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Infinity Ward Blackmailed over Modern Warfare 4

No, that's not a typo. Modern Warfare 4.

Modern Warfare 4 might be a way off, but gamers are a forward thinking lot. If you type www.modernwarfare4.com into your browser address bar, what you'll find is a nifty blackmail set-up.

In a nutshell, ZiiP Gaming Community has the domain and is offering it to Infinity Ward in exchange for copies of Modern Warfare 4, a game likely to be around four years away, for each and every one of their members. There are currently 62 members (keep an eye on that). We assume they don't expect to get MW4 in the near future...

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Parapraxis5385d ago

www.modernwarfarefour.com
www.modernwarfareiv.com
www.modernwarfare-4.com

There, problem solved.

Blaze9295385d ago

its a tricky practice for people to buy the domains for possible site names for future games and/or websites in general. This would fall on Activision/Infinity Ward's fault but they probably don't care. Look at EA, they bought the domains for Dead Space 1, 2 and 3 all at the same time.

JBaby3435385d ago

Any number of other names they could choose from. Nice try though.

Lucreto5385d ago

It is a nice try but it is illegal to do that. People did the same with Harry Potter and other popular franchises but they ended up with a court date. Infinity Ward have the right to use the name before these guys.

Elimin85385d ago (Edited 5385d ago )

But aye... It would be funny if after MW2 they come up with a new title.

DJ5385d ago

They changed the name to Future Warfare...

Jmlopezbr5385d ago

This is stupid... I doubt they will get to 4 anyway, they will probably switch to something else. Those currently 62 people should be disgraced.

MAR-TYR-DOM5385d ago

did anyone else notice the M 1 2 3 at the end of the multiplayer vid? I mean we pretty much know MW3 is also gonna come out but that pretty much confirms it. ALSO www.modernwarfare3.com is actually a website owned by IW.

JL5385d ago

Agreed. This is pretty pathetic. Obviously, this "community" isn't going to reap anything from this stunt. And there are definitely workarounds for IW if they choose to make a MW4 down the road. So at the end of the day, they've accomplished nothing. Lame.

Arthur_5385d ago

can be fun. can also be expensive. but 9 times out of 10, its not going to be bought.

vhero5385d ago

All I can say is enjoy court guys :)

anh_duong5385d ago

i am not suprised people had to resort to these blackmail measure since by the time Modern Warfare 4 comes out activision will probably charge two kidneys and a liver for it..

edgeofblade5384d ago

This is a bad idea. Watch these guys get drug into court...

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DragonWarrior_45385d ago

how bout futurewarefare.com? That will solve it all together.

Willio5385d ago

Once Cod MW 3 expires, its going to be revamped to only suburban warfare... thus called "Call of Duty Urban Warfare" series. Im going to laugh if this is the case 4 years from now.

DlocDaBudSmoka5385d ago

Im so glad that even as a gamer, i have better things to do. Im sure IW will come out with a whole new domain name. hell by the time MW4 is supposed to come out, it will probably have a new tag line.

Azures5385d ago

What jackasses they got at ZiiP

kingme715385d ago

This is known as cybersquatting. There has been legisltation for about 10 years to curtail people snatching up trademarks or common names in the hopes of profiting from them. You can wind up in court if you aren't careful.

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Telltale shares new images from The Wolf Among Us 2, release 2024

The long-awaited sequel to the 2013 narrative adventure is currently expected out sometime in 2024.

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BlackOni5d ago

Oh hell yeah! I feel like this was one hell of an underrated game, and I'm glad to see that a part 2 is coming.

jznrpg5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

This was my favorite Telltale game. I’m definitely going to play this. Hopefully it has less jank than the Telltale games had. I didn’t think it would happen but I’m happy it’s coming

gold_drake4d ago

right? it was sooo good, cant wait for part 2

BlackCountryBob5d ago

Great, loved the first game and happy a sequel is coming but after such a lengthy development, are Telltale gonna be releasing it episodic with non specific time delays between episodes? If it is episodic, they need to have a full set of dates laid out for every episode so we know what we are getting & when like Resident Evil Revelations 2 did, buying episode 1 and not knowing when the rest will come is just unacceptable in 2024.

