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The third Call of Duty: Black Ops title is coming to last-gen, but definitely won’t match up to its PS4 and Xbox One counterparts, Activision has said. The game had previously been announced for PS4, Xbox One and PC only, leading some to question its appearance on older hardware. However, …
Read More »FIFA 15 continues its winning streaks in UK charts
It’s Christmas, and there are always two games that dominate this time of year. FIFA and Call of Duty. And that’s exactly how this year is turning out as well. FIFA 15 is No.1 again and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is No.2. Again. Both titles suffered minor declines in …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare UK sales up year-on-year, says Activision
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was bigger in its first week than Call of Duty: Ghosts. That’s according to Activision based on GfK Chart-Track figures and its internal digital numbers. We are still awaiting the official report from the stat tracker to confirm the claim. It’s actually a little hard …
Read More »Three-year dev cycle gives Call of Duty teams ‘freedom to fail’
Activision says shift to longer development times also opens more scope to be creative
Read More »Call of Duty’s three-year dev cycle gives studios "freedom to fail"
The shift from a two-year to a three-year development cycle for the Call of Duty development cycle gives developers more scope to be creative and possibly make mistakes. "That extra year of development time, particularly with the new consoles and the more powerful hardware, has really paid off thus far …
Read More »Activision confirms three Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Limited Editions
Three Limited Edition versions of the upcoming Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare have been detailed by publisher Activision. The first is called the Atlas Limited Edition. Priced at 69.99 it includes a bonus multiplayer map and a special manual, all delivered in a steelcase. The 99.99 Atlas Pro Edition adds …
Read More »VIDEO: New performance capture tech in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Sledgehammer also using two skeletons to animate character and exoskeleton separately
Read More »Snoop Dogg voice and marijuana-themed personalisation pack hitting Call of Duty: Ghosts
US hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg – or Snoop dee oh double gee, as he refers to himself in the video below – is heading to Call of Duty. The rapper is lending his voice to a new $2.99 voice pack DLC release which adds a number of his sound bites …
Read More »Call of Duty’s critical-consumer disconnect
It may sometimes feel like there’s a gulf separating those who make and release games and those who buy and play them. But if there’s one thing that unites these groups it’s an obsession with review scores. That solitary number – which more likely that not will be a ‘7′, …
Read More »ShopTo resolves Call of Duty: Ghosts dispute, but will Royal Mail strike scupper plans?
Call of Duty: Ghosts is now available from ShopTo.net after the retailer and Activision settled their differences regarding the title. It was revealed in May that ShopTo would not be stocking the game after a disagreement with the publisher regarding the day on which it was able to post orders …
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