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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Call of Duty: Black Ops II is biggest launch of the year, tops UK chart
The only other new entries in this week’s Top 20 are The Sims 3: Seasons, which debuts at number 9, and Kinect Disneyland Adventures at number 17. Beyond the Top 20, Sony’s first Move/Eye-based Wonderbook title, Book of Spells, materialises at number 25, and Codemasters’ cartoony kart racer F1 Race …
Read More »Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 campaign choices guide
During the Black Ops II campaign you are able to make specific actions that will have a reaction later on in the game. The choices that you can make are not always explicitly mentioned and it can be quite interesting to see how your actions affect the game later on, …
Read More »Call of Duty: Black Ops II features optional install for texture pack
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (opens in new tab) will feature an optional texture pack install for PS3 owners. Why? Because CoD fans are playing their favourite game so much, they’re wearing out their Blu-Ray drives. According to a post on CoD’s official community forum (opens in new tab), …
Read More »Call of Duty Black Ops 2 – New Shoutcasting feature and livestreaming details
Treyarch is making an effort to cater to Call of Duty: Black Ops II (opens in new tab)’s eSports side with the inclusion of a brand new spectator mode called, Shoutcasting. For those unfamiliar with eSports, shoutcasters are the commentators that call the play-by-play of multiplayer game matches. So, with …
Read More »New Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 clue – Ancient Romans and extraterrestrial setting confirmed via intensive detective work
Another day, another Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 teaser drop. And going off the dates on the remaining teasers on callofduty.com, it looks like that’s quite literally going to be the case from now until the game’s ‘official’ reveal on May the 1st. Well fear not. You don’t have …
Read More »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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