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CoD Modern Warfare 3: More evidence for November 8th date

Posted on May 16, 2011 by John Scalzo

An anonymous retail source has delivered a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 promotional poster to IGN Australia that lends more credence to the game’s rumored release date.

The poster features the now confirmed Modern Warfare 3 cover image along with the date “08.11.11”. Before you get all excited about a surprise August 11th launch, bear in mind that the poster uses the Australian date format of Day-Month-Year, so it actually reads November 8, 11.

Which is the exact same date that Kotaku learned from its sources. So I’d say this rumor is as good as confirmed.

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New Releases: L.A. Noire, The Witcher 2, Fable III PC, More

Posted on May 14, 2011 by John Scalzo

Put on your detective hat as we go searching for clues to this this week’s new releases.

The biggest new game of the week is Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire. An ambitious story of murder and traffic violations in 1940s Los Angeles, L.A. Noire has been a long time in the making and has the makings of changing the way we look at games with its facial cues game mechanic.

To counteract the juggernaut that is L.A. Noire, two major PC games are also being released this week: CD Projekt’s RPG The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and the PC version of Peter Molyneux’s Fable III.

Check out the full list of the rest of this week’s new releases after the break. (more…)

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Modern Warfare 3 teaser continues the war in Am3rica

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Mike Gutierrez

Looks like Infinity Ward isn’t trying to hide it anymore. In addition to the tons of juicy details we got earlier today on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3‘s singleplayer and multiplayer modes, the teaser trailer above has been released for the game. It shows a large digital layout of New York city in the vintage Modern Warfare green while Stalker 1-0 and Stalker 1-1 relay communications about the Brooklyn Bridge. At the end, you can hear Vladimir Makarov say something which I seriously hope gets translated soon.

The Call of Duty YouTube channel has been remade with Modern Warfare 3 logos and a whole series of teasers is now available for your viewing pleasure.

It’s pretty ironic that another big game this year made a huge deal about taking the fight to New York (Crysis 2, anyone?). It’ll be interesting to see who pulled off the better rendition or just the better game, but I think the whole “the war comes home” theme FPS games have been taking ever since Turning Point: Fall of Liberty needs to be laid to rest. At least most devs moved away from the whole apocalyptic thing (Rage notwithstanding).

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A Game of Thrones: Genesis official site launches

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Nicole Kline

Fans of the fantasy soap opera happening in Westeros, rejoice! The official site for A Game of Thrones: Genesis has opened its doors. There’s a plethora of terrific stuff on this site, my favorite being the “Houses” section that details where each house is from, gives a description of their background, and gives details on both their “special units” and “house bonuses.” Wow. There’s also news, tons of media, a forum, a community section (which takes you into the world of the fans of the entire series and not just the game), and a shop, which just takes you to a page that says “work in progress.”

Watching the HBO miniseries but haven’t read the books yet? Fear not, hipsters – we’ve got you covered. Buy this super cheap and mega awesome miniseries tie-in cover box set for $19.78. No, seriously. Do it. Read more books, people. Or at least give the authors some money. (You should also buy this Walking Dead Compendium – you’re the same people who haven’t read the comics yet but love the show. Tsk, tsk!)

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This means war! Modern Warfare 3’s story, multiplayer, more leaked

Posted on May 13, 2011 by John Scalzo

WARNING! SPOILERS BELOW!

Do you hear that sound? It’s the sound of a dozen Activision executives crying their eyes out over the massive amount of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 information that leaked onto the Internet this morning.

Kotaku was the lucky recipient of this intel, which includes details on the game’s story, multiplayer modes & maps, concept art, and a whole lot more.

Kotaku’s sources confirm the developer triple team of Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software are hard at work on Modern Warfare 3. The three teams have come together to create a globe-hopping game that follows up directly from the end of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All of the loose story threads and the fates of every major character from the first two games will be wrapped up in MW3 along with introducing two new Delta Force operatives: “Frost” and “Sandman.”

