Official trailer from treyarch.
Author: DestroyRepeat
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MW3 Tips & Tricks: KSG-12 Increased Fire Rate
Increase how quickly you can fire with the ksg-12 shotgun with this simple trick
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Trent Reznor pens ‘Black Ops II’ theme song
The next soundtrack project for Trent Reznor, who most recently scored The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Atticus Ross, is not for a film, but for the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
Reznor has composed the game’s theme song, an “aggressively sounding” piece of guitar, bass and drums-based rock. Well-known video game composer and Video Games Live co-producer Jack Wall (Mass Effect 2) composed the rest of the music for the game.
A lifelong video gamer, Reznor is no stranger to collaborating with game developers having worked on Quake and Doom 3 with id Software. His teaming with the game’s development studio Treyarch is a suitable one as the Nine Inch Nails frontman is a fan of the Call of Duty franchise and 2010’s Black Ops. “I have always looked to that franchise as the cutting edge of what seemingly unlimited budgets and full-on not cutting any corners can do in the current day and age,” he says.
When Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia began talking with Activision’s music affairs team, “we were trying to think what is the kind of artist that could represent something a little bit dark, sometimes conflicted, bold original and engaging,” says Black Ops II director and writer Dave Anthony. “Honestly, Trent’s name stuck out. He was perfect for it.”
Reznor recently talked with Game Hunters about Black Ops II, video games and his upcoming music projects.
How’d you get connected with Treyarch on ‘Black Ops II’?
I’m not exactly sure. I started dipping my toe into film scoring. That led me to film scoring agents and whatnot and a variety of projects start to get thrown at you to check your level of interest. And quite a while ago I had heard, ‘Would you be interested in a big franchise video game?’ Being an avid gamer my whole life, I said, ‘Yeah, I would be interested in that.’
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Activision’s first UK mobile game is Pitfall, not Call of Duty
The first game from Activision’s new Leeds, UK mobile studio is a revamp of classic owned IP Pitfall, not Call of Duty, the firm has told MCV.
Activision has swiftly moved to put the record straight after reports late last week claimed it was working on a UK-made Call of Duty for smartphones.
But this afternoon Activision’s Martyn Brown, the Team 17 co-founder tapped up to build the new studio, told MCV:
“In setting up there has been a lot of interest given the publisher we are working with. In the third week of may we revealed we had the studio, and yes it is based in Leeds, and we have hired some key talent in the form of Mark Washbrook and Mark Lloyd [formerly of Rockstar Games].
“The first game we are making is in fact Pitfall, which is 30 years old this year.”
Pitfall is a symbolic choice for the new UK studio – the 1982 original was Activision’s first major release, coded by co-founder David Crane. Ports appeared on many 8-bit systems and Activision has remade the title a number of times for later formats.
Pitfall for smartphones is a fresh take, said Brown.
“We’ve been working on Pitfall since earlier in the year when we set up and it has been really good to revisit that and bring it to a modern audience.”
More details on the game, Brown said, will be revealed in due course as the team puts the finishing touches to the title.
Brown said that Pitfall is ultimately just one of a raft of Activision IPs it has the chance to introduce to the fast-growing audience for smartphone games.
He explained: “Being able to call upon a wide portfolio of properties is really good for us and we are looking forward to finally showing it to more people.”
via Activision’s first UK mobile game is Pitfall, not Call of Duty | Games industry news | MCV.
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MW3 Tips & Tricks: USAS-12 Extreme Conditioning Trick
Check out this video. little tip for the USAS-12. (MW3)
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Pre-order Black Ops: Declassified for PS Vita and Release Date
Myhotelelectronics.com are slating a december release date for the call of duty ps vita game and the pre-order price is $49.96. Check it out here.
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MW3 August Elite Drops 19, 20, 21
August’s dlc drops for elite members will be two spec ops mission and one unknown… this may be a multiplayer map or a faceoff map.
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MW3 July Elite Drops 16,17,18
According to Content Calendar, this month we will see two new multiplayer maps as well as a new spec ops mission. this has nothing to do with the release of the mw2 map terminal.
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Black Ops 2 Weapon List
Will update as more information comes available.
Assault Weapons
AK-47
AN-94
Commando
FN FAL
Galil
M16
Scar
Steyr ACR
Type 95Sub Machine Guns (SMGs)
Chicom QCB
MP7
Vector K10Light Machine Guns (LMGs)
MK-48Pistols
KAP-40
M1911Shotguns
KSGLaunchers
M-32
RPGWeapon Attachments
Red Dot
ACOG Sight
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Activision Blizzard CEO Talks Risks of Bringing Game to China
Activision Blizzard’s CEO, which is partnering with Chinese Internet Service Provider, Tencent Holdings, to bring its popular Call of Duty titles to Chinese users, says the move is a big risk because of China’s free-to-play gaming market.
“It’s a really big risk, and there’s a lot of uncertainty when you go into new markets and try new business models,” Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard told CNBC Asia’s “Squawk Box”.
“[But] I think in this case, Tencent has a lot of insights into these types of games, and the game’s been in development for 2 years and they’ve been very, very generous with providing that insight, and hopefully it will materialize into something that’s a great experience for players,” he added.
Activision and Tencent have agreed to develop the Chinese version of the wildly popular first-person shooting game in a Shanghai based studio. According to the agreement, Tencent has exclusive rights to operate Call of Duty Online, the working title for mainland China.
The latest release in the Call of Duty series, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 grossed $775 million within five days of its worldwide release in November 2011 – a new record.
Activision Blizzard is also responsible for other online game titles such as World of Warcraft, and the more recent Diablo 3. However, this is the company’s first foray into a completely free-to-play business model.
“One of the things that we’ve learned in taking our intellectual properties to different markets is that you have to be compatible and consistent with the way that people play in the market that we operate in,” said Kotick. “And in China, that is largely free-to-play with virtualized sales, sometimes paying for time, but it’s a different business model and we’re racing for China.”
Tencent is the company behind China’s most-used instant messaging service, QQ, with 752 million active users recorded at the end of the first quarter this year. The company posted annual revenue of $4.5 billion in 2011, a 45 percent increase over the previous year.
The Chinese online gaming sector has been growing approximately 33 percent year-on-year to $1.78 billion in the first quarter of 2012, according to Zacks Investment Research in a report in July.
As for worries about intellectual property infringements, Kotick is confident that it wouldn’t be an issue to contend with. “These [online] games don’t really lend themselves well to piracy; there are individual experiences that are specific to user IDs, and it’s not the same as selling physical goods.”
Source: CNBC – http://www.cnbc.com/id/48091620