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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone Season 1 Reloaded has arrived. The update saw the return of the Champion’s Quest, allowing those who are up to the challenge to nuke the Urzikstan map. There are a range of rewards up for grabs that are exclusively acquired by completing the Champion’s Quest, with the most sought after being a weapon camo and an operator skin. This guide contains all the rewards you’ll earn for dropping a nuke in Warzone, so you know what to expect before you activate the contract.

Call of Duty Warzone developer Raven Software has apologised for «the disruption» caused by Warzone's Season 1 Reloaded launch.

Fans think they've spotted a reference to a new Quake game hiding in plain sight in Microsoft's latest Developer Direct presentation.

Halo Infinite’s Season 5, released last October, will be the game’s last, developer 343 has confirmed.

Raven Software announces big balance changes to popular and what many consider to be overpowered Call of Duty: Warzone weapons like the MTZ Interceptor and WSP Swarm. It's been a tough few weeks for the Call of Duty: Warzone community, as the Season 1 Reloaded update hasn't been particularly smooth. Since the Season 1 Reloaded update, Warzone players have been reporting an infinite loop glitch happening on the main menu, others have seen a frustrating visual bug that can happen after using a supply drop, while there have been concerns about how dark the new Urzikstan's Gulag is.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone players have started receiving some useful freebies on January 19. The digital gifts are meant to serve as an apology for the serious issues introduced with the Call of Duty Season 1 Reloaded update earlier this week.

Call of Duty offered fans a workaround for Call of Duty: Warzone's current Perk Package glitch. The new Call of Duty: Warzone bug sees users unable to equip Perk Packages properly when receiving their loadout during a game.

Precision Airstrikes will show their trajectory on the mini-map with the Call of Duty: Warzone Season 2 update. Infinity Ward and Raven Software continue to update Call of Duty: Warzone, and Season 2 includes a handful of quality-of-life changes like the Airstrike adjustments.

One of Call of Duty's development teams explained why the recent Season 1 Reloaded update proved to be so troublesome. After the update's initial release, Call of Duty players widely reported game-breaking bugs that were eventually fixed the next day.

The original Destiny arrived 10 years ago this year — and finally, Bungie will let players modify their character's face.

Call of Duty: Warzone teased the return of the powerful Specialist Bonus perk while also teasing the return of a popular map. Raven Software has made it clear that Call of Duty: Warzone will see plenty of exciting additions in 2024.

Call of Duty: Warzone Season 1 Reloaded has arrived and the Champion’s Quest has made its debut in Urzikstan. If you’re ready to take on the most difficult challenge in Warzone, here is how you can complete the contract and nuke the battlefield.

If you want to change your Destiny 2 wizard's appearance, the only current method is to stash your wizard's gear in your vault, create a whole new wizard with a new look (after deleting the old to free a character slot, if needed), grab your old wizard's gear, then optionally replay any story bits to catch up. The MMOFPS has no barber, no surgeon, it's new character or nothing. After six years (longer, if you count the first game), Bungie are finally planning to change this. An upcoming update will introduce the ability to change your character's look—within limits. For drastic changes, you would still need a new wizard.

Whether you’re a fan of multiplayer, zombies, or battle royale, there is plenty of new content across all modes with the Season 1 Reloaded update. Included, is a brand new mode in MW3 known as Supe’d Up, inspired by The Boys. Since it’s a game type that players haven’t seen before, you’ll want to know how it works before you give it a try.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Ranked Play mode has finally launched following a slight delay, allowing players to begin progressing through its skill divisions and earning the mode's exclusive rewards. January 17's Season 1 Reloaded update introduced major bugs to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 that led to the mode's release being pushed back.

Call of Duty: Warzone released a set of updates that addressed various issues plaguing the game. Recently, Call of Duty players widely reported multiple new bugs following Call of Duty: Warzone's Season 1 Reloaded update.

A AAA open world RPG based on Harry Potter was always going to do well, and unsurprisingly, Hogwarts Legacy has been a massive success for WB Games. The game, which has sold over 22 million units worldwide, was not only the best-selling game of 2023 in the UK, it also accomplished that feat in the US.

Circana (formerly known as the NPD Group) has released software and hardware sales data for the US for the month of December (via analyst Mat Piscatella on Twitter), with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 taking the top spot in the charts for the best-selling games of the month (though it was beaten by Hogwarts Legacy in the annual charts).

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone Season 1 Reloaded has arrived with an array of fresh content for battle royale fans to dive into. There are two new weapons to take to the battlefield, a new Champion’s Quest, weapon balancing updates, and so much more. Perhaps one of the most interesting additions to come out of the Warzone mid-season update is a Night Vision Gulag Public Event.

