Season One has officially kicked off in Black Ops 6, following a major update. Apart from the new content, battle pass, weapons, maps and everything else players knew they were getting after the season goes live, it seems Call of Duty developers threw in an unexpected gift.
]]>2024 will forever be known as the year of record games industry layoffs and studio closures, but I’d argue it will be just as remembered as the year Xbox lost the plot. Every other month, Microsoft’s gaming division has what ranges from avoidable PR scandal to full-on doom-and-gloom meltdown.
]]>In a devastating turn of events for those who’ve been hoping to play Pentiment at the absolute max performance settings possible, the game currently runs at 120 FPS on PlayStation, but only 60 on Xbox, thanks to a bug that should be solved soon.
]]>It's pretty clear that the launch of Modern Warfare 3 has had more negatives associated with it than positives. As poorly received as the game has been so far, Call of Duty games always sell very well. Some, clearly, more than others.
]]>A new voice moderation tool, powered by AI, has been added to Call of Duty to protect players from “toxic or disruptive behaviour they may encounter.” This tool is said to help increase Activision’s ability to “identify and enforce against bad behaviour that has gone unreported.”
]]>Activision has anounced that Lara Croft, the iconic adventurer from the Tomb Raider series, will be joining the battle in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone Season 5 Reloaded.
]]>If you follow the discourse around Call of Duty from a certain segment of the player base, you'll no doubt have heard the cries about disbanding lobbies, which has over the years taken on a sort of mythical status that YouTubers and the most dedicated players always claim would make the experience better for everyone if it got removed.
]]>Welcome to the Best Games Ever show Episode 64: The best game you love despite itself.
]]>As promised, Call of Duty will allow players - for the first time ever - to bring forward content they own from one game into the next. In this case, anything you've unlocked or bought in Modern Warfare 2 will be available in Modern Warfare 3.
]]>Call of Duty continues to work out new ways to make the lives of cheaters miserable. The team behind the series' Ricochet Anti-Cheat has been experimenting with reducing cheaters' weapon damage significantly, making them feel delirious by creating enemies only they can see, turning real enemies invisible, and taking away their weapons.
]]>You have to feel for social media managers who now have to deal with game leaks. Before, big companies used to simply pretend they didn't happen, and only used their social media to propagate the official messages. These days, however, they're a little more willing to appear "hip"/"with it" and engage in the discourse.
]]>Activision Blizzard's efforts to detect and ban cheaters in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Warzone don't seem to be wavering. Thanks to Ricochet and advanced detection techniques, over 14,000 more accounts have been banned from the two games.
]]>If you're hoping to catch the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 reveal live, you'll need to take part in a special Warzone 2.0 event.
]]>Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone Season 5 will be rather interesting for players, as there will be new Operators joining the battle, and all are familiar faces.
]]>Activision has not said a single official word about this year's Call of Duty. The publisher previously confirmed its existence, of course, and revealed that it's going to be a full-on premium release, and not an expansion to Modern Warfare 2 as earlier reports indicated.
]]>In a surprising Sunday announcement, PlayStation has officially signed a deal with Microsoft to keep Call of Duty on the former's platform.
]]>The FTC vs Microsoft trial intended to block the latter's planned acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, has produced another nugget of privileged information. Today's find comes from a document provided by Sony that reveals just how important Call of Duty is to the PlayStation business, among many other secrets.
]]>Call of Duty made an appearance at the Summer Game Fest showcase, but not to debut the officially confirmed "premium" Call of Duty release for 2023, which is rumoured to be in development at Sledgehammer Games as a direct sequel to last year's game.
]]>A CoD player affected by the recent issues caused by Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2's Season 3 update decided to send the devs pizza asking for help.
]]>Activision may have had a good quarter overall, but it looks like the numbers for its monthly active users are slipping. The company published its Q1 2023 financial results this week, boasting about a 35% rise in revenue compared to the same period last year.
]]>Despite reports to the contrary, Activision is moving ahead with the usual plan to release a premium, "full" Call of Duty game this year. Although the publisher revealed practically zero information about the game, it did confirm that it's happening.
]]>You can play multiplayer in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 free for a limited time starting today through April 26.
]]>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer will be free this weekend, allowing anyone and everyone to try their hand at some PvP between 15 - 20 of March.
