Earlier this year, the Olympics committee voted overwhelmingly to authorise the Olympic Esports Games in Saudi Arabia, to run for a whopping 12 years. It marked a massive milestone for the Olympics, which has recently tried to appeal more to younger generations. Esports is its Trojan horse for such a venture. Video games are a big part of younger people's lives, and if the Olympics can stake a claim in the competitive world of gaming, then perhaps it can get younger people to value sport's longest living event.
]]>Xbox is reportedly set to add this year's Call of Duty - which is yet to be officially revealed - to Game Pass at launch, in what would be a first for the series and publisher. Naturally, this could in theory mean those with a subscription to the service would be able to grab the game without paying the usual price.
]]>Microsoft has officially closed its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard.
]]>In a surprising Sunday announcement, PlayStation has officially signed a deal with Microsoft to keep Call of Duty on the former's platform.
]]>Microsoft and Nintendo have signed a 10-year contract that would ensure Call of Duty is available for Nintendo players, as countries continue to push back against the Microsfot x Activision Blizzard merger.
]]>While Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is still ongoing and yet to be approved, Microsoft is not holding back from any commitments. CEO Phil Spencer has announced via Twitter that Microsoft has entered into a ten-year commitment with Nintendo to bring Call of Duty games to its platforms following the merger with Activision Blizzard.
]]>Xbox head Phil Spencer believes that the various investigations from regulators across the world over the Activision Blizzard acquisition are fair, but he's confident the deal will go through.
]]>Microsoft intends to add Activision Blizzard’s library of games to Game Pass, particularly Call of Duty, Diablo, and Overwatch.
]]>For anyone looking forward to Diablo 4 simply being a good video game – one you can have hours of fun playing and feel happy (not compelled) to return to anytime you choose – I’ve got bad news for you.
]]>Now, this is something I never really expected to see, but Call of Duty is no stranger to having seemingly random household names make an appearance. See: Lewis Hamilton, Fidel Castro, and Jeff Goldblum. As of April 19, with ample time for the musicians favourite holiday, we now have Snoop Dogg himself as an Operator in both Vanguard and Warzone.
]]>Activision won't be releasing an annual Call of Duty title in 2023, marking the first time the series has gone without a new game since as far back as 2005, a new report suggests.
]]>On January 18, 2022, Microsoft announced plans to acquire Activision Blizzard. This is a platform holder buying one of the biggest games publishers and one of the world's biggest games. Call of Duty, Activision's flagship product, has suffered some declines in recent years, but it remains a massive series. And more significantly, it is one of the most popular games on PlayStation.
]]>Before the New Year, we saw Call of Duty Warzone get a pretty significant overhaul; a new map was added to the title, new mechanics were added to the game, and we got a big new battle pass to complete, too.
]]>Fall 2021 is officially FPS season, as we’ve had major entries from the big three industry shooters all drop in the same short span of time. Call of Duty: Vanguard dropped first, followed by the surprise launch of the Halo: Infinite multiplayer, and the release of Battlefield 2042. However, with all three series’ representing big at the tail-end of the year, we had to ask the decades old question…
]]>Shawn Layden, one of the former execs in charge of the PlayStation family of consoles, said in a recent interview with Bloomberg that game budgets double with each generation and that the PS5 is in danger of exceeding $200 million.
]]>UPDATE: It's official. Activision has announced Call of Duty: Vanguard, and it'll be revealed properly in Warzone later this week.
]]>A number of details have leaked from Call of Duty: Vanguard, just a few days ahead of its supposed reveal.
]]>It looks like Call of Duty Vanguard has been officially teased by Activision as a new cryptic easter egg in the Black Ops Cold War and Warzone Season 5 image has materialized.
]]>Raven is rolling out some major changes to the Warzone meta for Season 4 Reloaded, part of a plan to increase the game's time-to-kill.
]]>A cross-platform and practically undetectable Call of Duty: Warzone cheat has been blocked by Activision after the impressive software gained popularity last week.