Several Call of Duty games will now shut down for mouse and keyboard players who activate aim assist.

Raven Software has pulled the latest update to Call of Duty Warzone today, after it was found to have created problems on the platform.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 dataminers found evidence that a substantial Warhammer 40K-themed event is possibly coming in the future. The dataminers unearthed a surprising amount of details regarding the potential Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 event.

World of Warcraft just increased the amount of experience points players gain in Follower Dungeons. This change came less than a day after the new World of Warcraft feature went live in Patch 10.2.5.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone Season 1 Reloaded has arrived. With the mid-season update came a plethora of new content to dive into, including two fresh weapons which have the potential to shake up the meta. The TAQ Evolvere is the latest long range option to join the battlefields of MW3 and Warzone, but before you can add the gun to your loadout, you must unlock it.

A new leak suggests that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 may be receiving Das Haus, one of the more popular multiplayer maps from 2021's Call of Duty: Vanguard. Midway through Season 1, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has just launched its mid-season Reloaded update, which includes the addition of the new 6v6 Rio map and the return of The Boys' crossover, introducing A-Train and Firecracker as playable operators.

Call of Duty: Warzone players are reporting some serious issues following the game's newest patch. The Season 1 Reloaded update released on January 17th for Call of Duty: Warzone, but it seems to have done more harm than good.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 announced that the release of its Ranked Play mode has been delayed. The new mode was supposed to launch today on January 17 alongside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Season 1 Reloaded update.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone Season 1 Reloaded is live on all platforms. With the mid-season update came an abundance of new content, including two fresh weapons which may very well shake up the meta. The fast-firing HMR-9 has joined the battlefields of MW3 and Warzone and before you can add the gun to your loadout, you must unlock it.

What's the most 90s way you can market your retro-styled prequel to a 90s mech shooter? Other than an Acclaim-style stunt where you offer people £500 to tattoo their baby's face with the game logo, I'd say perhaps releasing a Quake mod. So here's Episode Enyo, a prequel to upcoming "biopunk" hack 'n' slasher Slave Zero X, now available as a Bethesda-approved free add-on inside Quake.

It’s now come to light that Raven Software was making a live service Call of Duty Zombies game.

Raven Software was at one time working on a standalone live-service version of Call of Duty's popular Zombies mode, ex-Raven Software lead designer Michael Gummelt has revealed, but it was cancelled after its IP originator — presumably Treyarch — «wanted it back».

Charity speedrunning extravaganza Games Done Quick has kicked off its first week-long event for 2024. Among the highlights are speedy plays of 2023 highlights including Starfield, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Lies of P, along with a marathon from the world’s first canine speedrunner.

A Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 player created an incredible mockup of a long-requested game feature, the gun camo challenge tracker. The mockup, which was shared online, was so well-designed that it fooled many into thinking that it was real.

First reported by MP1st, Raven Software lead designer Michael Gummelt mentioned a couple of cancelled projects on his Linkedin page. One was a live service version of Call Of Duty's zombies mode, and the other, a revival of a classic Raven IP. I'm not sad about one and I'm mildly sad over the other, with the mystery not being too hard to solve.

A Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Zombies player found a frustrating bug that teleported them to their death. There are a lot of ways that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 players can die in the Zombies mode, but this may be one of the least expected ones.

It looks like Raven Software was once working on a Call of Duty: Zombies live service game, but it was canceled. Zombies has been an incredibly popular Call of Duty mode ever since it first debuted as part of 2008's Call of Duty: World at War. Zombies has appeared in every Treyarch-developed CoD game since World at War and many of the non-Treyarch games as well.

Raven Software announced that Call of Duty: Warzone's previously revealed feature, the Covert Exfil, will be delayed until further notice. The Covert Exfil was going to be a new way for Call of Duty: Warzone players to win a match, and was previously planned to be released on January 17 as part of the Season 1 Reloaded update. While this might come as surprising news to some fans, Raven Software explained its plans for the future of Warzone's new win condition.

As Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone players await the Season 1 Reloaded update next week, a new update has gone live which squashes some bugs and adjusts some of the multiplayer maps' spawn points. The list of map spawn adjustments includes Meat, one of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's newest original maps, which went live as part of Season 1 last month alongside another original 6v6 map named Greece.

Fans of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Zombies mode will have a new warlord known as Dokkaebi to go after on January 17. This addition is a part of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Season 1 Reloaded update, which will bring plenty of new content to various modes.

A new tweet from the official Spyro the Dragon Twitter/X account has sparked hopes that a new instalment could be on the way.

For Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 fans, it has been one heck of a ride since its initial launch on November 10, 2023. The developers at Activision and Sledgehammer Games have now addressed a known event bug that stops players from reaping their well-earned rewards. 

