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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.