Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer event (photo gallery)

LOS ANGELES — Here’s our photo gallery of Activision’s Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer event. At LA Live in downtown Los Angeles, the event reminded us of the loud and boisterous Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Eric Hirshberg, the president and chief executive of Activision, said at the press conference that Call of Duty: Ghosts is an “adrenalized, hair on fire” kind of gaming experience that lives up to the franchise and its history as the fastest-selling game property. Here’s some pictures that help tell the story of how Activision wants to market the game amid a sea of competition this fall.

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.