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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Confirmed

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has been confirmed as the next Call of Duty game. While the title has been long-rumored and hinted at by several leaks and rumors, an image of a Target pre-order card sent in by an IGN reader has confirmed the game's title and release date.

Emilio_Estevez4374d ago (Edited 4374d ago )

With all these leaks their boat must be sunk by now. It's getting kinda ridiculous the amount of leaks this game that doesn't exist (yet) has had.

Abash4374d ago

Yikes, Halo 4 is going to be completely overshadowed the week after it releases with Black Ops 2. Maybe Halo 4 needs the xtra months of development time but MicroSoft shouldnt launch it so close to Black Ops 2

bumnut4374d ago

They are totally different games, they are not competing with each other.

MorbidPorpoise4374d ago

Oh well means the people who can't handle Halo 4 would've moved on (thank god) so I'll be able to enjoy the game :)

gatormatt804374d ago

Haha... Yeah I can see the headlines now... Microsoft's Homegrown Baby (Halo) vs. Microsoft's Outsourced Baby (CoD).

F7U124374d ago (Edited 4374d ago )

remembers the god awful maps/hit detection/kill-streaks of blops. *shivers*

never forget. never again.

Outside_ofthe_Box4374d ago

Overshadowed? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure most will buy both. Look at BF3 and Skyrim last year. Both released near CoD and still sold solid numbers.

Ranma14373d ago (Edited 4373d ago )

I hate COD series and dislike its fanboys (my brother is one, and his been playing mW3 online for 7 months already, and prior to that black ops for 6 months)

Muffins12234373d ago

not really,halo reach sold around 5 million just on xbox first week and call of duty black ops sold 7 million on first week WITH ALL THREE CONSOLES!So i dont think halo 4 would be overshadowed on the xbox by black ops...

Amazingmrbrock4373d ago

Apparently it's been confirmed that the earth is covered by water. In other obvious news call of duty continues to release games annually. We are all very surprised.

Hardcore gamers have been heard wondering if "it will look better" than the last game.

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LUCKYXS7LEVEN4373d ago

im pretty sure they already confirmed this the day after MW3 released

Merrill4373d ago

I will never understand this obsession people have with "confirming" the existence of a game we already know is coming.

It's a yearly installment, of course it's coming; who cares?

NYC_Gamer4374d ago

Its already confirmed in my eyes....

Dr Face Doctor4374d ago

Black Ops 2 CONFIRMED. What a rumor this is.

asdlfkj3498as4373d ago

may not be confirmed but I can tell you those do look like Targets pre-order cards. I'm def going to be taking a look in my stores stockroom to see if we have them.

SarahFox4374d ago

lol the title and the article category are just awesome CONFIRMED (rumor)

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These Call of Duty games are officially dead as servers go offline

Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.

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Call of Duty players are playing this game for the last time before it's taken offline

Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.

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Xbox backwards compatibility sends old Call of Duty games back into the Top Five | UK Monthly Charts

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shadowT248d ago

Xbox $70 billion bet paid out

fr0sty248d ago

Guess that's what happens when there's no good new games to play...

4Sh0w248d ago (Edited 248d ago )

Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.

wiz7191247d ago

@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol

mkis007247d ago

It's going to take 10 years for xbox to generate that much profit...

Rhythmattic247d ago

Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.

EasilyTheBest247d ago

If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.

Rhythmattic245d ago

But its not money back, its about how it goes missing.

jznrpg247d ago

Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.

shinoff2183248d ago

Atkeast older gamers nostalgia is good. Jeez.

Jin_Sakai248d ago

Mostly because the new CoD games are garbage. The old games were much better.

Rutaprkl247d ago

Agree 100%. Cod 4, WaW, Black ops 1 & 2, those were the days.

Rhythmattic247d ago

For MP, Unreal tournament , QIII Arena (loved the UT mod) FTW!

RaidenBlack247d ago

Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite

Rhythmattic246d ago (Edited 246d ago )

I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.

thesoftware730248d ago

Wow, good games never get old I guess.

CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.

CrimsonWing69248d ago

Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.

1Victor247d ago

@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts

CrimsonWing69247d ago

I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.

Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.

We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.

I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.

I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.

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