U.K. retailer Tesco pulls listing for Call of Duty: Ghosts after ‘it was put up accidentally’

Is Call of Duty: Ghosts the next game in the first-person shooter franchise?

Complaint spurs Infinity Ward to remove Modern Warfare 2 map that could offend Muslims

A YouTube video claims the Favella map in Modern Warfare 2 contains insensitive imagery. Infinity Ward has removed the map while it works to build a patch that addresses the concerns.

Tony Hawk developer Neversoft answers the Call of Duty

The video game developer best known for its work on the Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero franchises is trading in its skateboards and Les Pauls for AK-47s.

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Activision settles lawsuit with former Infinity Ward heads West and Zampella

In a brief statement, Activision Blizzard says the terms of the settlement are "strictly confidential." However, the wording of the statement suggests that money is involved.

The EA-Activision legal feud takes unexpected twists

The lawsuit over the breakup of Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard has been a proxy war between two industry giants.

But this week, the legal case took some new turns. For a while, it looked like Activision would prevail, but …

Call of Duty website counting down to May 1 world reveal

The official Call of Duty website is counting down to a "world reveal" on May 1 during the NBA playoffs on TNT.

The DeanBeat: Losing my way to the top in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3

It took me 154 days, but I finally reached Prestige, the highest level in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer. I’m very proud of this achievement, although I have to admit that I lost my way to the top.…

Can we panic now? — Core gaming has a problem

THQ layoffs, Sega cancellations, and Sony studio closures caused last week to be one of the worst in memory for the gaming industry. Compare that to mobile darling OMGPOP which was sold for $210 million based on the strength of one game. It seems like one side of the market is on its way down, while the other side has nothing but growth ahead of it, but that isn't necessarily the case.

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly when they’re mainly of interest to our game readers. The broader-interest posts will continue to run …

Call of Duty front man resigns from Infinity Ward

In a tweet, creative strategist Robert Bowling resigned from his job at Activision’s Call of Duty game studio Infinity Ward today.

Bowling has been an active tweeter and spokesman for Infinity Ward in the past year, particularly since Infinity Ward …

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 leaked, Activision implicated in blacklisting cover-up [update]

Along with the ESRB, online game retailers are notorious for revealing unannounced games long before their publishers would like them to be. Amazon France seems to have done just that, according to GameBlog.fr. GameBlog took a screencap of the above …

Modern Warfare 3 goes free-to-play for a limited time

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the best-selling anything ever,  is now free on Steam until Sunday afternoon.

With roughly 10 trillion copies sold (one for every man, child, and amoeba to ever walk the Earth), you’re probably wondering why …