Showing posts with label Call of Duty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Call of Duty. Show all posts
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Call of Duty : Black Ops Premier Trailer
So the drama at Infinity Ward may still be in high gear, but that will only have an effect on the next, next, Call of Duty. This years installment is Treyarch's turn, and now we've finally got the debut trailer for their upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops. From the looks of it, we're still in modern times, and Black Ops is a cool name that would work for future installments similar to how Modern Warfare worked for the series too. At least a name is one less thing Treyarch would have to worry about in 2012, CoD: BO2 writes itself.
From the trailer it looks like the release date is set for either September 11th or November 9th, 2010.
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Activision vs Respawn
Activision is currently being slapped in the face with a $125 Million lawsuit filed by 38 current and former Infinity Ward employees. Also, the recently-ousted Infinity Ward co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella have filed similar allegations to the tune of $36 million. The basis of the lawsuit is that Activision owes Infinity Ward employees unpaid royalties for sales of Modern Warfare 2.
Monday, March 1st, G4 reported that Infinity Ward CTO Jason West and Vince Zampella were escorted out of the Infinity Ward offices by "bouncer-types" on allegations of insubordination and breech of contract. It seems that the same adventurous attitude of West and Zampella that inspired the formation of Infinity Ward, has remained, as the two have formed a new development shop, Respawn Entertainment. Adding insult to injury, Respawn has developed a partnership with Electronic Arts, who happens to be Activisions lead competitor. Over the past few weeks, Respawn Entertainment has acquired many Infinity Ward employees. I'm not even sure who remains at IW after all these leaves. Reports show at least 16 former IW employees now work for Respawn Entertainment.
Perhaps this will mark the pending demise of the Call of Duty/ Modern Warfare series.
List of employees confirmed:
Todd Alderman (lead designer)
Mark Grigsby (lead animator)
Chris Cherubini (lead environmental artist)
John Paul Messerly (lead animator)
Rayme C. Vinson (software engineer)
Jon Shiring (programmer)
Mackey McCandlish (lead designer)
Preston Glenn (designer)
Zied Rieke (lead designer)
Chad Genier (senior designer)
Sean Slayback (designer)
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Modern Warfare 2 kills sales record
So it seems all the negative press and boycotts that Infinity Ward got in the weeks leading to the release of Modern Warfare 2 didn't really matter. They still sold a bajillion copies. Well ok, it was only 4.7 million copies...in one day...which far exceeds the previous record of 3.6 million, held by Grand Theft Auto 4.
Speaking of boycotts, check out this screenshot of the Steam PC Modern Warfare 2 boycott group. Way to go guys...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Modern Warfare 2 hitting some speed bumps up to release
The official retail release date of Infinity Ward's guaranteed blockbuster Modern Warfare 2 is now less than a week away. But to go along with all the hype building for the release, IW has had to deal with some negative aspects as well.
First, Infinity Ward announced that the PC version will not support dedicated servers, and that all multiplayer will be run through IW servers with a special matchmaking service. This caused huge waves through the PC crowd, and invoked an online petition that has gathered over 180,000 signatures in just a few weeks. Dedicated servers is a core feature of PC gaming, and allows gamers to have a "home" online for a specific game. Whether it's a server focusing on mods, or a clan server, they allow people the opportunity to grow a community with a game that they love.
Secondly, the Xbox 360 version of the game is already floating around the internet tubes. Not good, but it's to be expected.
Next, the leaked footage from the game showing you, the player, gunning down innocent people in an American airport terminal with a group of Terrorists. This has already gotten a decent amount of press from the 'in the know' sites of gaming, once the game hits retail it should definitely hit the mainstream press as well.
And now a Machinima-style video released by the team has had to be pulled from the developer's YouTube channel, because it caused even more uproar from people that are apparently waaay to easily offended and need something better to do.
A simple public service announcement about the Fight Against Grenade Spam. Which, when acronym-ized, makes a word that apparently makes people angry.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
New Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer video
Here's a new video of the highly anticipated sequel to Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare showing some multiplayer action. Note the riot sheild - I hope this isn't as annoying as the one introduced in Counter Strike. Also note on the closing screen the "2" in Modern Warfare 2 appears in a list of 1, 2, 3 - perhaps a hint that they plan to (who doesn't like printing their own money) start development on a Modern Warfare 3? The very end of the video video also highlights the ability for a new server host to take over when the original host drops out - I'm sure that will make the consolers gleeful.
I know what I'll be playing on 11-10-09 :-)
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