Activision has confirmed that the currently 360 exclusive Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike map pack will be released on the PS3 on March 3rd. It will also be hitting the PC by April, too. The DLC was purchased 1.4 million times within 24 hours of its February 1st launch on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Strong rumours suggest that Activision has killed off the Guitar Hero franchise after poor sales of the recent iterations. The publisher has hit DJ Hero developer Freestyle Games with severe layoffs and cancelled United Front’s True Crime too. An official announcement will be made just before the publication of Activision’s financial results.
Treyarch have unveiled some interesting Black Ops facts. They said that the three most-picked perks are: Marathon, Sleight of Hand and Lightweight. The most popular guns are the Famas, the AK-74u and the Galil. The deadliest Killstreak is the RC-XD surprisingly, with the Attack Helicopter, Napalm Strike and Chopper Gunner behind. There has been 242 million knife stabbings in Black Ops, and over one trillion shots have been fired with Read More ...
Activision has permanents banned PS3 Call of Duty: Black Ops cheaters from playing the game online. If someone has tried to cheat, they will get the following message: “Error – This console has been permanent banned from playing on the Call of Duty: Black Ops servers. For more information, visit www.callofduty.com/blackops/help.” The only way for people to play the game online again is to get another console. If you were Read More ...
Treyarch has released an update for the PS3 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops. What’s funny about this patch is that it comes on the same day as Gamers’ Voice reported Activision UK to the Office of Fair Trading over the “never-ending list of problems” with the game. The new update is called 1.06 and many players are stating that the usual issues (lag, disconnection, etc.) are still in Read More ...
Consumer rights group Gamers’ Voice has said that they plan to report Activision UK to the Office for Fair Trading. Apparently, they are doing this because of the “never-ending list of problems” gamers have found with the PC and PS3 versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops. The formal complaint will be submitted to “the relevant government agencies that protect consumer rights in the UK” this week. The report follows Read More ...
Activision has recommended that Bizarre Creations should be closed, saying that they have tried to sell the studio but haven’t been able to find a way to offload it. Activision Worldwide Studios’ COO Coddy Johnson today said that Activision tried to sell the struggling developer to “pretty much anyone you can imagine in the industry” and were now left with closing the studio, which they admitted was their “last resort”. Read More ...
Activision has announced that their NASCAR game has been delayed from February to 29th March. “The main reason is we simply wanted more time to polish it and hopefully make it the experience you guys are craving. It’s never easy to delay a game as it can cause a lot of disappointment, but we genuinely feel that by doing this you guys will be even happier with the end product,” Read More ...
Treyarch has announced that they have released a new patch for the PlayStation 3 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops. It’s called patch 1.05, and expands the game’s capability to open NATs on routers among improving party reliability. Patch 1.04 caused widespread carnage, causing the game to go crazy and disconnect gamers all the time during matches that could’ve decided life or death.
Activision has announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops has generated more than $1 billion for Activision in just six weeks on sale. Players have spent a combined 600 million hours playing the game’s online multiplayer mode. Microsoft says the average player jumps on once a day for more than an hour. “In all of entertainment, only Call Of Duty and Avatar have ever achieved the billion dollar milestone this Read More ...
Not content with the astronomical sales of Black Ops, Activision and Treyarch have announced the first map pack for the game; First Strike. It will be released on 1st February for 1200 Allards and will be 360 exclusive at first before expanding to other systems. The DLC includes four new maps: Discovery (the Antarctic research station from the campaign), Kowloon (set on the rooftops of Hong Kong), Berlin Wall and Read More ...
Blizzard has finally admitted that Titan is real and will be their next MMOG. The game was leaked on a five-year released schedule that resulted in the departure of Blizzard China’s general manager Ye Weilun. Titan is currently down for release in Q4 2013, with a fifth expansion for World of Warcraft scheduled for the same release window. “The media is not supposed to know anything about that,” said Frank Read More ...
In an embarrassing u-turn for the under-fire developers, Treyarch has admitted that the PS3 Call of Duty: Black Ops patch they released this week did screw up the game. “We are aware that many online players have been experiencing connectivity issues since Tuesday’s patch,” said Black Ops community manager Josh Olin on the official forum. “We have been working hard to track down the cause and fix them as quickly Read More ...
Oh snap. We’ve just seen some gamers flip out over the new Call of Duty: Black Ops patch for the PS3 version of the game. The Black Ops forum is up in arms over the new PS3 patch, which appears to have made it more difficult to find games. Apparently when you do get into a game now, there is a strong possibility it will freeze. Developers have been trying Read More ...
Blizzard has confirmed that World of Warcraft Cataclysm has become the world’s fastest-selling PC game. The third WOW expansion has sold 3.3 million copies worldwide on the PC and Mac (combined) in just 24 hours. The world’s fastest selling multi-platform game is Call of Duty: Black Ops, which managed 5.7 million copies in 24 hours. Whoever said that Blizzard needs to get into the console space might be regretting their Read More ...
