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Microsoft and Activision are running a huge half-price sale on the latter’s Xbox Live content. Consumers can save 50 per cent on selected add-ons such as map packs for titles such as Call of Duty 2, 3, Modern Warfare and World at War, as well as Transformers: War For Cybertron. …

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the UK’s biggest selling game of the year, according to Gfk Chart-Track. The first person shooter – which sold 2m units in its first week on sale – beat off competition from FIFA 11, Just Dance and Red Dead Redemption to take the prize. …

Last year's rumours resurface in light of new job listing for FX artist on 'military shooter'

Rumours that Activision-owned developer Raven Software is working on DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops have resurfaced thanks to a recent job ad. Last May it was reported that Raven, whose most recent release was the commercially disappointing Singularity, was working both on an announced James Bond game and …

Activision’s November release Call of Duty: Black Ops has now generated revenues in excess of $1bn. It hit the milestone in just six weeks on the market. The achievement is just the latest in a long line of impressive accomplishments by the game. In its first week in the UK …

EA CEO John Riccitiello has launched his most scathing attack on the Call of Duty franchise yet, criticising both developer Treyarch and Activision’s leading executives. "I don’t know that having two guys that probably don’t play the games, in the form of the CEO of Vivendi and the CEO of …

As was predicted by pretty much everybody last week, Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has been named as the UK’s official Christmas Number One video game. The game has now sold over 3m copies in the UK, making it one of only three games to top the 100m mark …

Activision has announced the first details of its debut DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops. Called First Strike, the download will include four new multiplayer maps and a new level for the zombie mode. Two of the new maps will be based on the game’s single player – Hong …

PS3 owners still experiencing problems with the online component of Call of Duty: Black Ops have been told to hold tight as Treyarch looks to release another patch that it hopes will eradicate the issues. On Wednesday the developer released an update designed to ease the problems some are having …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops is starting to look like a permanent feature at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week as the shooter claims its fourth UK No.1 of the year. The only game so far that’s been able to (temporarily) dethrone …