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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Hardened and Prestige editions detailed
Are you already dead set on picking up Call of Duty: Black Ops 2? Then you might be the sort of player intrigued by a shinier special edition ultro-box version. MP1st have word of two offerings, a...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 system requirements and enhanced PC features detailed
Treyarch have upgraded the DirectX 9 Black Ops engine to a “leaner” DirectX 11 edition that promises “significant improvements” for us PC players. The updated engine should make more efficient use of...
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Black Ops 2 multiplayer leak video shows ‘finger guns’
Some cheeky blighters have obtained what Activision are calling a “development demo build” of Black Ops 2, and uploaded a vid to prove it. It’s an extremely short snippet of action, and overlayed with...
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Today’s other news: Black Ops 2 zombies, Project Eternity coming to GOG, and...
We don’t want to bury you in posts. For one thing, it would hurt – they have really sharp edges. But also, if we posted every PC gaming announcement made in a day, the most interesting stories would...
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Today’s other news: Far Cry 3, Black Ops 2, Guild Wars 2, and more
Today’s serving of collection of news croutons is best paired with a baby spinach, bullets, and blasters. On the menu: Far Cry 3 system specs and a trailer, a Guild Wars 2 patch, dead people lusting...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops zombie co-op campaign teased by trailer
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is getting an expanded co-op mode called “Tranzit” that’ll send four survivors on a zombie road trip across the US. As one of those survivors you’ll get to bus from place to...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 video shows eight minutes of multiplayer blasting
Black Ops 2′s future setting moves its gruff warrior sorts into a world that’s used to drone warfare, but hasn’t invented awesome laser cannons yet. That lets Treyarch weave a pleasantly paranoid plot...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 players will get Call of Duty Elite free
Activision announced today that the Call of Duty Elite service will be free for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 players when the game launches on November 13. Formerly a premium subscription service for...
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Black Ops 2 launch trailer rocks to squirrel-suits, spiderbots and splodes
Launch trailers usually go up at a game’s launch. Not so in the case of Black Ops 2, which has boldly put this video out a whole month early. Unless this isn’t a trailer to celebrate the launch of the...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 uses ping and latency “exclusively” for multiplayer...
During the self-reflective journey of personal growth and Sergeant rank iterations constituting Call of Duty’s multiplayer, players have historically connected via a matchmaking system that used their...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 in development at IW according to Captain...
The actor behind the most famous walking talking ‘tache in gaming, Bill Murray (not that one), has made mention of a somewhat inevitable follow-up to Modern Warfare 3. “Yeah, on Monday I am off to...
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Editorial: Warfighter vs. Allied Assault – how Medal of Honor went astray
Tyler Wilde, Associate EditorThe first player-controlled action in Medal of Honor: Warfighter is to shoot a guard in the back of the head with a suppressed pistol. I can’t move the pistol away from...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2′s Nuketown 2025 map trailered
Forthcoming Black Ops 2 map Nuketown 2025 has been given its own trailer, and to rub salt into the oozing radioactive wound, the sequel to one of the most celebrated Call of Duty maps will be made...
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Black Ops 2 FOV to be capped at 80
Treyarch have tweeted that Black Ops 2 is going to have a maximum FOV of 80 – the same as the original CODBLOPS’s multiplayer mode – on the grounds that anything higher will break things. That’s an...
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Black Ops 2 ban policy outlined, includes livestreaming rules
Although we’ll soon pepper each other with bullets and trade drone-guided explosions in Black Ops 2′s multiplayer later this evening, Treyarch still wants the chaos guided by a set of rules keeping...
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Nvidia 310.54 drivers boost Black Ops 2, show off changes with Commander...
As is its wont, Nvidia have released a new set of beta graphics drivers, hot on the heels of the 310.33 release a couple of weeks back. This is being called an “essential upgrade for all GeForce GTX...
View ArticleSome copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 have Mass Effect 2 on the second disc
Gamers on the Steam community forums, Reddit and the Call of Duty forums are reporting that when they try to install disc 2 of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, they instead get Mass Effect 2. So that’s what...
