Weekend warrior competition

Posted on June 27, 2009
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CoD series is has always offered some truly intense single player experiences. They have done this with their CoD 4: Modern Warfare and World at War title made by Treyarch. Another area which the franchise has shined was the multiplayer mode.

They have already featured a variety of gameplay and highly customizable characters, which could have been outfitted with different perks or qualities.
To generate some more hype for the World at War title, the Treyarch has now announced that it would kick off the Weekend Warrior competition. In it the players can now fight it out and rank among the best ever to grace the title.

Here is the official announcement that was put on the official website of Call of Duty:

“Listen up troops. If you think you have what it takes to compete with the best soldiers on the battlefield, then we have some news for you. Saturday, June 27 at 12:00pm – 06:00pm PST and continuing Sunday, June 28 at 12:00pm – 06:00pm PST kicks off the inaugural Call of Duty: WaW Weekend Warrior competition, in which participating soldiers battle for top ranking. Soldiers with the highest combined kills from these two timeframes will earn top prizes for their courageous efforts. This Weekend Warrior competition is the kick-off contest to an ongoing series of competitions; so keep an eye on the Intel page to catch all future Weekend Warrior posts.”

Patch 1.5 for the PC version

Posted on June 26, 2009
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Here is the patch 1.5 for the PC version of World at War details. It will be in the market soon.

- Now the CO-OP hosts can kick players from their lobby.
- The dog spawning in MP has been improved.
- Addressed an issue with Zombie pathing.
- The player model displaying incorrectly has been fixed.
- Some of the unhandled exception errors has also been addressed.
- Ther server server browser’s refresh functionality has been improved.
- Added support for CODTV
- “cg_DrawFPS 1” now only displays FPS and cg ms/frame.
- The RCon command “teamstatus” added to display players’ team information.
- Mods: Added joinsquad script function
- Mods: Now players can join CO-OP lobbies that are hosting the names of map with more than 18 characters.
- Mods: Now users can load custom maps when the usermaps folder contains 50 or more custom maps.
- Mods: Loading of duplicate assets are removed that contributed to the ‘2048 materials’ error.
- Mods: Increased the amount of mods displayable in the Mods menu
- Mods: Fixed a crash related to the mod.arena file.

One million downloads in just first week

Posted on June 23, 2009
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According to Activisio, the 2nd map pack for Call of Duty: World At War registered one million downloads just in the first week on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.

The map pack that has been developed by Treyarch contains four separate maps, which includes the Bonsai, Corrosion, Sub Pens and Shi No Numa. It has been priced at $9.99 on both download services.

The first map pack of World at War passed the million-download milestone approximately within its first two weeks on the service.

Recently Activision said that the first map pack has now sold around 2 million units. The publishing exec Mike Griffith said “map packs and add-on DLC “insulates us from the used game market.” He also said that it allows retailers to hold higher pricing on the related games for longer.

More than 2 million downloads of Map Pack 2 in first week

Posted on June 19, 2009
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It has been officially announced by Activision that the downloadable content (DLC), “Map Pack 2″ for Call of Duty: World at War, has now exceeded more than one million downloads in the first weekend of its being available. This Map Pack 2 was released recently.

This map pack contains 4 maps, namely Bonsai, Corrosion, Sub Pens, and Shi No Numa. It is available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and PlayStation Network for 800 MS Points and $9.99.

The previously released Call of Duty: World at War DLC, Map Pack 1, saw more than two million downloads in the first week of its release.

Play Call of Duty: World at War with Derek Mears

Posted on June 14, 2009
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We all remember Derek Mears. He is the actor who plays Jason Voorhees in the 2009 release of Friday the 13th. Good news is that he will be playing Call of Duty: World at War with Xbox LIVE Gold Members on June 19.

This is the good news also for all the Xbox LIVE Gold Members. Those who don’t have, upgrade it now. You will get a chance to play with Derek Mears. Send a friend request to the following Gamertag (Jason F13) and be online half an hour before (6:00 P.M. ET) the Game with Fame session starts on Friday, June 19, 6:30 P.M. ET.

He is the man behind the mask. Play against Derek Mears and talk to him. You can talk to him about what it was like to play one of the most iconic American horror villains–Jason Voorhees.
He is one of the busiest actor-stuntmen in film and television. He is best known with roles in The Hills Have Eyes II, Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Man’s Chest, Men in Black II, and Wild Wild West.

