Activision and developer Treyarch enlisted former Call of Duty pro gamer Mike “Hastr0” Rufail to design the multiplayer eSports elements of Call of Duty: Black Ops II from the beginning. The game was developed with three distinct teams, one focusing solely on multiplayer and eSports. Treyarch Game Design Director David Vonderhaar explains how eSports played an integral role in the multiplayer gameplay experience in this exclusive interview.
A variety of new updates are available this month across the gaming platforms. Coming today, Retro Classics games are available to play for Xbox Game Pass members. Players who stream on the Xbox app on PC now have an additional streaming option with GeForce Now. Game Bar introduces quick settings, visual updates for Widgets in Compact Mode, and coming soon, Microsoft Edge Game Assist, an in-game browser that brings an immersive game-centric experience to Edge. And Xbox gift cards can now be redeemed for any amount via Xbox Rewards.
While i appreciate the gesture.... all of these retro classics have been made available everywhere else. I am hoping to see some other Activision properties make their way out of the shackles of the 5th, 6th and 7th gen. Licensing be damned... bring back the Transformers Cybertron games.
Love the Cybertron games! TF games have been shit lately. Would love to see that era revisited. I even did the multiplayer!
Metaphor on Gamepass just announced! O.o
Seriously, this is the best generation of Xbox ever!!!
We can´t catch a freaking break from awesome games arriving all the time!!!
It’s a HELL of a game. If you like JRPGs in the family of Persona, you will be in heaven… that is until you hear the various battle music…. then you’ll be somewhere BEYOND heaven!
According to a developer working on the title, Activision is working on a narrative-based open-world game based on a new engine through its new studio.
It was recently revealed in an exclusive episode of the 'Grit' podcast that EA once passed up acquiring Blizzard, Activision, and Call of Duty.
Only a big company that has interest in gaming like Microsoft or Tencent could have acquired Activision. Extremely low interest rates at that time certainly helped.
Not exactly sure that a merger with EA would’ve benefited any of their franchises or gamers. I imagine it would’ve been like the activision blizzard one were each publisher retains their own identity. So Activison-Blizzard-EA. But who knows.
If it was owned by EA, COD could’ve disappeared a looong time ago. They have no clue how to manage franchises.
It's a shame EA didn't buy them then, COD should die, it's past its prime and has been since black ops 2, I started playing it when cod 4 mw first came out and it has been downhill since.
I dont understand how it could be Esports especially for shooters like COD. Skill curve, teamwork, tactics, strategy, planning, etc. is lacking it shooters of this type. It has no depth compared to BF3 or Planetside 2. There's no skill even related to how the guns work or take into account the recoil like in CS 1.6. Oh well, I dont understand.
Games i consider Esport worthy are games like SC:BW, League of Legends, and SC2. When the quality of the gamers playing can be seen.
I hate those fighter games that have "pros" keep on spamming the same damn combo everybody uses that's an instant kill. I wish they'd take those ridiculous combos out because it becomes a waiting game on who can land their combo first and win.
An fps can be esport oriented. See cs. However a game that's only designed to last a year will never succeed in esports. There's absolutely no point to scrimming or memorizing maps when you can't work your way up the ladders, for example going from CAL-O to CAL-IM/M/P in a year. cod will never blow up like starcraft or league of legends which is what their trying to push.