]]>Sony is pointing to Starfield as evidence that Microsoft might not be entirely trustworthy when it comes to keeping Call of Duty multiplatform.
]]>In part of its bid to acquire Activision Blizzard, Microsoft has told the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that it's "confident" Call of Duty can run on Switch.
]]>Documents submitted to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) by Sony indicate the firm is worried Microsoft could intentionally release a subpar version of Call of Duty on PlayStation should the Activision Blizzard acquisition be approved.
]]>As a new season for Call of Duty: Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2 arrives, I find myself re-living the same feelings I had with the 2019 game and its battle royale spin-off.
]]>Season 2 kicks off next week in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.0.
]]>The joint Steam player count for Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.0 has dropped to an 87,000 24-hour peak, leaving a portion of the player base concerned for the game’s future as Season 2 quickly approaches.
]]>Activision and Infinity Ward have delayed the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.
]]>Just before Christmas VG247 the prices of all the digital games and gift codes on the VG247 eShop to help you with those last minute gifts, and now to help start the new year there's a new code that will give you five per cent off all codes for games, DLCs, in-game currency, store credit, and more.
]]>Microsoft may be handed an antitrust warning from EU regulators over its bid for Activision Blizzard, according to sources speaking to Reuters.
]]>There are so many sub-genres of shooter that the best FPS games you can play right now vary wildly based on your preferences. After all, there’s no concrete formula when it comes to developing a first-person shooter: there are multiplayer battle royales, action-adventure shoot ‘em ups, and innovative takes on the genre which blend unique mechanics into the mix.
]]>Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 recently received a mid-season update, but players are reporting a range of bugs causing some problems.
]]>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard.
]]>The NPD Group has released its November 2022 report covering video game hardware, software, and accessory sales in the US.
]]>Xbox Game Pass should take a lot of credit for thrusting games back into the conversation. For both Marvel's Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy, a late arrival on Game Pass managed to (partially) salvage their reputations, and reversed player sentiment on them, too. You could even argue that Halo Infinite is in the middle of its own redemption arc right now; a year after launch, and 343 Industries' troubled shooter is starting to see some wayward player numbers return.
]]>Call of Duty has a lot of problems. Even in the last seven days, documents have been published that show the close link the series has with the US armed forces, suggesting the game is a big, military-industrial psyop designed to rescue the image of the US war machine and drive recruitment to its ranks. As if that’s not bad enough, the single-player portions of the games often whitewash US war crimes and paint other nation states as the aggressors in order to make the yoke of American imperial oppression look… well, less oppressive.
]]>So now, it looks like Microsoft is attempting to downplay the importance of the series – and the impact that it has on the Xbox ecosystem at large.
]]>The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which has been investigting Microsoft's propsed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, has published a major update to the case. The government body has been hearing from both Microsoft and Sony on whether or not this would diminish the competition in the games industry.
]]>Modern Warfare 2 is huge. Massive. The launch of Warzone 2 has attracted over 25 milion people, so there are a lot of eyes on the game's early updates. Luckily for Activision, Infinity Ward, and Raven, the first massive update has done some particularly impressive things.
]]>Activision has announced that the launch of Warzone 2 last week has been very successful. The free-to-play game, built on Modern Warfare 2's new engine, gameplay systems, and general mechanics, has attracted over 25 million players in just five days.
]]>Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 – and by extension, Modern Warfare 2 – has an excellent battle pass. One of the best I have seen over the last few years, ever since Fortnite popularised the monetisation method and we’ve seen the reward-based progression incentives proliferate across the industry. Unlike other battle passes that we’ve seen, there’s a huge amount of player control over what you unlock and when, meaning we all start getting different items at different times, and can prioritise certain items over others.
]]>Thanks to proximity chat in Warzone 2, players have started up their own in-game Uber service, carrying squads across Al Mazrah free of charge, granted they’ren ot shot on sight.
]]>Al Mazrah is the shining jewel at the centre of Warzone 2.0’s release, a massive map filled with distinct points of interest and new geographical features that mix things up in a major way. So far, we’re loving it, but what does one of the genre’s best players think?
]]>With the arrival of Season One, the launch of Warzone and DMZ, Modern Warfare 2 got some new content in the form of the Shoot House map, new weapons, operators and a new battle pass.
