Games like Dead Space and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 drew inspiration from the unlikeliest places.
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.
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: 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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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.…
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.…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
