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Call of Duty “Hacker” Jailed for Spreading Virus, Stealing Credit Card Numbers, Being a Thug

Englishman Lewys Martin thought it would be a good idea to to offer people “hacks” for Call of Duty Games, which not only broke the rules of the game, but also included a virus. No, Lewys, it was not a good idea, especially since it’s now got you some jail time. Martin, who is only…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 18, 2012

Report: Activision Tried To Dig Up Dirt On Ex-Call of Duty Developers

The ugly court battle between Activision and its former employees has gotten even uglier. According to documents obtained by The Los Angeles Times and released today, Activision hired a man named Thomas Fenady to “dig up dirt” on Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella so the company could build up a case…

By Jason Schreier Published May 16, 2012

Call of Duty Accused of “Shamelessly” Ripping off Another Series, Legal Warfare Ensues

Activision is facing another big lawsuit over its tentpole Call of Duty series, only this one has nothing to do with people who used to work on the series. It’s to do with a rival developer who owns the right to a name that Call of Duty uses a lot Fans older PC shooters may…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2012

Activision Wants to Delay the Big Call of Duty Lawsuit

The lawyer in Activision’s case against Call of Duty’s creators, Beth Wilkinson, who was only hired last week as a replacement, has asked for the trial’s commencement date to be pushed back by 30 days so she can “get up to speed”. [BW]

By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2012

Reviews

This Graphic Novel Shows The Horrific Costs of Modern Warfare

Shooters protagonist Terry Glass isn’t that different from the kind of character you’d play in a Medal of Honor, Battlefield or Call of Duty game. He’s a fictional American soldier fighting in the geopolitical hotspots where America’s armed forces face off against disparate, tough-to-pin-down threats. Young, handsome and affable, Glass fights for all the right…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 15, 2012

Black Ops II Studio Head Knows Fans Want a “Better-Looking Game”

Activision puts out a new Call of Duty game every year. It’s been that way for the last half-decade or so. Trouble is, this annualization give people a wide-open lane to complain about recycled engines and how the games all look the same. Mark Lamia—head of Treyarch, the studio behind the Black Ops branch of…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 15, 2012

See Halo, Mass Effect, Battlefield & Modern Warfare Stab Each Other in the Guts

Some of the biggest shooters in the world (and Mass Effect) go head to head in this clip by Corridor Digital, which compares each series’ “instakill” by having a whole lot of people get stabbed. Of course, there can be only one winner. And it’s none of the games mentioned in that headline… Art of…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2012

I Like The Sound of Call of Duty‘s New 1v1 Mode

The new Face-Off mode that’s coming to Modern Warfare 3 next week seems pretty cool. It will let players compete in 1v1 and 2v2 matches on small maps just made for the mode. The brand-new, totally-official and only-slightly-confusing video from the Call of Duty folks explains and shows most of it. The confusing part, as…

By Stephen Totilo Published May 11, 2012

PS3 Gets a $299 Call of Duty Bundle

Sony announced today that on may 25 they’ll be releasing a bundle which includes a 320GB PS3 and a copy of Modern Warfare 3. And that’s it. No second controller, no bonus DLC, no fancy custom console. Just a black console and the game.

By Luke Plunkett Published May 9, 2012

How About a Call of Duty That Shows the Human Side of Not Fighting a War

War is hell, and it never changes. Even when game developers promise to depict the more human side of military conflict, it all boils down to shooting other people as close to the face as possible. I want a game that shows the human side of not fighting a war. Something like Call of Duty:…

By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2012

The Trouble With Call of Duty‘s Scary New War of the Future

The future is black, announces the trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops II The next iteration of the popular first person shooter hardly needs any marketing campaign: immediately after the official announcement, the gaming press diligently started to operate as an extension of Activision’s PR department. Small and big media scrambled to produce the…

Paolo Pedercini, Molleindustria Published May 7, 2012

What Does the Military Think of ‘Militainment’?

There couldn’t have been a better time for this panel. Tuesday brought the eyebrow-arching news that Lt. Col. Oliver North was a special guest celebrity consultant of the next Call of Duty. And Friday, former Kotaku editor-in-chief Brian Crecente was on a panel with a Navy captain at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Crecente, now…

By Owen Good Published May 5, 2012

Black Ops II Chooses Someone Who Failed the Call of Duty

When you face low expectations, falling short of them doesn’t count for much either. And that’s the dirty secret of Call of Duty, which has spent four years solidifying its image as a crass chickenhawk brand thanks to some particularly dumb marketing initiatives. But hiring Lt. Col. Oliver North as a spokesman for Black Ops…

By Owen Good Published May 4, 2012

Black Ops II Gets an Emotional Dubstep Makeover

When we say “Dubstep” most people think of hard drops and grinding wubs. But there is a lot more to the genre than that. When people think Call of Duty, they think of hard explosions and grinding machine guns. But… perhaps there’s more to the genre than that? YouTuber TomahawkTrix thinks so, anyway, with this…

By Kirk Hamilton Published May 4, 2012

Meet Call of Duty‘s New Foreign Bad Guys

In the futuristic 2025 setting of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the United States has become locked in a second Cold War with China due largely to a shortage of rare earth elements, which are vital in the creation of a lot of the technology and advanced military hardware we use today. In the…

By Kirk Hamilton Published May 3, 2012

Kim Kardashian is Psyched for the Next Call of Duty. Really.

Gaming connoisseur and poisonous celebrity Kim Kardashian is super psyched for the next Call of Duty, she said on Twitter today. Because the graphics look crazy. “But wait,” you might be thinking. “Doesn’t Kim Kardashian sell her tweets? Nope, Kardashian says. It wasn’t a paid tweet. She and her brother play Call of Duty “all…

By Jason Schreier Published May 3, 2012

There Will Actually Be Women in the Next Call Of Duty

Guns were always a given for the next Call of Duty. Women? We really did not expect them. And yet when I saw the game in action last week, there they were. Women. Two of them in the press demo alone! Ye gods. I went down to Call of Duty: Black Ops II developer Treyarch’s…

By Kirk Hamilton Published May 2, 2012

Black Ops II Multiplayer Will Accomodate Great Players and Those of Us Who Suck

The people who are making the next Call of Duty will barely tell us anything about the new game’s multiplayer. Oliver North won’t, either But Mark Lamia, the head of the studio Treyarch that is making the game, says this in a press release heralding the new game today: “And in multiplayer, we’re embracing all…

By Stephen Totilo Published May 2, 2012

How Call of Duty Is Making Anonymous “the Enemy” [UPDATE]

Blink and you’ll miss it. The Guy Fawkes mask flashes on the screen only for a brief instant, but it’s there. Twice. The iconic mug first entered pop culture in the graphic novel V for Vendetta, but has since been re-appropriated by internet collective Anonymous as well as Occupy Wall Street protesters. That iconic mask,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 2, 2012

Oliver North Sold Weapons to Iran. Now He’s Selling Call of Duty.

In case you haven’t seen it already, Oliver North is now selling video games. And fear. It’s a step down from illegally selling weapons, true, but it’s still raising eyebrows. Go on, take a look at these clips. They’re part of a “documentary” released by publishers Activision to coincide with the reveal of the latest…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 2, 2012