This video is a travelogue of all the places you’ll go in Modern Warfare 3 and “how you’ll kill.” Opening with a Russian invasion of New York City, the two-minute video shows the Stock Exchange under siege, a battle on the Hudson River, a terrorist attack in London, fighting in Berlin, spelunking in Parisian sewers and the aftermath of an attack by a Somali warlord. The game’s final fight is said to take place in Dubai.

As far as multiplayer modes go, the well-loved Spec Ops mode returns in based “Mission” and “Survival” (AKA Horde) flavors.

Finally (and perhaps most importantly), Kotaku was able to nail down a release date for Modern Warfare 3: November 8, 2011.

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Daily Scoop: May 12, 2011 – Nearly the weekend

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Nicole Kline

It’s nearly the weekend, which is exciting, because I’m going to try to get as much gaming done as possible! I know it’ll be beautiful outside. I’ll open the windows, ok??? Oh, and D & D was fun last night – thanks for asking! I didn’t have a character made, so I got to be some hot, pre-made elven rogue. I was super nervous, since I hadn’t played in a really long time, but it was awesome. And now I feel like I’ve got +10 to moxy!

Today’s Amazon Deal of the Day in video games is for all of you PC gamers out there: Buy a Mionix Naos 5000 Laser Gaming Mouse, get a Mionix Sargas 360 Mouse Pad! The mouse is $64.99 down from $89.99, and the pad is $14.99, so that’s almost $40 off! If you’ve been waiting to replace that old crappy mouse, today is a good day for you.

In t-shirt news, the dudes over at Penny Arcade have two new t-shirts this month, and they’re also offering them packaged at a cheaper price with a fancy hoody! WOO! There’s the Hipster Gabe tee (also available in lady’s sizes), the Internet Dickwad Theory 2.0 tee (in lady’s sizes as well), and the Insert Coin hoodie. For $40, you can also get any four of these shirts packaged with the hoodie as well! So that’s Hipster Gabe shirt with hoodie (for dudes or girls) and Internet Dickwad Theory 2.0 shirt with hoodie (for dudes or girls). Whew. That’s a lot of new stuff! The Hipster shirt with hoodie is tempting me right now…

I was into PAX before it was a show that sold out in three weeks!

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Creative Assembly working on Alien game

Posted on May 12, 2011 by John Scalzo

They say that in space, no one can hear you scream. But on Earth, that sound you hear is the utter shock of Alien fans as Sega has revealed they’re working on another game based on the series.

The development reins for this untitled Alien game have been handed to The Creative Assembly, a team best known for the Total War series of strategy games. So is Total War: LV-426 in the works? We don’t know because, actually, Sega doesn’t want to talk about the game’s genre just yet.

Instead, the publisher and developer prefer to talk about how awesome their untitled, officially unannounced game will be. Creative Assembly’s Creative Director, Mike Simpson, told CVG that Sega told him to make an “award-winning” game. While Sega West CEO Mike Hayes said, “We want this to be a peer to the likes of Dead Space 2.”

Wow. Never let it to be said that Sega doesn’t dream big. OK, maybe the guys at Obsidian who were working on the now-canceled Alien RPG can say that.

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Rumor: CoD Modern Warfare 3 boxart revealed

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Warp Zoned Staff

Kotaku is claiming that they’ve gotten their hands on some leaked boxart for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The image has also appeared on the Electric Hydra forums.

Activision talked about the next entry in the Call of Duty series during their quarterly financial report on Monday. But aside from calling it “awesome,” company executives were extremely tightlipped about the upcoming game. As of right now, we don’t even know who’s developing the game, let alone if it’ll be a new entry in the Modern Warfare series.

Also popping up is the logo for something called Call of Duty: Elite, which may be that Beachhead-helmed online platform for Call of Duty that will “support in-game integration and bring online experiences and console play together.” You can catch this and the MW3 logo after the break.

So what do you think? Is this just an elaborate Photoshop job? A hoax? Or something else entirely? Sound off in the comments. (more…)

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