Today the first details on Call of Duty 5 were announced. COD5 is currently being developed by Treyarch, they guys who made COD3. The game will return to World War II and, unlike the previous 4, will put gamers in the Pacific Theater.
The setting isn’t the only new feature, COD5 will be the first in the series to allow co-op. Multiplayer is said to feature vehicles and squad based combat. Hopefully it won’t just be a Battlefield clone.COD5 is being developed for the Xbox 360, PS3, PC and Wii.
The Wii has it’s own separate development team and is said to make use of the Wii Zapper.All in all, I’m excited for this game. Hopefully the guys are Treyarch are up to the challenge. They have some pretty big shoes to fill after COD4. Read: Call of Duty 5 To Feature Co-Op, Eye Ball Burning.
Call of Duty 4 is included in the Digital Games program, as part of the Our Olympic Organizing Committee’s welcome events hosted by the China Government. Visit the Digital Games site for more information.
Today, Activision announced that Call of Duty 4’s Variety Map Pack has was downloaded one million times in nine days, setting a new record for Xbox Live Marketplace.
According to Activision, in those nine days, there were more than 30 million games sessions, totaling 32 million hours of gameplay.
What I take from this article is that, if you have a Xbox 360 and Xbox live, pick up Call of Duty 4. You are guaranteed a fantastic multiplayer experience with plenty of people to frag.
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Today, Infinity Ward announced that the PS3 version of Call of Duty 4 will finally be getting the Variety Map Pack.
Arriving Thursday, April 24 in North American and May 1 in Europe, the Variety Map Pack will include the same four maps as the Xbox 360 map pack; “Creek,” “Broadcast,” “Chinatown” and “Killhouse.”
To celebrate the release of the maps, Infinity Ward will be hosting a Double XP weekend, starting at 12:01 AM PDT on Friday, April 25 and lasting until 11:59 PM PDT on Sunday, April 27.
Unfortunately for PC gamers, there is still no word as to when the maps will be heading your way.
Read: CoD4 PS3 DLC DAT(ed).
Just a reminder: The Call of Duty 4 Map Pack is out now. The Variety Map Pack features four new maps: Creek, Broadcast, Chinatown and Killhouse. It’s not a bad deal for only 800 Microsoft Points ($10). So what are you waiting for? Get to fragging!
Today it was announced that a Call of Duty 4 “variety map pack” will arrive on April 3.
Currently only announced for Xbox 360, the map pack will cost you 800 Microsoft Points ($10) and includes four new maps: Creek, Broadcast, Chinatown and Killhouse.
Creek will feature a bombed out village as an arena. Broadcast has gamers fight though an enemy communications building with combat occurring in tight corridors and open parking lots. Chinatown will have players fighting in a dimly lit downtown arena. Kill house takes players to a training warehouse.
Plan on picking this up? Drop us a comment letting us know if you are getting these maps or not.
Read: Call of Duty 4 map pack hits Xbox Live on April 3 for 800 MS points.
A little while ago, I posted a news item about a major Call of Duty 4 patch on Xbox 360. Today is the day PlayStation 3 owners can get up to date.
The patch will include the same changes as the Xbox 360 patch including “increased accuracy for snipers, the Kill Cam now shows deaths from claymores, airstrikes and grenades, there are new spawn points on each map, a new quick mute feature and a bunch of under the hood tweaks.”
Read: Call of Duty 4 patch now available for PS3.
Publishers released fewer “M for Mature” games in 2007; but the M-rated games that were released generated more money than in previous years.
From ShackNews:
An examination of data provided by the sales tracking firm NPD reveals that the number of released titles stamped with an M for Mature rating fell 14% in 2007 versus the previous year. Revenue from those sales, meanwhile, jumped from $800 million in 2006 to $1.4 billion in 2007. Continued…
Last week, we asked GGL members what games they want to see at the Digital Games in Shanghai this summer. The response was overwhelming, so I decided to check out the suggested games and see which ones the GGL community really wants.
As of last Friday, with 336 comments, the winner by a slender margin was Call of Duty 4, which just eked past StarCraft to take the top spot.
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ClanBase’s Kincaid submitted this report.
Personal choice and civil liberties for gamers took another bashing as China’s Ministry of Culture published details of ten games it deems “suitable” for minors.
In an effort to “purify the ‘on-line environment,” ten games have been selected by the ministry’s on-line games censorship committee, that are deemed healthy and can “enhance intelligence.” The games are all domestic products so you won’t see the likes of World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike or Call of Duty on the list.
Instead they are made up of five role playing games, four recreational/chess games and one educational game.
This isn’t the first time though - in 2005 People’s Daily Online published an article relating to the Culture Minister’s 15 clean online games. Another list was collated again in January 2006. Continued…
For those of you haven’t heard, a student at Frosburg State University, was arrested for making threats over Xbox LIVE during a game of Call of Duty 4. This may sound ridiculous to most of us, but to be fair, the threats did involve shooting people at his school.
Today it was revealed that the student, Allieu Shaw, will receive two counts of disrupting a school operation, a misdemeanor charge. If convicted, Shaw could serve up to a year in prison or pay a $5,000 fine.
I hope this serves as an example for the gamers on Xbox LIVE to clean up their acts and think twice when talking trash in their next game of Call of Duty 4 or Halo 3.
Read FSU student receives misdemeanor charges after making threats on Xbox Live
If you’ve been one of the lucky few to take part in the Call of Duty 4 multiplayer beta on the Xbox 360, then I have some bad news for you: Your time with the game will end on Sept. 30. Sadly, you won’t be able to play again until the game comes to stores on Nov. 5. But, there is a tinge of good news with this announcement.
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Activision has announced that the next evolution in the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, will be released on Nov. 5 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. They have also announced that a Nintendo DS version will be available as well. But the news doesn’t stop there.
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