Good news this afternoon for PS3 CoD gamers, you will not be in the dark for much longer. After the CoD content seasons kicked off last week, the Sony community was once again put on the waiting list for the new maps Piazza and Liberation.
Details this afternoon have emerged regarding title update number 8 on Modern Warfare 3. Minor issues and tweaks have been made concerning lag compensation, host advantage, and faster youtube uploads.
Now this is quite the fail, Modern Warfare 3 player HotShot__01 was landed with a hefty 14-year ban for boosting. If you don’t know, boosting is deliberate exploitation of game mechanics to level up at a much faster rate than you are normally expected to. The most common form is people willingly letting you kill them. This is considered an exploit and a bannable offense.
It is already known that Skyrim sold a whopping 3.5 Million copies in its first two days, which may not seem like much for a AAA title, but for an RPG of this sort that is mighty impressive. So, it may be no wonder that after so many people were playing it while logged in to the Xbox Live service last week. Below is the full list of the top 20 games played by Xbox Live users. Skyrim ranks third and Battlefield 3 follows right behind in fourth.
A whole ago, Activision and Treyarch released an iOS game called Call of Duty: World at War zombies which did so well they announced that tomorrow (December 1st) you can get your hands on their next installment with Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies.
“Western games don’t sell in Japan.” “Japanese people hate first person shooters.” These are sentiments you hear a lot from people within the gaming industry and press, and for the last few years, all the data suggested these statements were true. It’s no secret that Western developed games aren’t very popular in Japan; the Xbox 360 has only barely sold a million systems in the country, which remains firmly devoted to Sony and Nintendo, and games like Halo, Fallout, and GTA, which manage to break records everywhere else in the world, only have a niche following in the Far East. While Western games have never caught on in Japan, first person shooters in particular have traditionally been despised by Japanese gamers, but that appears to be changing.
Many great games were released this month, and also some great patches, Modern Warfare 3 being no exception. Robert Bowling talked about what we can expect from Modern Warfare 3′s latest upcoming patch.
Call of Duty Elite, Activision’s premium pay-to-use service that offers extensive options to gamers willing to throw even more dollars at the game, is in its death throes as developers struggle to provide the service to PCs. Already collapsing under the weight of its own base of subscribers for consoles, the PC offering is being put on the shelf while Activision struggles to fix what is already live.
Someone looting through the game files of Modern Warfare 3 was able to find a few .iwi files that referred to some maps in previous Call of Duty games. The .iwi file extension is an image type that’s used by Call of Duty’s engine, and is a converted DDS image. Image from MP1st after the jump.
As I reported, Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 have a lot of troll reviews from Battlefield fanboys who are making the community look bad and vice versa. However, Glen Schofield of Sledgehammer Games, wrote on his twitter to ask fans to help the score.
I sat down and played through the whole Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 campaign (because it looks like three, maybe four other people did as well and I kind of wanted to even the playing field) in five and a half hours. The following are my thoughts on the campaign in its entirety.
On Saturday, a truck in Créteil, France carrying over 6,000 copies of Modern Warfare 3 was stolen by two masked people. As French news outlets Ultimate PS3 and TFI reported, the truck crashed into a car, and as the truck driver exited to check on the driver of the car, the two masked men threw tear gas and then immediately took off with the games. The total shipment was estimated to be worth approx. 400,000 euros ($551,000 USD).
So, if you happen to be in France and see some guys selling copies of the game for real cheap you should probably try to see if you can get some type of reward from the police and then report them. Otherwise, you can only hope that your pre-order was not effected! If you do find yourself with an early copy be warned, as Activision has stressed that anyone playing the game early could find their accounts banned without notice.
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