Above: Find out how this happened
See that? That’s the body of a Call of Duty: Black Ops player who has been crushed by a falling care package on the Villa map. Check out this crazy kill video and find out how it all happened…
So many puns. Oh God, there are so many puns to make. Be strong, Dave. Think not of "Brown Ops" or "Cack Ops", and certainly do not construct any sentence that makes use of the word "streak". This story is a grim cavalcade of dubious comedy already.
Basically, adult diapers have been found on Amazon.com. And they've been found to be frequently bought with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Because it seems some gamers just refuse to take a break for anything. Even basic human dignity. Don't tell the BBC.
It set the record for the most money ever raked in for an entertainment launch in US history. It set a new first week videogame sales record. And now CoD: Black Ops is already climbing up the chart of the highest-selling games of all time...
Anyone who says the Call of Duty franchise is one big cash cow is right on the money (hah!). The latest entry in the series has become the quickest to reach a milestone most game publishers only ever dream about - $1 billion in sales revenue...
Call of Duty: Blacks Ops was released more than two months ago, and sold $1 billion in copies in just one week. However, its massive sales are apparently in spite of a bevy of alleged bugs, glitches, and online gaming hacks, especially on PS3 and PC. Activision has said continuously that it's working to fix everything, but now a large consumer group is saying that the publisher's efforts aren't good enough...
An update to the PS3 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops was supposed to provide some relief to players who have experienced glitches, cheating, and other headaches. But the update appears to have created another problem. A more lol-worthy problem...
The internet is a cold, cruel den of whiners, malcontents, grammar police and - worstliest of all - entitled gamers who give forum frontline guys like Josh Olin, Treyarch's community manager, a hard time. But hey, it's just words, right? Not so for Olin, who recently suggested that it's these irate gamers who are grinding the industry's creativity to a halt (as illustrated by what is possibly the best stock photo we've ever found).
“As a community manager who lives in the media or social media world every day, I think the social culture of video games is moving in a more negative direction as technology and social media continues to grow,” said Olin in an interview with NowGamer, explaining that, “Too many developers who try new things are getting burned by 'pundits' and angry entitled fans who look to be contrarian, sometimes simply for the sake of being contrarian.”
This is the beauty of Xbox Live's marketplace for small, independently published titles - where else would a game that involves slinging babies out between a pregnant mom's legs be able to rise to the top of the charts?
Digital distribution may never win over the hardcore brick and mortar loyalists, but according to the videogame analyst firm Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment, LLC (FADE), it's paying off huge for Valve's online PC gaming service, Steam, which ended its 2010 year with roughly $1 billion dollars in estimated revenues...
After all of the bugs and glitches that have plagued Call of Duty: Black Ops, many are asking why Treyarch didn't ensure the game was bug-free before shipping it to retailers. The company's response: that's not possible...
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