No One Lives Forever rights mystery illustrates the problems facing retro re-releases

No One Lives Forever rights mystery illustrates the problems facing retro re-releases

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On: 07 Apr

Veteran PC gamers have been begging for the re-release of Monolith’s classic spy-spoofing FPS No One Lives Forever for years. Activision wants to give it to them, but there’s just one problem: no one knows who owns the rights to the game. Somewhat unfairly, retro re-releases have acquired a reputation of simply being “cash-ins”; most [...]

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Black Ops II Will Soon Allow For Easy Twitch Streaming Integration [Updated]

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 30 Jan

Some big news for fans of both Black Ops II and Twitch.Tv. Today, Twitch announced a very awesome partnership with Activision that will allow for one-click streaming integration. The ability to stream live gameplay directly to a Twitch channel will work for windows-based PCs, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 as well. Additionally, the [...]

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First details of Bungie’s new game, Destiny, leaked

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 27 Nov

An anonymous source has provided IGN with the first concept art images and story details about Bungie’s mysterious new game, Destiny.

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Activision removes Nuketown 2025 from Black Ops 2 playlists

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 19 Nov

When you unlock a piece of a content for a game, it’s only natural to assume that you’ll have access to it for as long as you play said game. Well, apparently Activision feels differently, as today they announced via Twitter that the popular Nuketown 2025 is being removed from Call of Duty: Black Ops [...]

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Bioware contest rewards PC Black Ops 2 players with a chance to win Mass Effect Trilogy

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On: 14 Nov

As you may have heard, some retail copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 for PC were mistakenly packed in with the discs for Mass Effect 2 rather than Black Ops 2 itself, much to chagrin of many PC gamers who lined up at midnight for the chance to play the latest CoD as soon [...]

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Black Ops 2 gives Call of Duty players CoD Elite access for free

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 On: 15 Oct

Broke-ass Call of Duty players, rejoice: your addiction is about to become a little cheaper. Today Activsion announced that they’ll be dropping the subscription fee for the premium CoD Elite service, and all of Elite’s special bonuses will now be offered for the low, low price of FREE to all Black Ops 2 players.

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5 Good Games That Everyone Assumed Would Be Terrible

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Blog On: 18 Jul

We all do it: we see a game that’s by a company with a bad reputation, or that’s a sequel to something we didn’t like, and we assume it’s a piece of garbage. We mock it or ignore it, and never actually play it. Sometimes this is justified, but sometimes these assumptions cause us to [...]

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Activision and High Moon Studios are making Deadpool: The Game

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News On: 14 Jul

High Moon Studios may have just finished Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (due out in August,) but they’ve already started work on their next project: creating a game starring Marvel’s popular merc with a mouth, Deadpool.

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Of Course they’re Turning The Walking Dead into an FPS

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC, Xbox 360 On: 09 Jul

Back in February I cracked a joke about how The Walking Dead has been milked repeatedly for additional content; the TV show, the TV show about the TV show, the Game, the TV show about the game. Well now there is going to be another game, this time a first person shooter because, you know, [...]

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Activision announces new Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD

Posted By: John Sukowaty In: Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 07 Jun

I for one have always been into skateboarding in one way or another, in fact I spent a good part of my teens and early 20′s skating around the towns I lived near with all of my friends. When the first Tony Hawk skateboarding game was released for the Xbox 360, my friends and I freaked out [...]

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E3 2012: Transformers Fall of Cybertron hands-on

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 06 Jun

2010′s Transformers: War of Cybertron was the best Transformers game ever made… or rather, it was the best Transformers game ever made. If the demo that I just played is any indication, it seems like the upcoming Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will surpass its prequel in every single way.

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Activision and Infinity Ward address issue of Modded Lobbies

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Gaming News On: 25 Mar

As I wrote previously, Modern Warfare 3 had a lapse in its clean record of being largely free from hackers and cheaters, not to mention Infinity Ward’s very strict banning policy, which will come down on you like a ton of bricks if you get caught. On the ball as they claim to be, they’ve [...]

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