Tag: CALLOFDUTY

Glen McCracken avidly plays 'Modern Warfare 2' with a goal steadfast in mind. He has already reached rank 70 several times, completed all of the challenges and killed many a dude by locking and loading. So, when it came time for McCracken to start a brand new campaign, none of this seemed to be enough. By radically shifting his gaming philosophy, he decided to take on an entirely new and arguably ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... James Cameron's 3-D epic 'Avatar' generated more than $75 million in ticket sales over the weekend, helping this past weekend to become the most successful in Hollywood history. 'Sherlock Holmes' and 'Up in the Air' also contributed to the $278 million in total sales. [From: Business Week] Apple is having a tough publicity day, as ...

First, reporters start clamoring for more nudity and sex in video games, and now a member of the clergy applauds the benefits of violence in games? Has the world gone completely mad? In a weekend op-ed piece, Brooklyn, New York rabbi Micah Kelber told The Forward how the game 'Call of Duty: World at War' has helped him confront longstanding fears of Nazis and resulting feelings of ...

Hugh Spencer, a writer and designer of museum and public educational exhibitions, has created a new and unique method of keeping his teenage son from engaging in gratuitous video game violence. The elder Spencer's initial dilemma arose when Evan approached him about 'Call of Duty,' a series in which players participate in integral campaigns of World War II, either solo or with fellow online ...

For years now, Electronic Arts has been the global powerhouse in the video game industry thanks to multi-million dollar franchises like 'Madden' and 'The Sims.' Now, though, it's about to be relegated to second place thanks to a new, multi-billion dollar deal that would merge two powerhouse game publishers: Activision and Vivendi Games, creating the largest publisher of video games in the ...

Last week, the video game world gathered at the annual E3 conference in Santa Monica, California to give the public a peek at the next year's worth of button-mashing fun. Switched.com has returned with all used thumbs, and the video above highlights what we're most excited about. Related Links: Nintendo Targets Women & Grandparents Which Video Game Console Will Rule This Year? ...

The 'Call of Duty' series has become well entrenched on both video game consoles and gaming PCs, selling into the millions every time a new iteration comes out. This is despite all of them taking place inside the rather tired-out WWII time frame, which has been covered extensively in more games than we care to list here. Thankfully, that's finally going to change to change with the next ...