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Find Makarov sequel premieres at Call of Duty XP
Activision’s two-day Call of Duty event, Call of Duty XP, is just about coming to a close in Los Angeles. During the two-day festival celebrating COD, the publisher unveiled a sequel to the awesome Find Makarov fan film.
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish was created by We Can Pretend, the same production team behind the first fan film. Although, now that they have Activision’s blessing, it’s not really a fan film anymore, is it? Three other companies assisted on the Soap-centered tale: Meteoric, The Junction VFX, and Stealing Time.
You can check it out above and hopefully we’ll get more of these videos as part of Activision’s new Call of Duty Elite TV initiative.
Call of Duty Elite Premium features detailed
Call of Duty XP is in full swing and fans are being treated to a host of unique experiences such as the chance to run through Modern Warfare 2‘s “The Pit” training course and play paintball in a replica of the “Scrapyard” map. But accompanying these activities is some fresh Call of Duty news, like the detailed features of a premium Call of Duty Elite membership.
Should you opt to pay $49.99 a year for Elite status (or jump on the Hardened Edition of MW3, which includes a yearlong subscription to Call of Duty Elite), you’ll be able to access:
- A year’s worth of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC available monthly during the “nine-month DLC season”
- Daily competitions for in-game/real-world prizes
- 24/7 Competition calendar
- Clan Competition
- Up to 24 minutes of HD gameplay video capacity
- Call of Duty Elite TV videos including Ridley Scott’s “Friday Night Fights” and DumbDumb’s “Cocked Hammers” and “Noob Tube!”
These are just some of the premium features that were detailed at Call of Duty XP. For a full list of what the free and premium plans have to offer, as well as a comparison chart, visit CallOfDuty.com.
The Call of Duty Elite free and premium memberships will launch with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on November 8, 2011.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
New Releases: Resistance 3, Dead Island, Star Fox 64 3D, More
The calendar has turned over to September and we know what that means… the stingy Summer of games is over and the Fall release rush is finally here! This week’s new release slate blows away almost everything we’ve received in the last three months. There’s truly something for everybody:
- Sony finishes the fight with the Chimera in Resistance 3 (PS3).
- Zombies invade a tropical paradise in the super-hyped Dead Island (PC, PS3, Xbox 360).
- Star Fox 64 3D, one of the greatest space shooters of all time, comes to the 3DS.
- The Wheelman returns for another getaway in Driver: San Francisco (PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360).
- Those wacky guys at NIS America return to the wacky world of Disgaea in Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten (PS3)
- Sega’s non-conventional Kinect title Rise of Nightmares slices and dices store shelves.
- And finally, THQ twists the Warhammer license into an action shooter with Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (PC, PS3, Xbox 360).
Check out the full list of the rest of this week’s new releases after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, DS, News, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
Tagged Dead Island, Resistance 3, Star Fox 64 3D
Check out this Call of Duty XP 2011 Walkthrough with Robert Bowling
Infinity Ward is going all out to make the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 the biggest ever for the franchise. For those lucky few getting a hands-on look at the game at the Call of Duty XP event, you will get to enjoy some awesome perks. If the CoD XP event is just beyond your grasp, check out this behind the scenes look at all the mayhen with Infinity Ward Community Manager Robert Bowling.
In addition to being able to play in a MW3 multiplayer tournament, Bowling walks his audience through several life-size recreations of classic Modern Warfare 2 levels. You can even shoot your way through them… with a paintball gun, of course. I don’t think it would be wise to give a bunch of twitchy FPS enthusiasts real guns while they’re on their favorite killing field. Stepping onto the recreated Burger Town, The Pit (where you can race for the best time), and the Scrapyard (where teams will go at it flinging bits of paint at one another), someone is sure to scream “BOOM. HEADSHOT!”
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Tagged Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Launch trailer for Driver: San Francisco has more awesome chase scenes
My prayers to the French cinematic god Luc Besson have been answered. OK… maybe they haven’t, but Ubisoft is still happy to appease my desperate need to be The Transporter. Driver: San Francisco is out today in the UK! We here in the states still have to wait a few days, sadly. Check out this pulse-pounding launch trailer to see if you want to get in on the action.
Four minutes of multiplayer in latest CoD Modern Warfare 3 trailer
No reason to beat around the bush. Here’s the latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 gameplay trailer. It features almost four full minutes of multiplayer action. Check it out.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will be released for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on November 8. DS and Wii versions are also in the works.
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Tagged Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty “action-adventure” game officially canceled
We’ve been expecting the hammer to fall since the beginning of the year, but the team at Sledgehammer Games has finally revealed the fate of the Call of Duty “action-adventure” game: it’s been canceled.
Speaking to GameSpot, Sledgehammer co-founders Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield said their team put about six months worth of work into the game before Activision pulled the plug. And, as we all know, after that plug hit the ground, Sledgehammer was invited to help Infinity Ward put the finising touches on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
“We had a prototype together that was pretty compelling, and it looked really good,” Condrey said. “[But], the opportunity to work on the biggest thing in the industry with Infinity Ward, that’s demonstrated that they know how to do exceptional software, was just an opportunity we couldn’t [pass up].”
Activision has never been one to pass up a big payday, so presumably they’ll revisit the Call of Duty spinoff idea someday.
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Tagged Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
First Aliens: Colonial Marines trailer nukes us from orbit
Acid Blood? Check.
Power Loaders? Check.
Moonmen All Over the Place? Check.
Something Getting Nuked From Orbit? Check!
Yup, it’s an Aliens game all right. It may be hard to believe, but this is the first full-length trailer for Gearbox’s Aliens: Colonial Marines. The long-in-development shooter is finally nearing completion (it’s currently scheduled for a Spring 2012 release) and it’s looking as sharp as a knife flying between Bishop’s fingers.
All we need now is for someone to scream “Game over, man! Game over!”
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Tagged Aliens: Colonial Marines