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Previews Roundup (Cake Mania)

14/03/2007

Sometimes we come upon a massive amount of information for a few of the more well-known games (looking at you Stranglehold ), while more often than not we receive very little info on smaller titles. Today, we present to you a smattering of DS previews so you know what to look forward to in the coming months. Hamtaro Ham Ham Challenge Out: March 15 (Japan) Writing out the full Japanese title would fill this entire column, but since it has the word atsumare in it, which means “gather ...

The game credit sequences you'll actually enjoy (Call of Duty 4)

15/01/2008

15th Jan, 2007 The end credits of a game are usually by far the worst part. We're not talking about the game's ending here. Those can be spectacular. No, what we mean is the actual credits themselves. Not only are they the visual death toll of another game over, but all they offer you in consolation is the boring visage of a lot of names scrolling up the screen. And these days it's a lot of names. Back in the 8-bit home computer days we usually got away with one guy's signature on a title ...

Chinatown: Videogames versus reality (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

17/03/2009

Thanks to two films - Chinatown and Blade Runner - every action game is practically required to have a Chinatown level. It’s not the Chinatown you see in real-life - a thriving community and marketplace established over a unique hybrid of Western and Chinese culture – no, it’s all neon signs and gangsters, dragon statues and tile roofs. A lot of tile roofs. And it's usually in the future or ...

The 10 manliest men in videogame history (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

30/01/2009

Spoiler alert! The following video and article contain explicit discussion of critical plot points from several popular games. Watch and read at your own risk. ...

9 ways to improve CoD: Modern Warfare (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

16/01/2009

CoD 4 impossible to improve upon? We're not so sure. Here's what we want in Infinity Ward's new one. ...

The Top 7... Game-Changing Cheats (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

15/09/2008

Invincibility is nice. Infinite ammo and armor are pretty useful, too. Level skipping is a lazy gamer's dream come true...

Cheating, though, can be so much more! Why ask for an extra life when the right code will give you an entire army, or the power of a god? Why settle for a shortcut when hidden humor, violence, sex and evil are waiting to be discovered? ...

Never lose at COD4 Free for All again! (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

22/07/2008

Campers lose. Campers are losers. Campers should be shot. Snipers are babies. Snipers aren’t good enough to mix it up with the big boys. Snipers should be shot. Running and gunning – sprinting around, living by your wits, relying on your reactions and turning, moving, gliding, weaving and doubling back - is the way a gentleman wins. ...

Call of Duty 4: Fastest airstrike ever (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

7/05/2008

Want to call in air support in under 10 seconds? Want to level up your character in the least amount of time? You don’t need to bother with lame aim bots that’ll get you banned from your favorite servers. In fact, you don’t even need to be that good at Call of Duty 4. Racking up ridiculous kill streaks can be easy if you’re playing under the right conditions. Head to the server “=OG= 24/7 Shipment ...

Call of Duty 4: DownloadRadar (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

14/04/2008

A lot of excellent shooters from last year sit in our game libraries and hard drives waiting to be played again. But lately, we find ourselves coming back to Call of Duty 4 and we know we’re not the only ones. Finding active servers with settings you like is rarely a problem. But an added bonus to Call of Duty 4’s popularity is the wealth of awesomely original fan-made mods and maps.

Click on to the next page for tons of ...

Five in-game deaths that actually made us sad (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

4/04/2008

More and more games seem to be plucking our heart strings to great affect and eliciting a genuine sense of woe amongst players. Here we look at five recent videogame deaths that have made us appropriately gloomy for all the right reasons and ponder how they succeeded in stoking the cold blue flames of our sadness. ...

Get Call of Duty to play better and faster (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

5/03/2008

The move away from CoD’s WWII origins was met with much scepticism. Happily, fears proved unfounded, and the developers’ efforts were rewarded with the best-selling game this Christmas, shifting half a million copies in December alone on various formats. Still, no one’s perfect, and the devs should probably stay in their military issue flak jackets while we ponder some of the more common technical issues you’ve had with ...

