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Pre-orders for this year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops are already on par with those made for last year’s best-selling Modern Warfare 2. Activision’s chief financial officer Thomas Tippl was speaking to investors at the publisher’s E3 conference last night. He said: Pre-orders for Call of Duty: Black Ops are …
Read More »Activision recruits 300 in 3 years for CoD
Huge boost to headcount confirmed in company's E3 investor conference call
Read More »E3 2010: MW2 sells 20 million copies
Activision’s hugely popular Modern Warfare 2 has unlocked a new achievement – over 20m copies of the game have been sold since release. CFO Thomas Tippl revealed the news to investors at the publisher’s E3 2010 conference. He said: "Modern Warfare 2 has sold more than 20m units against an …
Read More »XBOX: CoD DLC exclusivity confirmed
Microsoft’s long awaited E3 press briefing has just got underway, and the privilege of getting things under way has been given to Treyarch and its upcoming action title Call of Duty: Black Ops. With studio head Mark Lamia fronting proceedings, the exec confirmed that Microsoft has secured limited-time exclusivity on …
Read More »E3 2010: Eminem in COD: Black Ops
Activision has confirmed that a track from US hip-hop star Eminem’s new album Recovery will feature in this year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops. Slim Shady joins a star-studded roster of talent set to appear in a number of its upcoming titles. Recently revealed DJ Hero 2 welcomes R&B face …
Read More »Treyarch â??not empty on ideasâ?? for future CoD
â??Thereâ??s so many ideas that we havenâ??t implemented yetâ?, says studio head
Read More »No fear at Treyarch to build its own â??No Russianâ??
â??There will be situations and scenes where people will pause,â?? says studio boss
Read More »Treyarch and the theatre of war
Studio head Mark Lamia on the tensions in building fiction from fact
Read More »Why is Black Ops set in the Cold War?
The FPS market is a crowded one, but one factor that makes Black Ops stand out from the crowd is its rarely-visited setting. With the battlefields of World War II and more contemporary conflicts, the newest Call of Duty puts players on the frontlines of the Cold War. The Cold …
Read More »Why is Black Ops set in the Cold War?
The FPS market is a crowded one, but one factor that makes Black Ops stand out from the crowd is its rarely-visited setting. With the battlefields of World War II and more contemporary conflicts, the newest Call of Duty puts players on the frontlines of the Cold War. The Cold …
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