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While Activision's official reveal isn't set until May 1st, it appears the cat is finally out of the bag. This year's entry to the Call of Duty series will be Black Ops 2, a pre-order card spotted at Target reveals.
According to the promotional materials, the Treyarch-developed sequel will be available on November 13th, giving it an almost-clever release date of 11/13/12.
Call of Duty: Black Ops may be getting a sequel this year, if online retailer Amazon is to be believed. The site's French arm put up a product page for "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2," before pulling the page down. That's when things reportedly started to heat up between Activision and the French media.
A Lewisville, TX teen playing Call of Duty: Black Ops had police at his door on Monday, after a prank 911 call gave a false report of gun violence at his house. The teenage boy, whose name was withheld from reports, was playing on the Xbox 360 when a voice he didn't recognize threatened to send police to his house.
"Some dude just popped out of nowhere, and basically said he's going to hack me, he's going to get my information, call the SWAT team over to my front yard," the boy said.
Read more: Offender used relay service to call emergency line »
It's likely that there will be another Call of Duty game this year, and it's a safe bet to assume it won't be Modern Warfare 4. (Not yet, anyway!) So what could Activision be working on? Well, history has taught us that it should be developer Treyarch's turn to churn out this year's iteration of Call of Duty--and what exactly could they be working on?
They could be working on a sequel to Black Ops, 2010's entry which took the franchise to the Vietnam War. A new report reveals that Activision has managed to acquire the blackops2.com domain, and has transferred it to a brand protection company.
Read more: Activision registers URLs, including Black Ops 6 »
The Call of Duty franchise occupies the three top spots in Microsoft's chart of the most-played games on Xbox Live in 2011, with Call of Duty: Black Ops claiming the throne. Microsoft has also shared the top-twenty charts for Xbox Live Arcade, Games for Windows Live, Xbox Live Indie Games, and Windows Phone.
If Modern Warfare 3's lack of zombies has you feeling down, don't fret. Activision is releasing yet another zombie-centric Call of Duty game for iOS tomorrow.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies is a follow-up to last year's Call of Duty: World at War Zombies app. The universal app will be available for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, and will include the Kino der Toten map from the console game.
Call of Duty Elite was swamped when it launched alongside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 this month, leaving most players unable to access the social service. It's still spotty, but publisher Activision has now said that it intends to have everything up and running by December 1.
After a full week of Xbox Live activity tracking, EA's Battlefield 3 has climbed to second place, snuggled between two titles in the Call of Duty franchise for the week of October 31. Topping the list is Call of Duty: Black Ops, which Activision called "the [number one] best-selling title in dollars in aggregate across all platforms in the U.S. and Europe for each of the first three quarters of 2011," in its fiscal third quarter report.
During its investor relations call yesterday, Activision Publishing boss Eric Hirshberg noted that "remarkably" Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 remained the top titles "before, during, and after" the launch of its "competitor's products." Despite it only being tracked for five of seven days on Xbox Live following its October 25 launch, Battlefield 3 debuted at third on the Xbox Live Activity List, provided by Xbox Live's director of programming Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb.
Let's say you love playing Call of Duty, but you hate your 0.1 K/D ratio, getting sniped and stabbed seconds of spawning. If only there were some way money could make you a better player. Activision is proposing just that, with the Call of Duty Elite service.
One of the pillars of Activision's new subscription service is "Improve," which is supposed to step your game up. "It's the ultimate strategy guide for Call of Duty," Beachhead's Jennifer Puno explains.
For the first time in franchise history, two games under the Call of Duty banner--Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2--will be simultaneously allowing players to earn double the normal experience points this weekend. It's being billed as a celebration of the upcoming Modern Warfare 3's Prestige Shop, but it's safe to say that publisher Activision wouldn't be too upset if the move steals some thunder from a certain other rival war-based FPS that launched today.
Though Call of Duty Elite's closed beta test shut down at noon today, the stats are coming back early as a treat for the number-hungry.
Elite will relaunch on November 8 alongside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
The Call of Duty Elite beta is rolling out to PlayStation 3 owners now, with more invites going out over the next few weeks as well. (The Xbox 360 has enjoyed its own beta since July.) As previously reported, Activision has no plans to offer a PC beta for Elite.
At long last, the very final DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops has a release date. Rezurrection will be available on PC and PS3 on September 22nd, after a period of timed exclusivity on the Xbox 360.
Rezurrection is comprised entirely of zombie levels. Four of the five maps included with the add-on were previously available in World at War and the Hardened Edition of Black Ops. However, the "Moon" map is brand-new for both PS3 and PC players.
During an analyst call today, Activision revealed that Call of Duty: Black Ops has sold over 23 million units since launching only nine months ago, which is slightly less than its previous statements. In its last investors call on August 3 call, the publisher noted the game had already achieved 25 million units since launching nine months ago.
In comparison, during the August 3 call, Activision said Modern Warfare 2 had sold 22 million units.
If, for some reason, you thought that Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch would be taking a break from the annualized FPS franchise, think again. Recent job listings are searching for experienced programmers that have "an expert understanding of the Call of Duty game universe." The company is looking for an "expert on recent first person shooters and the trends of the genre."
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