Is the Call of Duty: Black Ops II drone war realistic? (videos)
In Call of Duty: Black Ops II, a terrorist leader takes over America’s drone and robot armies and turns them against their creators. But...
Draw Something loses 3 million players in a single month
A count of daily active users for smash-hit app Draw Something reveals a loss of 3 million players in a 30-day period.
Replay Games raises more than $600K on Kickstarter for Leisure Suit Larry game
Leisure Suit Larry will live again in the land of the lounge lizards. After a 30 day campaign, Replay Games has raised a total...
CrowdStar raises $11.5M for mobile games but will lay off Facebook developers
CrowdStar, which is shifting from social to mobile games, has raised $11.5 million in a recent round of funding. At the same time, the...
Microsoft and Motorola patent dispute threatens Xbox 360 sales in Germany
Microsoft and Motorola Mobility are locked in a bitter patent suit regarding the use of H.264 video compression and encoding. The ongoing legal battle lead to German courts issuing an injunction that could halt the sales and distribution of the Xbox 360, Windows 7 software, and even Internet Explorer in the country.
The biggest revelations about Call of Duty: Black Ops II (spoilers)
Activision Blizzard‘s Treyarch game studio lifted the veil on Call of Duty: Black Ops II yesterday. We got a special briefing at the company’s...
Creating the sounds of future wars in the Call of Duty: Black Ops II audio lab
The team that created the sounds for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops II game spent an awful lot of time in the...
How Treyarch created realistic human faces in Call of Duty: Black Ops II
As the cinematics lead for Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Adam Rosas has a tough job. Rosas (pictured below) had to use current-generation...
It’s not the same old 3D graphics in Call of Duty: Black Ops II
[Editor’s note: minor spoilers on game locations] The one requirement for a Call of Duty game is that it has to run at 60...
Treyarch unveils Call of Duty: Black Ops II, also known as Attack of the Drones
[Editor’s note: This article contains a few story spoilers.] Activision Blizzard‘s Treyarch game studio is unveiling the worst-kept secret in video games today: Call of...