Call of Duty Might Be Slowing Down in its Sales

For some time now, it was very common to see that the new Call of Duty game would always outsell the last one. But things might have changed. As of this year, Modern Warfare 3 has sold less copies than the last Call of Duty title, Black Ops.

According to this news at Kotaku, analysts at Macquarie Equities have been tracking internal sales figures for the series for some time now. They recently have noticed that copies of MW3 are trailing sales of Black Ops by "around 4.2 percent".

While it's not a huge decline, but in terms of MW3

"Force, Balance, Push" is Now Trademarked

"Fus Roh Dah", the shout from Skyrim that has become an Internet meme is now officially trademarked. Yes, the shout that sends things flying across rooms like a candy wrapper in a tornado, was gaining so much popularity, its creators had to lock down the ownership of the slogan.

Bethesda's parent company, Zenimax, went into the process of filing a number of trademark applications that are directly related to the saying. This includes things from merchandise to it's use in future games. When reached for comment about this, Bethesda claimed that they were protecting

Matt Dunkley and Neil Davidge to Compose Halo 4's Soundtrack

According to news from Kotaku, a composer behind movies like The Dark Knight and a former band member of Massive Attack are working together for the Halo 4 soundtrack.

It is reported that Neil Davidge, a former producer of Massive Attack, has signed on to compose the soundtrack for the Halo 4 sequel. Alongside him will be Matt Dunkley, who has helped arrange music for multiple movies including Inception, Iron Man, and The Dark Knight

Gearbox's Borderlands 2 is Being Influenced by Robocop?

In meet up at a recent preview event for Borderlands 2, VG247 managed to meet up with Kevin Duc, Gearbox's lead concept artist. From their meet up, the public found out the concept of the visual style for Gearbox's upcoming game. To much of everyone's surprise, he draws the concept from a unique source.

"With loose art comes a vitality that allows story to be more free and level design to become a little more extreme. There's a nice back and forth that develops with [the art team] expressing

Server Rental Makes it Possible to Rent Out a Battlefield 3 Server

Being in random matches can be stressful. However, if you play Battlefield 3, then likely you don't have to worry about that from now on.

The reason why is because EA is renting out servers for your own personal use on the PS3, PC, and the Xbox 360. So that means you aren't going to be thrown into the middle of a battle where one sniper dominates the map or one lone wolf with a tank manages to squish you like a junebug over and over again. Now you can rent out a server and play with your friends and the people that you trust.

On the Xbox 360, for about $1.50 (120 Microsoft Points) per day or $25 (2000 Microsoft

Bungie Gives Halo a Farewell with an Interesting Stats Page

As Bungie say their last goodbyes to the Halo series, the developer decided to give it a honorable farewell by releasing a record of some multiplayer statistics that they have gathered over the years. And they are mind-blowing. Even you didn't like Halo, it's still an interesting read, especially when you see the numbers.

Facts include:

The Number of Steaktacular Medals: 382,330,491
Number of Weapon Kills: 108,548,388,596
Halo's Playtime in Days: 85,841,504
Halo's Playtime in Years: 235,182
and many more.

With nearly ten years of cumulative multiplayer experience some of the

The Next Generation of Playstation Consoles Will Not Play Used or Past-Generation Games

Reliable sources from Kotaku's and GamesIndustry.biz indicate that Sony's next console will be ready for a holiday 2013 launch and will be called the Orbis. It's not clear if this is a codename or not, though the practice is common. Also, it's worth noticing that orbis.scedev.net does exist, and that was the way people found out what the Vita was going to be called.

Both sources also reveals several pieces of key information: Orbis will play PS3 games and it's new new hardware will be designed to block used titles from playing. Meaning that any copy of a game you get from Gamestop will no longer work in this

MW3 Community Announces a Blackout of Activision Shooter

Reported by Attack of the Fanboy and various other sites on the internet, it seems there is some tension amongst the Modern Warfare 3 community of gamers that is directed at Infinity Ward. It seems that fans of the popular Call of Duty game want Infinity Ward to hear their complaints about the game's lack of support for the community's needs and concerns. These complaints range from lag compensation, lack of matchmaking options, broken spawn systems, and a long list of other complaints.

This type of action from

Call Of Duty: The Modern Warfare of Bradshaw and Gronkowski

Reported by Crave Online, it seems that the clash between Super Bowl XLVI two featured teams of the NFL is still going on in a way, despite that the New York Giants pulled off an underdog win against the New England Patriots. But apparently the match ain't over, at least in the minds of the developers of the 'Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection' pack.

In Venice, California, Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw and Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski clashed together in a Super Bowl rematch to see

The Orchestrated Video Game Music Tour Could Be Appearing in Smaller Venues and Areas

To celebrate it's decade of success, Video Games Live will celebrate in 2012 by heading to smaller venues and towns across the globe. Their reasoning to shy away a bit from populous places like New York and Chicago, was due to demand from their fans and their success.

"We continually receive thousands of emails a year from families and gamers who would love to experience our show, but find it hard to travel to major cities and have to deal with travel expenses, overnight stays, getting the kids out of school, etc. and we would like to try to accommodate as many people as possible to share in the experience..."