]]>The developer of this year's Call of Duty has been very busy on Battle.net recently.
]]>After somehow spawning a door that was lethal to players, Raven has introduced a new Call of Duty: Warzone patch that nerfs the popular MG 82 and fixes the scary door.
]]>Call of Duty: Warzone seems to have spawned a door that will kill players when they try and pass through it – so you're probably best off avoiding the Salt Mines for now.
]]>Sledgehammer Games has been confirmed as the lead on this year's Call of Duty.
]]>That's quite a figure.
]]>Franchise favourite Killhouse makes a return.
]]>These are sure to mix things up.
]]>To the past with a blast.
]]>One small tweak that will make a huge difference to players.
]]>The undead threat has seemingly moved on from the shipwreck area.
]]>New calling cards reward players for killing the undead.
]]>A load of hints about new content have appeared in the battle royale game.
]]>This year's tournament begins with returning team Los Angeles Thieves playing Minnesota Røkkr.
]]>To date, more than 300,000 accounts have been booted for using hacks.
]]>How long until it's back once more?
]]>This has been a big part of the company's strategy in recent years.
]]>Any progress you make will carry over to the full version of the game if you decide to splash your cash.
]]>People were using the software to drop out of matches when it looked like they might lose.
]]>Activision hasn't given a reason why the content has been pushed by less than a week.
]]>It looks like the zombies from Call of Duty are beginning to learn...
]]>The latest Call of Duty title has sold very well, breaking records through the weekend.
]]>The latest Call of Duty has an aim assist issue that is taking control away from players.
]]>Call of Duty: Warzone has seen a huge bump in performance... but only on one next-gen console.
]]>As players begin jumping into Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, they are beginning to find long grinds ahead of them.
]]>A bug in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War appears to be causing PlayStation controllers serious trouble.
]]>British broadband has been hit hard by a series of big game launches.
]]>We now have a better idea of how Call of Duty: Warzone looks on Microsoft's new machines compared to its older Xbox One models.
]]>The Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War multiplayer at release will be quite different from what we played in the beta.
]]>Every gun in Black Ops Cold War will have a unique haptic profile using the DualSense controller on PS5.
]]>If you want to download and install every single part of the upcoming Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War on your Xbox Series X/S, you'll need about 190GB.
]]>Treyarch and Activision have released the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War launch trailer ahead of the game's release on November 13.
]]>Call of Duty: Warzone is getting a new patch later this week, and you can get it pre-installed on your PlayStation 4 right now.
]]>Activision is denying reports that Call of Duty accounts have suffered a major hack.
]]>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Warzone gets their newest operator tomorrow, September 8.
]]>A popular Call of Duty: Warzone player recently outed himself as a cheater while he was live on Twitch, bragging about skills enabled by a cheating engine he thought was off-stream.
]]>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 5 Reloaded is an upcoming update set to introduce new trials, rewards, weapons, and more to both Warzone and Modern Warfare.
]]>A new Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War trailer was released just prior to the weekend, but has since been banned in China due to its inclusion of footage from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
]]>The recently unveiled Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 5 PS4-exclusive content includes Crash for Survival mode.
]]>Activision has confirmed that the upcoming Call of Duty 2020 release will be tightly integrated within the world of Call of Duty Warzone, the free-to-play title that has reached over 75 million players in four months since launch.
]]>Infinity Ward recently revealed the official roadmap for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 5 for both standard multiplayer and Warzone.
]]>The most reliable information we've got about a release date for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War comes from a literal bag of Doritos.
]]>Dataminers have grabbed the latest Call of Duty 2020 leak and pulled it apart to reveal details of the maps, multiplayer, zombies and campaign in the rumoured Black Ops game.
]]>The Red Door has found a new home, this time on Xbox.
]]>This year's Call of Duty already lives in some form on the PlayStation Network.
]]>A number of Activision Blizzard shareholders have expressed concerns over CEO Bobby Kotick's big compensation package.
]]>Activision has once again reiterated that, despite the success of Warzone, a new Call of Duty game is coming this year.
