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Overwatch growth spurt drives Q1 growth for Activision Blizzard

A record period of growth for Overwatch has been rewarding for Activision-Blizzard’s finances. Blizzard has seen a 58 per cent jump in their revenue in the last quarter, exceeding analyst expectations with a respectable $441m in revenues. It still hasn’t quite hit the numbers seen by mobile outfit King, who …

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YouTube ad crisis is hitting Call of Duty community

The sensitivity about mature content on YouTube is leaving many who specialise in violent games out of pocket. Kotaku reports that Call of Duty: WWII is already proving problematic for content makers as its themes – war, violence, and presumably most pointedly, Nazis – do not play well with the …

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New Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare patch releases, doesn’t combat snaking

Yesterday, a new patch for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare was released. However, it’s drawn ire from fans as it doesn’t address ‘snaking’, which is perceived as one of the biggest issues at high-level play right now. Snaking is a form of movement where players will rapidly move between prone …

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Call of Duty: WWII gets trailer and release date

Sledgehammer has pledged to make this year’s Call of Duty the most realistic and gritty for some time. Although there will be Nazi Zombies. Those aside, however, the realism will be on point. As you can see in the trailer below, the new Call of Duty will deliver on its …

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Australian CoD team Mindfreak to move to NA

The best Call of Duty team in Australia has announced that they will be moving to North America, potentially for the rest of the Infinite Warfare season.  Having finished at the top of the Pro Points leaderboard in the region, Mindfreak secured themselves a spot in the first season of …

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Call of Duty is getting its own cinematic universe

Activision Blizzard is apparently looking to ape the success of Marvel in its effort to bring video games series Call of Duty to cinema screens. Activision Blizzard Studios co-presidents Stacey Sher and Nick van Dyk described the strategy as a multi-layered, interconnected approach” in an interview with The Guardian. The …

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Leak suggests next Call of Duty will be set in World War II

Leaked images of promotional material have revealed that the next Call of Duty title will be set in World War II. After years of constantly pushing the series further and further into the future, developer Sledgehammer Games, the studio behind Advanced Warfare, is set to make a return to the …

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Epsilon finally confirm the signing of Call of Duty player Josh from Splyce

The European Call of Duty scene has been rocked by roster changes in recent weeks, with many of the top teams switching players in some way.  However the most interesting story was the one that apparently started it all. Josh ‘Joshh’ Sheppard who was a member of the Splyce team …

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OpTic Crimsix wins a record fifth ESWC event

This past weekend OpTic Gaming came out on top at the ESWC Call of Duty World League event in Paris, making it the fifth time Crimsix has won the event.  OpTic steam rolled through the competition, not dropping a single match and making a perfect run through the winners bracket …

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