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It's FPS 101: The frag and clear. Look up, chuck a grenade, then rush towards its destination. Once there, mop up any targets that happened to be standing nearby. It's generally a sound Black Ops strategy -- that is unless you happen to be the target standing nearby, of course.

#watchthis Players of Call of Duty: Black Ops, be careful where you toss your grenades. The consequences can be... well, watch this video, which is popular on YouTube today. More »

Tired of all that silly "paying" for new Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer maps? We know, we know -- money is so 2010. Good thing for you, then, that Treyarch announced plans this week (via Twitter) to officially release the promised mod tools for Black Ops sometime this May.

The tools will, of course, only end up on the PC version of Blops, though considering that they never ended up in any version of Modern Warfare 2, we're looking at this as a pretty major improvement. Also, now we can finally live out that dream of recreating Super Mario Bros. stage 1-1 in Call of Duty. Wait ... what?!

Treyarch’s community manager Josh Olin has let slip that their PC team are aiming – as previously promised – to release mod tools for the blockbusting man shooter in May. It’ll be interesting to see how busy the mod community for this becomes. I can see multiplayer maps being a fairly popular target, but general tweaky gameplay type mods? What would the motivation be? Anyone enough of Black Ops player to see where obvious modding routes might lie?

A PC mod toolkit for Call of Duty: Black Ops should release next month, according to this Treyarch developer (and retweeted by community manager Josh Olin.) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 disappointed many when it did not release mod tools. Treyarch promised last year that Black Ops would bring them back. More »

The Black Ops map pack, Escalation, has now been officially confirmed by Activision. It’ll feature five new maps, of which four are multiplayer maps and one if a zombie shooter thing.

…battle it out in Hotel, on the roof of a Cuban luxury hotel and casino against the vivid backdrop of old Havana; Convoy delivers intense, close-quarters combat at the scene of an ambushed US military convoy; Zoo takes you on a wild ride in an abandoned Soviet Russian Zoo, with danger at every turn; Stockpile pits players in a remote Russian farm town housing secret WMD facilities.

No price or PC date, however. BigDownload reckon it’ll be in June, but I think that’s just speculation.

Retailer GAME Australia leaked this announcement, but now the information within the leak is official: a new Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack called “Escalation” is coming, and its hitting this May 3 on Xbox Live Marketplace. Escalation will usher in a total of four new competitive maps and a fresh zombie 
(wait, is "fresh zombie" an oxymoron?) mode map that will come loaded with a nice perk for fans: a cast of “all-new playable characters” according to Xbox Live guru and mouthpiece Major Nelson.

So, where will this pack thrust you and your fellow BLOPers? “Zoo” will take you to the grounds of an abandoned Russian zoo, “Hotel” will keep the killin’ classy on the rooftop of a Cuban luxury hotel, while “Convoy” will test your close-quarters mettle on the grounds of an ambushed US convoy, and “Stockpile” will have you WMD facility-hopping in a secret Russian farm town. 
  

Update: Xbox Live's Larry Hryb confirmed the pack will be available on May 3 first for Xbox 360. A price was not announced...

#thecallofdlc Confirming last week's rumors, Activision and Treyarch have officially announced the Escalation map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, bringing four new maps and another harrowing zombie experience to the Xbox 360 on May 3. More »

Remember that whole Call of Duty: Black Ops report a week ago that thoroughly detailed an upcoming DLC pack named "Escalation?" Turns out that was totally spot-on -- surprise!! -- and Black Ops multiplayer will be escalating on May 3 with the injection of five new maps: convoy, zoo, stockpile, hotel, and an unnamed Zombies mode map.

Still unknown about the just revealed pack? The price, though we imagine it'll mirror past Call of Duty DLC packs and cost a cool $15. Either way, we'll find out soon enough, as the pack drops in just three short weeks for Xbox 360 players and on PS3 at some point after, per Microsoft's exclusivity agreement.

For centuries, man has been predicting the end of the world as we know it. The Mayans, Nostradamus, R.E.M. they've all been singing the same tune. What none of them managed to predict however, was that the world would be destroyed by Call of Duty. Well, the world of video games, at least...

#rumor Activision's massively successful Call of Duty: Black Ops appears set to expand in May with the "Escalation" Content Pack for Xbox 360, according to a retailer listing from the Australian arm of GAME. What's in Escalation? More »

#paginationTop, #paginationBot, .ui-page-list ul {display:none;} We recently reported that tucked in one out of eight homes is a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops. That's a whole mess of virtual war veterans, battle-hardened souls who are probably well accustomed to the grisly sights of blo...

