Google has released its annual “Zeitgeist” list of the most popular search terms of the year, and the video game results may surprise you. Or maybe not. Either way, it’s fascinating stuff. Read more »
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Black Ops Zombies Comes to App Store
Activision is bringing Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies to iPhone, iPod, and iPad tomorrow. And by all indications, it’s going to be a blast. Read more »
Play Black Ops as Buffy, Freddy, & more
Activision and Treyarch have announced the second batch of DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops, and it’s the fanciful “zombie level” that seem to get made for every Call of Duty game. But this one comes with a pretty cool surprise. The new content pack, titled Black Ops Escalation, adds several new characters to the game’s playable roster, and you’re going to recognize them all — because they’re all people known for fighting the undead. Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, headlines this new cast that also includes Robert Englund (Freddy Kruger, A Nightmare on Elm Street), Danny Trejo (the title character from Machete), and Michael Rooker (Merle Dixon, The Read more »
The 10 Most Talked-About Games of 2010
For reasons both good and bad, here are the ten games that started the most conversations or got the most press in 2010. These were the video games that shaped the year, and won’t soon be forgotten (even though some of them might want to be). In (more or less) chronological order, here we go… [Side note: It feels odd not to include a game from either Kinect or PlayStation Move on this list — both motion controllers garnered probably more attention than anything else in gaming this year — but this is a list of games, not hardware. And neither device has yet to have that one, defining game Read more »
Black Ops Is Here: So What’s Next?
It’s not exactly breaking news that Call of Duty: Black Ops is already a mega-hit. Or that publisher Activision considers the CoD franchise the crowning jewel in its empire. So while CoD founding studio Infinity Ward is still recouping from all of that drama a while back where the company’s two founders were ousted by Activision (Black Ops comes from Treyarch, the studio behind all of the odd-numbered series entries), you can bet your butt that future iterations of the series are already well under way. But the obvious question becomes: where does Call of Duty go from here? The series has bounced between the World Wars of the early Read more »
10 Hottest Games of Fall 2010
Fall 2010 is going to be one of the hottest seasons ever for gamers. Though the economy is still sluggish, the arrival of the new motion controllers — Xbox Kinect and PlayStation Move — and a slew of new A-list titles, and we could have ourselves a record quarter for the gaming industry. Let’s look at the ten hottest titles coming to a console near you in the next two or three months. (And fanboys, start cracking those knuckles: you’re invited to gripe about all of the big games I didn’t include…) 10) Call of Duty: Black Ops Read more »
So… what's Call of Duty: Black Ops?
Activision released a new trailer over the weekend, along with the initial announcement of, its latest game in the Call of Duty franchise. While the creators of Call of Duty, Infinity Ward, have been going through some serious inner turmoil lately, Activision’s secondary go-to studio for CoD games, Treyarch, has been working on this new entry. Treyarch is remembered as the studio behind the sequels Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 3, and the more recent Call of Duty: World at War. Effectively Call of Duty 7, the game’s actual title is Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Activision is remaining tight-lipped for the moment when it comes to Read more »
