Treyarch, developers of last year’s Call of Duty have been lambasted – primarily by PC and PS3 users – for shipping a game riddled with bugs, that sometimes results in Black Ops multiplayer been an unplayable mess. Of course, it’s a regrettable thing that Treyarch wishes could have been avoided; but this is the real world and not a magical …
Xbox’s Major Nelson has released lists of the most popular games on Xbox Live – boxed retail, XBLA and Indie titles. Their place in the charts is calculated using some sort of odd numerical alchemy based on their first week of availability, so it doesn’t take slow burning hits in to account. It also only considers games released in 2010, …
Many gamers feel that the medium of video games is getting stale; far too many developers are too happy to churn out sequel after sequel, with barely any real creative change. Pretty much all of the “big†games this year are sequels; Dead Space 2, Killzone 3, Marvel vs Capcom 3, Uncharted 3, Mass Effect 3, Gears of War 3 …
Treyarch and Activision have been trawling through the stats from all those late night Black Ops games you’ve been playing and have come up with an interesting inforgaphic describing all the key parts. For example, which is the most successful killstreak reward to use? I would possibly have guessed Attack Dogs and I would have been completely and utterly wrong. …
PS3 (and Pc gamers) feeling disenfranchised by poor support of the latest Call of Duty on their preferred platforms may have cause for their consternation. Though many of the PS3 version’s issues have been fixed with the new 1.06 patch, it has highlighted some seemingly sloppy copy/paste coding on the part of developers Treyarch. According to user tben on the …
Perhaps this should have been kept for tomorrow’s Flamebait Friday Debate, because the likelihood of this sparking a fanboy tirade is remarkable. According to some people, Call of Duty: Black Ops is an inferior product on the PlayStation 3. This comes in the wake of Digital Foundry’s in depth comparison article on the differences between the Xbox 360 version and …
This post is a double-whammy of controversy as there are two separate stories dealing with people who are unhappy with Activision and their “doubly perverse†military shooter. What would a Call of Duty release be without a healthy dose of hysteria? In Cuba, a state-owned website is accusing Treyarch’s game of being perverse. In Canada, a Vietnam War veteran is …
The game hasn’t even been out for an entire day yet and already we are getting reports of glitches and hacks in Black Ops. I even had some tosser submit a news story this morning trying to get people to pay them for a auto-aim hack. Thankfully though the hacks and glitches appear to be really minor at the moment …
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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