Activision's booth yesterday played host to more than just sweaty gamers and DJ Hero videos: Call of Duty 4-developer Infinity Ward was rewarded with a Guinness World Record for "the most popular online console game" citing the fact that it's been played "been played by over 13 million gamers on Xbox Live since its launch in November 2007." So, you mean to tell us that CoD4 took that honor without even including the PlayStation Network community? Dayum! Pic of that certificate after the break. Congrats, IW!
BeefJack writes: "With Modern Warfare 2 picking up all the headlines, the game that started all this modern Call of Duty-ness has not been forgotten.
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Target is featuring a few big Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 games at a low $37 price tag. The games on sale include:
AusGamers reports the rural Victorian town of Ballarat in Australia, will be hosting a gaming event to highlight potential career paths in gaming, as well as showcasing the fun and magnitude of games through two eSports events for Call of Duty 4 and Demigod.
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According to the top 100 game developers, is Treyarch 7th of the world and Infinity Ward 8th. The calculation behind these positions are 1. Sales, 2. Critical Success and 3. Industry Standing. This is how the top 10 looks like:
That's right. It seems that Activision have set up deals for "Call of Duty: The Movie", the movie for the very popular video game.
WTFIWWP: A man was charged with first-degree murder Sunday after shooting his acquaintance in his head wile playing an X-Box game in a Chicago Lawn apartment building three weeks ago.
TVGB: "The cheater killing patch for the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare we learned about a few days ago has now gone live on LIVE."
TVGB: "Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling has twittered that Call of Duty 4 on the Xbox 360 will be getting a patch soon that will eliminate cheaters. It's going through certification now and should be available soon."
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These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade and Community Games, full versions purchased during the week.
30% of Call of Duty 4 players never touched the single-player element of the game, according to Infinity Ward.
OMM's Top 5 Console Online Multiplayer Shooters:
PlayStation Gamer UK Writes: "Theres no two way's about it, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has been quite possibly the biggest FPS shooter of this generation so far and even today years after its release most of us are still playing it and activision will be re-releasing the title again in the near future."
Call of Duty 4 has racked up 11 million unique players since launch on Xbox Live, and over 4 million on PlayStation Network, according to Infinity Ward's Rob Bowling.
It only took me two hours to come to the conclusion that Call of Duty 4 was finally trumped as king. My decision based upon writing this article fell only on the reason that I want every FPS fan to play this game. If you do not have a Playstation 3, and you love FPS, now is the best time to go ahead and pick one up, along with a copy of Killzone 2.
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