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Black Ops grosses $650M in five days, first updates live
Posted by Joystiq Nov 18 2010 14:45 GMT
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Activision claimed this morning that Call of Duty: Black Ops took in $650 million in five days, surpassing the company's previous record-setting, $550 million launch week with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. According to CEO Bobby Kotick, "Call of Duty has become the first entertainment property in history to set five-day launch records for two consecutive years across all forms of entertainment."

Beyond the fiscal fidelity provided to Activision, Call of Duty has helped Microsoft to trumpet new records for Xbox Live. The service reportedly broke a record of 2.6 million unique players in-game on the November 9 launch day, with 5.9 million multiplayer hours logged that same day.

Updates are available now for both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game. For details, check out the Black Ops forums for all the declassified patch intel.

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Clueless Sports Writer Is Very Serious About This Black Ops Ad Controversy
Posted by Kotaku Nov 17 2010 23:30 GMT
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#stfu Hey there! Are you a busy person on-the-go and don't have time to get stupider? ESPN has a six-minute solution: Gasbag Skip Bayless, opining that Kobe Bryant should be disciplined for appearing in that Call of Duty: Black Ops ad. More »

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A Grenade To The Groin Makes This Call Of Duty Kill A Bit Different
Posted by Kotaku Nov 17 2010 17:00 GMT
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#clips At first this kill video from Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer seems unremarkable. But then they slow it down and zero in on a single grenade that lands in the most sensitive of places. More »

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Call of Duty: Black Ops GPU & CPU Performance In-depth
Posted by Kotaku Nov 17 2010 16:00 GMT
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#pc In this detailed graphic and CPU performance write-up, Tech Spot takes a look at how Call of Duty: Black Ops' single player handles on your computer. More »

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Japan's Stocking Queen Goes Camo For Black Ops
Posted by Kotaku Nov 17 2010 11:00 GMT
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#squareenix Never one to turn down a promotional event, Japanese celebrity Uno Kanda gets down and dirty for Call of Duty: Black Ops. More »

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Which Call of Duty: Black Ops Accessories Are Worth Buying?
Posted by Kotaku Nov 16 2010 18:00 GMT
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#reviews Call of Duty: Black Ops wasn't a huge game for just Activison and Treyarch, it was also a big deal for Mad Catz, the king of franchise-specific add-ons like glasses, controllers and headphones. More »

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Call Of Duty Looks More Fun When The Computer Does All The Shooting
Posted by Kotaku Nov 16 2010 13:00 GMT
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#callofduty Your AI buddies in Black Ops may not be able to shoot the hinges, but they can shoot hundreds of heavily-armed soldiers, and do it so well you can clear a level without firing a single shot. More »


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Call of Duty: Black Ops Intel video walkthrough
Posted by Joystiq Nov 16 2010 01:30 GMT
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Man, remember when you had to comb through message boards looking for tips on how to find that 200th medallion or the location of that secret power-up? Those days are gone, thanks in part to handy video walkthroughs. Today, we present some footage from Game Videos documenting the location of every piece of Call of Duty: Black Ops Intel in the game. After all, knowing is half the battle!

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Call of Duty: Black Ops - Wii LAN adapter issues (video)
Posted by GoNintendo Nov 16 2010 00:46 GMT
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We’ve talked about this issue before, but now we have some footage of the problem in action.

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‘Call Of Duty: Black Ops’ - Zombies Mode Survival Guide
Posted by GoNintendo Nov 15 2010 19:19 GMT
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Over the weekend, I played some of the zombie mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops. While the group of friends I was playing with all got better as we went along, we weren’t good enough to last very long at all. We finished up an hour or so of play feeling like [...]

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Killing Castro
Posted by Kotaku Nov 15 2010 16:00 GMT
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#wellplayed My first, perhaps my only visit to Cuba came last week in a video game that asked me to kill the man responsible for taking my granfather's property from him and who changed the country so dramatically it ensured our family would never return. More »

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Call of Duty: Black Ops' fabled 'Mannequin Easter Egg' revealed
Posted by Joystiq Nov 15 2010 15:37 GMT
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A few days ago, Activision's Dan Amrich hinted at an Easter Egg located on Call of Duty: Black Ops' fast-paced multiplayer map, Nuketown, accessible by popping the heads of all the mannequins therein with a quickness. After a couple days of trying, one group of players struck gold.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops breaks UK launch records
Posted by Joystiq Nov 15 2010 14:37 GMT
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We already knew Call of Duty: Black Ops shattered day-one sales records in the UK, but let's just add a full week of intel to that with reports of 2 million units sold in the region over five days. Chart-Track estimates Activision-Blizzard's latest installment of the hit franchise took in a comfortable £81.9 million ($131.5M).

