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North Korea Uses Call Of Duty In Bizarre Propaganda

If those North Korean propaganda games weren’t odd (and unsettling) enough, the country’s state media is incorporating Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and “We Are the World” to show the US under attack.


What Black Ops 2 Technology Looks Like In Real Life

Our use of unmanned drones is well documented, and we know about missiles that trigger before they hit the ground. But some of Black Ops 2′s more, shall we say, “imaginative” technologies are based in reality too – they’ll just need a little pushing along before they get to the hyper-weaponised state they are in Treyarch’s imagining of 2025.


Forget The Haters, Japan *Hearts* Call Of Duty

The conventional wisdom has always been Japan loves role-playing games and dislikes first-person shooters. First-person shooters, pundits said, were popular only with Western gamers. The pundits and conventional wisdom, it seems, are wrong.


Two Smart Critics Really Like The Wii U’s Allegedly Inferior Black Ops II

Once could be an aberration. Twice? We’re approaching a trend, people. Two sharp critics have both spent some time this week saying that Call of Duty: Black Ops II is good. Better than that, one of these chaps suggests that Black Ops II might be, PC notwithstanding, best on Wii U.


Analyst: Call Of Duty Sales Could Be Down 15% Year On Year

Another year another massive blockbuster launch for the Call of Duty franchise. But, according to one analyst the unit sales of Call of Duty games are down year on year, and Black Ops 2′s sales may be down as much as 15%.


How Square Enix Screwed Up Black Ops II For Japan

For years now, Square Enix has published the Call of Duty games in Japan. Square Enix honcho Yoichi Wada is apparently a big fan of the series — and Western games. His goal is apparently to make Japanese gamers more open to playing foreign titles. That’s admirable. It would be more admirable if the company didn’t keep screwing up the games.


Call Of Duty: Black Ops II GPU And CPU Performance

For Call of Duty fans, developer Treyarch just delivered an early Christmas present when they released Black Ops II. As the ninth game in the Call of Duty franchise and the sequel to the 2010 game Black Ops, we are hoping to see something meaningfully new from Black Ops II. We say this because last year’s release (Modern Warfare 3) was somewhat lackluster on the PC, and also because the competing franchise Medal of Honor: Warfighter has received mixed, if not poor reviews overall.


Fan Outrage Brings Nuketown 2025 Map Back To Black Ops II Multiplayer

After suddenly pulling a popular pre-order multiplayer map from Black Ops II online play yesterday, Activision added it back to a new playlist called Chaos Moshpit. Game design director David Vonderhaar from dev studio Treyarch — who delivered the bad news — made it seem possible that the map could come back in a tweet late yesterday:


Activision Suddenly Pulls Nuketown 2025 Map From Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 Multiplayer

Earlier this month, Activision announced that it would let people who pre-ordered the publisher’s latest FPS mega-hit play on a re-imagined version of the popular Nuketown multiplayer map. That part of the promotion turned out to be true. But that access to the special battleground appears to have been suddenly revoked. The sudden bad news was confirmed via tweet from Treyarch game design director David Vonderhaar:


Black Ops 2 Multiplayer Is Still The Call Of Duty You Love… Or Hate

I’ve spent the last week playing Call of Duty: Black Ops II‘s multiplayer; arguably the real reason many will purchase the game. While I still have a lot to experience — the number of unlocks is ridiculous and the competitive metagame is difficult to discern this early — I still think I’ve got a reasonable feel for it all.


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