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Any long-running series is bound to have at least a few iconic quotes — sayings that live rent free in players’ heads long after the credits roll. Here are our picks for the best quotes the Call of Duty series has ever produced.

Warner Bros. Games has denied that its upcoming Wonder Woman game will be live service.

Wonder Woman fights alone. Despite a recent job listing bringing up live service, Warner Bros. denies its presence in the upcoming Wonder Woman video game.

The Wonder Woman game won't be a live service, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. This comes after the Wonder Woman developer was spotted trying to hire a lead software engineer with experience "helping maintain a live software product or game", leading many to believe that Wonder Woman would have live service elements.

Last week, we reported that the Wonder Woman game might feature live service elements following a job ad spotted on the official Warner Bros. website. The listing was noticed just as Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav told investors the gaming division would focus on transforming its biggest franchises into live service titles so that players would spend more time (and money) on them, driving monetization and engagement at higher levels for longer time.

Like the four Ultimate Ninja Storm games before it, Naruto x Boruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections is a comprehensive ode to the world and characters created by Masashi Kishimoto. Its immense cast of playable characters, each with exceptionally well-animated movesets, and a heaping handful of maps ripped straight from the anime with loving detail look better than ever before. But no level of source material accuracy can save this absolute mammoth of a game from hollow single-player content and a stale combat system that hasn’t meaningfully changed in fifteen years.

There’s no escaping that Call of Duty is currently in a bit of a rut. Although there are bright spots in Modern Warfare 3’s multiplayer and Zombies mode, it ultimately feels all too familiar. And the campaign? Our reviewer Simon Cardy said it was “perhaps the worst Call of Duty single-player campaign I’ve played.” It currently has a disappointing Metacritic rating of 56 and, unsurprisingly, Modern Warfare 3 didn’t make into IGN’s top 10 Call of Duty games (spoilers: it came bottom of the pile).

An official statement from Project Moon dropped today, discussing their plans for the future of both its first foray into gacha, and other projects on the way.

Call of Duty is known for its elaborate camos (one of which is literally galaxies moving about), but playing with this latest skin is perhaps not the brightest idea.

There are plenty of great options available if you're looking to purchase a new console for yourself, or as a gift for someone else. Whether you're looking for something that offers great single player story-driven games like the PS5, or prefer something more family-friendly like the Nintendo Switch, there's truly something available for everyone. Check out our full breakdown below of the most popular video game consoles available now, including information about each one, where you can purchase online, as well as whether or not you should consider PC gaming at home or on the go as an alternative.

Redfall was a game that Microsoft had helped hype up before its launch. This was one of the first big exclusives to land on the Xbox Series X/S platform. When Microsoft purchased ZeniMax Media, it came with Arkane Studios, a team known for delivering immersive single-player video game titles. Their backlog included the likes of Dishonored and Prey. But the latest release would take players into a multiplayer gameplay experience as they battled against hungry vampires. Again, leading up to the launch, there was quite a bit of excitement about the game, but that quickly cooled off when it was released. 

Developer The Aristocrats has announced that the Raising Hell expansion for real-time strategy game Starship Troopers: Terran Command is out now on PC. The expansion, for which you can check out the trailer below, is focused largely around single-player content.

Rocksteady Studios, the team behind Batman: Arkham Asylum, City, and Knight, has released the first installment of its Suicide Squad Insider series, which will break down aspects of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League from now until the game's launch in February of next year. Today's episode is all about story and gameplay and features more than 20 minutes of new gameplay and behind-the-scenes details about the upcoming third-person action shooter. 

A Modern Warfare 3 player has unlocked the most coveted weapon camo in the game after a near 76-hour grind following the game’s launch.

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Although we were very underwhelmed by the content of the single-player campaign, the new multiplayer zombies mode in Modern Warfare 3, titled Modern Warfare Zombies, is an unexpected delight and boasts a brilliant bonus for anyone trying to get their hands on the game's new weapons.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is the first game in the long-running shooter series to carry forward cosmetics from a previous game, and while on paper this means welcome continued use for virtual items players have bought, out on the battlefield it’s causing a few problems.

Sledgehammer Games' studio head, Aaron Halon, has refuted recent reports that Modern Warfare 3 had a rushed development and that the team was forced to make it instead of Advanced Warfare 2.

