Call of Duty: Black Ops III mixes the series' familiar first-person shooting with a wild cyberpunk storyline. The narrative breaks apart the further the player progress unless it finally explodes in a level that mixes World War II, zombies, and dying dreams. That level, Demon Within, is both the high point of the campaign and a horrifying cry for help from the game itself.

Leaked all to hell and confirmed today via unzipped hoodie in a YouTube video, Black Ops 3 players are getting an extra dose of DLC in the form of Zombies Chronicles, a collection of eight remastered zombie maps from Black Ops, World At War and Black Ops 3 on May 16.

The biggest challenge in Micro, the "fun" multiplayer map in Call of Duty: Black Ops III's final batch of downloadable content, is pulling yourself away from the massive cupcakes and copious amounts of alcohol long enough to shoot other people.

Here we go. Famitsu has calculated a list of the top five selling PS4 games in Japan, and the results probably won't surprise you. Maybe they will!

Today on Highlight Reel we have magic catches, Quantum breaks, fire keys and last-second Battlefront power-ups!

In case you haven't noticed, Call of Duty is kind of a big thing in Australia. And not just sales of the game itself, but the eSports scene.

The most recent Australia & New Zealand qualifier for next year's Call of Duty World League, for instance, had 50 teams. That's a huge turnout, as you'd expect for entry into a professional division that is sporting a US$150,000 prize pool per stage.

But perhaps the biggest news of all is this: as part of the online qualifiers, one female has become the first professional Call of Duty player to qualify for the World League. She's from Perth, and her name is Kayla Squires.

Falling off the map in a first-person shooter used to be a real annoyance. Insta-suicide, it was. One point off your total kills, your kill-death ratio soured just that bit more.

But with the evolution of movement in games, falling off the map is less of a problem and more of an opportunity. Like in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3.

If you haven't picked up one of this season's major releases yet, or just want something at a decent price to stick in the PS4/Xbox One stocking for Christmas, Target are doing their hardest to convince you that they really still like selling games.

Black Ops 3 launched on PC with some fairly serious issues, chief among them the fact it ran like stuttering garbage on i5 processors. A week later, is it safe to actually try and play the game if you'd previously been having problems? Probably.

There have been bundles with the 500GB model that were good value. There were offerings with just the console that were worth considering. There have been 1TB editions that were perfectly reasonable.

And now there's this deal as well. It's not under $400. It's also not the 500GB model. But it does come with a suite of games that will really, really work for some people. Maybe even some families.

It might even be more than that if the official prizes are in US dollars, but even if they're not this still represents the biggest figure given out at an Australian event by some considerable margin.

I'm far too exhausted to craft of a joke connecting XXXX and Black Ops, but let's just pretend of one. It's appropriate, after all, since we're combining Queenslanders, beer and the most mainstream franchise you can think of.

Not only does Call of Duty : Black Ops III have all of its campaign content unlocked from the start, it has content that looks as if it comes from other games unlocked from the start as well. Check out the new multiplayer parkour-flavored "Free Run" mode.

Most games force you to play things in a certain order -- and that gating can be a drag. Black Ops 3, however, is trying something very different.

Until a few days ago, it was possible to digitally pre-order Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 for Xbox One through Xbox Live or Amazon. That's no longer the case, though nobody can explain why. Seriously, I asked Activision and Microsoft what's going on, but their statements don't make any sense.

"Glitch" is the name of a move in Call of Duty: Black Ops III that lets you teleport -- but only back to the position you were in a few seconds earlier. It can be tricky to pull off because messing up the timing or positioning will leave you out in the open, vulnerable to all kinds of killing. Not for this guy, though.

Unlike other big series like Assassin's Creed and Fallout, Call of Duty can't bring itself to go 100% next-gen just yet, Activision announcing today that this year's Black Ops 3 will be available not just on PS4, XB1 and PC, but PS3 and Xbox 360 as well.