]]>It looks like Call of Duty 2020 will be part of the Black Ops universe, and the setting is Vietnam, according to today's rumors.
]]>No Russian opens with the most innocuous of airport sounds: the granular whine of a zip being unfastened. Then a noise that doesn’t belong: the clack-clack of a machine gun being prepared to fire.
]]>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered is available now on PlayStation 4, and available for pre-purchase on other platforms, which will release at a later date.
]]>Clips from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's No Russian level have appeared online, showing the upgrades made to the level in the remastered campaign.
]]>The cat is out of the bag, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered launches tomorrow.
]]>The good ship Modern Warfare looks to have sprung another leak.
]]>The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 remaster is back in the news again, with yet another rating.
]]>In yet another instance of an American who probably shouldn’t have a gun, Call of Duty streamer and pro player Carl Reimer just accidentally straight up murdered his gamer sustenance.
]]>Jason Blundell, one of the creators of zombie mode for various Call of Duty titles, has left Treyarch.
]]>Call of Duty: Mobile helped bring millions of new people to the franchise, and turn the platform into Activision's biggest.
]]>Activision, to no one's surprise, is releasing a new premium Call of Duty game later this year.
]]>Once you've reached level five in Call of Duty: Mobile, you can jump into Zombies mode.
]]>As promised, controller support has arrived in Call of Duty: Mobile.
]]>Earlier this year it was announced that global video game sales would amount to over $150 billion in revenue by the end of 2019. That figure has recently been amended.
]]>Call of Duty: Mobile's latest update is on the way which includes the promised controller support.
]]>Call of Duty: Mobile will soon support controllers again, but don't expect them to work like they used to.
]]>Earlier this month, Activision’s behemoth FPS Call of Duty launched on mobile for the first time, although the absence of COD Mobile controller support has marked a distinct difference between this iteration of the franchise and its predecessors.
]]>You won't have any of your functions or items re-locked in the new Modern Warfare - there's a whole new leveling system.
]]>Within one week, Call of Duty: Mobile has already seen over 100 million downloads worldwide.
]]>Call of Duty: Mobile has been out for less than a week and it's already pulled some massive numbers.
]]>Call of Duty: Mobile is now available in all countries and regions where Google Play and App Store are supported.
]]>Call of Duty: Mobile will release next month on Google Play and the App Store.
]]>Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 players can now participate in the latest Operation called Apocalypse Z.
]]>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare won't feature a Season Pass, but it will feature cross-play support between PC and consoles.
]]>Scorestreaks in Call of Duty Black Ops 4 can be used to set you aside from the competition. There's a huge range to choose from, and you'll need to rack up some high point scores to get access to some of the better ones. To help you pick your scorestreak loadout, we've pulled together a list of every scorestreak in Black Ops 4 . We'll also tell you exactly how to use scorestreaks in Call of Duty Black Ops 4, and the points cost for doing so.
]]>Call of Duty Black Ops 4 switches things up in the weapons department, placing more of an emphasis on attachments and mods. As well as the usual scopes and stocks, some of the weapons in Black Ops 4 have Operator Mods, essentially tweaks that add special properties to the weapon in question. In this Black Ops 4 Operator Mods Guide, we'll list all Operator Mods in Black Ops 4, and render our verdict on what the best Operator Mods in Black Ops 4 is. We'll also take a look at how to equip Operator Mods.
]]>Black Ops 4 offers a slight twist on the tried and tested multiplayer formula we've come to expect over the last few years. It's gearing towards the hero shooter crowd, featuring a set of distinct Specialists each with their own set of abilities and equipment. Each Black Ops 4 Specialist plays noticably different, with some suited to close-range engagements and others opting for a more gadget-based combat style. In this Black Ops 4 Specialists Guide, we'll detail each of the ten specialists you can choose from in CoD Black Ops 4. We'll outline their abilities, equipment, and weapons, and then look at the missions that will be associated with each Specialist.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
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