If you haven’t already read that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 allegedly began life as a DLC pack to 2022’s Modern Warfare 2, experiencing the game for yourself makes it glaringly obvious.

This is our Zombies review in progress for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Check out the single-player review for our thoughts on the campaign or the multiplayer review for our thoughts on PvP.

Mortal Kombat 1 has received the Best Multiplayer Game award at this year's Golden Joystick Awards 2023 powered by Intel.

With its sandbox-like “Open Combat” missions and the return of fan-favourite villain Makarov, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this year’s Call of Duty campaign might be a fun step forward for the series. Sadly, it’s a disaster. Modern Warfare 3 is the worst single-player outing for COD in its lifetime; a duct-taped mess of missions, many of which are quite literally ripped from Warzone, that frequently plays like DMZ multiplayer with bots. It’s almost certain to be remembered as Call of Duty’s lowest point when it comes to single-player design.

Catan: Console Edition is now available on Nintendo Switch.

Sledgehammer Games reportedly pitched Call of Duty Advanced Warfare 2, its follow-up to 2014's Advanced Warfare, only for it to be shelved in order to create Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. This reportedly led to heavy development crunch within the studio.

We haven't heard much about Monolith Productions' Wonder Woman game since it was announced in 2021 at The Game Awards, but a new job listing reveals that it will have some live-service elements.

Improved fighting mechanics and mode selection can't overcome some glaring weaknesses.

Warner Bros. Discovery's CEO, David Zaslav, has confirmed in an earnings call that the company is going to keep pushing monetisation and live-service elements for its "biggest franchises", despite attempts in games like Mortal Kombat 1 and Gotham Knights seeing major backlash.

Gaming peripheral manufacturer SteelSeries has announced a range of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 items, including an artisanal keycap costing £94.99.

Today, South Korean Kakao Games reported its quarterly financial results and shared some new details about ArcheAge 2 during the earnings call with investors.

Activision has confirmed the global release times for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3’s full game launch, following campaign early access last week.

Poor Modern Warfare 3. No, not the new one. The original one, from 2011. It’s getting review-bombed by angry Call of Duty fans who seem a bit confused about which Call of Duty is which.

Call of Duty’s single-player campaigns are known for their follow-along gameplay. You usually play as the member of a unit, a detachment, sometimes even an entire ground invasion. Your squad is often fronted by a competent and lethally effective leader. This leader selects which doors to breach, which bad guys to kill in which order, and which paths to follow as they stealthily guide you through enemy bases, surgically eliminating threats and occasionally getting into larger, more bombastic gunfights. For most of the Modern Warfare games in particular, that exceptional father figure has been the gruff, walrus-bristled Capt. Price, the mythological center of the Modern Warfare pantheon.

Call of Duty charted at No.2 in the Steam Top Ten last week off the back of the launch of Modern Warfare 3.

Blizzard is likely working on more mobile games, as company president Mike Ybarra says that he wants to see the IPs "everywhere". This comes as Ybarra sets out Blizzard's plans now that its merger with Microsoft is complete, and it's bad news for anyone hoping the company would go back to its PC and console gaming roots.

Call of Duty has outshone and outlasted the competition in video games for two decades because it makes the everyday soldier into a hero and it puts you at the center of spectacular combat missions.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has quite an interesting approach to players disobeying directions during the campaign.

The Modern Warfare 3(2023) campaign is out in the wild, finally giving Call of Duty fans their first taste of the upcoming blockbuster first-person shooter (FPS). Released as part of a week-long early access period, this single-player portion of the game could offer a small insight into what the multiplayer mode might hold when it comes out this Friday (November 10).

The director of the upcoming The Last of Us multiplayer project has said he’s still working on the game.

If we didn’t already know that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 began life as a DLC offering to 2022’s Modern Warfare 2, this year’s single-player offering makes it glaringly obvious.

Experience the dazzling new sensation that’s been sweeping Azeroth. Blizzard Entertainment’s mobile action strategy game Warcraft Rumble™ is now live worldwide* on Android and iOS devices! In taverns from Winterspring to Booty Bay, Horde and Alliance alike are gathering around a marvelous new machine, which brings miniature versions of their famous heroes and villains to life to do battle in strategic, frantic skirmishes.

Weapon Tuning has been removed from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3.

Xbox users are criticizing Microsoft and Activision for the new full-screen Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 advertisement on the startup screen.