The second Call of Duty Black Ops map pack reveal has been leaked a bit early thanks to a retailer error...

Whoops! It seems that Call of Duty: Black Ops will get a second DLC pack on May 3, according to a flyer that allegedly popped up on GAME's Australian retail site (since pulled, but captured by VG247). The flyer advertises five seemingly distinct maps -- a zoo, a hotel, a convoy, a stockpile, and a new locale for the co-op Zombie Mode -- but doesn't list a price.

As per Activision and Microsoft's timed exclusivity agreement, the date only applies to Xbox Live for now. Activision couldn't be reached for comment as of publishing, but we'll update this story as soon as we get more information.

Hello! Back in the 21st century actual video gaming is happening, and it’s taking a spin this weekend with the Major League Gaming circuit, which commences play in just over an hour. This is a big old pro-gaming tournament happening right now in Dallas, with Starcraft 2 being the big draw for PC types. More information and streams of the events are embedded below, for your viewing pleasure. (more…)

PC Black Ops players can finally purchase the First Strike map pack today, adding "Berlin Wall," "Stadium," "Discovery," "Kowloon", and Zombie level "Ascension" to their arsenal for $14.99. More »

While you lot have made absolutely no secret of your contempt for latter-day Call of Duty games, as I understand it they’re pretty big business on PC nonetheless. Despite others’ best, sneery comment-based efforts, people still buy them. So there will be a large and enthuastic audience for the news that DLC map pack First Strike has been given a PC release date, having already been available on 360 for some time. You may well not be that enthusiastic audience, but I’m going to tell you anyway – knowing what the biggest, most aloof publisher is up to in terms of PC gaming is always useful. (more…)

PC gamer holdouts get their first Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack, "First Strike," later this week on March 25. If fifteen bucks is a touch too steep, Steam will knock of 10% of that for those who pre-order. More »

Developer Treyarch has priced and dated the PC release of the Call of Duty: Black Ops "First Strike" map pack. The pack, which includes four original multiplayer maps and one zombie map, will sell for $14.99...

At this point it's hard to call this Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC "First Strike" with a straight face (since it first struck on Xbox a month ago, and then on PS3 on March 3), but ironic name or not, it's finally coming to PC on March 25, according to a tweeted announcement by Treyarch's Josh Olin.

As Olin mentions in the tweet, you can pre-purchase the DLC right now through Steam. Though you don't strictly need to secure your copy of a digital-only product ahead of time, since there's no concern about scarcity, you do save $1.50 by doing so.

A proposed law restricting the sale of violent games could have a great impact on the future of Activision's popular shooter franchise...

Call of Duty: Black Ops is officially the best-selling game in U.S. history, and you know that that means. The online multiplayer is crawling with noobs. They run into walls, spam grenades, waste airstrikes and generally make a mess of everything. Luckily people like you are out there, killing them in nasty ways...

• Fixed issue where players were taking damage from falls with Light Weight Pro equipped • Fixed an issue where leader board would go into hang state if the user has 50+ allies • Enemy turrets now glow when the hacker pro perk is equipped • Team mates who are in your party will show up as blue [...]

Last week word went out that Call of Duty: Black Ops has officially become the best-selling video game of all time, with 13.7 million copies of the game sold in the United States alone...

As you sit, lounged back in your La-Z-Boy, scarfing down a Twinkie as you read this, you might think that your freedom is secured and nothing could change that. But out there, lurking, is the enemy, waiting to take that all away from you.

This Call of Duty: Black Ops thing appears to be taking off. You might remember the billionaire game from its position at the top of the NPD software chart tonight, a position it's held since its November release.

In a statement released this evening, NPD analyst Anita Frazier says that in that short time, Black Ops has already surpassed Wii Play as the best-selling game in history. Like, ever. Activision hasn't released specific US life-to-date sales numbers, but it sold 5.6 million copies in the UK and US on day one. And as of October, Nintendo claimed sales of around 13 million Wii Plays.

So, more than that.

It only took four months, but Call of Duty: Black Ops has already taken the top spot as the best-selling game in U.S. history...

"Every day, someone is killed by a total *crag*ing bullshit tomahawk throw in Call of Duty: Black Ops. These are senseless cheesedick bullshit kills. Tragically, we are now even seeing three-way bank shots on Havana. And the killers are free to spam another tomahawk throw right after that. More »