- Humvee manufacturer suing Activision over Call of Duty warcars - 9 November 2017
The manufacturers of Humvees are suing Activision over Call of Duty games featuring vehicles which, they say, look an awful lot like their own warcars. AM General claim that these Humvee-lookin’ vehicles violate their trademark and Activision don’t have permission, so they want CoD to knock it off and pay them damages. Their case pivots on several Call of Duty games, including Modern Warfare and Ghosts, featuring warcars which allegedly look close enough to Humvees to fall under their ‘trade dress’ — a type of intellectual property covering what a product looks like — and are sometimes called Humvees by name. (more…)
- Weekend Deal - Call of Duty Franchise, up to 67% off! - 17 September 2015
Save up to 67% on Call of Duty games as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! Includes various discounts on Advanced Warfare, Ghosts, Black Ops II, and more!
- The Steam Exploration Sale Day 4! - 29 November 2014
For the next six days, take advantage of huge savings throughout the Steam store on thousands of titles. Plus, discover new and recommended games on your personalized Exploration Sale page here . Check back each day for new Daily Deals. Today’s Featured Deals Include: * Fallout: New Vegas - 75% off; * Terraria - 80% off; * The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - 33% off; * 7 Days to Die - 50% off; * The Walking Dead: Season 2 - 66% off; * Thief - 75% off; * South Park: The Stick of Truth - 66% off; * Call of Duty: Ghosts - 75% off; * Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - 33% off; The Steam Exploration Sale runs from now until 10AM Pacific Time, December 2nd. Complete information on Daily Deals and other special offers can be found on Steam.
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare multiplayer preview: robo-suits, new maps and an advanced wardrobe - 20 August 2014
Comparisons to Titanfall were inevitable after Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's multiplayer was revealed last week, but Sledgehammer have been playing with Advanced Warfare's jump-thrust move shortly after finishing work on Modern Warfare 3 in 2011, and Tribes fans will tell you that Titanfall hardly has dibs on the jetpack shooter. While the new exoskeleton movement options are interesting, I'm more excited about what they can do to refresh the design of Call of Duty's multiplayer maps. The Call of Duty multiplayer experience has remained largely unchanged since the dawn of the Modern Warfare era. The opportunistic run-and-gun through flat, crumbling maps started to feel rote back in Black Ops 2, a game that could have done with a map like Advanced Warfare's Riot. Granted, it's also a crumbling concrete facility a prison, in fact but it's built around tiered structures and guard towers…
- 4K Screenshot Showcase: Call of Duty: Ghosts - 4 August 2014
Every week, keen screen-grabber Ben Griffin brings you a sumptuous 4K resolution gallery to celebrate PC gaming's prettiest places. With the upcoming, stupidly pretty, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare pouting its lips and batting its eyes on the horizon, I decided to give the last one some love. I've contained my exploits to the first mission, but even that's plenty variety given CoD's penchant for catapulting players between ludicrous scenarios. Here I go from outrunning an orbital strike on San Diego to floating around the very space station responsible for it, all while dodging bullets from jetpacking terrorists. Download the full-sized image here. Download the full-sized image here. Download the full-sized image here. Download the full-sized image here. Download the full-sized image here. Download the full-sized image here. Download the full-sized image here. Download the full-sized i…
- CoD: Ghosts trailer details Nemesis map pack, includes mine carts and smallest-ever CoD map - 1 August 2014
It's strange to hear developers boast about how small the maps in their newest map pack are, but I hear just that in this trailer for CoD: Ghosts' final piece of DLC, Nemesis. This adds some "small-to-medium"-sized maps based around the themes 'mine cart level', 'wintry submarine base' and 'please desecrate this lovely Chinese village', along with a remake of the "smallest map ever made for Call of Duty": Shipment (now called Showtime). This one's a futuristic, Smash TV-style game show, replete with a cheesy announcer commentating on the killy goings-on. The DLC also adds the final bit to the game's full-on sci-fi Extinction mode. Exodus will see you coming face-to-elongated-face with the Ancestors, ie XCOM-ish psionic aliens. The trailer is below. Nemesis releases next week on Xbox-flavoured systems, but if it's anything like all the other map packs, we can expect it on PC a month late…
- Call of Duty: Ghosts - New DLC Now Available! - 31 July 2014
Outnumbered and outgunned, but not outmatched. Call of Duty®: Ghosts is an extraordinary step forward for one of the largest entertainment franchises of all-time. This new chapter in the Call of Duty® franchise features a new dynamic where players are on the side of a crippled nation fighting not for freedom, or liberty, but simply to survive. Call of Duty®: Ghosts owners can now enhance their experience with these exciting packs: Call of Duty: Ghosts - Weapon - The Ripper Call of Duty: Ghosts - Weapon - The Maverick Call of Duty: Ghosts - Blunt Force Character Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Inferno Character Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Bling Character Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Leopard Personalization Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Abstract Personalization Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Hydra Personalization Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Skulls Personalization Pack Call of Duty: Ghos…
- Call of Duty: Ghosts tires of half-baked DLC, gets fully baked with cannabis-themed pack - 3 July 2014