For some disturbing perspective, Black Ops grossed more during its launch than the whole UK entertainment software market did over the past couple weeks ... combined. According to Chart-Track, last week became the highest grossing week in UK entertainment software history, with £113.8 million in sales. The last record breaker was £107.6 million, back in week 52 of 2008. (What was the number one game then? Call of Duty: World at War.)

The record-breaking week was assisted by the launch of Microsoft's Kinect peripheral. Eight of the 11 UK Kinect launch titles debuted in the Top 40. The top premieres were Kinect Sports, Dance Central and Ubi's Motion Sports, which took fourth, 13th and 15th places, respectively. Check out the full UK top ten after the break.


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UK Charts: Black Ops Tops the Pops
Posted by IGN Nov 15 2010 12:20 GMT
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Kinect and CoD: Blops dominate charts, shock and awe on hold.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops - review
Posted by GoNintendo Nov 14 2010 04:03 GMT
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A portion of an iNintendo review… Call of Duty: Black Ops features the most robust online multiplayer available on the Wii, with every feature in the HD versions present in the Wii edition, made even better by a new ally system and the ability to chat with anyone via the Headbanger Headset. The single player may [...]

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Call of Duty: Black Ops' Nuketown multiplayer map holds many secrets
Posted by Joystiq Nov 13 2010 18:30 GMT
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Professionial Activision, umm, guy Dan "One of Swords" Amrich has posted nine interesting secrets from Call of Duty: Black Ops' multiplayer map Nuketown. Sure, everybody probably noticed the double rainbow all the way across the sky (what does it mean?), but did you notice the names on the mailboxes, or the fact that the town clock and population board actually count the actual time left and players present in the match? There's also a few secret RC-XD hidey holes (seen above), and apparently Nuketown isn't the only map with a few secret places to send your buzzing remote controlled car of doom.

Say what you want about Activision's evil empire or the money-making steamroller that Call of Duty has become, but no one can say Treyarch didn't pack the stuffing out of this game with hidden content.
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You Can't Blow Things Up With This Black-Ops Toy, But It's Still Fun
Posted by Kotaku Nov 13 2010 05:00 GMT
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#clips I'm not sure at what point my test drive of the Call of Duty: Black Ops remote control truck became an attempt to blow things up, but it was easily within the first ten seconds. More »

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How To Piss Off An Entire Nation With One Virtual Bullet
Posted by Kotaku Nov 13 2010 00:00 GMT
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#spoileralert The biggest video game of the year isn't making any fans in Cuba. Here's why... More »

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Call of Duty: Black Ops -- When Did You Kick the Barrels?
Posted by IGN Nov 12 2010 20:23 GMT
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We want to know how long it took you to figure out how to clear the trenches at Khe Sanh.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops shatters UK day-one sales record
Posted by Joystiq Nov 12 2010 18:30 GMT
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As we learned yesterday, the act of dude-shooting has worldwide appeal. In a follow-up, MCV reports that data provided by the UK's GfK Chart-Track service breaks down the particular explosiveness of Call of Duty: Black Ops' launch sales in the region, which set the day-one software sales record in the UK with 1.4 million units sold -- and, by deduction, indicates that an estimated 4.2 million copies of the game were sold in the US on Tuesday. UK purchases alone lined Activision's pockets with a heavy £58 million sum (about $93.5 million) in launch day revenue, a 22-percent increase over last year's UK launch of Modern Warfare 2.

The reason for this massive increase? Activision chalks it up to a higher install base of PS3s and 360s in the region, as well as to the fact that, unlike MW2, there are Wii and DS versions of Black Ops (which certainly accounted for a few sales, right?). Those are pretty good guesses, but we think it's because everyone keeps colloquially shortening the title of the game to "Blops," which is an inherently British-sounding word. Example: "Fancy some Blops, guv?"

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Call of Duty: Black Ops PC multiplayer patched
Posted by Joystiq Nov 12 2010 14:35 GMT
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We haven't spent much time with it ourselves, but everything we've heard from friends and other journalists points to the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops' multiplayer being -- in technical terms -- a poopie. Today, Activision pushes some anti-poopie fixes via Steam, including:
  • Friends fix for join in progress and Friends tab in server browser
  • Performance improvement for dual and quad core systems
We're hoping the patch will be enough to cure everyone's ills, but either way, we'd caution them to not fly off the handle. When you participate in a beta, these things happen. Until you actually pay for the product, you don't have much right to complain.

