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It's been a bleak year so far for the gaming industry, between , projects getting canceled and . There are some specks of light in the darkness, though, thanks to a few surprise hits like Palworld and Helldivers 2, while there are still some studios opening up. One of those is BulletFarm, a nascent NetEase studio led by a former Call of Duty multiplayer designer.Studio head David Vonderhaar will draw from his experience of working on the Call of Duty: Black Ops series for his latest project, a co-op game set in an…

Skilled-based matchmaking has been an ongoing topic of conversation in the Call of Duty community for a while. For obvious reasons, it’s a necessity that prevents lower-skilled players from quitting or just having an awful experience. However, it also makes playing any style of Call of Duty, other than “sweaty,” downright impossible for more skilled players. The game’s servers recently had some serious issues for a day, and part of those problems stopped skilled-based matchmaking (SBMM) from working properly. When the…

Earlier in the month, Call Of Duty kicked off a crossover with AMC’s The Walking Dead, as original leading character Rick Grimes joined the game as a playable operator. With an operator skin for fan-favourite swordswoman Michonne Grimes still on the way, NME caught up with the people responsible for the crossover. Speaking to NME, Clayton Neuman, head of franchise at AMC, said that from “very early conversations,” it was agreed that Rick and Michonne were the best picks to represent The Walking Dead. “Since Rick’s last…

The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) on Sunday appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to peg the customs duty exchange rate at N1,000 per dollar for the rest of the year in line with the federal government’s commitment to ease economic hardship on the citizens. In a statement signed by Muda Yusuf, director of CPPE, the think tank said the current customs duty exchange rate of N1488.9/$ is too high in the context of the current inflation and difficulties facing businesses and citizens.…

Players have reported problems across Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone with server issues affecting multiplayer, Zombies, and battle royale. Activision has commented on the issues--including that they may also impact Modern Warfare 2--but here's what you need to know before logging in to play.You can still try to hop into matches of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone, but you'll want to beware that in addition to difficulty finding matches, many players have suffered reset stats, bugged weapon…

Logging into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 today is quite the ride. Players have seen their rank drop to level 1 overnight, in addition to the server errors being delivered in certain game modes. Particularly Zombies, but also other modes, have displayed a ‘Minot Hawthorne’ error, or just a never-ending loading screen, which prevents the player from playing. The developer is working on solutions, while temporarily disabling some modes while it’s being fixed. Ranked multiplayer and resurgence have been taken down As of…

If you’re one of the many players who logged into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 today and found out you’re now level 1, you aren’t alone. Social media users everywhere reported their accounts have been reset. The official Call of Duty Updates Twitter account has already responded, stating the developers are working on a fix. The MW3 level reset issue is being addressed According to CODUpdates on Twitter, the level reset issue in Modern Warfare 3 “appeared overnight.” As such, it doesn’t seem like the cause is known…

In October 2023, Microsoft completed the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and with that, people expected the company to bring the Call of Duty series games to Xbox Game Pass immediately after the acquisition was complete. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. Back then, the Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, said that Microsoft wasn’t planning to bring the Call of Duty series titles to the game subscription service before 2024, which also meant that those games might come to Xbox Game Pass this year. Well, today we have an…

Cheating in Call of Duty has always been a risky business, but it's gotten especially fraught in late February. A recent update from Activision's official CoD X account said that the game's anti-cheat team have been monitoring a spike in cheating within the community, which resulted in over 6,000 accounts being banned in a four-day span.According to the post, the developers are currently testing additional security updates, but the team already pushed one that disabled game code that cheaters were using…

Future Call Of Duty titles will launch day and date on Xbox Game Pass, according to an interview with Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer. Spencer spoke about how Xbox Game Pass will work with new studios that have been purchased by Xbox in an interview with Gamefile‘s Stephen Totillo. “Our intent is the full portfolio from ZeniMax, Activision Blizzard and XGS- Xbox Game Studios – will be on Game Pass, day one,” Spencer said in the interview. It’s important to note however, that there’s still work to be done before…