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Black Ops 2 weapons chart tracks damage spread, accuracy, effective ranges
Behind every bullet-bordered brawl in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 lies a rich mosaic of data, data that governs weapon behavior. Like an Oompa-Loompa sniper with Ghost Pro, the calculations putter...
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BioWare “answering the call” of Black Ops 2 players with Mass Effect 2 discs
Yesterday we reported that around 1,000 buyers of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 had discovered their disc 2 contained not more military manshoot, but BioWare’s space epic Mass Effect 2. Embarrassing for...
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PC Gamer UK Podcast: Episode 79 – Secret Seagull
Chris, Tom Senior, and Rich discuss the soon-on-PC Assassin’s Creed 3, Football Manager 2013, Planetside 2, some game called Call of Duty, and much more – including plenty of Twitter questions and the...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 review
Everybody’s second-favourite Call of Duty sub-franchise returns, picking through the carnage of the preceding game’s CIA conspiracy while simultaneously barrelling onward into the cyber-enhanced...
View ArticleHow to reduce lag in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 multiplayer
I haven’t experienced any ping-related dysfunction in Black Ops 2 multiplayer yet, but to stay safe, here’s a quick tip which may improve your matchmaking connections. In the Online > Public Match...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 makes bajillions
It’s inevitable, I know. Do bears tango in the woods? Is there a party like an S-Club party? Will Call of Duty make money this year? Yes, to all these things. A thousand times YES. $500 million is the...
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Treyarch will “kill people with facts” over Black Ops 2 balance complaints
Like their brethren in other FPS games, the bothersome bullets buzzing around in Black Ops 2′s frenetic multiplayer regularly takes flak from players lamenting perceived imbalances. Speaking to...
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PC Gamer US Podcast #337 – The Blackest of Ops
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is out. Evan, T.J., Tyler and Omri toss around their initial thoughts on its conspiracy-laden campaign alongside this week’s news: the GTA5 trailer, Valve’s new Source...
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Black Ops 2 nukes pre-order bonus playlist, then sheepishly puts it back, sorta
It’s hard to imagine the circumstances in which yoinking your pre-order bonus less than a week after launch would be considered a really good PR move. Nonetheless, this is the peculiar position...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 patch fixes sinking horses, allows 90 degree FOV
Martin’s steed got stuck in quicksand and couldn’t extract itself during our review of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. According to the latest patch notes posted on the CoD forums, spotted by Strategy...
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TED talk outlines how action games help your brain
How’s your brain? Is it full of thoughts of the weekend and exciting upcoming things like DINNER and CHRISTMAS? Good, you might be pleased to know that thanks to action games like Call of Duty, your...
View ArticleBlack Ops 2 video critique: the campaign’s successes and failures
Treyarch took chances with Black Ops 2′s campaign, and in this video critique, Evan and Tyler discuss which of those undertakings succeed, which flounder, and why they feel just one cutscene was able...
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Analyst downgrades Activision, says Black Ops 2 sales are “a cause for concern”
As far as I can tell, the job of financial analyst is half seaside fortune teller, and half looking at the Financial Times and doing the teeth-sucking noise that mechanics make when they realise their...
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Huge Call of Duty: Black Ops II patch addresses balancing, graphics issues
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has received the patch treatment, with a long list of changes and amendments ushered in including collision and clipping detection tweaks, faster loading times for some...
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Violence and videogames: we look at the studies cited in the aftermath of...
In the wake of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last week, it’s understandable that people would look to place blame. Many in the media have been quick to suggest a link between...
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Black Ops 2, Assassin’s Creed 3, Far Cry 3 benefit from new Nvidia drivers
It might be a good idea to check that you’re running the latest batch of Nvidia drivers. The full version of the GeForce 310.70 WHQL set are available now, and it sounds like they’ll add a fair few...
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Blacks Ops 2 DLC details spotted
Some scant early details of the first Black Ops 2 DLC have been divulged in the form of a retail display poster. Spotted by Reddit, the poster rounds up the contents for the as yet undated...