]]>Have you got home from work today eager to try Warzone 2.0 – the latest battle royale experiment from Call of Duty, Raven, Infinity Ward, and Activision? Have you been met with an infuriating pop-up when you've first tried to log in, telling you that you cannot play because your game client is 'waiting for datacenters'? Well, you're not the only one.
]]>Warzone 2.0 is out, which means the entire community is combing through the game, trying to figure out exactly what’s going on with all the intricacies present in this new entry. One finding has some players torn, however, as it appears you’ll not be able to unlock all the weapons just by playing the battle royale mode.
]]>Everyone is trying to poke holes in Microsoft's commitment to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation once it takes control of Activision Blizzard, and Phil Spencer is a little tired of that.
]]>There was little doubt that Modern Warfare 2 wasn't going to be October's best-selling game. Call of Duty has done so consistently for the past 15 years, even with the relatively underperforming Vanguard last year.
]]>The Lachmann-556 is an assault rifle you may have quickly levelled and thrown aside in Modern Warfare 2, but you should know it's worth a second look. This weapon can seriously perform alongside many of the more popular ARs. However, if you use our best MW2 Lachmann-556 loadout, it can even overshadow some of the more popular weapons being used right now.
]]>Modern Warfare 2 is a complex game with many moving parts, systems, mechanics and progression schemes. Players’ opinions vary on all of those, but one thing that unites everyone is their distaste for the game's user interface.
]]>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may be getting customisable kill cams with editable and messageable gifs, audio, graphics and more. This revelation comes from a licensed patent for the feature, which shows basic layout for what this could look like, and offers a glimpse of the sick in-game 420 no scope game enders on the horizon.
]]>A new battle pass has been announced for Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.0, this time with a focus on non-linear progression rather than the typical battle pass structure. What this means is, rather than a typical concrete structure for battle pass unlocks, players will be able to pick and choose what they want to work towards.
]]>Thanks to new information, we now have plenty of fresh details about the upcoming Warzone 2.0 to chew through while we wait for the free-to-play game to drop next week.
]]>As someone who loved the entirety of 2019’s Modern Warfare reboot, I’m sad to say that, against expectations, I found the MW2 campaign to be largely underwhelming. But its multiplayer – launch woes aside – is the most fun I’ve had playing Call of Duty in ages.
]]>Everyone expected Modern Warfare 2 to be a return to form for Call of Duty, both in player sentiment as well as launch revenue. Having already broken franchise records on Steam, and set a new standard for opening weekend sales, the game has achieved yet another milestone.
]]>The Kastov 762 is one of the first assault rifles you'll unlock in Modern Warfare 2, and the good news is that it's a fantastic pick. Good at most ranges, with the right attachments it can perform brilliantly no matter the situation. If you use our best MW2 Kastov 762 loadout, you'll see it at its best.
]]>Over the weekend, we learned that Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward, and publisher Activision, were made aware of some issues players had with the Vault Edition of the game. Because players that purchased the $100 version of the game were given the same unlock in-game as players with other versions of the title, Activision promised to give anyone with the premium version of the game a set of bonuses.
]]>Looks like if you bought the Vault Edition of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 you'll be getting double XP after all.
]]>The TAQ-56 is one of the starting assault rifles you'll unlock in Modern Warfare 2, and it packs more of a punch than you may expect! Great across almost all ranges, and even better when attachments are taken into account. However, if you use our best MW2 TAQ-56 loadout, you can really see it shine.
]]>Warzone 2 Season 2 is out, which means you'll want to get the best loadout equipped and ready if you want a good shot at wins in Al Mazrah and Ashika Island.
]]>One player took his frustrations with a Modern Warfare 2 ban too far this week. First reported by the folk at PCGamer, this player took themselves off to the Activision studio located in Austin, Texas, in the hopes of speaking with a real member of staff face-to-face about his issue.
]]>Every once in a while, the video game industry provides an opportunity for a damn good hustle. A chance to make some cash through legitimate, albeit unintended, means. Moose runs in World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, the party hat barons of RuneScape who trade colourful cosmetics for Scrooge McDuck levels of in-game gold, and now international Modern Warfare 2 Burger King skin sellers. For a few around the world, Activision Blizzard’s latest marketing promotion has cracked open an opportunity to make actual real-world cash, with a select through walking away with staggering profits.
