It looks like Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 developers Treyarch have accidentally made the upcoming Ray Gun Mark II zombies weapon pre-maturely available via their most ecent patch that went live not too long ago. The Ray Gun Mark II, which you can learn more about here, was meant to launch along side the upcoming Vengeance DLC […]
Activision, publisher of the popular FPS series Call Of Duty, is set to introduce in-game purchases to Treyarch’s Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 tomorrow, March 13. What exactly would Activision be offering with these small transactions? According to Activision’s Dan Amrich, via MVC, Black Ops 2 players can look forward to being able to […]
David Vonderhaar has been discussing and revealing post-release support plans for Call of Duty: Black Ops II. He explains that in-game perks will probably get refined and changed to reflect the community’s opinions and play style. Treyarch’s Game Designer Director states that the current Perk system has become “too complex” and that Treyarch wanted to focus […]
Get ready for more Call of Duty: Black Ops at this year’s Gamescom, coming at you next week. “Yes. You heard correctly. We are going to Gamescom. We are bringing Black Ops 2 MP. You can play it. We are livestreaming it,” announced David Vonderhaar, game design director at Treyarch. According to the official press release, […]
Many thanks to our own David Veselka for pulling the screen shots and tracking down other materials from the BOII trailer that appear in this video. You can check out the original trailer breakdown article with screenshots by David here. One of the things I haven’t heard much about after yesterday’s release of the first Black […]
At last, Treyarch and Activision have given Call of Duty fans around the world their very first look at Black Ops II’s multiplayer in action. If you missed it, make sure to check out the new trailer here before heading on to our in-depth analysis below! Essentially, this trailer can be broken down into eight […]
It’s that moment we’ve all been waiting for – the very same moment we’ve waited for on an annual basis for the past few years now – the multiplayer reveal of the next Call of Duty title to grace the multiplayer FPS stage. This time in the spotlight – Call of Duty: Black Ops II. […]
In the below video, I discuss at length how each CoD has had something that the community collectively held up as the pinnacle of success. CoD4 had quickscoping, WAW didn’t really have much of anything, MW2 had the Tactical Nuke, BO1 was all about teamplay and SPM, and finally, MW3 had the hidden 25 gun-only MOAB killstreak. Each of […]
With the multiplayer reveal of Black Ops II just a few days away, I think it’s safe to say that the hype surrounding Call of Duty is about to hit its highest point yet this year. But is that enough to keep Call of Duty the mammoth success it’s become? We all know BOII is […]
Get ready for your first look at Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer. Treyarch, developers behind Call of Duty 3, World at War, Black Ops and the upcoming sequel to Black Ops, have stated their intentions to reveal the highly anticipated multiplayer of Black Ops II in only a few short days. “Synchronize your […]
Treyarch’s John Rafacz details the reasoning behind Treyarch’s move to the near-future in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. It’s been said before that moving to a brand new setting is one way to imitate innovation in a video game series that has stayed stagnant for too long. There are those who would criticize Treyarch for making […]
The latest reports of 2012’s levels of anticipation hint at a shift in the Xbox Live activity leaderboard. It’s no surprise that Call of Duty has dominated the top of Xbox Live’s most played titles for the past few years since the release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2007. What might come […]
Treyarch’s Studio Head Mark Lamia discusses improvements making their way to Black Ops II’s sound design and how your play style will be respected in the highly anticipated multiplayer. Speaking to Jeff Schine during a recent Roll Call episode on Elite TV wrapping up this year’s E3, Lamia detailed the improvements that the Treyarch team […]
While Treyarch plans to “challenge assumptions” when it comes to Black Ops II’s multiplayer, developers assure hardcore fans that the familiar gameplay which they’ve all come to love will remain intact. Already, rumors of a completely revamped create-a-class system have begun to surface which indicate that Black Ops II could use a point allocation system […]
With Battlefield 3 having “taken significant market share” from the Call of Duty franchise within the past few months, should publishers like Activision and developers like Treyarch be concerned over a declining demand for Call of Duty titles? “The first-person shooter category has always been a competitive space,” John Rafacz, Treyarch Director of Communications, told VideoGamer in […]
Studio Head at Treyarch details some of the improvements the team is making when it comes to Call of Duty: Black Ops II’s multiplayer matchmaking system. “On the multiplayer front, I think one of the things we’re paying attention to is that there’s a lot of very experienced COD multiplayer gamers who are very good […]
More Black Ops II details surface giving us a peek at what the multiplayer might have to offer this November 13th. Recently, studio head at Treyarch Mark Lamia talked to The Guardian about the advantages of the Call of Duty: Elite service having been up and running for a couple months now. He mentioned “we […]
Ranked dedicated servers have been confirmed for the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Treyarch’s director of technology Cesar Stastny made the announcement via Twitter earlier today: Confirmed: Ranked Dedicated Servers for #BlackOps2 Last year’s Modern Warfare 3 on the PC boasted dedicated servers as well, but only for unranked matches. The original Black […]
Before delving into today’s intel, here’s the back story on how we verified it. Last night, a Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer rumor was going around that Treyarch is doing away with the fixed slot system in Create a Class in favor of a point allocation system. This was outed by Garnet Lee on this week’s […]
New Black Ops II off-screen images have surfaced giving us a glimpse at a newer version of the multiplayer HUD, select fire feature, and more. At E3 2012, several publications had the chance to take a first look at Black Ops II’s multiplayer, and the following images have surfaced from that session. New Black Ops II MP HUD The multiplayer […]
