topped the same list in both …
Read More »Modern Warfare 3 crowned UK’s best seller in 2011
UKIE has confirmed what we all already knew – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the best selling game in the UK in 2011. It’s the third year in a row that a Call of Duty title has claimed the annual crown following the successes of Modern Warfare 2 …
Read More »MW3 to get 20 DLC releases over next nine months
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will be supported by at least 20 new batches of downloadable content between now and September. Referred to as the Modern Warfare 3 Content Season for Call of Duty Elite, the push starts next week with two new mutliplayer maps. Liberation and Piazza will …
Read More »UK stores report £268m bonanza
Forget the doom and gloom on the High Street. UK games retailers generated 268m in software sales last month. That’s a 1.7 per cent rise over November 2010. GfK Chart-Track figures show that 8,261,205 games were sold last month. The No.1 game will surprise nobody, with Call of Duty: Modern …
Read More »MW3 sets $1bn sales record
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has become the fastest piece of entertainment to generate $1bn in sales, toppling movie blockbuster Avatar. It achieved this milestone within 16 days of going on sale on November 8th, ahead of Avatar’s 17 days in 2009. Call of Duty now boasts 30m players …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Retail discounts see Skyrim fly to No.1
Fierce retail price cutting has put Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls V at the top of the UK charts this week. Data from GfK/Chart-Track for the week ending Saturday, September 10th shows that the game on average dropped 13 across the High Street last week. A hugely popular deal at Gamestation saw …
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