News

Call Of Duty Accused Of "Shamelessly" Ripping Off Another Series, Legal Warfare Ensues

Activision is facing another big lawsuit over its tentpole Call of Duty series, only this one has nothing to do with people who used to work on the series. It’s to do with a rival developer who owns the right to a name that Call of Duty uses a lot.


April 29, 2012
PC

Modern Warfare 3 Is Finally Releasing New Maps For PC Gamers

Ha ha, but who plays Modern Warfare 3 on PC amirite? Well, people do in numbers enough that Activision’s finally decided to sell them the “Content Collection 1″ made available to Xbox 360 gamers earlier this year. It’s the first post-release content to become available for this version of the game.


April 21, 2012
PC

Spectacular Modern Warfare 3 Thowing Knife Kill Foiled By Pesky Portable Radar

YouTube user TehPadre would have had a pretty spectacular cross-map throwing knife kill on his hands, if not for the courageous efforts of a portable handheld radar. Missed it by that much!


April 16, 2012
News

Call Of Duty Might Finally Be Running Out Of Puff

For years now, through thick and thin, one thing has remained constant in this business: every holiday season, a new Call of Duty game arrives and outsells the last one.


March 17, 2012
PC

Modern Warfare 3 Player Demolishes The Opposing Team In One Run

Against all odds of flash grenades, timid teammates, and an onslaught of enemies, one intrepid warrior makes it through the battlefield alive. Or for an impressive while at least.


March 5, 2012
In Real Life

Trolling Private Ryan Replaces Matt Damon With Small, Angry Child

There is trolling in the name of evil, in which you act like an arsehole. But there can sometimes be trolling in the name of public good. Like this.


February 12, 2012
Xbox

Be Good At Modern Warfare 3 And Win $2000

Kotaku AU

If you fancy yourself a whiz with the M4A1, a crack shot with a .50 cal or your team’s designated tree cutter when a MK46 is in your hands, Southern Event Management is giving you the opportunity to put your skills to the test in a bid to collect a cool $2000. All you have to do is play lots and lots of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.


January 24, 2012
In Real Life

Jailed Megaupload Founder Loses His Call Of Duty Crown

Bizarrely, the imprisoned founder of file-sharing site Megaupload – Kim Dotcom, formerly Kim Schmitz – was also until this week the world’s number one Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 gamer on Xbox Live.


News

Rob Riggle Wants Arses Kicked

Starting tomorrow, the Call of Duty “season” begins with the first of four planned packs of DLC. Activision seems to believe that The Daily Show‘s Rob Riggle (a former serviceman himself) is the guy to sell it to us, and their new commercial features him taking a testosterone-y tour of Elite services, from study-able heat-maps to loadout analysis and leaderboards.


January 19, 2012
In Real Life

How Activision Reacted To That Giant Modern Warfare 3 Leak

Last year, we blew the lid off Modern Warfare 3 months before it was due for release. It was the biggest leak we’d seen, let alone written about, in almost a decade.