News Tagged: modern warfare 2

I can't believe this has taken as long as it has. The Russian media has finally done the wonderfully predictable and begun to link that Russian airport scene in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with the recent airport suicide bombing. Here's a news story that lays it out straight with this headline: "Terrorist games linked to Russian airport bomb"...

Valve Software, the proprietor of the digital download service Steam, officially apologized for banning over 12,000 thousand innocent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 players. So, that's basically an extremely big pool of geeks who are understandably pissed off because Valve's cheat-detection software obviously screwed things up, branding them as cheaters...

Activision releases a trailer, which offers more info on the upcoming second batch of downloadable content for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The 'Resurgence Pack' DLC is slated to hit Xbox 360 on June 2 (this Wednesday). You can learn more about the DLC over at MN.

During its financial conference call yesterday, publisher Activision officially confirmed that the Stimulus DLC for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold 17 million units. Unsurprisingly, a second DLC has been mentioned, currently slated for a release later in 2010...

Kotaku has dug up some pretty interesting info. Apart from Jason West and Vince Zampella, it appears that other key members of Infinity Ward -- creators of the Call of Duty shooter series -- left the company last week. Linkedin profiles of Todd Alderman and Francesco Gigliotti (here's a snapshot) show that they have both left Infinity Ward...

Yeah, a game that recently achieved worldwide sales of $1 billion, is more than likely to be hailed as the best-selling title in 2009 (or indeed in any year). Today Activision confirms that last year Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold 11...

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Activision Blizzard announced today that the worldwide sales of Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 crossed the $1 billion mark, according to internal Activision estimates. In its first five days alone, the game sold an estimated $550 million worldwide...

At present Infinity Ward doesn't have a very clear idea of what their next project's gonna be. While it seems they're keen on developing something completely new (not related to the MW franchise), they also plan to wrap things up with the DLC for Modern Warfare 2, which, by the way, is scheduled to arrive this Spring...

Research company NPD revealed the top ten best-selling games in the US between January and November 2009. As anybody who's been following the gaming industry in the past few months can guess, Modern Warfare 2 is No. 1 on the list of best-sellers this year, with the Xbox 360 version shifting 4...

Modern Warfare 2 helped push Activision's Call of Duty franchise through the $3 billion revenues mark, the publisher announced recently (thanks GI). The six titles in the series sold over 55 million units, with the latest installment earning $550 million in its first five days on sale...

It took us a bit longer to review this game, because we've played both Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game. This is partly because most of our audience clearly seeks reviews. In most cases, we receive Xbox 360 games earlier and it's far easier and quicker to review them...

Word on the official Infinity Ward forum's is that the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 is already more successful than Call of Duty 4. "Yes, PC is the smallest percentage in terms of how much sold on each platform but that hardly means anything other than the PC is just the smallest market," writes Community Manager Fourzerotwo...

Having announced tremendously successful launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Activision wishes to share the news with everyone that the shooter now broke a number of sales records. The records are as follows: The largest reported five-day opening worldwide box office gross figures...