If you pre-ordered a digital copy of the game, you can now play the single-player campaign in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 a week before everyone else, thanks to its early access launch.

The single-player campaign for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 can be finished in 3 to 4 hours, according to players who’ve been playing the game in early access.

WarCraft Rumble, the mobile free-to-play strategy game set in the WarCraft universe, is out earlier than expected. Originally slated to drop at this year's BlizzCon, WarCraft Rumble appears to already be available for download on Apple's App Store and Google Play Store.

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a game about one of the most powerful groups of people in the far future of the 42nd millennium: the titular Rogue Traders. But every good Rogue Trader is backed up by a crew of allies, ranging from close confidants to powerful goons. Along with a sprawling single-player campaign, the upcoming CRPG from Owlcat Games offers a drop-in, drop-out co-op mode that allows you to bring your friends along for a ride through the Koronus Expanse. Polygon played through a preview session of Rogue Trader’s co-op campaign with Owlcat Games, and we tackled a dungeon full of dangerous machine cultists together.

If you're gearing up to dive into the Modern Warfare 3 single-player campaign, which is available to download and play right now, then chances are that you might be wondering what the Call of Duty story in the Modern Warfare sub-series is all about.

As if to prove modern PC games are self-obsessed narcissists that can't imagine you might want to play something else, here comes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III with a ridiculous requirement for up to 213GB of storage space. Oh, and that'll need to be 213GB of SSD storage space according to the game's minimum requirements, not one of those clunky old magnetic jobs with spinning platters.

Bad news for everyone who ever turned Mr X into Thomas the Tank Engine: Capcom's got its eye on you. In a recent video on the studio's Capcom R&D YouTube channel focused on «Anti-cheat and anti-piracy measures in PC games,» the Resident Evil and Street Fighter studio warned its own and other devs of the potential «Reputation damage caused by malicious mods» and said that—for the purposes of its engine's anti-cheat tech—«all mods are defined as cheats, except when they are officially supported.»

Bloodborne's unofficial, wonderfully low-poly kart racing spin-off has got a release date, and it isn't far off. 

A fan-made Bloodborne racing game based on an April Fools’ joke is nearing completion, and now has a release date.

According to Visceral Games' story producer Chuck Beaver, the audience for single-player horror games was big, but not big enough back in 2013.

With Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 releasing digitally in just a week, GameMill Entertainment has pulled back the curtain to reveal the title’s overhauled campaign mode. In a newly launched trailer for the game, the single-player story is intriguingly called “an epic roguelike campaign.”

Rollerdrome is coming to Xbox in November, and will be available on Xbox Game Pass.

It’s been a big week for fans of indie RPG Deltarune as the game’s developer, Toby Fox, has announced that it will be made available to purchase sooner than expected.

Remedy has provided an update on its several upcoming titles, including Control 2 and the Max Payne remake.

Many gamers have enjoyed hearing the “origin stories” of titles made by Masahiro Sakurai, and today, they got the “ultimate treat” by hearing the breakdown of Super Smash Bros Ultimate! The game is the latest in the beloved gaming line, and as a result, many were curious about what was going to be brought up by the legendary developer. He did make lots of interesting things known, including how the timeframe between the Wii/3DS titles in the series and the title that would be on the Switch was essentially zero. Seriously, when they did the “final video” for the Wii U/3DS games, he was making his pitch for the next one!

The creator of the Super Smash Bros. series, Masahiro Sakurai, has released a video talking about the development of the fighting series’ latest installment, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, in which he admitted that the idea of trying to develop another game that would push the franchise any further than it’s already gone would be “difficult”.

GOG has long been known as the premiere destination for DRM-free PC releases, which comes in handy for those who don’t want to deal with DRM either preventing a game from being played, making it play worse performance-wise, or just being annoying with constant online check-ins. Sony has become known as the destination for long-form single-player epics, really beginning with the God of War series on the PS2 and continuing that trend with Uncharted – making today’s announcement that both series will be available in some form in a DRM-free format soon being rather fitting. Sony has released several of their games via GOG and GOG is marking the season not only with a big sale, but also the announcement that the 2018 God of War that got a PC release a couple of years ago will now see a DRM-free release via GOG alongside Uncharted: the Legacy of Thieves Collection.

