PSN to get new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 maps on Feb. 28
Video game publisher Activision has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3′s content season for Call of Duty Elite members on the PlayStation Network will kick off on February 28 with the release of two new multiplayer maps, Liberation and Piazza.
Liberation takes place in a militarized Central Park and features a landscape suitable for long-range sniper and LMG kills, while the Piazza map features blind corners and a complex network of branching pathways … Continue Reading
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 gets fixes, improvements, and Akimbo nerfs
Hot on the heels of the first set of new maps and downloadable content schedule, Activision has updated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 with the eighth title update. TU8 makes a number of fixes and improvements to the game, including a major speed increase for users uploading their recorded videos to YouTube.
The update is already live on Xbox Live and is in certification for the PlayStation 3, meaning it should be live across … Continue Reading
Modern Warfare 3 DLC schedule revealed: 12 maps, 6 missions, 2 game modes
Activision has outlined its downloadable content (DLC) schedule for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 during 2012. There are 20 pieces of DLC due in total, which will be made available to Elite Premium subscribers over a nine month ‘content season’.
The DLC is key to Activision Blizzard’s ability to charge a monthly fee for its new Call of Duty Elite service. Premium members who pay $4.99 a month can get the “content drops” for … Continue Reading
Next 90 days of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 content unveiled, early access plan detailed
Two all-new multiplayer maps are coming soon to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 as part of the game’s “Content Season,” nine consecutive months of downloadable content co-developed by Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, and Raven Software beginning on January 24.
Call of Duty publisher Activision today revealed that the new maps, Liberation and Piazza, along with five other content updates during January, February and March, will be made available first to members of its premium … Continue Reading
New Gears of War 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC announced
Microsoft has revealed the third piece of downloadable content (DLC) for Gears of War 3, one of GamesBeat’s top 10 games of the year.
Titled “Fenix Rising,” the DLC will add five new maps and a few new character skins.
The new maps will playable across all multiplayer modes (Versus, Horde, Beast) and include:
Academy
Anvil
Depths
Escalation
The Slab
Gamers familiar with the campaigns throughout the Gears of War trilogy will recognize most of … Continue Reading
The DeanBeat: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception tops our list of the 10 best games of 2011
This year, with our ramped up our GamesBeat review team, we’ve taken our Game of the Year choices much more seriously than we have in the past. We asked our reviewers to select the semifinalists and then picked the final winners ourselves. But our vote on the best game of 2011 ended in a tie, so we had to hold a tie-breaker round to pick our winner.
And the final tie-breaker vote went — for … Continue Reading
The DeanBeat: Movie-like “set pieces” score big sales for video games
With games like Uncharted 3: Drake’s Fortune sweeping us off our feet this holiday season, gamers are getting spoiled by video game “set pieces.” These are the crazy, over-the-top, movie-like action scenes that make your jaw drop. Like when Nathan Drake gets in a firefight on a cargo airplane with the ramp open and everything is being sucked out of the plane. As a player, you’re trying to get a bead on somebody shooting at … Continue Reading
More than 1,600 cheaters banned from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has been out for a little over a week now and already 1,600 cheaters and hackers have been banned, according to Infinity Ward’s Creative Strategist Robert Bowling.
Yesterday, Bowling stated on Twitter, “Any attempt to cheat, hack, or glitch in #MW3 will not be tolerated. 1600+ bans issued. Updates in works. Please cont. to report offenders.”
This is not the first time Infinity Ward has taken action against Modern … Continue Reading
Interview: Infinity Ward producer talks Modern Warfare Zombies… and aliens
In the second of our trilogy of Modern Warfare 3 launch interviews, VentureBeat sat down with Mark Rubin, executive producer at Infinity Ward, to look back at the recent Call of Duty XP fan event, discuss the possibility of Modern Warfare Zombies, and more. (See our first interview with Bret Robbins of Sledgehammer Games here).
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 just debuetd last night as the latest first-person-shooter blockbuster from Activision Blizzard. The game … Continue Reading
Review: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 packs enough action for 10 war movies
Editor’s note: This review contains some story spoilers.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 delivers what it promises for gamers. It’s an epic first-person shooter combat game with all of the drama and action of a Hollywood war movie. Because the developers solidly executed their mission for the third time running, this game will likely be one of the biggest-selling titles of the year. I’ve played it through and it didn’t disappoint me. To me, … Continue Reading
Interview: Modern Warfare 3′s creative director discusses blowing up the world, carefully
As part of VentureBeat’s Modern Warfare 3 coverage leading up to our definitive review and the game’s release on Nov. 8, I had the chance to sit down with three of the pivotal members of the Call of Duty team to discuss the upcoming game, complain about Veteran difficulty, and talk about developer Infinity Ward’s take on Nazi zombies.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is poised to go head-to-head with EA’s recently released Battlefield … Continue Reading
Review: Battlefield 3 is EA’s biggest fumble since Medal of Honor
Battlefield 3 is easily the most important holiday release for Electronic Arts. All year the publisher has aggressively hyped the DICE-developed sequel as a Call of Duty-killer, and with Modern Warfare 3 still two weeks from release, EA has the vital first-to-market advantage. Although EA seems to have bet the farm on this title, analysts still expect Modern Warfare 3 to outperform Battlefield 3 by a 2:1 margin. Last year’s Call of Duty game, Call … Continue Reading
Our picks for the best video games of the fall season
NOTE: Each week, I’m writing a column on videogames called The DeanBeat that’s available to newsletter subscribers a day before it appears on the VentureBeat website. This week, my column was co-written with Matthew Lynley.
The fall blockbuster video game season is under way and we thought it would be useful to update readers on our opinions about the best games of the fall. We previously wrote about our favorite games from the E3 trade … Continue Reading
Infinity Ward leader describes replacing “killstreaks” with “pointstreaks” in Modern Warfare 3 (video)
Robert Bowling, creative strategist at Activision Blizzard‘s Infinity Ward studio, says the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 coming on November 8 has better balanced multiplayer combat than ever before.
The new tweaks for multiplayer could make or break the experience. If they work, then Modern Warfare 3 can continue Activision’s reign as the leader of the first-person shooter combat genre, which generates billions of dollars a year.
One of the things Call of … Continue Reading
Hands-on with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer
Last night, I took out dozens of enemies in a few rounds of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer combat.
But as usual in these multiplayer death matches, the human enemy players took me out more, shooting bullets at me at 60 frames per second. It was my idea of wholesome, first-person shooter fun, even if the score came out lopsided.
Activision Blizzard, the biggest independent video game publisher, allowed the press to get … Continue Reading
The best games of E3 2011
We saw lots of video games at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles last week.
Some of them were pretty awesome.
The trip gave us faith that the video game industry will continue to thrive and satisfy loyal fans for a long time to come, even as disruptive forces from social and mobile games encroach on the time that gamers have available to play.
There are a lot of big games here that are … Continue Reading