Some would argue that paid-for personalisation packs are endemic in the games industry chronic, even. But is there anything wrong with showing off some style while high at the top of a leaderboard. Infinity Ward are no dopes, they know how to hit their target markets. Presented with a money making opportunity, they're not going to make a hash of it. And so, some Call of Duty developers embarked on a skunkworks mission to create the Blunt Force Character Pack a marijuana-themed DLC release. The DLC, priced $1.99, is one of three new character packs now available for the Xbox version of the game. The other two character packs are themed as "Inferno" and "Bling". Infinity Ward definitely know their audience. Each character pack contains a uniform and two helmets. In addition, the recent DLC drop also makes available six new 'Personalisation' packs and two new weapons. You can see the full…
- Call of Duty: Ghosts - New Personalization and Character Packs Now Available! - 19 June 2014
Outnumbered and outgunned, but not outmatched. Call of Duty®: Ghosts is an extraordinary step forward for one of the largest entertainment franchises of all-time. This new chapter in the Call of Duty® franchise features a new dynamic where players are on the side of a crippled nation fighting not for freedom, or liberty, but simply to survive. Call of Duty®: Ghosts owners can now enhance their experience with these exciting packs: Call of Duty: Ghosts - Astronaut Character Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Bling Personalization Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Extinction Personalization Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Fitness Personalization Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Heavy Metal Personalization Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Koi Personalization Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Spectrum Warrior Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Unicorn Personalization Pack
- Fish, Hitler, And Naughty Language: DLC Is Bloody Weird - 11 June 2014
What do Hitler, Snoop Dogg, George Washington, and Shakespeare have in common? If you said they all appear in Rik Mayall’s autobiography Bigger Than Hitler, Better Than Christ*, you’re wrong. Washington and Snoop aren’t mentioned in that. The correct answer is that each has been digitised and reformed–Weird Science style–into your games as DLC. There’s a lot of DLC out there, ranging from the mundane to the insane, and I think I know why. Games are increasingly serious business, with huge budgets and a cast amount of public scrutiny. DLC–well some of it–feels like the passion projects that don’t fit into the canon. An outlet for the stuff that gets cleared from the whiteboard for being too off message, or too niche. DLC is cathartic. I’ve been on a strange journey, readers. I’ve been looking through games catalogues and h…
- Ghostpirates Ahoy! Call of Duty: Ghosts Next DLC Is Weird - 30 May 2014
Call of Duty: Ghosts seems to have rediscovered a bit of the Quake and Half-Life mod scene spirit. Hear me out, right. I know it’s all usually very po-faced and dull, but the next DLC map pack seems to throw together whatever weirdness its creators found kooky or funny or cool–as so many mods did. See, ‘Invasion’ will bring ghost pirates and mariachi revenants and I’m surprised to find CoD DLC making me nostalgic. It’s just a shame this attitude is confined to paid DLC. …
- Call of Duty: Ghosts Invasion DLC trailer shows new maps, contains actual ghosts - 30 May 2014
You know, I've been genuinely inspired by the new Call of Duty: Ghosts DLC announcement. Invasion contains among other things a "refreshed" version of the Modern Warfare 2 map Favela. In that spirit, I'm going to similarly "refresh" an old Call of Duty news post... Why do Call of Duty characters hate each other so much? Yes, they're at war that I can understand but the lengths they'll go to annihilate their enemy is almost sadistic. In , one of the four maps included in the DLC, somebody has gone through the time, danger and expense of . It's as if Infinity Ward have created an fiction in which every person is a . Other deathtraps include the standard military issue , and some weird device called . Whatever will they think of next? In addition to the four maps, players will also get the episode of "the Extinction saga" co-op campaign, and . All this will be available sometime after 3rd,…
- Call of Duty: Ghosts - New Personalization, Character, and Voice Packs Now Available! - 23 May 2014
Outnumbered and outgunned, but not outmatched. Call of Duty®: Ghosts is an extraordinary step forward for one of the largest entertainment franchises of all-time. This new chapter in the Call of Duty® franchise features a new dynamic where players are on the side of a crippled nation fighting not for freedom, or liberty, but simply to survive. Call of Duty®: Ghosts owners can now enhance their experience with these exciting packs: Call of Duty: Ghosts - Squad Pack - Extinction Call of Duty: Ghosts - Soap Legend Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Drill Instructor Voice Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Snoop Dogg Voice Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Classic Ghost Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - 1987 Personalization Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Blunt Force Personalization Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Eyeballs Personalization Pack Call of Duty: Ghosts - Heartlands Personalization Pack Call of Duty:…
- New DLC Available - Call of Duty: Ghosts - Devastation - 8 May 2014
Call of Duty: Ghosts - Devastation , all new content for Call of Duty: Ghosts is Now Available on Steam! Prepare yourself for Devastation, the second DLC Pack for Call of Duty®: Ghosts, featuring four unique multiplayer maps, an all-new tactical 2-in-1 weapon that can be switched from Sub Machine-Gun to Assault Rifle on the fly, and Episode 2: Mayday - the next installment in Extinction’s four-part episodic narrative.