Crytek have no plans to make a sequel to sweaty monster-culling FPS Hunt: Showdown, and will thus hopefully avoid the publicity problems currently faced by Activision-Blizzard's Overwatch 2 and Valve's Counter-Strike 2 - both presented as sequels with fancier technology, but in practice, more like service-game content seasons arbitrarily upgraded into replacements, with the 'previous' games, Overwatch and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, being taken offline to avoid splitting the playerbase.

The story producer of the original Dead Space trilogy has said he would like to “redo Dead Space 3 almost completely”.

I’m not sure any of my Lego constructions would hold up to anything more aggressive than an accidental bump or the over-excited nose of a dog, let alone wave after wave of ghastly monsters. Soon I’ll be able to put that hypothesis to the test, as the next game from the creators of shopkeeping-sim-turned-dungeon-diver Moonlighter looks to throw endless horrors at your custom-made grand design.

I’m not sure any of my Lego constructions would hold up to anything more aggressive than an accidental bump or the over-excited nose of a dog, let alone wave after wave of ghastly monsters. Soon I’ll be able to put that hypothesis to the test, as the next game from the creators of shopkeeping-sim-turned-dungeon-diver Moonlighter looks to throw endless horrors at your custom-made grand design.

Spirit of the North followed in the wake of indie darlings like Journey and Abzu as a quietly meditative single-player adventure through nature that laid out its moving story without a word of dialogue. Four years on from its release - and three years after it came to PC - developers Infuse Studio have revealed a full sequel.

Barbarian, arguably 2022's wildest, most disturbing horror movie, is getting a video game adaptation from developers who worked on Friday the 13th: The Game and Evil Dead: The Game.

If you’re searching for the perfect peripheral to use on your next playthrough of Persona 4 Golden, then this limited edition Nintendo Switch accessory might be just up your street.

Sometimes it’s good to try something different. Everspace 2 is my something different. It’s a single-player 3D space shooter looter. Which, to my delicate video gaming sensibilities, sounds absolutely awful. Fortunately, it would seem that I have no idea what I’m talking about. 3D space shooter looters are fun! Who knew, right? Not only that, Everspace 2 isn’t just fun, it’s fun-tastic… You know, I think I’ve spent too much time in space.

Crytek's Hunt: Showdown may yet receive a single-player campaign, if the stars align, as the developers dig ever deeper into the asymmetrical multiplayer shooter's wonderfully plague-ridden narrative backdrop. Originally released out of Steam and Xbox early access in 2019, the game introduced single player PvE trials back in June 2020, much to Alice0's enthusiasm. It also now sports a scripted, voiced tutorial in which you stalk around farmhouses, learning the ropes and murdering wooden dummies at the behest of a leathery dude in the bushes. Could some kind of proper story component follow? Crytek have certainly thought about it.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is officially Europe's fastest-selling Mario game of all time.

The Epic Games Store’s next free titles have been confirmed.

Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.02 is officially live on PC and consoles and aims to address a bunch of bugs, while also adding even more performance improvements.

MegaDev, known for reviving the concept of cheat codes with their modding software Plitch, has announced the release of Plitch 2.0.

Remedy Entertainment has confirmed that Alan Wake 2 will get a New Game Plus mode post-launch with a «new alternative narrative».

Ever since Nintendo surprised fans last year with the launch of Mario Party and Mario Party 2 on its online service last year, fans have been wondering when the last of the series’ N64 entries would show up. At the time, Nintendo said that Mario Party would come to the service some time during the following year…and proceeded to say nothing else about it. Well, it’s been almost exactly a year since then and fans have gotten the long awaited news at last: Mario Party 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch Online on Friday, October 27.

We were big fans of the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 in our review, mainly thanks to the enduring excellence of the included games. It’s no surprise that packing the brilliant Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (alongside Metal Gear Solid and the original NES Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake) into a single package is a recipe for success.

Nintendo has announced that Mario Party 3 is the next game set to be added to Switch Online’s Nintendo 64 library.

As zombie-slaying specialists, we reserve the right to rank some of the best slayers in the world of Dead Island 2. With the Haus DLC inching ever closer, here’s a list of characters you should be leveling in preparation.

EQ Studios, the creators of The Painscreek Killings, have released their latest investigative mystery game, Scene Investigators, now available on Steam.

Starfield designer Emil Pagliarulo is reflecting on his time as a veteran Bethesda developer and sharing what he thinks makes the studio's games endure the test of time.