News Tagged: call of duty

Call of Duty is about kicking ass. There's not much else we can say besides:

Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg just confirmed that Modern Warfare 3 “drove the largest day one shipments in our history and in the industry’s history.” Also, “pre-orders for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 outpaced pre-orders for Call of Duty: Black Ops by a wide margin, setting a new industry record in making it the most pre-ordered game of all time” (thanks PCG)...

Activision Blizzard officially confirmed that company digital revenues are up to $1.7 billion for the 12 month period ending June 2011. That's partly thanks to Call of Duty: Black Ops map packs - 18 million maps packs were sold digitally, if you can believe it...

The last time I took Time Magazine seriously was when I was still getting allergy shots. Getting punctured twice a week for several years was a formative experience in my life. It taught me that I am a sack of fluid with eyeballs. More to the point, this wouldn't be news if not for...

NPD released the rankings for May video game sales, and here's what turned up: L.A. Noire (360, PS3) Brink (360, PS3, PC) Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Wii, 360, NDS, PS3, 3DS, PSP, PC) Portal 2 (360, PS3, PC) Mortal Kombat 2011 (PS3...

As Smap reported late last night, both Activision and Blizzard Entertainment are driving very hard on the action RPG Diablo III so they can make a 2011 release. The news, of course, emerged after Activision Blizzard Q1 2011 financial results, which incidentally brings more interesting info...

Guitar Hero was the next big thing, and then suddenly nobody gave a shit, and the entire product line was shelved. It probably didn't help that the guitarists who wrote the songs featured on Guitar Hero could not play their own work on Easy, but pressing buttons in time to a screen isn't music...

Activision makes a similar amount of money off the average Call of Duty title to what Pablo Escobar made selling cocaine, so naturally EA wants a piece of the action. Unfortunately, EA lost the Call of Duty people when they demanded a series of crappy Medal of Honor expansion packs instead of allowing the studio to move the genre forward...

NPD has released a list of the games to generate the largest amount of revenue in their entire history of record keeping. I assume this does not adjust for inflation or subscription costs (the Sims, Myst, World of Warcraft?), but the recent history of packaging expensive peripheral devices really shows its mark...

Activision Blizzard officially added a new target in its lawsuit against two former Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella; namely, EA. Activision has put a price tag on its claim for the first time, seeking $400 million. By the way, the ex-Infinity Ward dudes now lead a dev...

In line with yesterday's news, Activision and Treyarch offer the first teaser trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops. Check it out:

There were reports yesterday that Acitivion planned to unveil the 7th game in the Call of Duty series Friday night (today). As it turns out, the publisher has already prepared an official web site before the game's announcement. Word has it that Call Of Duty: Black Ops takes players to the Vietnam War setting and boasts a range of secret missions...

Jason West and Vince Zampella, creators of the Call of Duty franchise, announced the formation of a new development studio called Respawn Entertainment. According to the press release, "the move positions the Respawn Entertainment leadership team as the owners of the intellectual property they create...

When Infinity Ward team leads Jason West and Vince Zampella left their positions at the company, they filed a lawsuit against their former employers -- Activision -- claiming for "breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, wrong termination in violation of public policy, and declaratory relief...

Well, who doesn't? According to a former Infinity Ward employee (ah, their number ever increases as time goes by), the sacked studio founder Vince Zampella is a "visionary." Hm, that sounds nice. Not only that, the guy claims EA wishes to hire Zampella for $1 million...