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Are you a Black Ops player on PS3? Have you been experiencing unreliable parties? How about loud mouths in the lobby -- or worse: in your unreliable party? Well, this probably isn't the game for you. Nevertheless, Treyarch continues to make amends for those who are less thick-skinned. At approximately o-five-hundred hours ET this morning, the developer deployed another Black Ops multiplayer ...read more
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In light of last night's revised lawsuit announcement by Activision, Electronic Arts corporate spokesperson Jeff Brown responded on behalf of his company, characterizing the announcement to the LA Times as "a PR [public relations] play filled with pettiness and deliberate misdirection." The revised suit added EA as defendants in the case between Activision and West/Zampella, citing several ...read more
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Enjoy this week's video of the week, this is one of the many videos submitted to us to be added to our youtube channel >TheTechGameTV. We hope every week we will be able to put up one of the best videos submitted to us, so if you have not checked out this >Thread Check it out on how to submit a video to us that could end up here next week! This video is by Gimme Half, ...read more
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Yesterday we saw the announcement of Call of Duty: Black Ops' first DLC; First Strike during Major Nelson's podcast. A day later -- which is today... did I even need to tell you that?-- Activision has gone ahead and confirmed its existence through a press release. Apart from stating the obvious (you know, that First Strike is for real) the press release states that there will be four new ...read more
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Activision has today announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops has raked in an estimated $1 billion (that's billion with a "B") since the game was released back in November. If you remember some time ago, the game had broken international records after it generated over $650 million worldwide in just five days. Read on for Activision's statement. Activision Blizzard's CEO --who I'm sure most of ...read more
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A lot has happened over the past few years with the Call of Duty franchise. Changes in developers, a supposed plot to reveal information on the franchise's secret leading to a lawsuit and the birth of Respawn Entertainment under EA Games. Not to mention the purchases of several website names such as "call of duty future warfare". What's the next Call of Duty game going to be, and who's going to ...read more
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Kinect is making Microsoft a tidy sum of money for Christmas, there’s no doubt about that, but most would admit there’s room for improvement in the technology. That can be improved via 360 firmware updates though. Eurogamer are reporting that Microsoft are looking to do just that. By upgrading Kinect’s depth sensor from a 320×240 resolution limit to a 640×480 one the device would be ...read more
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Hot Pursuit may be doing good business for EA, but their free-to-play racer Need for Speed World is no slouch either; three million people have signed up to the game. That’s a growth of two million since September. I guess the cars aren’t the only fast thing in this game. To celebrate developer Black Box have added some new features. First off is new customization options, allowing players ...read more
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Whatever you do: "Please do not delete your save data," pleaded Treyarch community manager Josh Olin on the Black Ops Forums late last night, "as it will not have an effect on network connectivity." Olin (a.k.a. JD_2020) was posting to discredit a rumor that doing so would fix network connectivity issues that have plagued the PS3 version of Black Ops since Tuesday's patch. Olin confirmed that ...read more
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Seek sanctuary within the virtual setting of this latest Kinect hack, which uses the tech to create a real-time "holographic" person set in a virtual office space. Created by Oliver Kreylos of UC Davis, the hack uses two Kinect cameras to create the 3D representation and a Wiimote for "head tracking." The quality isn't great, but apparently there's a fix in the works. This Kinect hack adds to ...read more
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