Activision shakes the e-sports world with $1M prize purse for the Call of Duty Championship

Publisher Activision teams up with Microsoft for the Call of Duty Championship.

Black Ops II’s in-game live-streaming feature adds support for Twitch

Activision and Treyarch team up with Twitch to live stream the popular modern-military first-person shooter.

Black Ops II Revolution DLC let’s you be a zombie — and it’s coming to Xbox first

Black Ops 2 first major content pack adds new maps, a new multiplayer mode, and a new gun.

Breaking down the four different games in Call of Duty: Black Ops II (review)

Treyarch took a risk of shaking up one of the world's most valuable video game franchises, and it paid off.

You can live stream Call of Duty: Black Ops II directly to YouTube from your console

The publisher announced a partnership with YouTube to stream its first-person shooter directly to the video service from a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney buys LucasArts/Lucasfilm, Halo 4 reviewed, and Valve dislikes Windows 8

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

Zombies game within Call of Duty: Black Ops II will be a big, bloody, burning massacre — on a bus

Kill zombies in Call of Duty: Black Ops II ... with a bus.

Pachter on the case for Call of Duty: Black Ops II on the Wii U

Nintendo wasn’t planning for a standard gaming controller for the Wii U. But it announced one this year for “multiplatform gaming.” Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter speculates that the reason the publisher did so was pressure from third parties such …

Activision reacts to fan response to Call of Duty: Black Ops II (video interview)

Call of Duty fans have voiced a lot of concern about the daring leap to the future that Activision is taking with the 2025 time setting for the next version of the series.

When Activision released the official reveal trailer …

Treyarch unveils Call of Duty: Black Ops II, also known as Attack of the Drones

[Editor's note: This article contains a few story spoilers.]

Activision Blizzard‘s Treyarch game studio is unveiling the worst-kept secret in video games today: Call of Duty: Black Ops II. But the unusual storyline of the first-person shooter and …

Treyarch’s Mark Lamia explains taking risks with the design of Call of Duty: Black Ops II (interview)


Activision Blizzard is announcing today that Call of Duty: Black Ops II will be the newest installment of the fastest-selling video game franchise of all time. Once again, studio Treyarch will make this game, which has more than 250 developers …