Call of Duty 4 (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

24/01/2008

We know the temptation all too well. Youre trotting through a Call of Duty 4 multiplayer map, you see a bit of cover, and think, “I bet I could get behind that and punk the next fool who runs through here.” But before you commit to that hidey-hole, think twice - you can likely be flanked, grenaded, or otherwise humiliated in what should have been your moment of glory. To avoid this fate, check out our whimsical video on Call of Duty 4s best and worst camping spots. ...

How to save Call of Duty 5 from crapness (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

15/01/2008

January 15, 2008 Rumour has it that the next game in the awesome Call of Duty series will be taking a step backwards, returning to the over-used World War II setting after its glorious foray into contemporary conflict with the 10/10-rated Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It seems an illogical step, but when you consider that CoD3's developer Treyarch is back in the saddle as opposed to Infinity Ward, and that a Pacific location has been hinted at, it all starts to sound more and more ...

Will the Activision/Vivendi merger ruin my games? (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

3/12/2007

3rd Dec, 2007 The industry is still shaking from the earthquake announcement of Vivendi and Activision's merger today, but gamers themselves are going to have a lot of questions too. Both companies hold their fair share of much-loved franchises, several of which have extremely radid fanbases, so worry is going to be high as to what the deal is really going to mean. It seems accepted human 'wisdom' that any change is a change for the worse, and in gaming any alteration in the corporate status ...

Call of Duty 4 multiplayer sniper spots exposed (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

27/11/2007

Nov 27, 2007 Weve been playing Call of Duty 4s multiplayer mode long enough to know every map inside out. But even this encyclopaedic knowledge doesnt stop us from getting hit between the eyes when were least expecting it. And its not because were running around like headless chickens, but rather that some gamers have found ways to get to hidden locations in certain maps. Having discovered the location of five of these sniper spots, by trawling YouTube, we thought it was only fair to share ...

Five reasons why COD4 will make you soil yourself (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

9/11/2007

Nov 9, 2007 Modern Warfare has broken out! Huzzah! No, we're not consequence-dismissing warmongers, just excited gamers looking for a (decidedly non-lethal) way to vicariously live out our our battlefield fantasies. Because Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is on sale, and it's amazing. But wait, recruit, because - as you might have seen - this latest Call of Duty conflict is so intense it'll make flower-gathering, Pinata-breeding gentle gamers soil themselves in utter shell-shocked terror. ...

Call of Duty 4: Cheats Unlocked (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

7/11/2007

Halo has skulls. Gears has cogs. Grand Theft Auto has packages. But this year's most rewarding collectible hunt isn't in any of those games... it's in Call of Duty 4. Scattered throughout the shooter are 30 hidden laptops, capable of unlocking some of the most useful - and bizarre - cheats we've ever encountered. Ranging from infinite ammo to super powered grenades to a "silent 1920s movie" filter (seriously!) these things can transform the game until it's nearly unrecognizable. Want to see ...

Call of Duty 4 - Master the Multiplayer (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

6/11/2007

Nov 6, 2007 One shot. Two if you're lucky. In Call of Duty 4's brutally realistic take on multiplayer, that's all your enemies need to drop your sorry corpse to the ground. Unlike the cartoony competition, you can't throw down a bubble shield or zip away on a shiny alien moped. So how do you secure the advantage when all you have are your guns and your wits? Location, location, location. Being in the right place at the right time - in other words, being the one to shoot that first lethal ...

Call of Duty 4 - interview (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

18/06/2007

During our first look at Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare we got chance to sit down with the developer's president Grant Collier. In the middle of a lengthy global press tour, Collier looked absolutely exhausted, but it's amazing what some caffeine can do. You can read our impressions of Call of Duty 4 right here, and below is the result of our chat with Grant Collier. Are you missing World War II? Grant Collier: I'm so sad that I can't work on World War II anymore; it just ...

Technically, that's not correct... (Call Of Duty: World at War)

25/08/2009

Game developers are wrong about 90% of everything 83% of the time. I know, because I’m a super-expert on facts. My dad invented facts. So hold on to your sugary carbonated bevorage, uncross your legs and take your left hand off your face, because I'm about to drop a straight-up 10-megaton truth bomb on this bitch. All the subjective bullshit and “artistic license” that game designers cower behind is polluting the hard facts... ...