Bobby Kotick was a controversial figure during his long tenure as the CEO of Activision Blizzard, and controversy, it seems, is continuing to follow him in the aftermath of his recent departure. More specifically, developers who formerly worked at Activision Blizzard studios have been speaking out on Kotick’s leadership adversely impacted the games they worked on.

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will leave the company on December 29 after 32 years, and remaining Activision Blizzard executives such as Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Ybarra, Activision Publishing president Rob Kostich, and Activision Blizzard vice chairman Thomas Tippl will be overseen by Microsoft Gaming game content and studios president Matt Booty.

With Call of Duty: Black Ops Gulf War rumored for next year and a direct sequel to Black Ops 2 set for 2025, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Infinity Ward is working on the next Modern Warfare. Insider-Gaming’s Tom Henderson reported that the studio is “already well into development” on the next title.

Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard had to go through a nearly two-year long approval period before it was officially finalized in October, and throughout the process, Sony made it abundantly clear that it did not want the deal to go through. It’s no surprise, then, that newly leaked internal Sony documents have revealed (via Reddit) the extent of the company’s concern over the acquisition.

Activision Blizzard will pay over $50 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit filed by the state of California alleging that the video games giant discriminated against women by offering them lower pay and fewer promotion opportunities.

As reported by VentureBeat, Activision Blizzard has agree to pay a total of roughly $54 million to settle a lawsuit in the state of California. The company was sued by California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD) in 2021 after reports emerged with allegations of widespread and systemic sexual harassment and racial discrimination against employees, and unequal pay for women.

will be getting another Dune collaboration this week in the form of a new event as well as two new Operator skins based on Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler‘s characters.

Epic's tradition of giving away free games over the Christmas period has returned and begins today.

Despite overwhelming criticism against its campaign length, not to mention reports of rushed development, Sledgehammer’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 topped US sales charts for November 2023, per Circana. Not only is it the fifth year that a Call of Duty title has topped US charts in November, but analyst Mat Piscatella also revealed that it’s now the second best-selling game of 2023 year-to-date.

Treyarch's upcoming Call of Duty game, set to release in 2024, will reportedly bring the return of Warzone's original map, Verdansk.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and its Warzone component kicked off its Season 1 multiplayer today, marking its first major update since launch. The former gets three new maps as part of its 24/7 playlist, in addition to a 6v6 arena set in Rio, which will be available later in the season. As usual, there are some rewards for racking up kills without dying, granting players an EMP upon getting a 13 killstreak and the ability to summon mosquito swarms as cover on a 15 killstreak. There's also a new perk called the Assassin Vest, which makes players immune to UAV scans and doesn't pop skulls on the minimap upon performing an execution.

Destiny 2 developer Bungie are staring down the barrel of a full Sony takeover if forthcoming expansion The Final Shape doesn’t meet sales expectations, according to several anonymous current and former employees. The same sources also claim that the studio are prepared to cut staff again to meet their financial obligations as a Sony subsidiary, having laid off a significant proportion of their workforce in November.

The Federal Trade Commission has made its appeal to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard – despite the $68.7 billion deal closing in October.

Employees at Destiny 2 developer Bungie have said they feel anxious about their current status at the company, following layoffs earlier this year.

Activision has officially announced that, while players will still be able to play the DMZ game mode in the newest iteration of Call of Duty: Warzone, the mode is essentially getting cut off from the rest of the game with the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Season 1.

Over the years, Call of Duty campaigns have delivered the closest distillation of Michael Bay-style cinematic set piece action in video games. The first-person military shooter franchise, perhaps the most popular series of games in the world, has increasingly tilted in favour of its money-spinning multiplayer modes, with gradual introduction of battle passes, microtransactions, and downloadable content, but some of its single player campaigns remain a benchmark for bombastic sequences in the medium. Memorable missions from Call of Duty titles are part of gaming folklore — the raw shock of a nuclear detonation, the tense deliberations of a ghillied-up sniper, and the disturbing implications of a false flag terror attack; CoD campaigns have sustained their commitment to over-the-top, knockout moments with imaginative mission design, the “Oorah” machismo of American military might, and immersive cinematics that punctuate the action.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – Season 1 begins December 6th and adds a new Battle Pass, Aftermarket Parts (including a flamethrower), multiplayer maps and more. Check out the trailer below to see the new content in action.

Ring in the holiday season with the upcoming launch of Season 1 for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone. The new season brings more Multiplayer maps; game modes, the next mission in Zombies; the introduction of Urzikstan in Call of Duty: Warzone, and much more.  

