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Mark Lamia talks about Treyarch and Call of duty
With Infinity Ward's studio heads on the outs with Activision, it was up to Treyarch to take over the Call of Duty series, and according to fan reception, it did exactly that. "The response that I've gotten," Treyarch head Mark Lamia tells Joystiq, "is that people are happy with the game." But he says during VGA's red carpet event that it was never about competition among Activision's studios. ...read more
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Need for Speed : Hot Pursuit sells 417k in US
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit shifted 417,000 copies in November in the US, latest NPD figures show, landing the Criterion title at #7 on the software totem pole for the month. That’s roughly two weeks worth of sales then; the game launched on the 16th. It was no competition for Call of Duty: Black Ops of course, which dominated the month with 8.4 million units sold. EU figures for the ...read more
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Black Ops scope on PS3 suffers 'terrible coding' claims video
Gotta love these comparison videos, so long as you don't take them too seriously. This comparison video sees a comparison between scopes on Black Ops for the Xbox 360 and PS3. The narrator of the video claims that the PS3 version simply suffers from 'terrible' coding. Check out the video in the read more and see if you agree (PS3 left, 360 right)...
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Kinect Hacks: Self-driving car
Kinect has already gained the ability to fly, and now it can drive. Researchers at University of Bundeswehr Munich attached a Kinect sensor and a laptop to a small (formerly) remote-controlled car, loaded it with software based on the program used to run the MuCAR-3 in the DARPA Urban Challenge, and made a tiny, self-navigating car. In the video after the break, the adorable little robot ...read more
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Gran Turismo 5 ships 5.5 million worldwide
Sony's pretty confident in its latest big release, Gran Turismo 5. The publisher shipped 5.5 million copies of the game to retailers worldwide since launching in late November, pushing the entire franchise's worldwide lifetime shipped numbers to just over the 60 million mark (61.41 million, precisely). Gran Turismo 5 debuted on November 24th and placed 8th on the NPD's software sales ranking for ...read more
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Black Ops becomes 7th best selling game of all time in US
Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops just keeps on selling; the title’s become the 7th best-selling videogame of all time in the US. With a combined total of 8.4 million copies sold across all available platforms in November, Treyarch should give themselves a pat on the back. That’s 25% of all games sold in this month. Yeah, wow. The real kicker? That’s 2.4 million more than Modern ...read more
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Call of Duty cyber attack prompts arrest
A teenager has been arrested in connection with a cyber attack which put the online version of the computer game Call of Duty out of action. The 17-year-old was arrested in the Beswick area of Manchester by the Metropolitan Police's central e-crime unit earlier. It followed a "denial of service" attack, which saw large numbers of people unable to play the game online. Games company ...read more
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Microsoft and Doritos teaming up for a second round of free XBLA games
Doritos Dash of Destruction was the game brought to Xbox owners last time Microsoft and Doritos fused together, a game that with relatively saddening scores could’ve ended this partnership then and there. As it turns out, that’s not the case as the chips-vendor will be sponsoring not one, but two games on Xbox Live Arcade, those being Harms Way and Doritos Crash Course. Harms Way (pictured ...read more
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Kinect Used to Make Flying AI Robot of death!
Just when you thought you had seen the best possible Kinect hack, something like this comes along to lengthen your search. The people over at UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences have created an unmanned aerial vehicle that can navigate through environments and avoid obstacles using Microsoft's motion sensing device. For a video click readmore The creators of ...read more
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Next Call of duty Black ops title update detailed
The next patch for the Xbox360 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops patch has been detailed Alongside a number of minor gameplay tweaks, the update will fix a number of multiplayer exploits and make it easier for developers to detect and ban anyone up to no good. most of you may have seen this list but if not its in the read more.
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