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Xbox 360 deals: BioShock Infinite, Modern Warfare 3
Today is the final day of Microsoft's Xbox 360 Ultimate Games Sale, and it's going out with a bang, a burst of speed and an "Ode to Joy." First, the bang: BioShock Infinite is 67 percent off ($9.89 / £6.59 / €9.89) today on Xbox Live, joined by Modern Warfare 3 at 60 percent off ($19.99 / £19.99 / €27.99) and Painkiller Hell and Damnation at 80 percent off ($5.99 / £4.99 / €5.99). Two racing games are discounted through Xbox Live today: NASCAR 14 and Split Second. Eutechnyx's NASCAR 14 is 58 percent off ($20.99) and Split Second is 75 percent off ($4.99 / £2.99 / €3.74). The best way for the Xbox 360 Ultimate Games Sale to close is with an Ode to Joy provided by Peggle 2, the lone discounted XBLA game in today's sale. PopCap's popular peg-destroying game is half-off today ($11.99 / £9.99 / €9.99). Remember, the final day's sales are joined by other ongoing deals, which also expire at the end of the day. [Image: 2K Games]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 & 3 finally launch assault on Mac
Mac-loving fans of the Call of Duty series don't get attention very often, but when they do, it's from publisher Aspyr Games. Aspyr specializes in Mac versions of popular Windows PC titles, and today they delivered a gift to shooter fans on OS X. Actually, they delivered two gifts: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, complete with all the tasty DLC bits included. The games are now available for download via Steam, or directly from Aspyr's website. If you're not sure whether your Mac machine will run the games at a reasonable quality, you can use Aspyr's GameAgent website to run the handy "Mac Match" tool and check compatibility. If you're interested in picking up these shooter classics from yesteryear, Modern Warfare 2 -- which I believe to be the superior of the two -- will set you back US$14.99, while Modern Warfare 3 is priced at $29.99. Both prices appear to be limited time discounts, so snag them while they're cheap!
Modern Warfare 3 free with other used game at Best Buy
Ten-hut! Right now, you can get a pre-owned copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for free when you buy a pre-owned game priced $19.99 or more at Best Buy. Best Buy also has several other deals this week: Xbox 360 models are $50 off, and picking one up will net you a complimentary $50 in-store gift card. Splinter Cell: Blacklist is also $15 off, while Disney Infinity starter packs and Saints Row 4 are each $10 off.
Judge rules in favor of Activision in 'Delta Force' trademark lawsuit
Judge John F. Walter has ruled that Activision's use of the term "Delta Force" in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 does not infringe upon PC developer NovaLogic's trademark of the phrase, Patent Arcade reports. Judge Walter concluded that "Delta Force" as a non-specific term is as protected by free speech as something like "Scotland Yard" or "West Wing." "Because the phrase 'Delta Force' and its insignia have an established and well-known prior meaning and connotation ... that is unrelated to plaintiff and that meaning and connotation predate plaintiff's use of the registered trademarks, it is highly unlikely that consumers will be misled," Judge Walter said. The lawsuit, originally filed a little over a year ago, alleged that Activision's "shameless" use of the phrase was confusing to consumers and damaging to NovaLogic's "reputation for quality."
Activision Blizzard sees 'best performance in history' during 2012
Activision Blizzard and its many, many franchises brought in $4.85 billion dollars in net revenue over the course of calendar 2012, with $1.76 billion of that hitting its coffers during the three month period ending on December 31, 2012. Digital sales represented 32 percent of that total annual new revenue, raking in $1.54 billion.As far as actual profit is concerned, Activision Blizzard reports net post-tax income of $1.14 billion for the year and $354 million for Q4; a 5.8 and 257 percent year-over-year increase, respectively."Activision Blizzard delivered the best performance in its history," CEO Bobby Kotick said in the financial statement. "In the short-term, we expect to continue delivering strong profitability, but below our record setting 2012 performance, due to a challenged global economy, the ongoing console transition and a difficult year-over-year comparison because of Blizzard's record-shattering Diablo 3 success in 2012."In addition to said Diablo 3 success, Activision Blizzard also lists Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops 2 and Skylanders among the many reasons that it had such a successful year, with Skylanders as a series having crested $1 billion in lifetime sales.Looking forward, Activision Blizzard anticipates total net revenues for calendar 2013 to ring up at $4.08 billion, with $1.16 billion of that being generated during the year's first quarter.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, DLC half-off today on Xbox Live
As part of its "countdown to 2013 deals," Xbox Live has Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and its downloadable content available for half off today only.That means the Games on Demand version of last year's installment in the Call of Duty franchise, Modern Warfare 3, is available for $30. Its four DLC packs are 600 Microsoft Points ($7.50) apiece.Oddly, checking Amazon, Modern Warfare 3 is currently $54.99, which does make this Xbox Live special an actual deal (for once). Meanwhile, this year's Black Ops 2 is $49.99 from the e-tailer.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 rakes in $500 million in first day
Activision announced today Call of Duty Black Ops 2 made $500 million on its first day at retail, eclipsing the franchise's previous record of $400 million as set by Modern Warfare 3 last year. Back then Modern Warfare 3 sold 6.5 million copies in the US and UK to make that figure, suggesting even greater numbers of copies sold this time around.Black Ops 2 shifted 1 million copies at GameStop on day one alone, while Amazon noted it became the site's most pre-ordered game ever. We can expect an even more eye-popping amount in around a week's time, when Activision will likely reveal the five-day sales figure. Last year Activision disclosed Modern Warfare 3 made $775 million in its first five days, and at this rate Black Ops 2 will have its eyes set on ten figures for the same mark.
