Call of Duty

Modern Warfare‘s New Maps Are A Lot Less Campy

Today’s big Modern Warfare update brings two new maps, and the free content feels like a small step forward for the heavily criticized multiplayer aspect of the new Call of Duty As promised with the new Modern Warfare, all maps are going to be free for everyone, and released across all platforms simultaneously. But after…

Now’s the Best Time to Get Loot in Last Year’s Call of Duty

A major overhaul is coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Black Market. While loot boxes aren’t going away, players will finally have a better way of earning cosmetics. Yesterday, Treyarch announced changes that are coming on November 12 to Black Ops 4’s highly-criticized Black Market—you know, that cosmetic marketplace that wanted to sell…

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: The Kotaku Review

Across thousands of years of existence, we as a people have come to regard war as pretty bad. Senseless violence and the loss of irreplaceable lives, usually in the service of petty men who wield the power of nations indiscriminately, is just fucking stupid. Yet it still happens, and in America, the necessity of the…

Five Years Of ‘F’ To Pay Respects

“F” in a moment of internet tragedy, when a YouTuber confesses they were mercilessly dumped. In a flash of live, online embarrassment, when an Overwatch player misclicks their ult, “F.” The internet is a graveyard of “FFFFFFFF,” with some uncountable number tossed off every hour, everywhere, to pay respects. Five years ago today, the Call…

The Footsteps In Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Are So Damn Loud

At first, I was sure my opponent was aimbotting. We were in a close game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s team deathmatch and I was ever so slowly crawling along a wall. The slower, the more quiet, I thought. Something suddenly rustled just ahead. I peeked around the corner and was instantly downed by…

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare‘s Giant, Chaotic Maps Are Frustrating

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launched on October 25, bringing changes to the multiplayer that the community once only dreamed about, like free maps for all. But the design of those maps isn’t playing out very well. For the first time ever, this year’s Call of Duty features cross-play functionality to bring players together across…

Downloading Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Was An Absolute Nightmare

It’s easy to feel nostalgic for the time when playing a new release meant cracking open a plastic box and slotting a cartridge into your console. It’s even easier when you’ve been watching the “download” bar crawl upwards for three hours. By hour four, you’re pulling your hair out. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is…

Modern Warfare Demands Your Attention, But It Might Not Deserve It

It opens with a suicide bombing. You are in a van full of terrorists, nervous, silent, about to do something awful. The van arrives, and a man with a bomb strapped to his chest strides out into a crowded urban space, detonator in hand. He moves to pull the trigger, and we smash cut to…

Migos’ Offset Mourns The Loss Of Call Of Duty Player Who Got Him Into Esports

Up-and-coming Call of Duty competitor Eric Pedro Cruz, who played under the names “Philosophy” and “Losophy,” passed away on August 18. Though he was just 18 years old, he left behind a legacy in the world of esports, which included forming connections with superstars like Migos rapper Offset. “I used to play the game and…

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Will Have Free Maps, No Loot Boxes

Activision is changing the way it does Call of Duty DLC with Modern Warfare. In a blog posttoday, it detailed the game-changing overhaul that upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has undergone to make the game and its economy more equitable and fair. New maps and game modes introduced after the launch of Modern…

Call of Duty Mobile Is Fun Even For Hardcore Players

Call of Duty: Mobile is an addictive multiplayer game that even the most casual mobile player can enjoy, but also one that even hardcore console players like myself might find to be surprisingly compelling. Developed by Tencent’s TiMi Studios, Call of Duty: Mobile launched worldwide on October 1 as a free-to-play game for Android and…

How Modern Warfare’s All Ghillied Up Was Made

For all the game’s explosive bombast, some of Modern Warfare’s most enduring moments come from its quietest level, the stealth stage All Ghillied Up that’s set in the decaying city of Pripyat, scene of the Chernobyl disaster. While we’ve previously taken a deep look at the level from a critical standpoint, this excellent video by…

The Best Way To Play Call Of Duty Mobile Is On A PC

Call Of Duty: Mobile was released worldwide earlier this week for Android and iOS devices. It’s a strange mix of different maps, guns, and mechanics from various Call Of Duty games from the past. It also is developed by a company that is owned by Tencent. So I decided to load up CoD: Mobile on…

Call Of Duty: Mobile Is Live

After being in rigorous beta testing across multiple countries since July, Activision and Tencent’s Call of Duty: Mobile is go for iOS and Android devices everywhere but mainland China, Vietnam, and Belgium. Battle across recognizable maps, fight as iconic heroes like Ghost and Soap, and participate in a battle royale the likes of which you’ve probably…

Modern Warfare‘s 64-Player Mode Feels Like Call Of Duty, Just Bigger

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s recent cross-play beta brought platforms together for large-scale, 64-player multiplayer matches. While it feels quite different from Battlefield, the new style of gameplay worked quite well. The “Ground War” mode itself is not new, but in previous Call of Duty games it just meant a slightly increased player count of…

A Modern Warfare Game Option Is PS4 Exclusive Until October 2020

The practice of platform holders securing console exclusives took a new and weird turn yesterday, when Sony and Activision announced that Modern Warfare’s Survival Mode—a mode within a mode, as it’s part of Spec Ops—is appearing exclusively on the PS4 until October 1, 2020. Spec Ops, first introduced in the original Modern Warfare 2, is…

Modern Warfare Makes Night Vision Goggles Mandatory (And Fun)

Night vision goggles in first-person shooters often felt like a gimmick, so I was surprised to find myself actually enjoying them in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare beta over the weekend. The PlayStation 4 beta featured two maps, “Azhir Cave” and “Hackney Yard,” in a nighttime setting with night vision goggles that you toggle…

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Modern Warfare‘s Alpha Has Me Feeling Good About The Gameplay

This weekend, Call of Duty players on PlayStation 4 are getting hands-on with this fall’s Modern Warfare. Activision has launched an early alpha of the new 2v2 “Gunfight” mode, and so far it’s mostly good vibes and fast-paced gameplay for Infinity Ward’s rebooted Duty Modern Warfare’s alpha was originally scheduled to hit the PlayStation store…

You Can Now Go Fishing In Black Ops 4‘s Battle Royale Mode, But It’s Dangerous

Thanks to an update last week Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 now lets you fish in its Blackout battle royale mode. You fish for items, not fish, and, if you’re lucky you can reel in some powerful guns. Blackout has two fishing locales. My first adventure started on the docks by the Lighthouse on…