A listing for Call of Duty has appeared on PEGI's website, whether it's a remake is unknown but a strategy version is going to mobile too. Also news from the GDC unveils that Wolfenstein 3D will be gracing both XBLA and PSN in the near future, thanks to the ERSB listing that one.
According to a source, which has since asked for the story to be pulled, Activision are looking to license music from the Vietnam 'incident'. They've been after some Cuban, African and Russian tunes too meaning we could be seeing tours in Vietnam and Cuba at the very least. Activision of course "doesn't comment" on rumour.
It's completely no shock that Treyarch are working on their next Call of Duty integer, but thanks to a senior animator at the studio our smugness is confirmed. Of course it reveals nothing of the project, except to say it's his "second title" as a senior dev with Acti and Treyarch, and that title is "Call Of Duty 7." No surprise either - info removed.
Activision is once again sitting at ESA's table which means they're buddies with E3 again, sort of anyway. Acti-Blizz held their press event yesterday. Aside from the usual corporate self-back patting, they reveal Call of Duty is going to be expanding beyond the first-person shooter and StarCraft II will see a release date this year, possibly.
CrimeCraft is not "a full-featured MMO" and they don't want to be, developer Vogster want "a solid shooter with good character customization" and social aspects. While MMO All Points Bulletin may have 100 players on at a time, CrimeCraft has 1500 says the team - outside of customisation CrimeCraft is "a very, very different game" from APB.
A survey has surfaced that seems to indicate publishing giant Activision are giving some serious thought to offering a "new online service", if it's valid. This premium style add-on would open up more game modes and other exclusive groups of "gameplay enhancement" in exchange for a "monthly, quarterly, or yearly" sub fee.
A survey conducted by OTX has shown that only half of gamers who knew about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, knew about it without the COD tag. They concluded that Call of Duty's brand association "essentially doubles the awareness" of the game, which is "quite a remarkable statistic." Pre-order levels are predicted high.
That right folks, Call of Duty really is back! After having dropped the name from Infinity Ward's latest, a direct sequel to Modern Warfare, Activision slaps it on again. Box art for the game reveals the final truth: it's COD through-and-through, don't you forget it - even if Activision did for the past couple of months. Was all this a clever little PR stunt?
Whilst unveiling their most unorthodox 'Prestige Edition' for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the developer has revealed the original game will hit XBLA in the near future. The Prestige Edition will include a download code, which means most likely that Call of Duty number one will release at the same time or around Modern Warfare 2's release date.
Purchasers of the Prestige and Hardened Editions of the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will be getting first access to the original games port on XBLA/PSN. Infinity say it'll "eventually be coming out" as an arcade title on both the next-gen consoles as a stand-alone, but price and date "are unknown at this point." It will have multiplayer.
The "premier online gaming destination," aka Battle.net 2.0, has been fingered as the reason for no StarCraft II this year; albeit it not directly, but we know the truth. Top big wig Mike Griffith also revealed the Call of Duty 4 entry has almost cleared 14 million copies sold around the globe, with Modern Warfare 2 being the most pre-order Acti game yet.
Infinity Ward has confirmed that 50 Cent is in fact "one of quite a few" casual cameos in the upcoming game, providing multiplayer and Spec Ops squad voices. Meanwhile the Hardened Edition for Modern Warfare 2 is packing an "equivalent DLC value" of 1200 Microsoft Points, suggesting that Call of Duty Classic will fetch that on XBLA.
Right now developer Infinity Ward doesn't know what they plan to do next, but they won't be leaving Call of Duty until they're convinced they "can't innovate any further" in the series. The team think of Modern Warfare 2 "as a new IP," it'll never be referred to as 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2' ingame. Whatever lies outside COD, it "will be fresh and it will be great."
Microsoft has announced that it's bringing Call of Duty 3 and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 to the Games on Demand service on Xbox Live Marketplace from tomorrow. Both of these games will be available to purchase for £19.99.
Developer Infinity Ward plan on celebrating the Call of Duty series by releasing the original game they made onto Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. It's almost here. While no date has been set for its release, a dozen Achievements totalling 200 Gamerscore points have been outed. The arcade title is free for purchasers of the costly Prestige Edition.
A Los Angeles Times article claims that publishing giant Activision has enlisted a third studio to work on the huge Call of Duty franchise. Their report says Activision are "considering adapting" it into an MMO, which is likely given desires to launch new "online monetization models".
Activision has released patch 1.7 for Call of Duty: World at War. It includes a number of multiplayer fixes, but will only update installations already at 1.6. Download it here. Patch notes: * Fixed an MP server crash exploit. * Fixed a voice chat crash on systems with no default recording device selected. * Fixed an issue causing erroneous duplicate qport errors. * Server admins can disable team switching by setting g_allow_teamchange to 0. Players will be restricted to Auto-Assign in team-based gametypes.
The original Call of Duty, repackaged for Xbox 360 and PS3, finally debuts this week on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Call of Duty Classic hits XBLA first, tomorrow, for 1200 MSP while Thursday sees it land on PSN tagged at $14.99. COD tops $3bn in sales.
THQ and Frontlines: Fuel of War developer Kaos Studios are working on Homefront, a shooter set in an invaded America. Think Red Dawn. Which is handy because John Milius, who wrote Red Dawn, is helping Kaos. It'll have "cliff-hangers" leading into DLC and Homefront 2.
To get on staff for Treyarch's latest Call of Duty instalment, as it's their turn now to deliver in 2010, you need to hit the books (pre-Internet invention). This tells us it'll be sticking with the past and not encroaching on Infinity's Modern Warfare. The dev must research for the "history and look of the level".