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December 29, 2011
Peter Moore of EA Claims BF3 Dented Modern Warfare 3
Modern Warfare 3 left its mark during November, video gaming's biggest retail month. And it still continues to dominate the video game scene right now. However, Peter Moore, EA's CEO, insists that it's game, Battlefield 3, managed to take a chunk out of the huge series' market share.
"I think when the dust fully settles, maybe when we're looking at the end of our fiscal year, we'll do an analysis and I think we will have taken [market] share...I don't think there's any doubt about that, unless everything BF3 sells is just incremental."
Moore
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December 28, 2011
A Brilliant Ad Campaign for a Game that Needs No Advertising
by Guest Writer: Ryan Keeler
For a gamer, everyone knew the relevance of November 8, 2011. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 hit the shelves and millions lined up to pick up their copy. Even if you aren't big into video games, the Call of Duty name is recognized. That's
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December 14, 2011
Modern Warfare 3 Makes $1 Billion in Sixteen Days, Faster than Avatar
Thanks to some news from the site ComingSoon, Modern Warfare 3 made $1 billion within sixteen days of its release. When put in a side by side comparison with major Hollywood movies, it was faster than Avatar, which made $1 billion in seventeen days.
According to the article, with the popularity of video games on the rise and the slow decline of people going to the movies, this could be a probable factor of the game's financial success and recent feat.
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Japan's Sales Charts Show That They Love Modern Warfare 3.
So according to some news from Joystiq, it seems that Japan really likes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on both consoles, they just like the PS3 version more. But that is expected if you have read my earlier blog posts about the relationship between the Xbox 360 and the land of the rising sun. Anyway, the numbers show that Activision's latest FPS title has topped the Japanese game sales charts at number one with over 180,000 units sold. As for the Xbox
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December 08, 2011
Frank O'Connor of 343 States that a Silent Master Chief is Important for the Next Halo Title
Thanks to some news from Shacknews, 343 Industries' franchise directory Frank O'Connor said that he was surprised by how fans reacted to the absence of Master Chief in Halo: Reach (except for a quick easter egg/cameo) and stated that John (aka Master Chief) will be explored more deeply in the next title, Halo 4.
"I was a great proponent of the new Spartans for Reach...I thought that people would do what they did with the Master Chief and put themselves into the character's shoes, but people missed him."
Master Chief wouldn't
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December 08, 2011
"I don't care that you help saved humanity from extinction, Mr. Fenix, it'll still be about two quid to Milton Keynes"
So in Milton Keynes, England a student had to pay a full bus fare for Marcus Fenix. I'm dead serious. Liam Sheridan, a huge Gears of War fan, was bringing home a life-size cardboard display of Marcus Fenix. Unfortunately when he reached the bus station (or coach station as our UK followers would say), Liam's montly bus pass wouldn't cover for his cardboard cutout as the
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Around 53% of Battlefield 3's Players also Played Modern Warfare 3
According to an article on Kotaku, gaming research firm Raptr decided to track how many hours people spent both playing EA's Battlefield 3 and Activision's Modern Warfare 3. The reason for this study predicted that Modern Warfare 3 was going to outsell Battlefield 3. Thus, using a combination of data from 10-million gamer network plus the addition of a 6,000-person survey, the firm found that users
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December 08, 2011
Battlefield 3 Players Using the Engineer Glitch Are Likely to be Banned ASAP
Swedish developer DICE tweeted last weekend that it has banned hundreds of offending accounts for cheating in Battlefield 3.
DICE wants to make sure that gamers all play by the rules and level up by grinding and gaining experience. The players of the accounts in question were apparently caught using a technique called boosting (which you can read about here on a previously written Evil blog entry). "Boosting" is where you and a cohort
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The Tonight Show's Host Uses Modern Warfare 3 to Jab at Rival David Letterman.
I admit, back in the day when the late night talk show wars were up and running, I was a huge fan of Jay Leno. It was Jay versus David Letterman in a ratings war for the much sought after late night timeslot. Years passed and while that feud likely died away among the sea of other late night hosts like Fallon and Conan, some bad blood kind of remains between the two.
And now Jay Leno brings
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Modern Warfare 3 Launches with a Celebrity Filled Advert.
So by the time you read this blog entry,Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is likely in your hands. It's in everyone's hands as well; including celebrities who are fans of the series. Haters are gonna hate that COD's popularity stretches to all kinds of people, but it doesn't stop it from being a very fun game. In comes Avatar's Sam Worthington and Superbad's Jonah Hill, as well as a funny cameo in the end.
Both celebrities portray the veteran