Gaming

PS3 Assault Rifle Misfires Even With Move

In multiplayer shooters, I’m the worst, and peripherals offer the seductive idea of an advantage. CTA Digital’s Assault Rifle Controller, for PlayStation Move, looks like something that could point-and-shoot me to pwnage, or at least not sucking.


January 14, 2011
Gaming

Gamers Hack Medical Server To Host A Game Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops

New Hampshire-based Seacoast Radiology sent out an alert to its patients explaining that their private information may have been compromised. The reason? Some folks hacked into the medical group’s server to host a game of Call of Duty.


November 13, 2010
Gaming

The Scene In Which Gamers Blow Fidel’s Brains Off

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The Cuban government is very angry. The reason: This scene from a Call of Duty: Black Ops mission that requires players to kill Fidel Castro. They are claiming some bullshit about it being “perverse”. I wonder if the victims of Castro’s dictatorship agree.


November 10, 2010
Gaming

Review: Call Of Duty: Black Ops Redefines Modern Warfare

Call of Duty: Black Ops slips players into the subterfuge, counter-espionage and abiding fear of the Cold War’s international turmoil. It also serves as a polished, powerful link between the countless World War II games that came before it and the likely countless modern shooters that will come in its wake.


November 9, 2010
Gaming

Armed Robbers Snatch 100 Copies Of Black Ops In GameStop Heist

Two guys with semiautomatic firearms were hellbent on breaking street for Call of Duty: Black Ops, sticking up a Baltimore-area GameStop and looting it of 100 copies of the game, due out Tuesday.


September 22, 2010
Gaming

What The Internode/GameServers Deal Means

Gizmodo AU

We know that GameServers.com has exclusive rights to host servers for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops, and last week Kotaku AU exclusively reported that GameServers’ Australian operation would be handled by Internode. We talked with GameServers and local server admins to find out what the deal really means for Black Ops in Australia.