CoD:WaW map pack 2 is now available for download

Posted on June 11, 2009
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The E3 conference has now come to an end. Hence, all publishers and developers have now to concentrate on other stuff like released updates or packs. The other day it was seen that the DotA 6.60 map with full changelog is now available. Today, a similar step has been taken by the Call of Duty.

Activision and Treyarch says that the Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 2 will be available for download today. They also say that it will also bring new features and even some of the interesting additions to improve the gaming experience of a gamer.

This new pack of the game will feature three new multiplayer levels along with a new level destined for the Nazi Zombies bonus mode. The Nazi Zombies bonus mode is a four-player co-op mode. In this new pack players will fight in a battle to take control over a river bridge in Banzai. The Banzai is a cool map that takes place in a jungle with secret caves, and a waterfall.

Gamers review of CoD:WaW

Posted on June 9, 2009
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While I was searching about gamers review for this game on Google, I came across an interesting review.

This is what the gamer writes:

DS version of the Call of Duty: World at War is a solid, entertaining, and also a challenging experience. CoD:WaW follows 3 campaigns i.e. American, Britsh, and Russian. In the game the Americans combat with the Japanese.

The gamers also said in the review that the single player gameplay is standard take cover and shoot fair. He mentions that the precise controls help him to make the experience greater.

According to him, the aiming in the game is done by just sliding the stylus across the touch screen and the movement is set to the d-pad and shooting to the L trigger only. He says that the d-pad is also used to sprint by just only double tapping up and crouch by double tapping down.

In the game all the other controls like changing weapons, reloading, and aiming down the sights are made by touching panels on the touch screen. He says that the touch screen controls are responsive.

This weekend at half the price

Posted on June 4, 2009
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There has been always some good news for Call of Duty: World at War. In the past we have seen some very attractive weekend deals on Steam for CoD:WaW in terms of price. Many time in the past the price of the game at Steam as been slashed down to as low as fifty percent. Yes, you hear it right, 50 percent.

This weekend we hear something of same kind. The game that was developed by Treyarch and published by Activision was released in November last year for the PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, Windows mobile and Windows PC is now again available for only half the price on Steam.

It means that now gamers can avail a PC version of Call of Duty: World at War for as little as 24.99 USD only. If we cross check properly then it falls cheaper than Call of Duty 4. There will be inclusion with the World War II shooter, the first downloadable content pack featuring four new maps including the map Verruckt which can be played in 4-player co-op Zombie Bonus Mode.

One more bonus is there. Gamers can now earn double the experience points playing multiplayer games over the weekend.

Map Pack 2 arriving this month

Posted on June 2, 2009
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There, the second downloadable Map Pack for CoD:WaW will be available by the end of this month. It will feature some of the fantastic new areas to explore. As the release news comes closer, we will cover more information and screenshots.

There will be deep in the jungles of Japanese controlled territory. Also there will be battle to control the tall river bridge in “Banzai” i.e. a bright and medium sized jungle map that will feature waterfall, villages and also hidden caves. All these will be well suited for deadly snipers, surprise attacks and also all out gun battles and combats.

In “Corrosion” one has to face down the enemy in a deteriorated Russian train yard. There will be over and through the shattered pipelines combat and war-torn train cars in the mid sized map. It will be great for full out team combat. Just keep your head on a swivel because the enemy may be above or below.

13 million Call of Duty 4 players on Xbox Live

Posted on May 31, 2009
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CoD franchise is same as any ordinary first-person shooter series which has been tackled World War II, up to the 4th installment, dubbed COD4: Modern Warfare. The developer and the publisher, Infinity Ward and Activision, by simply bringing the series into the present day experienced a huge of success in both sales as well as popularity.

It is only two year old game and as a new testimony to the big number of fans the community manager of the Infinity Ward, Robert Bowling, said that there are more than thirteen million unique users on the Xbox 360 console alone. He also added by saying that there has been a great demand from January this year, when the total number of Xbox 360 CoD 4 players was at around 10 million.

In a podcast with the Xbox 360 community manager Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, Bowling said that the Call of Duty 4 on Xbox Live is just exploded. He said that he meant right now they are at thirteen million unique users on 360 and that is insane.

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