For the very first time fans of the rather popular Call of Duty games can play those titles via Nvidia GeForce Now cloud gaming, making it easier than ever to get your Warzone fix. The new launch isn't just all the old titles, either — gamers can play all the latest ones including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and its predecessor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

Zombies in Modern Warfare 3 is full of crazy beings that can make life hard in every way. Such as Megabomb, these bosses act like end goal, or something to work towards. On top of that, most will be hard and take a lot of time to beat. However, it seems like that statement is kind of untrue as some players have challenged that.

Destiny 2’s endcap to its first 10 years of story will now land next June, as The Final Shape slips back by over three months. In its place will be an extension of the multiplayer shooter’s next season, plus some new features and content inbound to help tide players over.

Bungie will now launch its climactic Destiny 2 expansion The Final Shape on 4th June 2024.

Black Friday is here, bringing sales for many games, consoles, peripherals and whatnot. Not every game is getting discounted, so it’s interesting to see the likes of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 temporarily for less. It’s currently 15 percent off on both the Xbox and PlayStation Stores. Even Amazon has it for 14 percent off.

Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is only two weeks old, and while it set engagement records for the new trilogy, there have been several issues. Terrible spawns, which resulted in some maps being disabled in Hardpoint, inconsistent Battle Pass XP gains (which are now fixed), and more have cropped up. The latest is an exploit which allows players to sprint while prone.

If rumour speak true, the next Call of Duty game will be another entry in the Black Ops series. It'll also, allegedly, take place during the first Gulf War across 1990 and 1991, in which a US-led coalition of countries including the UK, Saudi Arabia and Egypt invaded Iraq in response to the Saddam Hussein government's conquest of Kuwait.

Call of Duty release in 2024 is reportedly a new entry in the Black Ops series, set around the 1990s Gulf War. As per Windows Central, the title will feature a ‘nuanced' narrative that jumps between different factions within the conflict, connecting to the Cold War. Keeping with the time period, weaponry and gadgets will bear a traditional look and feel, unlike the futuristic holographic-sited guns we've seen in recent Call of Duty games. Hopefully, Activision takes some lessons from the poorly-received Modern Warfare 3 and doubles down on the campaign aspects — otherwise, building the overarching lore seems futile, as players would simply begin skipping it for multiplayer.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has come under heavy criticism in the wake of its launch from critics and audiences alike (even though it seems to be doing well where engagement numbers are concerned), but the yearly Call of Duty machine stops for nothing, and details on next year’s instalment in the shooter franchise seem to have emerged.

As we already know, the Call of Duty train does not stop even with the current release. As players are spending time with Modern Warfare 3, we’re getting some whispers on the next release of Call of Duty.

The saga of the Knights of the Old Republic remake is beginning to look increasingly like Star Wars’ own increasingly convoluted expanded universe, as two developers have reportedly now insisted that, yes, they are still working on it - despite recent reports to the contrary.

Activision has said its new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has broken multiple player engagement records, without providing any specific player numbers.

Despite its controversial campaign and continuing issues with multiplayer, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has done well. Sledgehammer Games tweeted that the sequel had set new engagement records for the reboot trilogy, with more hours per player than Modern Warfare (2019) andModern Warfare 2 (2022).

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 developers Sledgehammer Games (umpteenth reminder: that's Modern Warfare 3 as in the 2023 game, not the 2011 FPS of the same name) have hosted a Reddit AMA in which they answered a bunch of questions about the evolution of the game's competitive meta. That's meta as in the overall balance of power between Modern Warfare 3 loadouts, playstyles and so forth based on a variety of factors such as map design, rather than the Alan Wake 2 kind of "meta", where characters talk about how they're just characters in a game and so on. I would dearly like to see some crossover between these types of "meta". I guess the Call of Duty that comes closest to fulfilling that idea is Black Ops 3, with its fourth-wall-breaking cyborg theatrics.

It’s more bad news for Knights of the Old Republic fans patiently awaiting the remake of the classic Star Wars game, as reports emerge that the game is no longer in active development.

In just over a week since the global release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, the multiplayer experience has showcased an immersive gameplay environment distinguished by its signature fast and responsive movement mechanics, along with tactical enhancements and a refined TTK, urging PlayStation players to navigate fluid and strategic combat scenarios. 

Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward just opened a new studio in Austin, Texas.

Developer Aspyr Media has claimed the free cut content DLC it planned to release for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 on Switch was cancelled after objections from a «third-party».

Since its launch earlier this year, Crash Team Rumble hasn’t exactly lit up the scene or pulled in a massive player base, but the MOBA has continued to expand with updates and content additions, another one of which will be coming pretty soon.

It’s cool that Modern Warfare Zombies currently has three Wonder Weapons to find and mow down zombies with, but it’s not cool that you can’t exfil with them. In typical Call of Duty fan fashion, we’re complaining about it.