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Activision and Sony will finally reveal more about Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified at Gamescom next week. At E3, all the two firms offered up was a logo – yet the clock is ticking on a game that is not only out in a matter of months, but hugely …
Read More »50% off Call of Duty DLC for a week
DLC for both Modern Warfare 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops is available at half of its normal cost for the next week. The deal kicked off in the US yesterday (July 3rd) and has begun in Europe and the UK today. Furthermore, a portion of the profits from …
Read More »Retailers leak first Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified info
A pair of retailer listings have let loose initial details on upcoming Vita title Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified. A Neogaf post of a Walmart listing (also confirmed on Amazon) reveals the title will explore original fiction in the Call of Duty Black Ops universe with an all-new campaign …
Read More »Call of Duty Elite amasses 2m paying subscribers
Activision stands to make $100m annually from Modern Warfare and Black Ops online service
Read More »Black Ops 2 may have violated Infinity Ward deal
Papers signed in 2008 shows only one Call of Duty studio has control over modern settings
Read More »Black Ops 2 ‘to get visual overhaul’
Treyarch shows off new texture technique 'reveal mapping' and confirms DX11 compatibility for PC
Read More »OPINION: Call of Duty hasn’t peaked
In just a matter of weeks Call of Duty 9 will likely be unveiled. But if you work at Activision, thinking about that now is supposed to irk you. Because yesterday the wider games media decided that Call of Duty has peaked. Modern Warfare 3 sales are 4.2 per cent …
Read More »Call of Duty appears to have peaked
It remains the powerhouse IP of modern console gaming, but figures suggest that Activision’s mighty Call of Duty IP is in decline. Gamasutra reports that life-to-date sales of last year’s Modern Warfare 3 are tracking behind those enjoyed by predecessor Black Ops by an estimated 4.2 per cent. In March …
Read More »The REAL entertainment Top 40
You know that Entertainment Top 40 released last week and published online by the games press (including MCV)? Well it was wrong. MCV can reveal that the video game numbers were based on the raw Chart-Track data and were not up-weighted to account for the whole market. That means Black …
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 …
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