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Microsoft made big news when it bought Minecraft and when it bought Bethesda, but today’s news is a deal 10 times that. Microsoft has now announced its acquisition of Activision Blizzard for an eye-watering $US 70 billion. It makes Microsoft the world’s third-largest gaming company.
Despite burgeoning evidence of customers being banned for no reason, Activision-Blizzard doesn’t care.
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Activision announces the arrival of the next iteration of the venerable Call Of Duty franchise. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will arrive in multiple forms and yes there will be zombies.
Here is the latest video and number crunching from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare publisher Activision. The video shows off part of the Havoc DLC for the game featuring Exo-suit wearing zombies, what do we do when zombies lose the slow shamble? Furthermore Activision has released some BIG numbers about what players have been up to as they heed the Call of Duty.
Bungie has listened to the Destiny owning public and has endeavoured to simply add more to the MMO shooter. Here is a behinds the scene look at the thought process behind the first expansion for Destiny; The Dark Below.
It’s post-Modern Warfare, it’s futuristic warfare, in fact it is taking battle to Spacey, Kevin Spacey that is <face palm>. It is typical in that it is Call Of Duty, battles dialled up to eleven, and it is non-typical in that it is also Frogger. We played on PS4.
The beta for Destiny, the first post-Halo game from developer superstars Bungie, has wrapped up and the company released some statistics showing the game was played a whole lot.
This November the Call Of Duty franchise takes another step away from its WWII roots and into near future warfare technology.
Details of the Call Of Duty Championship qualifying events have come through for all antipodeon COD-Heads.
Rumours are being bandied about concerning the future of everyone's favourite cartoon bandicoot - with Crash set to potentially make a grand return on Sony's PS4.
Call of Duty: Ghosts has already hit $1 billion in sales worldwide after just one day, smashing records including those set by GTA V.
As part of the Xbox One introduction Microsoft concentrated on the services US citizens can expect of its next generation console. One of the few game reveals was a big one, Call Of Duty: Ghosts. Here is the reveal trailer plus some screen shots from the next in the very popular series.
Activision has announced the next game in its behemoth Call of Duty franchise, titled Call of Duty: Ghosts.
The Call Of Duty Championships have been run and won with US based Fariko Impact taking home a giant cheque.
The Call Of Duty ANZ Qualifiers have been run and won. What we need is a montage.
Pretty good at Call of Duty? Want to take a shot at $1 Million?
It is the battle of the gruff speaking, beard wearing, virtual bros of Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II against, essentially, the same cast from Electronic Arts’ Medal of Honor: Warfighter. Many sales of both these titles go to folks who immediately load up and exclusively play the multiplayer component. But what of the effort that the developer puts into the games single player experience, who wins that dual?
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