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Gfinity will be running competitions for both Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered in November. Traditionally Gfinity, like most event organisers, has run tournaments for the major Call of Duty game each year, but with the launch of two games this year they have …
Read More »Lewis Hamilton gets a cameo appearance in Call of Duty
World champion F1 racing driver Lewis Hamilton will appear in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Hamilton’s cameo appearance sees him play the role of an engineer aboard the Retribution, one of the United Nations Space Alliance’s last remaining warships, following a devastating attack on their fleet in the game’s opening …
Read More »Margin Makers: Guide to Q4 line-up merchandise
There’s a lot to be excited about during the last quarter of 2016. As well as a wealth of new hardware, including virtual reality headsets, slim versions of existing consoles and a more powerful PlayStation 4, there’s a rather diverse line-up of blockbusters coming to shelves in the coming months. …
Read More »Millenium’s Callum “Swanny” Swan to miss CoD XP
The biggest CoD event of the year is here, but Millenium will be without their star player as Callum “Swanny” Swan has not travelled to LA. The news came just hours before the competition is due to start, with the team confirming that Swanny will not be playing this weekend. …
Read More »FIFA, Call of Duty and Metal Gear conquer Gamescom 2016
It will come as little surprise to discover that FIFA 17, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Metal Gear Survive were the most talked about games at Gamescom. Across all social and PR channels (media, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), FIFA 17 was the highest ranked game present. Yet in terms of …
Read More »What we learnt from Gamescom 2016
The reveals and announcements may not have come thick and fast at Gamescom 2016, but there were still plenty of developments coming out of the show floor. Christopher Dring, Alex Calvin and Matthew Jarvis look at the key things we took away from this year’s show. Titanfall 2 is Call …
Read More »COD: Infinite Warfare ‘strengthened’ Infinity Ward’s resolve
The hostile reception that greeted the unveiling of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has only proved to further motivation the team behind the game. That’s according to Infinity Ward’s narrative lead Taylor Kurosaki and writer Brian Bloom, who in an interview with Eurogamer reflected on the saga that saw the …
Read More »Metal Gear and Call of Duty dominate Gamescom
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and Metal Gear Survive are amongst the biggest games of Gamescom so far. Before the show, Infinite Warfare’s ‘Zombies in Spaceland’ trailer was released, racking up over 1m page views on YouTube – making it by far the biggest trailer. On the first day of …
Read More »EA: Titanfall 2 is Call of Duty’s true rival, not Battlefield
Call of Duty’s biggest competitor this Christmas is Titanfall, EA has told MCV @ Gamescom. EA’s CMO Chris Bruzzo said that Battlefield 1 may be the bigger game, but it is actually a very different beast Titanfall 2 is also being developed by Respawn, a company founded by former Infinity …
Read More »There was nearly an Ancient Rome Call of Duty game, report
If footage from a pitch reel is to believed, a Call of Duty title set in Ancient Rome was in the works. That’s according a source speaking to GamesRadar, who claims that in 2008 Vicarious Visions put forward the idea of a Call of Duty, called Roman Wars, which cast …
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