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Just a quick reminder to all that today is the last day to become a “Founder” of Act vision’s Call of Duty Elite service. Those who choose the Founder option will be handed an exclusive title, weapon camouflage, and emblem for Modern Warfare 3. Those who opt-in will also have access to a private discussion group, and will receive 500 XP for your clan, as well as “exclusive competitions and prizes that only Founders can enter.”

Founder status is permanent whether you renew next year or not, and will run you $50 annually. Those who purchase the Hardened Edition of Modern Warfare 3 and have yet to enter the attached voucher granting Founder can still do so, despite today’s deadline. Thanks, Shack.

This new trailer highlights some of the ways Call of Duty: Elite can make your gaming life better, while mysteriously failing to mention how not screaming abuse into the mic would definitely help.

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Activision has sent out a friendly reminder to all Modern Warfare 3 players letting them know that Call of Duty: Elite’s Friday Night Fights starts on November 25. Executive produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott’s RSA Films, and director RJ Cutler, real life rivals will go against one another in Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer matches. The inaugural episode pits teams from the US Army vs US Navy. Friday Night Fights starts at 12.00pm PST on Elite and can be accessed through the premium end of the service’s program guide. Following each initial broadcast, a replay will be available via streaming.

The firm has also said the service should be stable by Thursday, to prepare for the holiday weekend.  Currently, overall average user functionality is at around 95%. According to Daniel Suarez, VP of production at Activision, speaking to VentureBeat:  “We are where we should have been at launch. It should be an enjoyable holiday weekend for people.”

Activision has announced that one million premium memberships of Call of Duty: Elite were sold with in six days of launch, and over 4 million have registered overall.

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Acttivision has said it plans to have Call of Duty: Elite “up and running” properly by December 1. Speaking with G4, Daniel Suarez said the target date is rather specific, in that it’s the same length of the service extension premium subscribers were handed as an apology for experiencing Elite’s issues at launch. “They kind of have to bear with us while we bring this all back up,” the VP of production said, “but for us it’s literally ‘give us those couple weeks, we’re giving those to you for free’ and come December 1, the goal is that we’ll have everything up and running.’”

To keep up to date on the service’s status, keep an eye on this page.

During a call to investors today discussing the firm’s financial results, GameStop resident Tony Bartel announced that Call of Duty Elite subscriptions helped pad the firm’s digital sales growth for the quarter.
“In the case of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, we worked closely with Activision, Sony and Microsoft to pre-order and deliver nearly 600,000 instances of the Modern Warfare Elite DLC to date,” Bartel told investors and analysts. “This places the launch of Elite as one of our top 10 launches of the year so far.” Earlier today, GameStop reported 59% growth in digital sales year-on-year, with console digital sales up 63% and PC digital sales up 51%. Thanks, Gamasutra.

Activision has released an update on its troubled social network, Call of Duty Elite.

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Activision has clarified comments made earlier by the official Twitter account for Call of Duty: Elite, which said the firm could not “guarantee if or when” a PC version of the service would be be released.

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Call of Duty VP of production, Daniel Suarez, has explained exactly what caused Call of Duty: Elite’s outage, how Beachhead Studios are going about fixing things.

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Activision has admitted it’s having an issue scaling the Call of Duty Elite service to meet player demand, and to help sooth the frustration a bit, every premium member will “immediately and automatically” be handed an extra 30 days of Elite at no additional cost. The firm is also extending Founder eligibility until the end of the month, which will also provide and additional 30 days of free access. Beachhead said it is “working non-stop to identify issues and resolve them as quickly as possible.” To keep up-to-date on the service’s status, keep an eye on this page.

Activision is busy behind the scenes coping with massive launch demand for its new social network service, Call of Duty: Elite.

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Call Of Duty: Elite, the new stat-tracking service which launched aside Modern Warfare 3, is having a bit of an issue with so many folks trying to register at once.

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Activision’s gone live with the console app for Call of Duty: Elite on Xbox Live, enabling some of the free features for the service. When you register the app, you’ll also be able to get two hours worth of free XP from Modern Warfare 3. Get it queued from Marketplace for free here, and have it ready for MW3′s launch tonight.

Just a quick heads up to let everyone know that if you pre-ordered Modern Warfare 3 through Direct2Drive or Steam, you can now pre-load the game. With that out of the way, you should also know that Elite’s Friday Night Fights will start on November 11 through Elite TV.

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Activision has pushed back the PC launch of social network Call of Duty Elite, which releases on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 alongside Modern Warfare 3 next week.

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Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter expects Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to outdo every other game this year.

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In a second behind-the-scenes video for Call of Duty: Elite, Beachhead explains the service’s Compete section which explores the competitive features, and provides information on individual and Clan competitions, as well as available prizes.

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Activision and Beachhead are shutting down the Call of Duty: ELITE beta today at 12:00pm PST – or right about now, actually. According to the firms, the Connect, Compete and Improve sections have been closed in preparation for Modern Warfare 3 and ELITE’s official launch, access to the Career page will soon be opening up with access to Black Ops stats later this week. Just as a reminder, all
beta activity carries over when the service officially launches. Both ELITE and MW3 launch on November 8, and to give you an idea of what’s free, and what is subscription-based, you should check out this rather handy comparison sheet, complete with visual aids.

Infinity Ward’s sudden reversal on the question of dedicated server support for the Call of Duty series comes down in part to Modern Warfare 2′s shortcomings.

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Services such as Call of Duty: Elite will become a “necessity” for all mainstream games in the not-too distant future, according to Activision’s digital vice president, Jamie Berger.

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