Tag Archives: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 gets microtransactions

Dramatic reenactment: “Eighth game in as many years?” “Yep.” Offer pre-orders for the season pass?” “Already printing the posters.” “Change zombies mode?” “We added a bus.” “Damn. What else could we do to make gamers irrationally angry?” “Well, there’s one thing we’ve yet to try…” Call of Duty: Black Ops …

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Black Ops 2 gets native Twitch broadcasting

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is the latest game service to debut built-in Twitch steaming support, meaning players will no longer need to leave their games to broadcast them online. Twitch announced the livestreaming integration hit Xbox 360 today with PC and PlayStation 3 support coming soon, though no …

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Bad habits we developed in video games

Virtual life lessons You know what happens when you assume: You get a lot more game overs and wasted inventory space. We dont think were being unreasonable, but games continue to punish us for trying to apply the lessons learned in one game to an entire series or genre. No …

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Black Ops 2 release date teased by retailer flier?

For a game about secret men secretly doing secret things in secrecy, Call of Duty: Black Ops is pretty bad at keeping its own business hush-hush. First Activision registers blackops2.com, likely continuing Treyarch’s (opens in new tab) review of 1970s face-shooting realpolitik; and now a retail flier surfaces (opens in …

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