#call-of-duty

#call-of-duty

A lot of the ire in the Metascore reviews is focused on the game's "lackluster" multiplayer-only campaign, faulty matchmaking, litany of bugs, and very unfavorable comparisons with Arc Raiders, but the use of AI also comes up a great deal as people vent their frustrations. It was noticed immediately after launch that the latest entry in one of the biggest franchises in the world had used AI-plagiarized art for player banners, calling cards and even artwork within the campaign.

As I was about to return fire, something hit me," Green said. "Later [I learned] it was the blast, the RPG. When I was in the hospital, I decided to look down. That's when I realized that my left arm, my dominant arm, was shorter.

Activision has announced a new perk to help encourage people to play Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 at release. The company is giving everyone five hours of double XP for player progression and five hours of double XP for weapons if they play Black Ops 7 before Season 1. Activision has not announced when Black Ops 7 Season 1 will begin, but it's expected in early December. For comparison, 2024's Black Ops 6 launched on October 25, with its first season arriving on November 14, which was a period of about three weeks.

Call of Duty has spent the better part of three decades as one of the biggest video game franchises, and much of that is thanks to the popularity of its recurring Zombies mode, which has been a major part of the series ever since 2008's Call of Duty: World at War. Since then, the mode has appeared in 13 Call of Duty games, including this year's upcoming Black Ops 7, launching November 7 on console and PC.

Recreations of classic maps and modes from other games are nothing new in shooters. Lately, however, publishers have started getting prickly over users remaking maps from their game in someone else's, and it seems this may be especially true when those games are as competitive with each other as Battlefield and Call of Duty. Battlefield 6 players remaking CoD maps via the game's new portal mode are finding this out the hard way, with their recreations of modes and maps from Activision's popular shooter getting taken down over intellectual property violations.

I worry about it immensely, I really do. Because what's happening here is a war.

"The only reason that Call of Duty exists is because EA were dicks,"

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is holding an online beta test until October 8, so fans can play the online modes before the full game launches on November 14. Some players are having matchmaking issues, but I suppose identifying such issues is the whole point of betas, so that's not too surprising. What is surprising, however, is that players were reporting earlier that 's in-game text chat was censoring the name of another shooter launching soon. No, it's not direct competitor Battlefield 6 . It's Arc Raiders , the upcoming extraction shooter from Embark Studios.

Last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was the first entry in the hit multiplayer military shooter to launch day-one on Game Pass in what reportedly turned out to be an expensive experiment for Microsoft. According to Bloomberg, making the game available for free to paid subscribers on console and PC cost the tech giant $300 million in lost sales of the 2024 best-seller. That data point adds some interesting context to Microsoft's controversial decision to hike the price of Game Pass Ultimate by 50 percent this week.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 was the first Call of Duty game to feature a battle royale mode. Launching after the battle royale boom in 2017, Blackout had 100 players drop onto a gigantic map to fight for their lives until only one player or team was left standing.

With our partnership with Call of Duty, we're expanding that narrative into a new frontier: interactive storytelling. Gaming is now one of the most immersive mediums, and by becoming 'the watchmaker of game makers,' we're not just placing watches in virtual worlds--we're helping shape the aesthetic and emotional experience of gameplay,

CharlieIntel confirmed in an Twitter post on September 30 that Nuketown will arrive in Black Ops 7 "before Season 1." While this means it isn't one of the game's 18 multiplayer maps, Black Ops 6's first season kicked off on November 14, 2024--just 20 days after its October 25, 2024 launch. If Black Ops 7's first season follows a similar trajectory, Nuketown could drop in early December.

"They then promptly tell on themselves across social media, asking 'Why did this happen?'" "These are our mitigations at work, ramped up and powered by new detection systems that have been extremely effective at disrupting bad actors in real-time," continued the developer. "We don't hit every cheater with these mitigations; most are banned upon detection. But in August alone, over 55,000 cheaters were disrupted by Call of Duty's mitigations."

The original PlayStation hit U.S. shores 30 years ago today, helping usher in a disc-based gaming revolution that reshaped the industry. Four new consoles and lots of hardware iterations later, PlayStation is the undisputed winner in the high-end console gaming space. What were the top-selling games that helped it get there? A newly released list of the top all-time performers across all PlayStation platformers in the States tells part of the story, and it's a pretty depressing one.

Call of Duty is adding a new weapon camo today, September 4, alongside the Season 5 Reloaded update--and this camo is unique. The new Guild Override Camo dynamically changes when firing, and it's available for Black Ops 6 and Warzone. You can see this in action in the video below. Call of Duty is no stranger to impressive-looking guns and camos, and this is just the latest example.

The midseason update includes a DLC weapon, more multiplayer maps, a new scorestreak, and two seasonal events. Call of Duty Season 5 Reloaded start times Activision confirmed that Call of Duty Season 5 Reloaded arrives on September 4. The update will go live at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 5 PM BST across all platforms.

Additionally, Activision is giving everyone who downloads the upcoming Season 5 Reloaded update a pack of double XP tokens for player XP, weapon XP, and battle pass XP. Everyone who downloads the Season 5 Reloaded update and logs in to the Call of Duty HQ app through October 1 will get: Five 1-Hour Double Player XP Tokens (5 hours total) Five 1-Hour Double Weapon XP Tokens (5 hours total) Five 1-Hour Double Battle Pass XP Tokens (5 hours total)