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Activision has confirmed Season 2 of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone arrives on February 7, and the newly released promo art confirms that the previously leaked crossover with The Walking Dead is officially happening.The Season 2 promo art includes Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead, so it seems players can expect his operator bundle to hit the shop sometime during the new season. However, Rick may not be alone in Call of Duty. Data miners also found references to Michonne and a potential limited-time event,…

Players are getting crafty with the newly-released Lego Fortnite, a Lego-branded survival-crafting mode within Fortnite that plays fairly similarly to Minecraft. With all the crafting and building tools available in the new mode, Redditor u/claudesfeet made a faithful, if blocky, recreation of Call of Duty's Nuketown map.The player posted a video runthrough of their version of COD's Nuketown, an eerie map set within a nuclear testing facility. The Lego Fortnite version shows the familiar streets,…

For the launch of Modern Warfare III, Activision released a new anti-toxicity voice moderation program that could automatically detect toxic speech and take action. Activision now says this program has been very successful so far, leading to more than 2 million accounts having action taken against them for "disruptive" voice chat.The program rolled out originally in North America in English only, but it has since expanded everywhere in the world (except Asia) and has added support for Spanish and…

Call of Duty's latest DLC operator is available now, and it's unlike anything that's come before it. The newest operator is called Bath Time, and it turns your soldier into a rubber ducky.Available for 1,800 COD Points, or about $18, the bundle comes with the rubber ducky head for your soldier, as well as weapons called The Ducky and Rubber Rampage. You also get the "What the Duck" weapon sticker, the "Duck This" calling card, and the "Bath Time" emblem. There is also a weapon charm in the bundle called…

has taken aim at cheaters in a swathe of novel and often hilarious ways over the last few years, from so they splat onto the ground in Warzone to straight up . The latest tactic targets those who use illicit tools to activate aim assist while playing with a mouse and keyboard.The Ricochet anti-cheat team says that when its security detection systems spot such players, the Call of Duty app will simply close itself. No clever trick like from elsewhere in the match. The game will just shut down. "Repeated use of these…

Call of Duty's big new Season 1 update, the first new season since Modern Warfare III launched in December, debuts on December 6, bringing with it a bunch of new content. This includes the latest of Call of Duty's popular BlackCell DLC bundles, and now we know more about it.The new $30 BlackCell bundle comes with a new Operator named Abolisher, and the skin looks pretty slick. You can see Abolisher in action in the video below. You need a javascript enabled browser to watch…

Activision has revealed the next store bundles in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Warzone, and there's a lot coming. Coming to Call of Duty in the Season 1 update include a scary version of Santa, characters from the Dune universe, and more heroes from Amazon's TV show The Boys.The Santa Gnaws bundle comes with a spooky version of the holiday hero who dons a red cap but has massive muscles and looks like he's been through some stuff. The bundle comes with two weapons, a sticker, a charm, and an…

Image Credit -- ActivisionMicrosoft-owned Activision is set to launch a new feature to counter cheaters in Call of Duty: Warzone. To add this feature to the first-person shooter title’s anti-cheat system, Ricochet, the popular gaming studio is set to roll out an update. This new feature is called Splat. As the name suggests, once deployed at the start of the match, this feature will be able to randomly detect cheaters and plummet them straight to the ground without giving a warning. How will it workWith Splat enabled,…

For four years, PC players of Call of Duty had to purchase and play the game through Blizzard‘s Battle.net digital distribution platform. However, this arrangement ended in 2022 as it was a “resounding failure,” according to a recently published court document from Microsoft. This emerged through the ongoing legal tussle between Microsoft and the Federal Trade Commission on the subject of its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The data apparently disclosed that the number of monthly active users of Activision…

Activision has released new anti-cheat tools for the Call of Duty series that can detect when third-party hardware devices are attached to a person's setup.In a blog post, Activision said such devices can give players the ability to gain an unfair advantage by way of reducing or completing eliminating weapon recoil, among other things. Following a testing period, Activision has now deployed the new hardware detection update in Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0. Anyone suspected to be cheating by way of a…