Once upon a time, in a land far away there was an evil ruler named BeelzeBobby and he ruled over all of Activisionia and it’s poor inhabitants. Amongst these inhabitants, was a tribe called Infiniddy Waard, and even though they worked so hard through all the seasons, BeelzeBobby sent his Kotickinnions to sieze all their gold, leaving them with nothing. …

Let it never be said that Activision are one to milk their popular franchises. Except that Activision really are milking their popular franchises. We’ve seen it most notably with Guitar Hero – a series so popular it spawned far too many versions leading to general public disinterest. Much the same happened with Tony Hawk – and to a lesser degree, …

[Update: I have received unconfirmed statements from people in the know that this title is in fact wrong… no new title has been provided though] It’s become common Internet knowledge that the next Call of Duty title from Treyarch is going to be set in Vietnam but apart from that the details have been a bit sketchy. Now, according to …

After the phenomenal success of the first Modern Warfare, it was generally suspected that Treyarch, one of the alternating developers of the franchise would take a page from Infinity Ward and give their game a more recent setting. Instead they opted to keep the game bound to world War 2, producing the less-than-fantastic World at War (which, being Call of …

Not content with just having two development houses – Infinity Ward and Treyarch – on call to churn out Call of Duty games, Activision have apparently signed up a third developer for the rapidly-approaching-critical-mass franchise. There’s no word on who the developer may be, although fingers are currently pointing at Sledgehammer Games, a new Activision-owned studio comprised of former Visceral …

Are you a huge fan of World at War’s Zombie modes? Do you regularly find yourself clearing out swathes of undead Nazis? You may want to hold on to that copy of Treyarch’s World War II shooter then, because according to Modern Warfare 2’s lead multiplayer designer Todd Alderman, the fan-favourite feature will not make its way to Modern Warfare …

  When it was announced, I bemoaned Treyarch’s decision to base their latest Call of Duty on World War II again instead of opting for continuing Infinity Ward’s quasi-fictional Modern Warfare setting. As somebody who’s been playing games for two decades I’ve played through a lot of World War II games, most of them shooters. If you’re like me, you’ve …

Are you sitting at the office right now desperately wondering how your Call of Duty: World at War stats are looking? Do you want a graph to show you exactly how you compare to the community average? Do you have an iPhone? More than likely you answered no to at least one of those questions but lets pretend you didn’t. …