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This Call of Duty Music Video Uses Guns to Make Beautiful Music

Gun effects, soundbytes and a healthy dose of dubstep. Oh, and Call of Duty. By all accounts this clip should be tough to watch, but it’s actually damn catchy. Modern Warfare 3 Dubstep [Gamefreaks] You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 29, 2011

Call of Duty Elite Trailer Shows What It Looks Like When Activision’s FPS Facebook Actually Works

So, getting Call of Duty Elite functional has been a struggle for Activision. The publisher’s promising that the social platform built for their best-selling FPS franchise will finally be mostly functional this week. The mega-publisher’s turned out a trailer to celebrate this occasion. In the clip, you’ll see an overview of Elite‘s basic functionality as…

By Evan Narcisse Published November 28, 2011

Is “Morning Wood” Really a Map Name in Modern Warfare 3‘s First DLC?

Grain-of-salt territory here, but rumors have it that Modern Warfare 3‘s first set of premium downloadable content will feature five maps entitled “Morning Wood,” “Concrete,” “Park,” “Italy,” and “Overwatch.” The title of the first, and the fact “Overwatch” was a map in Modern Warfare 2, calls for some healthy skepticism. Modern Prestige has what it…

By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011

Modern Warfare 3 Looks Even Better In LEGO

This is as close to an official LEGO interpretation of Activision’s tentpole franchise as we’re gonna get, I reckon. Honestly, it looked pretty believable until they blew up the LEGO Eiffel Tower. There’s no way that would happen in real LEGO life. (I love how well these guys mix minifig-scale work with microscale forced perspective,…

By Joel Johnson Published November 24, 2011

Call of Duty Elite Is 95 Percent Operational, Mobile Versions Inbound Next Week

Call of Duty’s online Elite service is just about fully functionally, with the first episode of Friday Night Fights set to hit this week and the mobile version releasing as early as next week, Activision says. “We changed our status to green yesterday,” said Daniel Suarez, vice president of production at Activision. The service had…

By Brian Crecente Published November 23, 2011

Modern Warfare, Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, Arkham City DLC New This Week on the PlayStation Store

This week, Sony has begun its fall sale at the PlayStation Store, with oodles of discounts on all manner of games, add-on, theme, and bundle. Notable new full games include Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for just $20 as well as the just-released Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One. The Robin DLC for Batman: Arkham…

By Kirk Hamilton Published November 22, 2011

Activision’s CEO Thinks Call of Duty Deserves Hurt Locker-Level Respect

Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg had some sharp words when asked about the criticism that Call Of Duty games get for their supposed glorification of violence and military aggression. “There’s a sense that games are more exploitive in a way that The Hurt Locker—which also was designed as form of entertainment—isn’t.” Hirshberg’s opinion is that “video…

By Evan Narcisse Published November 22, 2011

Modern Warfare 3 is ‘An Un-Game With a Core of Nastiness’

I’ve just this minute finished the single-player campaign for Modern Warfare 3. It leaves a very bitter taste at its climax. But perhaps not the same bitter taste that flavours it throughout. It is an enormously high-achieving action FPS, on a scale like nothing before it, turned to 11. And it’s a bloodthirsty, bombastic and…

John Walker | Rock Paper Shotgun Published November 22, 2011

Skyrim Fans Bash on Modern Warfare 3 with Spatulas and Rolling Pins in this New NMA Video

The Taiwanese news animators at NMA take on the newest Elder Scrolls game with a news report that covers Skyrim’s blockbuster launch and pesky bugs. It’s ironic to see NMA shining a spotlight on a title’s bugs when their own lo-fi, CGI oeuvre seems to be drawn from Will Wright’s nightmares. This clip isn’t as…

By Evan Narcisse Published November 22, 2011

One Million People Are Paying for Call of Duty Elite

Never mind that the rollout for Call of Duty Elite, Call of Duty‘s stat tracking and social service, hasn’t been smooth, Activision is sending out a press release this morning to proudly announce that it’s sold one million premium accounts. Congrats! GameStop alone sold 600,00 Elite membership. According to Elite‘s status page, “Service Is Intermittent”.…

