Tag Archives: Call of Duty: Black Ops III

To date, there have been 16 core Call of Duty titles. That’s a lot of entries to consider for our best Call of Duty maps list. From absolute classics on titles like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (opens in new tab) to recent hits on the latest Call of …

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (opens in new tab) players on PS4 can download the game’s second DLC pack on April 19, Activision and Treyarch announced today. The next bundle of four competitive multiplayer maps and one new Zombies mission is titled, drumroll please… Eclipse. As in Awakening (opens …

It used to be that you couldn’t make a living playing video games, and Lord, did a certain generation of gamers hear that point emphasised a lot, as they (we) frittered away yet another afternoon in the Green Hill Zone. But times have changed. Sonic’s most successful work today involves …

Monday’s can be stressful. To help you relax, we want you to take a deep breath and imagine yourself in a frozen forest. And be “frozen forest” we mean “wacky futuristic battleground” because this week on Caught Up! we’re playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. See how it stacks …

Choose your soldier Gone are the no-name soldiers, the generic ghillie suits, and the standard issue fatigues. In Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’s multiplayer, you no longer play as a grunt, but rather a highly skilled Specialist soldier. Each of these soldiers will have their own progression system (of …

Betas are really meant to test network code and check things work rather than let people get a free go on something early. That often gets forgotten, so here’s a ton of changes posted (opens in new tab) by Black Ops 3 (opens in new tab)’s design director David Vonderhaar …

In an interesting conversation about where games are going and changing expectations, Black Ops 3’s design director David Vondahar has talked about the idea of a persistent profile carried from one COD to the next. It’s apparently an idea that’s “come up a lot” but realistically sounds unworkable without some …

Given that COD’s been racing into the future with every game since Modern Warfare, it’s not that much of a reach to predict it will, at some point, go ‘full Halo’ and shoot for the moon. Literally. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your feelings towards the galaxy) Black Ops 3 …

Anyone who’s been following UK politics over the past few months will be familiar with the concept of the ‘shy Tory’. It’s a term used to explain why the Conservative Party often performs better in elections than polls suggests it will. Essentially, what’s happening is that voters who agree with …

You’ve probably heard mention before about Call Of Duty running on an old Quake 3 Arena id Tech 3 engine. And it is in a way, but with revisions and upgrades for almost every game in the series, the idea of a ‘COD engine’ is hard to pin down. “Engines …