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Week in gaming: Activision goes to war, God of War 3

By anthony | Published: March 7, 2010
Activision Blizzard has become an immensely successful company with three large franchises under its belt. So what's the only thing to do? Begin burning one down! The drama between Activision and Infinity Ward has lead to lawsuits, stories in the press, and rampant speculation about what's really going on. What's clear is that the people who were the driving force behind the series have left the company, and Activision is looking to release as many Call of Duty games in as short of time as possible
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Create Some Modern Warfare 2 Easter Eggs [Photoshop Contest]

By melissa | Published: November 12, 2009
Hey, did you guys find the hidden house in Modern Warfare 2 that lets you unlock old-school Nintendo characters as enemies? No? Oh, I must have made that up. Now it's your turn. What sorts of ridiculous secrets do you wish Infinity Ward put in their latest blockbuster if only they didn't take themselves and their game so goddamned seriously
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Modern Warfare 2 sells 5 million in a day

By melissa | Published: November 12, 2009
We all knew that Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was going to be big, but just how big? Well, according to publisher Activision, the game has sold approximately 4.7 million units across North America and the United Kingdom in its first 24 hours. These numbers are based on "internal Activision estimates," which also claim the game had the largest opening day sales numbers across all forms of entertainment, raking in an estimated $310 million.
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PC Modern Warfare 2: it’s much worse than you thought

By melissa | Published: November 5, 2009
Infinity Ward needs to realize that talking to people in the PC community does not end well for the buzz around its game. The lack of dedicated servers was "announced" during an interview with a gaming podcast , and the interviewers were stunned into silence when they were basically told their community, as they knew it, was dead. They would have to learn to adapt to Infinity Ward controlling all aspects of the servers, or move onto another game. More recently, Best Buy hosted an online chat between gamers and Mackey McCandlish and Ryan Lastimosa from Infinity Ward
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Call of Duty film in the works?

By admin | Published: October 6, 2009
One of gamings biggest franchises could be coming to the the big screen with chatter of Call of Duty being turned into an all guns blazing blockbuster. The hint came via a teasing post by Infinity Ward and Call of Duty developer Robert Bowling’s Twitter page: “First round of meetings in Paris wrapped. Grabbing lunch with Xavier Gens, director of the Hitman film while in town. Talking game films.” And as spotted by Trademork a license registered by Activision has already been granted f
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No demo for Modern Warfare 2 in the works

By melissa | Published: September 27, 2009
Considering it’s massive scale (in terms of hype and such) you would think that Infinity Ward would want as much beta testing as possible for Modern Warfare 2 but it’s seems like they have got said testing covered in house. A tweet posted up on Infinity Ward’s twitter today notified us of the unfortunate news: @FTGDS No plan for a Demo before launch. The entire team is focused on polish all the way up to ship of the full game. (via @fourzerotwo) Now if there are bugs in the gam
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