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New Halo 4 Details

Halo 4 comes out later this year and it's definitely one of those games that everyone in the office is excited to play.
Microsoft recently revealed the following tidbits regarding Halo 4:
1)Halo 4 will feature weekly multiplayer episodes with brand new original content.
2)Halo 4 will have a unique competitive Multiplayer Mode called "War Games."
3)The Halo 4 Limited Edition release comes with 3 map packs and is priced at $100.
According to Microsoft the weekly multiplayer episodes will go under the title of "Spartan Ops" and will be 100% free. While the multiplayer map packs will of course cost additional [...]

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier's Main Opposition Includes a Russian Team Named After Russian Folklore

Revealed earlier this week, thanks to this article on Gaming Blend, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier reveals a bit of its story to us. The main focus of the story surrounds a Russian (possibly rogue) task force that has managed to wipe out an entire Ghost team with a bomb. Now, as the other team of Ghosts, you must track down the source of the bomb using advanced technology. All the signs point to a Russian group who call themselves Bodark.
In Russian, the word "Bodark" refers to those [...]

Details We Can Gather From the Black Ops 2 Trailer

As of the first of May, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was officially confirmed and its trailer was released officially to the public during the NBA playoffs (though it was leaked earlier through proxies in its UK site but that was taken care of in its early stages).
You can find the trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3tedlWs1XY&feature=plcp

Despite the intensity of the action throughout the trailer, you can still tell the game is packed with narrative content, but the majority of the games plot is still in the dark.
But after watching the video a [...]

A New Mode in Black Ops 2 Can Effect Your Single Player Campaign.

These days, making choices in a video game and having that affect the outcome isn't too rare. However, it is a change of pace for a Call of Duty title. According to this article at Joystiq it seems that during the single player campaign of Black Ops 2, you will be given a handful of "Strike Force" missions to take care of. When one is chosen, others will be unavailable and later replaced with fresher missions. These missions will have some impact on the campaign.
For example, in one [...]

Shinji Mikami Brings Bethesda into Survival Horror Gaming

According to news from Joystiq, it seems that a mysterious but interesting project called "Project Zwei" is a project involving Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami and his Bethesda Softworks-supported group Tango Gameworks. This codename for this project was revealed to Famitsu (Japan's leading source of video game news) where Mikami stated that the game will be a survival horror game, drawing elements from the Resident Evil series.
In addition, the interview revealed that the game is still rather early in development. He said that the game won't be out this year but sometime within [...]

South Korean Company Nexon to Bid on EA for Takeover

Accord to Joystiq, Nexon, the South Korean MMO company that created Maple Story is a pretty big player in the East. It's so big, it's thinking about and looking at possibilities of buying out a competitor from the West, Electronic Arts. Yes, THAT Electronic Arts. MK Business News, a South Korean newspaper, has reported that Nexon's Japanese headquarters spoke with EA about acquiring the company. However, it is unclear what the negotiations have come to. EA isn't saying anything according to all of its representatives.
But the bigger question is if this [...]

FPSRussia Teases COD with an Explosive Video

While the next Call of Duty teaser site still counts down to its May 1st unveiling, Activision finds other ways to tease the next COD title. Using the gun-totting obviously-using-a-fake-Russian-accent Youtube celebrity FPSRussia (formerly named FPSKyle), they managed to show us one of the new weapons in the upcoming Call of Duty game. In his newest video, FPSRussia demonstrates a "Prototype Quadrotor," and uses the attached machine gun to shoot down and blow up some stuff.
The host refers to the quadrotor as a new kind of technology that's in its prototype stage. He claimed [...]

A Source from Target Shows Black Ops 2's Release Date

With so many leaks about Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, you could swear that its release is no longer a rumor, but rather confirmed news. From leaks from outside sources and teasers from Activision, I think we can all agree, Black Ops 2 is coming.
Recently a source from Target emailed IGN an interesting image. An image of a Target pre-order card confirming both the title and the release date for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. The release date is confirmed as November 13th of this year. Which is odd [...]

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These buttons have LEDs in the center of each authentic bullet to give your controller an incredibly unique look. In addition each LED matches the color corresponding with it's assigned button function. The Y Bullet Lights up Yellow, the X Bullet, Blue, the B Bullet, Red, and the A Bullet, Green.
They can be added to your controller through our build your own for only $39.99.
This is an add-on that is compatible with our world famous mods [...]

A Rumored Italian Box Art Cover for the Next Call of Duty Appears on Internet

Evidence from Kotaku claims that the next Call of Duty will definitely be something along the lines of Black OPs 2. First it was an Amazon listing and then some teaser poster art, and then a Gamestop teaser website. Now, it's rumored box art.
Yes, an European photo depicting the game's box art has circulated the web and it resembles the silhouetted art on the Gamestop teaser site; however, it is of a higher resolution.
The box shows the Italian version of the game, where the sticker on [...]