New media and video game personality Patrick Scott Patterson took to Twitter today to demand that Fox News bring him on its network to discuss video games and cultural violence.
GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales
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.
Many players on social media are now reporting unannounced matchmaking fixes have been put in place by Activision ranging from Call of Duty 3 to Modern Warfare 2 to Black Ops 2, on Xbox 360. Players are reporting that player counts are updating, lobbies forming, and matchmaking times have been reduced. Neither Activision nor Microsoft have commented on the matter when reached out to at this time. This is currently impacting both 360 and BC versions of the games. PS3 is not affected at this time.
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Multiple users coming forward saying the games are finally working again after years of server issues. Note that not all issues such as player counts are totally fixed at this time however matchmaking is fully working again. With legacy Call of Duty games releasing on Game Pass within the next 2 years, it does make sense for these servers to eventually be corrected. Good to see the preservation of these legendary games. Hopefully PS3 receives the same treatment for these legacy titles!
“Activision Unexpectedly Fixes Old Call of Duty Servers, Just One Day After FTC Verdict”
Imagine that.
Conspiracy theory: MS have been planning on purchasing ABK for a long time. They let Sony outbid them for having console-exclusive CoD stuff/being first for certain dlc so the PlayStation player base would increase.
Years later, MS buy ABK, with plans to make CoD either exclusive/platform exclusive features etc with the release of a new console (Xbox Series X2?) So the established CoD player base migrates over to their platform, taking a huge percentage off Sony?
Wild theory
Game Rant Writes "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has been available for 10 years, and in that time, no other entry has topped its weapon balance and variety."
Although Black Ops 2 is one of the more loved entries in the series, there seemed to be an overall lack of recoil when I played back in the day, which made the guns feel toy-like. The overall art style didnt really sit well with me at the time either. A bit too cartoony. I think zombies could have been cool, but on the PS3, playing splitscreen made the frame rate drop to unplayable levels.
for the past couple of days I've seen only on fox news s about gun laws and they mentioned Video Games, really.
Get ready for some ambush journalism.
Patterson talks too much some times but he's not wrong. There's never been anyone who actually works in the industry on a panel to discuss this alleged "issue" of games breeding violence.
'News media outlets like Fox News then noticed that Lanza liked Mass Effect and quickly accused the game of influencing the massacre.
Facebook users then left angry comments on the Mass Effect Facebook page, denouncing the game and accusing the game developers of playing a part in the school shooting.'
I don't know whats more retarded, Fox News for latching onto Mass Effect without even knowing what it is or the Facebook Fox entourage dropping abuse on Facebook.
I must have missed the part where biotic implants were available over the counter in walmart, or the mission in Mass Effect that had you storm a school and shoot anything that moves.
You really think he'd get a fair debate:
- Fox (and their fanboys) has tried to say they are "fair and balanced" for years but evidence has proved otherwise.
- You have hosts that will do whatever it takes to make sure they don't get smacked down with facts they can't easily whisk away with a shouting match (even abruptly ending an interviews, as they have done before, too).
- This is a debate that has a political tie in (Republicans love their guns, after all, and gun control has become the center debate of all of this), so of course there's going to be that hanging over heads.
- We've seen how smart gamers that know what they are talking about get treated in the mainstream media in the past.