COD Elite being extended until March 1, 2013 for MW3 early adopters
Here's good news for early Call of Duty Elite subscribers who may have been prepping their checking accounts for another premium subscription charge: You've got a few extra months to play. Activision has sent out emails to members who joined the Elite Premium service on launch day last year, extending their Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Elite memberships until March 1, 2013.The same services (which include things like clan support, Elite TV, and a few other options) are going to be free for everyone in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Given the issues Elite had at launch, it seems sensible to let premium subscribers keep playing without paying any more.This leaves one question, however: What will happen to MW3 Elite Premium subscribers when subscriptions do end on March 1, 2013? A FAQ on the official website says Activision isn't taking any new subscribers at all, since new DLC is no longer being offered. We've contacted Activision for comment and will update if we hear back.Update: Activision says that "when your Call of Duty Elite Premium membership subscription term for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ends – whether on March 1, 2013 or after, your formerly "Premium" Elite membership for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 turns into a "Free" Elite membership for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3." So users will still have access to all of the features of MW3 Premium, but they won't have to pay. Feel free to keep shooting!
Infinity Ward animator talks first-person flourishes
Chance Glasgo, a first-person animator at Infinity Ward, did a Reddit Ask Me Anything thread last weekend, taking on questions about the complicated weapon animations seen in games like Call of Duty and Battlefield. You should read through the whole thread if you're interested, but PC Gamer has kindly grabbed some of the most fascinating insights.Glasgo says that "most serial numbers on guns in CoD have significance" of some kind, whether it's just a reference to his workout gym of choice, or a hint to something in the game's larger mythology.He also explains that while gun aficionados will often tell him he's made some sort of technical mistake in rendering realistic weapons, the choice to do things differently is simply creative. For example, you're never supposed to point a real gun anywhere but forward even while reloading it, but following that rule would make some of these just so ... boring.
All Total War games 75% off, Modern Warfare 3 free weekend on Steam
Steam is demonstrating to power of war this weekend with deals on the Total War series and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Today, pick up Total War: Rome for 90 percent off ($1), or the Total War Master Collection, which includes every Total War game, for 75 percent off ($31). Individual Total War games are discounted 25 percent, with daily deals on certain titles.This weekend Modern Warfare 3 is free-to-play and is selling for 50 percent off ($30). All of these deals end on Monday, October 1, at 10 a.m.
Modern Warfare 3's last content collection arriving on PS3 and PC October 10
The last content bundle for Modern Warfare 3 is finally headed out to PlayStation and the PC on October 10, according to Infinity Ward's Twitter account. The content collection (which arrived on Xbox 360 back in the beginning of September) includes five different maps, called Decommission, Off Shore, Gulch, Boardwalk, and Parish. Call of Duty Elite subscribers will be able to grab the last three levels a day early, on October 9.This is, of course, the last scheduled content pack for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, seeing as Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is due out just about a month later. At that point, presumably, those Elite subscriptions will renew, and the cycle of of constant DLC for the biggest shooter series in the world will start up all over again.
Modern Warfare 3 'Chaos Pack' out September 13 for PS3, PC
The third content collection for Modern Warfare 3 will launch for PS3 and PC on September 13. The "Chaos Pack" includes four new Spec Ops missions, three new Face Off maps and Chaos Mode for Spec Ops. Elite members get it for free, and it runs $15 for all other players.Collection three hit Xbox Live on August 9, as per Modern Warfare 3's exclusivity deal with Microsoft.
Modern Warfare 3 DLC's final assault on Xbox 360 next week (plus: PS3 gets stuff too)
On September 5, Call of Duty Elite premium subscribers on Xbox 360 will get their final three maps for Modern Warfare 3: Gulch, Boardwalk and Paris. If you're not a premium member of Activision's DLC delivery service, you can get these three new maps and two previously released stomping grounds – Parish and Decommission – in Content Collection #4 for 1200 Microsoft Points ($14.99). This is the final map pack for Modern Warfare 3.Elite premium members on PS3 also get some new content next week on September 6, namely a pair of Special Ops maps – Light 'Em Up and Special Delivery – and the new Special Ops Chaos Mode, a wave-based variant on Modern Warfare 3's vanilla Survival mode.
