Call of Duty

Our second GDC show features Robert Bowling from Infinity Ward, discussing the success of Call of Duty 4 and the issues facing first-person shooters and the communities who love them.

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By Doc It’s the first edition of the Hump-day Update, a weekly supplement to the Sarcastic Gamer podcast. A quick 10-minute rundown of a few of the topics making the biggest waves in the sea of video game news. This week, we covered: Halo 3 gets dethroned by Call Of Duty 4 on Xbox LiveGametrailers upd...

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The four horsemen saddle up for a post-Thanksgiving ride through the cornucopia of holiday games still to be played. Mark, John, Shane, and Garnett begin with a closer examination of multiplayer Call of Duty 4. From there John tells some battle stories from Geometry Wars: Galaxies for the...

By Brian Ashcraft Activision honcho Robert Kotick is not a nerd. He has a totally cool nickname, "Bobby." And cool guys have a nickname like that. His company puts out cool games like Call of Duty 4 and Guitar Hero. Bobby recently told a room full of press:

On this special post-Thanksgiving episode of EGM Live*, we go long form with staffers Bryan Intihar, Michael Donahoe, Crispin Boyer, and Mike Cruz. They open with a reader letter discussing missing big-game reviews and some Wii-talk. From there, it's about what the guys like/don't like...

In honor of the fact that there are, like, a zillion PC games to play right now, the GFW Radio crew spends two hours actually talking about them! Seriously. Just PC games. Hellgate: London, Crysis, Call of Duty 4, the new Sam ns Max, The Witcher, and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. OK, so the last...

By Rusty Ranchero Rusty Ranchero hosts LIVE on LIVE The Gamers Roundtable™ TOPICS Breaking News: Microsoft to restructure Xbox Live pricing? Call of Duty 4, from Beta to Retail, will we now put down Halo 3? Xbox Live should NOT be free? Games, games and more games… Mass Effect, Kane and Lynch, Army of Two, Gu...

In anticipation of next week's Halloween launch of Hellgate: London, joining us is Bill Roper, chief executive officer at Flagship Studios and formerly of Blizzard Entertainment where he did a couple little titles like Diablo 2 and Starcraft. And while he has plenty to say about Hellgat...

By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) The Halo 3 IMAX event leads to a silly rumor, and Nelson was there to see the truth. We spent some quality time with Spider-man: Friend or Foe, despite our clearly being too old for it. The Call of Duty 4 beta hits the UK, and we get the Cranky Gamers' view. The hosts of the XCast ask this week's Halo-...

Determined to stay completely on topic this week, the GFW crew gets off to a rousing start with a discussion of miniature golf. This is followed by a perusal of a Top 25 Bestselling Games of All Time list, a philosophical discussion on the subject of "exclusive reviews", some hands-on impre...

By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) Natalie attended her first solo gaming event, checking out Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, Spider-Man: Friend or Foe and Bee Movie Game. Nelson started his first week with the Xbox community team and he shares his experiences with anyone willing to listen. The rumor of 23,000 banned Call of Du...

By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) We can finally speak about the Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer Beta. The PS3 lost, but only by a nose in last month's console sales. GRAW2 fans with shallow pockets might be happy about a new announcement. Geometry Wars remembers its roots and Project Gotham Racing 4 remembers its release date. We al...

By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) A hard drive is required to play this episode of Achievement Junkie. (Making us truly next-gen, without a colon). Blazing Angels 2 launched a demo on the marketplace. The Call of Duty 4 beta is live, sort of. Bioshock is scaring people silly, even though it appears cropped on a widescreen TV or m...

By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) The Bioshock demo splashed onto the marketplace this weekend, and Natalie likey. Nelson got escorted into a Tony Hawk's Proving Ground demonstration and lived to tell of it. Nelson also explains why he absolutely hated Call of Duty 4. New two-game 360 bundles seem to be on the way, and a favor...

By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) This week you told us whether or not the public had ever steered you wrong about a game. We also turbo-discuss some of the latest news: Grand Theft Auto 4 won’t be launched until 2008. Episodic content may also be delayed. A financial analyst blames Playstation 3. The alien shooter Blacksite Ar...

By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) Medal of Honor Airborne is on the way (in September now), and Nelson strapped on a parachute (sort of) to find out how the multiplayer is looking. The Call of Duty 4 multiplayer beta will show no love to Europe or Canada. New ads for Halo 3 have been appropriately dissected, leading to more rumo...

By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) Doritos wants to be in your Xbox Live Arcade, but they want you to design the game. You revealed your video game fantasies, and we ask if you care about game manuals. We give away Prince of Persia: Classic and launch our first Shadowrun giveaway. The Surf's Up demo found it's way into our schedul...

By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) This week we talked about the Call of Duty 4 trailer and the Gears of War movie script. We discussed Centipede, Millipede, Catan, and Time Crisis 4. We toured the new Gears of War maps and discussed the blocking of fake live accounts. And we looked at Microsoft in Europe and your answers to how to...

By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) The Xbox 360 Elite squeaked into stores. The Call of Duty 4 trailer launched this weekend and one of us inspected it to no end. Gears of War movie details were leaked and a listener wonders about multiplayer games that suck the life out of others.

By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) This is a mashup of all the daily episodes we’ve recorded so far this week. Some of what we talked about was: Mass Effect may leave you hanging this summer. Microsoft half-denied a Halo 3 - 1080P rumor. A big GTA IV leak was called out as a hoax and a new rumor emerged about a female playable charact...

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By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) Call of Duty 3 had a rough week, while Gears of War had a damn good one and Natalie admits to a GroWing problem. PS3 launches to crowds of campers and ebay sellers and the HD-DVD drive mates with a PC. Bungie announces that Halo 3 is getting closer to your hot little hands while Spartans could be ge...

By nelson@achievementjunkie.com (Nelson and Natalie) The week's headlines, in review. Nelson and Natalie discuss the HD-DVD Drive rumors, record-breaking sales of Call of Duty 2, and Atari's tender loving care for Test Drive Unlimited. They also chat up the Dead Rising controversy and the big news about the Wii. Staff writer Eric Bush joins in...