]]>MW2 season 1 is nearly here, and marks the first major update coming to the first popular shooter. As the best selling entry in the series it’s still missing a good number of features that we’re desperate for. With the launch of Modern Warfare 2 season 1, some of those will be coming to the game.
]]>A real life hotel is potentially considering legal action due to it appearing in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
]]>The M4 is probably the first weapon you used in Modern Warfare 2, and you’ll be happy to hear it’s an absolute banger. Brilliant in both mid range and CQC, plus it's versatile with the help of the right attachments. However, if you use our best MW2 M4 loadout, you can really see it shine.
]]>Here's a sentence I would have never predicted writing, even about a week ago: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 fans are spending up to, and over, £30 on codes for a Burger King skin.
]]>It's no secret that Call of Duty is one of the best-selling franchises of all time. The series, at the last official count, has sold well over 425 million units – meaning it's only really outpaced by the likes of Mario, Tetris and Pokemon in the great halls of all-time video game sales.
]]>If you’ve been playing PC games for long enough, you’ll no doubt be familiar with how rare it is to see a half-decent benchmark test in a PC game. Often times, people come up with their own stress runs and report everything manually.
Plenty of PC games do include benchmarks, though seemingly just to check a box and get it out of the way – but not Modern Warfare 2.
Modern Warfare 2’s servers are now online everywhere, including on PC, and one of the few surprises PC players saw (other than the lack of a cross-play toggle) was a benchmark.
For one, it’s surprising because Infinity Ward did not communicate its existence ahead of launch, but also because Call of Duty is one of the better-optimised PC games these days, and its popularity means there’s plenty of tests out there for different system configurations.
The benchmark can be found in the Multiplayer row, which is a bit of an unusual placement for it. Scroll past all the other tiles and you’ll find it at the end of the row.
Once launched, the benchmark will run for a little over a minute, playing different effects-heavy scenarios. As it’s running, you’ll be able to track average FPS, CPU render time, as well as GPU render time and temperature.
All of that is fairly standard, but the results screen is where things get interesting.
As you can see, not only do you get a tally of the average framerate, it’s broken down by 1% and 5% lows. The summary dives even deeper, recapping all three results again while showing GPU and CPU framerate separately.
This is a fantastic way to see which of the two components is affecting your framerate the most. In my case, the game is GPU-bound, meaning I would need to upgrade my GPU to reach higher framerates.
Playing on lower resolutions will change that dynamic, and get you into CPU-bounded situations more often.
The right-side panel displays a few other useful bits of information about your system, including RAM and VRAM usage, as well as the actual render resolution for your chosen upscaling method.
Though it’s not as exhaustive as, say, the Gears 5 benchmark, it’s still pretty useful. Give it a try and share your results.
If Modern Warfare 2 is running well for you, it’s probably best to learn the fastest way to rank up and level up weapons.
]]>Modern Warfare 2 is very hot right now. All that excitement extends to the PC platform, where yearly Call of Duty releases tended to perform poorly or, in some cases, not register at all.
]]>Modern Warfare 2, as with most of the recent Call of Duty games, supports full multiplayer cross-play and cross-progression on all platforms. This allows players to party up together, and matchmake against each other.
]]>Modern Warfare 2 has officially launched worldwide across all platforms. To celebrate the launch, PlayStation revealed a set of bonuses exclusive to PS4 and PS5. Of course, we already knew about the Oni Operator pre-order bonus, but that's not the end of it.
]]>Modern Warfare 2 fast weapon levelling is likely the number one priority for the most dedicated of MW2 players now the game has launched.
]]>The one game series Modern Warfare 2 seems to be very fond of, might actually be The Last of Us. Even if you ignore the Uncharted-inspired convoy mission, and all the scavenging and stealth you get up to in the campaign, you’ll likely come to this realisation eventually once you see the first locked safe.
]]>Modern Warfare 2 launches worldwide tomorrow, or technically in a few hours in some parts of the world. The physical version of the game is available for sale at retailers, and some have already started shipping it out to customers.
]]>Back when Modern Warfare 2 was shown only to select few in the media, one particular feature of the Gunsmith was glossed over during the presentation. It showed the player adjusting the characteristics of weapon attachments, and some of those in attendance even mentioned it in their previews.
