In a market where Call of Duty sells a billion dollars worth of copies every year, it can be hard to make an impact doing something different.
Yes, it is probably the case that if you have a kid playing Call of Duty for six hours at a time, he might come out of the other end of that acting a bit more aggressively.
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Whether it's a quick Madden or Call of Duty session, inviting a friend over to catch a flick or just zoning out after class, having the proper setup makes all the difference, and there are plenty of options at every price point.
It turned out to be more of a rebuttal of Call of Duty and other war-glorifying shooters than a participant in the genre.
For every Journey or The Walking Dead you have a dozen Call of Duty and Halo clones.
They easily could have published something far less innovative, a zombie Call of Duty knock-off, and risked less.
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Imagine that multiplied on the scale of a Call of Duty launch.
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Like Punxsutawney Phil's shadowgazing, we can rightfully expect a new Call of Duty game to be announced annually and available at the holidays.
This being a "Call of Duty" game, there will also be new multiplayer gameplay to entice players to log in and take on friends from around the world on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.
"I have absolutely no comment on it and could care less about it, " said Eric Hirshberg, head of the publishing unit of Activision, which has launched a "Call of Duty" marketing blitz with ads featuring actors Sam Worthington and Jonah Hill and basketball star Dwight Howard.
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As a multiplayer game, the "Call of Duty" series has been a standout.
Rumor has it that about a thousand customers who purchased Call of Duty: Black Ops II for PC today were also treated to a surprise copy of Mass Effect 2.
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It is common to see a game of Call of Duty or Age of Empires being played in the lab.
After all, if a game like Call of Duty is the top seller year over year, why do anything to change?
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He told me that he would have been perfectly happy to watch a trailer for Call of Duty, Black Ops II.
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The average is 13 minutes, which is about enough time to get in a game and a half of Call of Duty Black Ops.
And maybe the next time you make a kill in Call of Duty in the coming months, you might have just beaten the all-time Olympic medal holder.
At the 13th Annual Pacific Crest Global Technology Leadership Forum, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg asserted that a title like Call of Duty is still vastly more popular than any title Facebook can muster.
He notes that TenCent was a logical partner for the company on Call of Duty, given that they already host a similar military combat game called CrossFire which lately has been running at 4 million peak concurrent users a day, and tens of millions of players overall.
Making Call of Duty a big name in the world of e-sports might be a challenge, however.
Is there not sophistication to deftly managing the up and down adrenaline slide in a military shooter like Call of Duty?
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In July 2009, West and Zampella were asked by Activision management to provide the names of the Infinity Ward employees that should receive millions of dollars of Activision stock grants in connection with the development of a Wii version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
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Actually, if that means just a hint of the brilliant command of pacing that the Call of Duty series has always managed, that might be a good thing.
This fall they released Medal of Honor: Warfighter, a new game in the series meant to compete with Call of Duty, but by all accounts, doing a miserable job.
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Does this point to a growing weariness toward the Call of Duty brand?
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Nicolas Anelka has been banned for two matches by the French football federation, after refusing a late call-up to international duty.
Whether in the campaign, multiplayer or Zombies, Call of Duty has a sense of timing that exceeds any other game on the market.
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Call of Duty gets a lot of flack for linear gameplay, but every year it comes out with the tightest game on the market.
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And though Gearbox has mastered single player campaigns and co-op, Deathmatch has really never been their thing which is a problem considering how heavily Call of Duty relies on the mode.
Would Call of Duty be a better game if it was free, but you had to wait ten minutes for a new gun to be delivered to you or for a silencer to be attached to it?
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