Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has just enjoyed its fifth consecutive week leading the UK all format chart, matching LEGO Batman 2 for number of weeks at the top spot in 2012. Hitman: Absolution makes a surprising climb to second, while FIFA 13 keeps dribbling third for its sixth consecutive week. Halo 4, Need for Speed and LEGO LOTRO keep their posts.
THQ global communications boss Huw Beynon denounced the Call of Duty series in an interview, stating that Call of Duty's repetitive formula "stamped out" what made shooters great.
A Reddit user has uncovered leaked images that seems to be promoting the first downloadable content pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
GFK Chart Track has revealed that the top selling game in the UK was Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. This is unsurprising, as the game earned $1B worldwide after 15 days and was the best selling game in the UK for several weeks in a row.
More evidence has appeared to prove the existance of the first major downloadable content pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, ostensibly titled Revolution.
A Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 player has reset their player stats after suffering a torrent of abuse and DDoS attacks from somewhere within the US. He couldn't stay on Xbox Live more than 10 minutes. The player known as Retrominano sent a message of the problem to a friend before shortly confirming via Reddit he had reset his stats to hopefully avoid the continued harassment.
Activision has finally unveiled the Revolution downloadable content pack coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 with a four minute developer diary showing off all of the features that will be included.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's Nuketown Zombie DLC will be heading to PS3 and PC next week, Activision has confirmed.
Randy Pitchford has revealed that Activision offered Gearbox the chance to develop a Call of Duty title, but the studio turned it down.
EA Sports' FIFA 13 has kept itself atop the UK all format chart for the sixth week, and its second time in 2013. The top five titles in fact haven't changed, leaving Far Cry 2 in second place. Ubisoft's island shooter is followed by Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 in third, Hitman: Absolution fourth and Need for Speed: Most Wanted fifth. Just Dance 4 bopped it around Halo 4 taking sixth.
It has been announced through Chart-Track that the FIFA franchise is the first video game series to collectively attain £1bn at UK retail. It did so spread across 40 released FIFA titles. FIFA 12 and FIFA 13 alone contributed around £200m to the staggering figure. The second and third top video game grossing properties are Call of Duty and Mario respectively.
Activision has released the major Revolution downloadable content pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 to Xbox 360 Call of Duty: Elite subscribers today. The publisher states that Revolution is "one of the most robust and diverse DLC offerings in Call of Duty history."
Major Nelson has revealed the upcoming Xbox Live Marketplace content for the next two weeks, and it's highlighted by the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on Xbox on Demand and the major Revolution downloadable content pack for it.
Activision-Blizzard has announced that the publisher enjoyed major profits in both the last quarter of 2012 and 2012 as a whole, thanks in part to the amazing sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
During Activision-Blizzard's conference call, the heads of the publisher confirmed that there will be a new Call of Duty title for 2013.
Activision community liaison Dan Amrich has announced that the major downloadable content pack Revolution for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will be landing on the 28th February for PC and PlayStation 3. The DLC had been released on the 29th January for the Xbox 360.
The NPD Group has revealed the top selling games for January 2013, which was led by Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, continuing its domination of the market. Furthermore, the Xbox 360 led for the 25th straight month with 281,000 unit sales. Neither Sony nor Nintendo revealed their hardware sales for January, however.
Treyarch has released a new and rather weighty title update for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, addressing a multitude of multiplayer issues on both Xbox 360 and PS3. Zombies get a good work over too. There are just two gameplay balances introduced, and two feature improvements - the rest are all "issues addressed" for online play. The two changelogs are near indistinguishable.
This weekend is a freebie weekend for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 as Steam users get to play its multiplayer for absolutely nothing, announces Valve. The game itself is also discounted 33%. For those who do own Treyarch's latest, there's also a Double XP session across all platforms until Monday. With the discount Black Ops 2 is brought down to £26.79 in the UK.
Call of Duty creator Infinity Ward has released a shot of a Xi3 micro PC that's partially funded by Valve, and which was unveiled back in January at CES. IW posted the image on Facebook and Twitter. The studio didn't elaborate much beyond the images, other than asking 'what's this?' via Twitter and writing 'game development' on Facebook. Xi3 is powered by Steam software.