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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare developer Sledgehammer has revealed that it worked on the cancelled third person Call of Duty titles for up to eight months. Indeed, so impressed was Activision with the Vietnam-themed 10-15 slice of the game that the team created that it offered the studio to jump …
Read More »Vietnam blocks late night online gaming
Vietnam has moved to block gamers from playing online at night. The country’s Ministry of Information and Communication has asked internet service providers to block access to online games after 10pm, according to Vietnam News. The initiative is to counter potentially harmful side effects from playing these titles. Provincial departments …
Read More »Packed Christmas planned for Xbox Live
Microsoft has announced a raft of content that will be made available on Xbox Live over the Christmas holidays. The platform holder will be adding more 2010 hits to its Games On Demand service, starting with Red Dead Redemption and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands on December 12st. Also …
Read More »Bad Company 2 Vietnam due December
The Vietnam add-on pack for EA’s popular Battlefield: Bad Company 2 shooter will go on sale next month. Players will be able to control a US Marine or member of the North Vietnamese Army around four maps in ‘conquest’ and ‘rush’ modes, with new weapons, vehicles, achievements and trophies to …
Read More »Second iPhone 4 prototype surfaces
Though the discovery of a prototype version of Apple’s upcoming fourth iteration of the iPhone landed tech blog Gizmodo in legal hotwater, that doesn’t seem to have stopped a Vietnamese site (which has seemingly since been removed) publishing further pictures of the secretive device. As spotted by Engadget, the device …
Read More »Activision: Treyarch is taking CoD to the next level
Activision Publishing’s chief operating officer Thomas Tippl has promised that developer Treyarch will push the next Call of Duty’s quality beyond that seen in previous iterations of the series. The statement comes in the build up to this evening’s official unveiling of details of the game’s content and setting. Tomorrow …
Read More »New Call of Duty revealed tomorrow
The first official details of this year’s still mysterious Call of Duty outing will be revealed tomorrow on GTTV in the form of a teaser trailer. The preview spot for the show stated: Put all the rumours to rest – don’t miss the global announcement of the next Call of …
Read More »West and Zampella clarify rights
In a further layer to the already astonishing events of the Activision-Infinity Ward saga, defendants Jason West and Vince Zampella have outlined what they say are the rights afforded to them according to their deal with former bosses Activision. The Memorandum of Understanding gives West and Zampella creative authority over …
Read More »More evidence for COD: Vietnam
The rumours that Treyarch’s next Call of Duty title will be set in Vietnam have resurfaced once again after an unearthed document for an LA casting call made reference to the controversial ‘60s conflict. VG247 has obtained a description of four key characters the makers of the game are looking …
Read More »Next COD heading to Vietnam?
It’s not the first time such talk has done the rounds, but rumours that the next Call of Duty title will be set in Vietnam have once again resurfaced.OXM claims that the title will take inspiration from cult films such as Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. Following the …
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