CobraKai4d ago

I always loved Telltale games. They were like those old choose your own adventures books.

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Gamers seek legal win that would stop devs from rendering online games unplayable

The organizer of "Stop Killing Games" hopes to get France and other governments to examine the legality of live service shutdowns. Scott has launched a new website, Stop Killing Games, to rally opposition to the games industry's "assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media," as he puts it.

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-Foxtrot19d ago (Edited 19d ago )

Should probably get them to implement offline mode when it comes to games you can play single player

It's shitty playing something solo and having to be connect despite being offline within the game.

It's worse when you get the games which can't be paused, I remember the doorbell going during a huge fight in Monster Hunter World, it took me ages but realised you couldn't pause. I ended up getting slaughtered after spending so long almost killing it.

Yi-Long18d ago

Driveclub is one of my favourite games of all-time, but once Sony killed it, it's barely playable in offline; Leaderboards are obviously gone so one of the things I liked to do most in the game, Time-attack, is now pretty pointless, and every race you start there's a red text on thr screen telling you you're offline.

There honestky was no need to keep the offline so integrated with the online stuff, and it's made me wary of other games which are now 'always online'.

purple10118d ago

should do what gran truismo on ps54 did, after severs shut, they unlock everything in the campaign to be played offline

there's no need for anti-cheat 'always online' which was always their excuse, thats and updating gamer progression

neutralgamer199218d ago

I didn’t know that. That’s awesome

Jingsing18d ago

and put out a physical version at the end, it is extra money for them at the end of the day.

blacktiger18d ago

Ppl get confused about this lawsuit, this guy has a point, if you don't want to pay for server cause no one is playing that's fine, at least make it PVP, that isn't hard and people paid for the game. So there for it shouldn't be unplayable. Offline is not what he's fighting for but that would be single player. He just fighting for PVP as to dedicated if you going to take it down.

I agree with this one! I hope he wins!

SimpleSlave18d ago

"Offline is not what he's fighting for but that would be single player. "

Always Online does include fully fledged Single Player Campaigns as well. And that's why I think The Crew is being used; The Precedent that covers it all.

Games like The Division 1 and 2 also have Single Player Campaigns, and Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a fully fledged Single Player game but always Online. Which mean that unless uBeSawft patches them they will all cease to exist once uBeSawft pulls the plug.

Again, I think this is why The Crew is being used as the precedent, because it covers all the Online Only bases; Not just the usual Multiplayer PvE and PvP like an MMO or Shooters and their Servers, but also actual Single Player Campaigns that are sadly always online.

Inverno18d ago

Should pin this to let it be on top for a while. This sort of stuff should get some good amount of attention, could actually make some good change in the industry.

HyperMoused18d ago

SP games yes, MP games, its a question of whos maintaing the servers etc and keeing them online.

blackblades18d ago

PvP games it should work. I remember playing black ops offline with AI opponents but of course its funner with real and AI bots. I know some games are server base but I imagine if hard work put in to it that, it can work offline.

PRIMORDUS18d ago

At least on the PC side I say if a company doesn't want to support a game anymore just give it to the fans. They will keep it alive for years and years. Like UT2004 for example you can still play it today, or BF1942. For any SP games I just torrent and keep it forever if they pull the plug. 😊

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Square Enix Already "Hard At Work" On Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3

Development on the next game in the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy might be further ahead than we thought. In a video discussing the series, the project leads say they are "hard at work" on the finale, right after launching Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

This comment was made by Remake and Rebirth director Tetsuya Nomura, who says that he and the scenario writer Kazushige Nojima are already working on the next game. Better yet, composer Nobuo Uematsu says that he'd be "honoured" to return for the finale, despite previously fearing that he doesn't have the "strength" for another game.

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just_looken24d ago

So i take it they won't be fixing there last game with the visual/movement problems.
https://youtu.be/B2rHUbqauU...

Just keep tossing them out

Barlos24d ago

Nothing worse than a grammar nazi

_Decadent_Descent23d ago

@Barlos

Nothing worse than those that let others keep on making a fool of themselves and say nothing to correct them. That's why they continue to keep making those mistakes.