PSA: Modern Warfare 3 'Chaos Pack' collection live on XBL
The third collection of content for Modern Warfare 3 is available on Xbox Live today: The Chaos Pack includes the new Special Ops 'Chaos Mode,' three new Face Off maps and four new Special Ops missions, shown off in the above video.The Chaos Pack runs $15, or 1200 Microsoft Points, and it will hit PS3 and PC "at a later date."
Modern Warfare 3's final two DLC packs fully reconnoitered
The year of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 post-launch content is coming to a close, but it's going out with a bang (gun pun fully intended). The Chaos Pack – previously half-detailed – brings three Face Off maps and four Spec-Ops missions, as well as a new mode, dubbed "Special Ops Chaos Mode." It's a wave-based survival mode, albeit with a Spec-Ops twist. The whole shebang launches for Xbox 360 on August 9, with PS3 and PC versions launching later on.In September, MW3 players on 360 get the "Final Assault" pack, which adds five multiplayer maps ("Gulch," "Offshore," "Boardwalk," "Decommission," and "Parish"), two of which are already available on 360. Again, this content arrives on PS3 and PC at a later (unknown) date. As Activision community blog One of Swords points out, Call of Duty's Elite season ends with more content than it originally promised, which seems pretty boss if you ask us. But don't go getting your precedents miscalibrated, as this may not be the case in future years.
Details on Modern Warfare 3's new Spec Ops missions
On August 9, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will have the Chaos Pack available, featuring several new Spec Ops missions. Videogamer got the scoop from Sledgehammer Games on two of the new missions, Light 'Em Up and Special Delivery.Light 'Em Up takes place after the conclusion of the Modern Warfare 3 campaign, putting one player into the cockpit of a Little Bird helicopter as he attempts to cover another player who's on foot, running around a hydroelectric dam in search of intel on hostage positions. Special Delivery has no shortage of expensive war toys, charging players with reaching a downed pilot in unfriendly territory – one player mans an Osprey Gunner, providing cover fire from the air and deploying care packages to his partner on the ground.
CoD:Modern Warfare 3 wraps up with two more packs in August and September
Activision revealed this morning the final two Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 content packs. The conclusive bits of DLC are the "Chaos Pack" and "Final Assault," available on Xbox 360 on August 9 and September 6, respectively.The Chaos Pack adds the Special Ops Chaos Mode, with three new Face Off maps and four new spec ops missions. The Final Assault features five new multiplayer maps.Both packs cost 1200 Microsoft Points ($14.99), no release dates were provided for PS3 or PC. If you're already over Modern Ware 3, this year's Call of Duty installment, Black Ops 2, arrives November 13.
Rumor: Media from MW3's September DLC drop leaked
A veritable cornucopia of media reportedly from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's upcoming September DLC drops has leaked. Several images and even some video footage were released by a YouTube user known as Gamecheat13, reports MP1st. The media allegedly shows off three new maps slated for September: Gulch, Parish and Boardwalk.Boardwalk is, unsurprisingly, a boardwalk – complete with shuttered stalls, what appears to be an inflatable pig and a gift shop. Gulch, meanwhile, is a desert canyon map, while Parish takes place in and around a cathedral in a war zone. Video footage of Parish originally posted on Vimeo and YouTube has been taken down, though not before GameSpot was able to squeeze some of it into an episode of Start/Select.MP1st also speculates that a new game mode, first hinted at by the Call of Duty Elite Twitter account, is slated to arrive this August.
Modern Warfare 3 ad too violent for UK soccer time
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has placed restrictions on an ad for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, reports MCV. The ASA took exception to the copious gunfire, explosions and the depiction of "New York under military assault" – you know, Call of Duty stuff. The ad originally aired in November during an afternoon soccer match and, although Activision followed the advertising guidelines it had been given at the time, the ASA has decided that the commercial "could cause distress to some children who might see the ad." As such, the ad can no longer be show prior to 7:30pm.It's a shame, really. Activision needs all the help it can get spreading the word about Call of Duty.
Modern Warfare 3's July content for Elite PS3 and Xbox 360 subscribers
Call of Duty Elite members on Xbox 360 will get a new content drop in Modern Warfare 3 on Tuesday, July 17: three new multiplayer maps and a Spec Ops mission.The multiplayer maps include a graveyard of derelict ocean liners called Decommission, an oil rig built for sniping called Offshore, and the remake of Modern Warfare 2's Terminal map, available to Elite members on Tuesday and free for the rest of Modern Warfare 3's Xbox 360 players the following day. In the Spec Ops mission, Vertigo, players must take down enemy troops and helicopters while perched atop the Oasis hotel.On Thursday, July 19, Call of Duty Elite subscribers on PS3 get to tussle with three new Face-Off maps and a Spec Ops mission, content released on Xbox 360 back in June. Multiplayer maps include a tornado-rocked town called Vortex, a dilapidated middle-eastern highway in U-Turn, an urban NYC-based map called Intersection, and the Spec Ops mission, Arctic Recon, which tasks players with assaulting a Russian warship.%Gallery-160351%