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Black Ops 2 Revolution DLC details revealed, then pulled
As previously detailed, Call of Duty: BlOps 2′s first DLC pack somewhat stretches the definition of “Revolution,” to mean “a few maps and a gun.” It’s almost as if they picked a word with vaguely...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Zombie Nuketown map will claw its way onto PC on...
If you splashed out on a Black Ops 2 season pass you’ll get access to the zombified Nuketown map this Thursday. Zombie Nuketown has been knocking around Xbox 360 playlists for a short while, and...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 DLC trailer expects you’ll be playing it a lot,...
What to do when your making a trailer for a DLC collection of maps (and a gun)? Well, the obvious thing would be to tour the new maps, giving players a chance to preview the various chokepoints and...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2′s Revolution DLC hands on – we’ve played every map
Preview by Michael Gapper Releasing Black Ops 2′s DLC in honking great map packs as opposed to Modern Warfare’s one-map-per-month schedule is good for his designers, says Treyarch’s design director,...
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The sun rises, tides fall, babies cry, another Call of Duty game confirmed
Activision’s efforts to forcibly insert Call of Duty releases into the yearly rhythm planet Earth continue today. There’s some pretty dry biz news floating around this morning so let’s enshrine key...
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Black Ops II and Gratuitous Space Battles can be played for free this weekend
So gratuitous… Maybe you’d like to play some games this weekend? Maybe you’d like them to be completely free? Maybe you’d also like them to be games you don’t own; games that will stop letting you play...
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Let’s Reboot … Call of Duty
The quiet rage of a man who can’t remember which pocket his keys are in. Call of Duty – what a monster. With clockwork precision a new edition pops up every year and sells millions without fail. It’s...
View ArticleBlack Ops 2 ‘Mob of the Dead’ trailer shows zombies in Alcatraz
If you’ve ever dreamed of playing a zombie survival shooter set on Alcatraz (and who hasn’t!) then this Black Ops 2 DLC is probably going to appeal to you. ‘Mob of the Dead’ – which comes bundled with...
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And the next Call of Duty will be…
…Call of Duty: Ghosts. That’s according to a mistakenly published (and now removed) listing posted by megaconglomoshop Tesco. The posting, showing the PS3 version of the game, stated a December...
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Black Ops 2: Uprising DLC erupts on PC next month
Maybe I’m too much of a pacifist to understand but, even in the most urgent combat situation, I think I’d abandon my post pretty quickly if a goddamn volcano erupted in the combat zone. It’s fortunate...
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Black Ops 2 gets free Steam weekend, double XP throughout
Clearly Activision have been made aware of a small pocket of the population that are yet to have a Strong Opinion on their unstoppable FPS franchise. In which case, there’s only one thing for it:...
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Black Ops 2: Uprising released, double weapon XP weekend begins
Not to be outdone by GlobOff’s free trial, BlOps 2 is starting a double weapon XP weekend to run alongside the launch of the Uprising map pack. During the event, your weapons will rank up at twice the...
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League of Legends and Black Ops 2 pros star in Gfinity London 2013 tournament
UK e-sports is about to get its largest tournament prize pool to date. Gfinity London 2013 will split £110,000 between League of Legends and Call of Duty: Black Ops II, with both competitions boasting...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 developer receives death threats following gun tweaks
Treyarch design director David Vonderhaar has received death threats and threats of violence on Twitter, after patch notes for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 revealed that three of the game’s guns were to...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 final DLC releases August 27 for Xbox, PC “to follow”
It’s become a tradition now for Call of Duty DLC to offer re-skinned, re-worked versions of classic levels and the final Black Ops 2 map pack is no exception. And in another nod to a deeply-held...
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Final Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 DLC, Apocalypse, drops September 26 for PC
This is what the end looks like. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2′s final DLC, Apocalypse, comes to PC September 26, marking the final batch of new content for developer Treyarch’s latest entry in the...
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