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Rumour: Modern Warfare Special Ops to feature open world, over 80 missions
The fan favourite co-op mode from Modern Warfare 2 and 3 seems to be back with all kinds of bells and whistles to keep players involved.
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled still feels fresh and funky in these new gameplay videos
Twenty years later, and Crash Team Racing is back on the trac, ready to kick some marsupial butt and leave the competition in its dust. Alessandro recently had a chance to take the game for a few laps, and believe it or not…He’s actually good at this game.
Rumour – Development on Call of Duty 2020 is in a mess, with Treyarch taking over from Sledgehammer
While this year’s incarnation see’s Infinite Warfare’s Infinity Ward (try saying that five times fast without tying your tongue in a Gordian knot) step up to the plate for a rumoured new Modern Warfare 4, next year’s chapter in the franchise will see Sledgehammer back in action. Or maybe not.
Fan favourites FaZe lose out in Call of Duty World League thanks to a known glitch
The glitch, which is apparently known to the community and developers, caused the fan favourites to lose to Luminosity Gaming This last weekend the prestigious Call of Duty World League started nearing it’s conclusion, yet perhaps the tensest moment experienced during the elimination bracket wasn’t a heated game between rivals or a stand-out solo team kill, but rather the upset …
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice beats difficult retail boss, sells 2 million copies in 10 days
Sekiro might be one tough game, but that hasn’t stopped it from selling rather well, especially for a game in its niche. According to publisher Activision, the game has sold more than 2 million copies across PC, PS4 and Xbox One worldwide within its first 10 days on sale.
20 years later, here are 20 things you might not have known about Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
In August 1999, Activision and Neversoft released Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and a genre went mainstream. While THPS may not have been the first skateboarding game on the market, it was still the very best that a burgeoning genre could offer.
Black Ops 4’s Blackout gets new map, goes free to play for April
I liked Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s battle royale mode Blackout when I played it. That was, of course, before the modes went into rotation. Then Apex Legends came along, making other battle royale games seem positively archaic by comparison. At this point though, I’m thoroughly over games of its ilk – but if you’ve had enough for Fortnite and Apex and want to try something else, Activision has announced that Blackout is going free-to-play for the entirety of April.
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