]]>We're mere hours away from the big moment Call of Duty fans have been excitedly anticipating since the Modern Warfare 2 beta wrapped up last month. To celebrate the impending launch, Infinity Ward has outlined all the high-level changes made based on beta feedback.
]]>Infinity Ward has warned excited Modern Warfare 2 players eager to jump into multiplayer as early as possible, that changing their console's region to access the game before it actually goes live where they physically are, will cause "connectivity issues."
]]>Modern Warfare 2’s campaign is full of interesting mechanics, and experimental missions, all presented using cutting-edge visuals, unappareled acoustics, and weapon animations that really do butter my biscuit.
]]>^Stay tuned for our review chat with loads and loads of gorgeous 1440p gameplay.
]]>The Call of Duty campaign seems more and more like a dying breed of game. Fewer and fewer major studios are interested in making a single-player-only shooter with a story that takes six or so hours to finish.
]]>As we get closer to the big Modern Warfare 2 launch, more mysteries are being resolved. One such unknown has been the game's PC requirements. Although the beta specs were fairly modest, we weren't sure whether they'd hold for the final version.
]]>We're just days away from the launch of Modern Warfare 2, and things are starting to fall into place. Those who pre-order the game will be able to play the single-player campaign starting tomorrow, October 20.
]]>Activision has detailed how it will use an SMS verification system as a requirement to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
]]>As we approach the launch of Modern Warfare 2, Infinity Ward and Activision have revealed several incentives to get you to play - and finish - the game's campaign. Call of Duty is clearly going all out this year to drum up enthusiasm for what's traditionally been the game's least-played mode.
]]>It seems as though Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 players will be required to connect a phone number to their Battle.net account before playing the game.
]]>This might sound like an unlikely crossover, but based on a recent leak, real life footballers might make an appearance in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
]]>A new trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been released, showing how spiffy the game looks running on PC.
]]>Infinity Ward and Activision debuted the Modern Warfare 2 gameplay launch trailer moments ago. This was a livestream-style reveal, with the trailer having just aired on Call of Duty's YouTube channel.
]]>^ Stick around after the ads for some pristine 1440p footage and a discussion about Modern Warfare 2’s place in the modern era of shooters.
]]>Modern Warfare 2 recently wrapped up what ended up being the biggest beta in Call of Duty history, so you can imagine that popularity also came with a lot of feedback from players. Though sentiments are generally positive, a few issues in particular have cropped up repeatedly.
]]>Activision has revealed that the recently concluded Modern Warfare 2 beta was the biggest of its kind for a Call of Duty game. The beta had more players, hours played, and more matches played than any other beta in series history.
]]>The Modern Warfare 2 beta kicked off its second stint last night across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. Though it's the second time PlayStation players are able to play, this is the first time PC and Xbox folks are getting access to the beta.
]]>EA CEO Andrew Wilson, who's tenure at the company has seen the Battlefield franchise settle into a slump that no one knowns if it could ever break out of, sees an opportunity in the beleaguered series claiming Call of Duty's crown.
]]>We're just a couple of days away from the second and final weekend of the Modern Warfare 2 beta. This round expands to PC and Xbox, and offers PlayStation players another chance to go hands-on with the multiplayer shooter.
]]>If you tend to follow what we can charitably dub 'the Call of Duty discourse' every year, you've likely been exposed to what appear to be the same complaints, same arguments, and same suggestions made ad nauseam. This is obviously true for the yearly Call of Duty releases, but the new Modern Warfare series has been a particularly sore spot for the most devoted fans.
]]>With the Modern Warfare 2 beta just minutes away as of this writing (for PlayStation owners, at least), we wanted to put together this guide to condense all the newly-announced mechanics, changes to movement, new perk system in one place - and remind you of everything else that remains the same from Modern Warfare 2019.
]]>Activision and Infinity Ward showed off the multiplayer portion of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 today ahead of the open beta, which kicks off tomorrow.
]]>The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 beta is already done with its first weekend. Some of us went hands-on with various bits of multiplayer gameplay; tested out the new gunplay; tinkered with weapon customisation in the revamped Gunsmith system, and even earned some rewards to use in the full game.
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