Treyarch director of communications John Rafacz
“I don’t know,” he replied. “With regards to the Vita, all I can tell you is that it’s quite literally declassified.
“When I know, I’ll tell you.”
Author: DestroyRepeat
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Treyarch have no idea who is making Black Ops 2 for the PS Vita
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Call Of Duty Online (China) Official Screenshots and Logos
Here are a couple of screenshots and logos released by activision for the cod online which will be released in china.
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Activision developing Call of Duty mobile
Activision Leeds has become the latest studio to join the Call of Duty family, according to UK games industry expert Andy Payne.
Talking to VideoGamer yesterday, Payne, who is the chairman of trade body UKIE, revealed that the new Leeds studio will be heading up development on all Call of Duty “handheld games” going forward.
“Activision are like a machine,” said Payne. “I have to be careful what I say about these guys because I know them so well and they’ll cane me.
“But Activision are a machine. They’re very good, and you know what, what people don’t realise with Activision is, the two studios working on the Call of Duty franchise are collaborative studios. That’s unheard of. All the assets are reusable, so they’re not wasting time.
“If we were modelling this [points to VideoGamer’s interview set-up], we’d have to build this, build that, takes time, right? Costs money. The two studios are saying, ‘I need a tank, pull it off from the library’. And those assets are also going to be starting to be used by the mobile team, which is going to be based in Leeds.”
Activision Leeds was established in November 2011, but it wasn’t known what the studio was working on beyond the “development of projects based on Activision’s brands.”
The studio will be developing “all handheld versions, iOS versions of Call of Duty” going forward, Payne revealed, but he wouldn’t confirm whether or not that extended to the Vita game Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified.
“They [Activision] kind of always wanted to get the Rockstar team,” he continued, referring to the Rockstar Leeds team behind portable games Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories and Chinatown Wars.
“They wanted some of the Rockstar guys, yeah. Well it’s smart, because Britain’s pretty ahead in mobile programming. We’re pretty good at it. Yet again, we’re good at it but we don’t talk about it too much because we’re British.”
Previous Call of Duty mobile games, including Call of Duty: World at War Zombies and Black Ops Zombies, were developed by the London-based Ideaworks Game Studio.
Activision may have got its wish, though: according to a GamesIndustry report, two ex-Rockstar bosses are also working with Activision Leeds.
Multiple studios are known to have joined the Call of Duty family in recent months. Last month it was revealed that Guitar Hero developer Neversoft was developing a new Call of Duty.
Activision declined to comment when contacted by VideoGamer.
Source: http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/call_of_duty_black_ops_2/news/activision_leeds_developing_call_of_duty_mobile.html
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Double XP This Weekend (6th-8th July)
Rank up this weekend with double xp for modern warfare 3 on all platforms for elite and free users.
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Terminal Release Date for Xbox Live
@InfinityWard: Terminal coming to #MW3 on Xbox 360 July 17th for Elite members, July 18th for non-elite.
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Team Defender coming to MW3 FaceOff This Weekend
Team Defender is landing on face off 2v2 and 3v3 this weekend for all platforms.
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Search and Destroy Added to Face Off
The game type search and destroy is now available to play in face off. SD joins kill confirmed and team deathmatch.
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50% Off Map Packs Until July 9th for Black Ops & MW3
Map packs are 50% of for the next few days in celebration of independence day. Both black ops and modern warfare 3… get em why can. -
Call of Duty to launch in China as free online title
An online-only version of the massively popular video game Call of Duty is to be made available to play in China.
Developer Activision has teamed up with Chinese internet service provider Tencent on the free-to-play title.
The game will earn income through the sales of in-game items.
Activision boss Bobby Kotick said: “We think China is one of the most exciting places in the world for us to grow our business and to develop innovative new games.”
“We have worked closely with Tencent to create a game with broad appeal for the Chinese market,” he added.
The game will also feature a storyline developed specifically for the local market.
Public testing
The game has been in development for two years at a games studio in China.
According to the Wall Street Journal, it will be released for public testing later this year, following a regulatory review.
The company said gamers would be able to use an in-game store to “enhance their weapons, gear, and perks built specifically for the Chinese market”.
Tencent, which is a major player in the Chinese market, offers several internet services, including Tencent Weibo, a Twitter-like microblogging site.
Its instant messaging service, Tencent QQ, has more than 600 million users.
This is not the company’s first foray into computer gaming. It already runs several online games, as well as owning a small stake in Epic Games.
Tencent’s president, Martin Lau, said: “We believe Call of Duty Online will attract tens of millions of loyal fans in China, and our game platform and operational expertise to run massive multi-player online games can provide strong support to deliver the immersive and highly interactive game experience.”
Source: BBC Technology – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18704188
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Terminal Coming to MW3
It’s official. We were all wondering if they were going to bring back any of the old modern warfare 2 maps. Well now we have an answer. Terminal a popular original map from the game makes its return to the call of duty series.
It will be available on all platforms and for free, no elite membership needed. Xbox will as usual get it first before PSN and PC.
As of yet no official released date has been given.