By Brian Ashcraft Published November 22, 2011

Gamer Husband: Free To A Good Home

A frustrated Utah woman listed her Call of Duty-playing husband on her local Craigslist as free to a good home, “if acceptable replacement is offered will trade.” “I am selling my 22 year old husband. He enjoys eating and playing video games all day. Easy to maintain, just feed and water every 3-5 hours. You…

By Brian Crecente Published November 21, 2011

This Dude Banks a Knife Off a Helicopter in Modern Warfare 3, And So it Begins

People have been landing insanely improbable kills in Call of Duty for years now, but of all the videos I have seen, this one is the craziest. The knife literally banks of a helicopter, then falls onto the soldier underneath it. In conclusion, stay inside.

By Chris Carolan Published November 21, 2011

79.9 Years Is Too Damn Long To Play Call of Duty

In 79 years, I’ll probably be dead. So will the vast majority of our readers, save for the little assholes on Xbox Live. For reader Jeremy (not an asshole!), 79.9 years is apparently how long it will take him to reach “Prestige” in Call of Duty Prestige is, of course, the highest ranking CoD players…

By Brian Ashcraft Published November 21, 2011

Call of Duty: Elite‘s 404 Page Is Wonderful

Call of Duty: Elite is suffering a rocky rollout. Things haven’t gone as expected, but in good time, Activision will hopefully get things ironed out. Until then, there’s this. The above 404 image appears when you try to enter “status” on the Call of Duty: Elite website. It sums up how many feel about the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published November 21, 2011

A Children’s Treasury of Insane Throwing-Knife Kills in Modern Warfare 3

Last night we were sent the clip of the insane bank-shot knife kill you see above, courtesy of the unwitting victim felled by it. We have no illusions that this is the first WTF knife kill for a game that’s been out for two weeks, and played by millions online since its release. Another year,…

By Owen Good Published November 20, 2011

Infinity Ward Bans 1,600 Modern Warfare 3 Cheaters, Asks What You’re Lookin’ At

Robert Bowling done tole you now son, so don’t sit there and act all surprised-like. Yesterday Bowling, the Infinity Ward creative strategist, tweeted that another 1,600 cheaters have been banned since Four Zero Two promised them a ass-busting back on release day. “Any attempt to cheat, hack, or glitch in #MW3 will not be tolerated.…

By Owen Good Published November 19, 2011

Are These the Best Modern Warfare 3 Players in the World?

There appear to be at least two Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 players in the world who have essentially leveled up 800 times each. Eight hundred times. The Call of Duty games have something called Prestige Mode. It allows a player who has reached the higher online level in the game’s multiplayer to give…

By Brian Crecente Published November 18, 2011

GameStop Alone Sold 600,000 Memberships to Call of Duty’s Elite Service

Call of Duty Elite’s launch was rocky, Activision tells us, missteps were made, but we’ve never had any sense of just how many paying customers it might have attracted, until now. During their third-quarter earnings report yesterday, GameStop spilled the beans on just how many people picked up the paid version of the community-building, stat-tracking,…

By Brian Crecente Published November 18, 2011

So 53% of Battlefield 3 Players On Xbox 360 Also Played Call of Duty

Not content with the knowledge that Modern Warfare 3 was always going to sell a ton more copies than supposed rival Battlefield 3, gaming research firm Raptr decided to track how many hours people spent actually playing both games. Using a combination of data from a 10-million “gamer network” and a 6000-person survey, Raptr found…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2011

Modern Warfare 3 Developer Pleads for Better Metascores, Discovers That’s a Stupid Idea

Why someone from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 developer Sledgehammer would consider its fan-voted Metacritic score worth a get-out-the-vote tweet is utterly beyond me. It is by far the most polarizing title among gaming’s annual releases, so a user score of 1.7 is probably to be expected, given how much gaming’s snobs cognoscenti despise…

By Owen Good Published November 17, 2011