Sledgehammer Games and Activision have announced that Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's Havoc DLC pack is on the way to PC this February 26. It will cost you $15 individually if you don't want to pick up the $50 season pass. As well as adding four new multiplayer maps, Havoc also comes with the new Exo Zombies co-op mode. Yes, that means zombies with jump packs.
The upcoming zombie mode for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is shuffling its way toward us, and Activision has just released a new Exo Zombies Havoc trailer featuring some brief gameplay snips. Actors John Malkovich, Bill Paxton, Rose McGowan, and Jon Bernthal are all in the thick of it. Exo Zombies will be arriving first on Xbox, before eventually come to PC and PlayStation.
Clinton Keith, former CTO for High Moon, has put together what he considers the 'Vicious Cycle' keeping developers and gamers locked in a whirlwind of buggy launches. Basically, marketing has become too powerful a force inside publishers and ends up being the deciding factor when it comes to releasing games, and that's because of stakeholder pressure.
The first expansion DLC to Sledgehammer Games' Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will be out later this month, exclusively on Xbox first, before coming to PC later. Roll out the red carpet. Aside from introducing the Exo Zombies mode, we'll be treated to a star studded cast with actors John Malkovich, Rose McGowan, Bill Paxton, and Jon Bernthal. Four new maps are included too.
Log in to play play Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare this week, and you'll receive a brand new set of threads to show off with in multiplayer. Although I suppose everyone else will be wearing them too. Called the The KVA Paramilitary set, the new outfit will have to be discovered by hunting down Supply Drops and hoovering up the contents within, as per usual.
Call of Duty continues to stumble (well slightly, it's all relative after all), with latest entry Advanced Warfare's sales down 27 percent in November compared to last year's Ghosts. The figures come from analyst firm Piper Jaffray, and were released to StreetInsider. Despite impressive initial sales and critical praise for Slegehammer's game, it seems the shooter franchise hasn't quite recaptured its glory days just yet.
If you've yet to try out Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Sledgehammer Games' first entry in the blockbuster shooter series, now is as good a time as any. The near-future shooter is available for 25% off on Steam this weekend, but if you'd rather try it out first the multiplayer portion of the game is free over the same period.
Sledgehammer Games has entered the Christmas spirit by making Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's Mosh Pit playlist give players double experience from now until December 20. The event is live right now,. In other news, Sledgehammer's co-founder Michael Condrey has thanked fans for their recent feedback, and promised “more to come.”
Developer Sledgehammer Games has announced the very best Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare soldiers out in the field will be receiving the 'Grand Master Character Gear' set, if they reach the Top 100. It's a set of armour dripping in golden opulence, and might just be a bit of political satire on the state of the US defence budget? Either way it's not for COD peasants, but the nobility, clearly.
If there's one thing that's sure to play to the crowd even more than Call of Duty, it's Call of Duty with added zombies. Because for some reason there's still people out there not jaded by the walking dead yet. Exo Zombies is a survival co-op experience coming to Sledgehammer's Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare next year, and the studio has released the first teaser trailer showing us what to expect.
Log in to play Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare this week, and you'll be in with a chance of unlocking a unique commando skin for your character. According to the announcement post it's "a special thanks" to fans who've been playing the near-future shooter in its earliest weeks, and you'll only be able to earn it until December 1.
As if there were not enough guns to mess around with in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare already, players will soon get their hands on the AE4 assault rifle, due to be added in the game's first DLC pack next year. Sledgehammer Games revealed the directed energy weapon in a blog post, and revealed the title of the upcoming expansion - Havoc.
The Call of Duty franchise has now topped over $10 billion in sales since it began all those years ago, and it's hardly surprising news as Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has smashed the videogame charts. Not only is Advanced Warfare taking the sales crown for games, but it even exceeded movie box office goliaths combined when it came to revenue. It beat last year's Call of Duty in its first week.
For all the predictions of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare not performing as well as Ghosts, the near-future shooter seems to be doing okay for itself. It's "the most streamed console game of 2014", according to a Twitch.tv press release, and 75,000 unique streamers have played the game since it launched.
Following on from its patch preview earlier this week, Sledgehammer Games has released the first update for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. The new patch aims to fix issues with the game's Challenge system and Prestige resets, and optimise server performance, amongst a bunch of other changes.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has scarcely been out a week, but already developer Sledgehammer is prepping patches for imminent deployment. The first will feature "polish items, fixes, and community requested changes", and should be available in-game soon. Sledgehammer also addressed the game's dedicated server situation.
Sledgehammer Games has only just released Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, but they're already working on improvements to the game's multiplayer. Co-founder Michael Condrey hopped on to the game's sub-Reddit to list some of the items the team is working on, and to ask fans to continue giving feedback.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's lead developer Michael Condrey told Newsbeat that while he wouldn't describe the gaming community at large as "toxic or misogynistic", he's aware that there are fringe elements in any subculture that behave poorly. Condrey claims that he and the team at Sledgehammer have "a low tolerance for toxic behaviour", and will work to punish abusive actions in-game.
Alas, it appears that Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's zombie mode is not in the core game, but will instead we unlocked as part of a DLC package. That's according to a press release from GameStop, which identifies the latest incarnation of the franchise's popular undead elimination sub-game as being part of the Advanced Warfare Season Pass.
This won't come as a huge surprise, but former Panamian dictator Manuel Noriega's lawsuit against Activision over his appearance in Black Ops 2 has been dismissed. Los Angeles Court Judge William H. Fahey threw the case out, a decision which defense attorney and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani called "an important victory" for free speech.