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Dev criticises Call of Duty strategy

One indie developer has lashed out both at Activision’s decision to charge a fee for Call of Duty Elite and its failure, in his opinion, to evolve the franchise. "I don’t agree with it," Zombie Studios’ lead designer Jared Gerritzen told Gamasutra of the Call of Duty Elite service. "Right …

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Xbox 360 gets exclusive zombie MMO

Jeff Strain, the co-creator of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, is working on a brand new zombie-themed "online world game" exclusively for Xbox 360. Called Class3, it is being developed by Strain’s Undead Labs and will be published by Microsoft. As might be expected for a zombie title, players are cast …

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Japanese dev industry ‘like a zombie’

One of Japan’s most popular game developers has launched an imaginative and damning analysis of his native development nation. Katamari Damacy maestro Keita Takahashi described the Japanese sector as a zombie” that needs to die, but won’t. In an interview with consumer magazine GamesTM, Takashashi said: I think the Japanese …

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The surprise cast of Black Ops zombie mode

Early footage of next week’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has revealed that the much heralded zombie mode has taken a surprising new turn, casting players as one of two former US presidents and one overseas leader. As can be seen in the picture below courtesy of Kotaku, gamers have …

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Next Yakuza is a zombie shooter

When Sega published a teaser image for the fifth instalment in the Yakuza series carrying just two words – ‘The End’ – everybody presumed that the popular Japanese gangster series was coming to close. But it seems that the truth is far, far stranger. Siliconera reports that Yakuza: Of The …

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Zombies return in Black Ops

It looks as if Treyarch is to resurrect one of the most popular features from its last Call of Duty game in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops. In a listing on Best Buy’s website, as spotted by CVG, the retailer claims that the Hardened Edition of the game …

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