A Call of Duty subscription service is reportedly in development with Modern Warfare studio Infinity Ward. According to RalphsValve (opens in new tab) on Twitter – who has leaked a number of Call of Duty details in the past – Infinity Ward is planning “a major redesign and rebrand” of …
Read More »It looks like Call of Duty 2020 news is coming Monday
We’re almost definitely getting news on Call of Duty 2020 (opens in new tab) on Monday. Activision has been sending out actual wooden crates to media outlets in the Call of Duty community with instructions that say, “Do not open this crate until August 10, 2020 – 12pm EDT.” There’s …
Read More »Black Ops 4 is almost definitely happening, and an NBA player might just have revealed its new logo
If I was a betting man, I’d be putting all my eggs in the Black Ops 4 basket right now (that’s how betting works, right?). We’ve had months of rumours about a Call of Duty fourthquel from Treyarch coming out this year, but concrete info and teases are starting to …
Read More »The 8 weirdest flashback sequences in video games
So this one time… The flashback is a fairly standard narrative construct. In fact, it’s so frequently used that it’s become a rather dull cliche. Some games get around this by simply making the content of their flashback sequences flat-out brilliant, masking the hackneyed nature of the technique by filling …
Read More »Call of Duty: Black Ops 2: How will THIS logic-defying plot point be explained?
One of the biggest surprises of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 reveal trailer was the appearance of Sergeant Frank Woods as an old man in the year 2025. It was a surprise because I was pretty sure I remembered him getting blown to bits at the end of …
Read More »Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation DLC goes live with extra undead
After spending a good six weeks teasing ‘Annihilation,’ the third map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, Treyarch is finally ready to let players check out the mad collection of new maps for themselves. The pack’s four new maps – together with one new Zombies arena – continue Treyarch’s …
Read More »CoD: Black Ops 2D is a free time machine to the 90s
It’s a basic truth of progress that the more videogames change, the more the formula of “shouting manly-men wearing khaki and blowing the shit out of each other” stays the same. Thus it is that a fully-playable 2D demake of Call of Duty: Black Ops turns the big budget shooter …
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