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Kim Dotcom of Megaupload is Still First Place Rank Holder in Modern Warfare 3

As more news about Kim Dotcom and his company's (Megaupload) continues to get in trouble with the US government, more information about Kim Dotcom continues to circulate throughout the media. People are finding more and more facts and information about the Megaupload CEO. Interesting enough, Kim is still ranked first for the XBox 360's rankings for Modern Warfare 3 according to sources from Kotaku.
Though Modern Warfare 3 was one of 2011's most pirated games (despite the fact it was only out for 45 days in 2011), Kim [...]

Group Makes Claims of Hacking and Banning Innocent Battlefield 3 Players

The group of game-hacking site Artificial Aiming can't stand the anti-cheat service Punkbuster. The team is claiming actions of framing innocent BF3 users by banning them out of nowhere in defiance of the PC's Punkbuster service in order to show their disdain for it. The hackers are targeting users on servers tied to the cheat-detecting service due to the fact that servers using the service makes it easy to make massive waves of fake bans. In 2011, they hit player with a massive ban wave that took in around 150+ [...]

Learn How Activision Reacted to Modern Warfare 3's Leak

So last year, sources like Kotaku reported heavily on the MW3 leaks throughout the internet. It was the biggest leak so far in video game history and brought a lot of panic in the video game news community. Unfortunately that panic was only one half of the story all together.
The other side, Modern Warfare 3's publisher Activision reacted sort of differently to the leak. From this video from marketing site Adage Eric Hirshberg (Activision's CEO) goes into great detail of how his company reacted to the news. It seems that they turned [...]

Track your COD: Elite on any Android Phone

Some great news for Call of Duty fans with Android phones, according to an article on Joystiq, Call of Duty Elite is now available on the Android Market, for no cost at all. This comes immediately after the iOS launch, so no matter what kind of phone you have, you'll be ablle to check your stats, review recent matches and even update your in-game loadout from anywhere. So no matter if you're waiting in line at the movies or waiting for a friend, you can always be sure to be on up to [...]

Activision Buys the Rights to BlackOps2.com

Just recently, according to this article on Joystiq, Activision, has bought BlackOps2.com via the use of a proxy. Fusible (a technological news website) did some detective work on the acquisition of the site's URL. Now early last year, Activision bought up Black Ops domains last year from Black Ops 1 through Black Ops 6 through a brand protection company called MarkMonitor. Black Ops 2 however, was already secured.
While this doesn't guarantees that Black Ops 2 is 2012's Call of Duty, it does mean that MarkMonitor is under orders to protect the brand for the future [...]

Victor Reznov's Voice Actor Appears on Conan and Talks about Call of Duty

Gary Oldman. You may know him as Commissioner Gordon in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and in this summer's Dark Knight Rises or maybe you know him as Sirius Black in Harry Potter. However, many gamers know him as the voice of Victor Reznov in the Call of Duty series. Well known for his voice acting work in Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Well thanks to this article and video on Joystiq, it seems there are a lot of gamers on Conan O'Brien's staff and Conan might be a [...]

Battle Duty: Modern Field 3 Trolls Everyone While Bordering Copyright Infringement

At first, I thought this was a joke, but according to Joystiq, it is not. A company named Imba Entertainment made a satirical shooter that is basically trolling both Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3. Battle Duty: Modern Field 3 is an actual game available right now on the App Store for your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (if its iOS 3.2 or higher).
Since it claims that it's a satirical game, it can get away using real content from both games. The content includes cutouts of in-game characters, vehicles, weapons [...]

The Ministry of Defense for the UK Wants BF3 and MW3-like Simulators for their Military

It's no secret that today's soldiers train on video game style simulators. Both the Secret Service and British servicemen use Virtual Battlepace 2 as part of their training regiment. The VBS2 is a product of Bohemia Interactive, who also made the first Operation Flashpoint games. However these simulators need an update from it's 2007 model. And in the video game world, that's about the equivalency of being ancient. With recruits already having experienced the better graphics and gameplay of titles like Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare [...]

Recently Revealed Easter Egg Shows that Modern Warfare 3 Has an Angry Bear Wearing a Tutu

It seems that the people at Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games really know how to make a questionable Easter Egg, especially one that's a bit creepy. They decided to put an angry bear in a Tutu in one of the multiplayer maps of Modern Warfare 3 (as seen on this youtube video).
So here's how you get to see this odd spectacle of an Easter Egg. On the map Mission, once you spawn, switch to spectator mode. Make sure that you have your camera on freecam [...]

Fenix Rising DLC Adding Prestige Style Rewards to Gear of War 3

Forgot about Gears of War 3? Been hunkered down by Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3? We understand. But now it's time to brush off that Gears of War 3 disc because here comes some huge DLC that urges you to get in and show everyone online the wrong side of a retro lancer. With new maps, skins, and other goodies, how can you resist? Dropping on January 17, the third update to Epic Games' best-selling shooter will not only bring some visual goods to the game but also [...]