Playing old Call of Duty Zombies maps in gloriously high-res new detail will come with a premium price. An Activision press release confirmed some additional details about the Zombies Chronicles DLC coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (opens in new tab), including the eight featured stages and one …
Read More »Black Ops 3 Awakening DLC maps mix pirates, zombies, and a heli-carrier
There has been an awakening. Have you felt it? No, not that awakening (opens in new tab), this one: Awakening, a DLC pack that will bring five maps to Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (opens in new tab) on February 2. Just in time for all the lucky boys, …
Read More »Black Ops 3 Twitter stunt causes outrage, gets apology
Call of Duty’s attempt to merge the futuristic fiction of its latest game, Black Ops 3, with rapid-fire Twitter marketing (opens in new tab) has met with some criticism – enough to warrant an apology from the game’s campaign director, Jason Blundell. “I personally am very sorry for anyone who …
Read More »So, how do you make the perfect Call of Duty multiplayer map?
COD is a beautiful mixture of science and art, a game that modestly hides incredibly smart design behind the ‘big, brash shooter’ badge it wears with pride to make players – old and new – feel included and excited about each iteration. There’s a hell of a lot of effort …
Read More »This Black Ops 3 movement tutorial makes Advanced Warfare look slow
All the cybernetic boosting, sliding, and dashing antics of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (opens in new tab) might seem a little passe, since Advanced Warfare (opens in new tab) did the whole thing with high-tech exoskeletons last year. But if you watch the combat movement tutorial below, it …
Read More »Black Ops 3s improved matchmaking includes a Safe House for friends to hang out in
When it comes to the multiplayer and co-operative elements of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, developer Treyarch is aiming to do more than add a more acrobatic sense of navigation – the Californian studio wants to completely change the way it presents matchmaking and party interaction. In the latest …
Read More »Black Ops 3s boss explains why COD needs a three year dev cycle now
With most of the studios on the CoD roster working on two-year cycles, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 developer Treyarch is breaking the mould by giving the latest instalment an additional year of development. In the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine, studio head Mark Lamia reveals the longer …
Read More »Black Ops 3s robot army sound a lot like Terminators
You might have seen the robots in Black Ops 3’s initial reveal (opens in new tab) and thought they looked a bit like Terminators, and you’d be right, with Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia explaining more about how the tin army works. Kill-bots, unsurprisingly, have completely different tactics on the …
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