... Wait, what?

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Patches Incoming
Posted by IGN Nov 12 2010 11:33 GMT
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Treyarch rolling out fixes across X360, PS3, and PC

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Call of Duty DLC to be Activision's 'largest digital offering ever'
Posted by Joystiq Nov 12 2010 03:02 GMT
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Activision's CFO Thomas Tippl has promised at an industry conference in New York that 2011 will bring the company's "largest digital offering ever" in the form of DLC for the Call of Duty franchise. Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg made a similar statement last week, saying that Activision would offer "the Call of Duty community our largest line of an exciting new digital content ever." That could just be lots of new maps and content packs to download, or it could finally be the long-rumored subscription-based service Activision reportedly wants to put in place.

Either way, if you were one of the many, many people who shelled out $60 for Call of Duty: Black Ops earlier this week, Activision says not to put your wallet away just yet -- it's got some other offers coming soon that you might want to take advantage of.

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Black Ops meets J-pop in Japanese commercial
Posted by Joystiq Nov 11 2010 23:00 GMT
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This Japanese ad for Call of Duty: Black Ops, featuring Ravex and Namie Amuro's "Rock U", might seem to prove that J-pop and the military don't mix. But, then, the Japanese Coast Guard provides a pretty convincing argument to the contrary. See the ad after the break.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Luckiest Kill Is Axe To Ankles
Posted by Kotaku Nov 11 2010 21:40 GMT
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#clips We've seen off the wall knife kills before in Call of Duty multiplayer—remember this lucky Modern Warfare 2 stab?—but across the map, off the wall, off the floor and into the Achilles heel of an online opponent? More »

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Treyarch working aggressively to squash Black Ops cheaters
Posted by Joystiq Nov 11 2010 20:00 GMT
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Treyarch's David Vonderhaar has considerable emotional investment in Call of Duty: Black Ops, having served as Multiplayer Design Director. That helps explain his fiery comments regarding complaints that players had already hacked the game's online multiplayer component. On the official Black Ops forums, Vonderhaar explained that most of the videos circling the YouTubes feature older dev versions of the game, or use exploits that can be easily hotfixed or patched "just like we said we would."

Vonderhaar expressed disappointment in these complaints, saying, "What many of these people want is to be Internet nerd famous. I'm not going to make them famous and you shouldn't either." He later added, "We are disinterested in making mini-celebrities out of douche-bags."

Wow, we're actually kind of inspired by his passion, here. If everyone adopted the "no fame for douche-bags" credo, just think how much of a better place we'd be living in! There'd be no reality television at all.

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This Is What Nearly 3 Million People Gaming Looks Like
Posted by Kotaku Nov 11 2010 19:20 GMT
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#screengrab This image of active Call of Duty: Black Ops players was snapped by reader The Dude at 11 p.m. eastern time last night. More »

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Cuban government site deems Call of Duty: Black Ops 'perverse'
Posted by Joystiq Nov 11 2010 18:20 GMT
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Since Call of Duty: Black Ops is still fresh off the press, we're going to do our very best to avoid spoilers here, so bear with us.

Okay, who's the most famous Cuban guy you know? No, not Andy Garcia. Not Daisy Fuentes either, she's a girl. The other one, with the beard. Rhymes with Lastro. ... Right! So in the first mission of the game you're tasked with finding him and ... hurting him. Maybe hurting him so badly that he will be, like, the opposite of alive. Hint, hint.

That's predictably peeved some folks in Cuba. According to a Guardian translation, a recent story on government-run website cubadebate read, "What the United States government did not achieve in more than 50 years, it now tries to do virtually. This new video game is doubly perverse. On the one hand, it glorifies the illegal assassination attempts the United States government planned against the Cuban leader ... and on the other, it stimulates sociopathic attitudes in North American children and adolescents."

We had reserved this space to make fun of whatever crazy thing the Cuban paper said, but they kinda nailed it, right?

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Black Ops Opening Day Crushes Avatar, Halo And Everything Else
Posted by Kotaku Nov 11 2010 12:27 GMT
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#numbers About 5.6 million people bought copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops in North America and the United Kingdom on Tuesday, when the game went on sale. More »

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