Pyrofire9523d ago

I appreciate that many more people are agreeing with the grammar correction and disagreeing with Barlos.

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garos8224d ago

yikes talk about nit picking and strawmanning

roadkillers24d ago

This is something most crtics bring up... but they still gave the game 9+ score. As big of a deal as you are making it, a VAST majority of players were just fine with the graphics compared to waht they got with Rebirth

DarXyde23d ago

Dude complains about everything.

I haven't finished the game yet, but I'm having a blast.

Just negative for the sake of being negative.

dumahim23d ago

While I'd guess they're probably not going to do much else about it at this point, just because they're working on the sequel doesn't mean they can't have someone working on the visual issues for Rebirth. Likewise, it also doesn't mean they're not working on a DLC for it either.
Either way, I'd put money on it that they'll update the game for PS5 Pro.

Exvalos23d ago

Keep up the hatred fanboy, and we will keep playing great games

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GoodGuy0924d ago

Sweet....and hopefully can actually answer all the wtfs rather than giving us more questions that has been happening in these games lol. And I hope they just end the game properly instead of trying to milk VII even more. I'd very much like to see remakes of other FF titles on the same level.

-Foxtrot24d ago

God I hope this is it for VII

They’ve milked it far too much over the years, I mean Wikipedia has its own VII specific page because there’s so much media for it

It’s time for other FF games to get some love

gold_drake24d ago

im all for it, remake and rebirth were fantastic, especially rebirth, my god wat a brilliant game.

i mean, we had 16 and 14 still be a thing.
and 9 is getting a remake too, apparently

FinalFantasyFanatic23d ago

As much as I love FF7, they have really milked it to death, 2 compilations of FF7 which includes novels, games, mobile games, movies and animation...

They really need to put more effort into newer FF games.

-Foxtrot23d ago

@FinalFantasyFanatic

Yeah I mean look at it man, why does anyone want it milked even more when other FF games are starving for attention.

https://i.ibb.co/3mT2TRc/12...

Furesis24d ago

Well when you have Tetsuya Nomura hands on something, that is what you get. Whether you like it or not that's another thing.
I don't think they should make remakes like this anymore, and they won't that's what they said also. It takes too long and it just fragments the game too much for my taste. And i'd prefer a more 1 to 1 remake with maybe a slightly smaller budget so that it would actually be made in a reasonable time rather than these 10+ year projects.

gold_drake24d ago

nomura doesnt ely that much of a role in the trilogy, its Nojima u need to blame ha.

as for the og, there are mods u can use for that.

we'll never get an updated og game. it would take them years to finish it, even if its 1:1

fr0sty24d ago (Edited 24d ago )

nobody will buy a 1:1 remake, they already know what is going to happen exactly... and you can't properly remake a 20+ year old game 1:1 anyway, so much needs to be done to bring it to modern standards, that you have to change some things.

Michiel198923d ago

@frosty that's the same thing the execs at blizzard said about WoW classic and here we are. You think you do, but you don't

dumahim23d ago

They did a Remaster for Crisis Core, which seemed near impossible due to a licensing issue not too long ago. I wouldn't be surprised if they do the same for Dirge of Cerberus before part 3.

I do worry what they'll do with part 3 though. They're not just going to abandon the nonsense. Rebirth was like 98% fantastic, but those whispers moments and their take on what is one of the most iconic scenes in video games ever just upsets me.

Hofstaderman24d ago

80 hours into rebirth and loving it. Bring it on Square.

gold_drake24d ago

i had 118h at the end. with everything done minues the queens blood stuff. and i absolutely loved every minute of it

Hofstaderman23d ago

I just want to say bugger mog house level 6. Will return to that later

Shiro17323d ago

Only one thing I hated it and it was the relic hunt for the sand spot next to the flying saucer. I hated that mini game for the relic. Killing those cactus with Aerith was annoying.

fr0sty24d ago

I like the remakes better than the original that I grew up playing back in the 90s... they are doing it right. And that soundtrack... I still jam the Gongaga theme all the time.

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