- Activision Publisher Weekend - Day 3 - 3 May 2014
The Activision Publisher Weekend continues today with great deals on Activision titles! From now through Monday* pick up titles up to 75% off! Additionally, play the Call of Duty: Ghosts Multiplayer for Free throughout the weekend! Today's Daily Deal features the Call of Duty franchise** at 50% off! *All discounts end Monday, March 17th at 10AM Pacific Time. **Does not include Call of Duty: Ghosts
- The week’s highs and lows in PC gaming - 25 April 2014
Each week PC Gamer probes the previous seven days to scientifically establish what rocked our world and made us despair for its future. As usual, we begin with the good stuff THE HIGHS Tyler Wilde: It s my birthday as I write this, so that s nice. Or is it? I m never sure whether or not I m supposed to enjoy getting older. I did enjoy playing Watch Dogs recently. I m disappointed by the fidelity-breaking parts of the world (the dumb pedestrians, the lack of consequences for terrorizing Chicago), and by the lack of experimentation in the story missions I played but where it s open-ended, where I can choose my own plan of attack (or plan of sneaking), and where hacking is a real tool for survival, I m happy to say that Watch Dogs diverges from GTA and leans in the direction of Far Cry. I m most surprised that I m looking forward to the story. I can t tell if Ubisoft wants Aiden Pearce to…
- Call of Duty: Ghosts patch adds Chaos mode to Extinction - 23 April 2014
The Call of Duty series has become somewhat infamous for hiding the bulk of its additional content inside paid-for DLC. A new PC patch for Call of Duty: Ghosts contains the rare bonus of a new, and entirely free, game mode. Chaos has been added to Extinction co-op multiplayer, providing a variation of the game type last seen as part of Modern Warfare 3's Spec-Ops mode. In it, players battle never-ending waves of enemies. So far, so every co-op mode released since Gears of War, but the twist comes in the additional bonuses. By chaining together kills, players unlock power-ups to help them battle on. It certainly sounds like a chaotic variant of Extinction. As opposed to the orderly, subdued extinctions we're so used to. Want to see a big ol' dump of patch notes? You're in luck: Weapon Balance MTAR-X: Reduced head-shot damage multiplier. eSports Restrict DLC weapons for clan v clan & espo…
- Worst Thing Or Best Thing? Call Of Duty Snoop Dogg DLC - 16 April 2014
This is not a joke. This is real. But maybe it is also still a joke. …
- New DLC Available - Call of Duty®: Ghosts - 3 April 2014
Call of Duty®: Ghosts - Legend Pack - Makarov , Call of Duty®: Ghosts - Hazmat Special Character , Call of Duty®: Ghosts - Rorke Special Character , Call of Duty®: Ghosts - Zakhaev Special Character , all new content for Call of Duty: Ghosts - Multiplayer is Now Available on Steam!
- Call of Duty: Ghosts Devastation pack includes alien kraken and The Predator - 31 March 2014
The Devastation map pack for Call of Duty: Ghosts will include four multiplayer maps and part two of the increasingly mad Extinction mode. The co-op players vs. NPC aliens aside is set on a "high-tech ghost ship" besieged by a "skyscraper-sized" sea monster and infested with dog-like alien creatures. The trailer also teases the inclusion of the Predator. The actual Predator, from the films. I haven't paid attention to Call of Duty in a while, so it feels like returning to a familiar old house I thought I knew, to find it full of dinosaurs. The shooting will be familiar enough, I'm sure, even with the addition of the "Ripper 2-in-1 SMG/AR", pronounced "Ripper two-in-one Smgaargh". Multiplayer maps include Behemoth, set on the walkways of a vast mining machine, Ruins, set in a Mexican jungle near an erupting volcano, Unearthed, a map "inspired by" Modern Warfare 3's Dome, and Collision, s…
