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Call of Duty Elite goes free as Activision charges only for DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops II

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Activision Blizzard is making a big shift in providing free content for its most dedicated gamers. The Call of Duty Elite gamer social network service will become free with the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops II on Nov. 13. Players will enjoy Elite’s social features for free, but they will still have to pay for downloadable content such as multiplayer online game maps.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.