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CHAOS AT COD HOUSE This year's Call of Duty may be more Far Cry than CoD, and next year's game has no lead studio - report

There may be some turmoil, and much needed change, at Activision's big Call of Duty house.

MW3 best FR 5.56 loadout

For a fun burst assault rifle in MW3 Warzone and Multiplayer, look no further.

MW3 best Holger 556 loadout

For a versatile assault rifle that’s easy to control, here’s our best Holger 556 loadout in MW3.

TRUST ME, BRO Activision is trying really hard to convince us the Modern Warfare 3 launch was a success

Boy, does Activision have some cherry picked stats from the launch of Modern Warfare 3 to share with us.

FIRST OF MANY MW3 double XP (and everything else) event coming today, Season 1 date set

Modern Warfare 3 is celebrating its supposed successful launch with a hefty double everything weekend.

SHOCKER Modern Warfare 3's Groot skin will likely be fixed once it's no longer on sale, because of course

To no one's surprise, the problematic Gaian skin in Modern Warfare 3 will be fixed (just not yet).

FRESH MEAT Modern Warfare 3's first batch of original maps arrives with Season 1

Modern Warfare 3 will start introducing original maps very soon, and today, we get a glimpse at the first batch.

CAN YOU SEE ME NOW? Modern Warfare 3's first playlist update has players glowing red

Modern Warfare 3 has received its first ever playlist update, bringing something familiar, something expected, and an experiment.

HIGHRISE HIGHPOINT Modern Warfare 3’s Open Combat Missions deserve to die, but one level should be saved

The Modern Warfare 3 campaign’s only “innovation” is its Open Combat Missions. All but one are entirely forgettable, and it’s that one that we need to talk about.

SWING AND A MISS Modern Warfare 3 gets its first big update, but it's not the one you want

While Modern Warfare 3's first patch is big, it was supposed to be even bigger and include more fixes, which have had to be delayed.

NOT GROOT One of the many skins that ruined MW2 is now ruining Modern Warfare 3

Call of Duty continues to sell skins that can be near invisible in multiplayer. Players keep buying them, and the cycle repeats.

WAY DOWN WE GO Modern Warfare 3's Steam launch nowhere near the heights of MW2

Players on Steam have, shockingly, not been buying Modern Warfare 3 in droves.

BRAVO SIX, GOING LOW MW3 has the worst review scores in Call of Duty history

Good god, it's even worse than Redfall!

ARMORY LOCKED MW3's terrible and dumb Armory Unlocks system, explained

Why did Sledgehammer Games need to introduce the Armory Unlocks feature? Probably to pad out Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer progression.

SPLAT Warzone will now make sure cheaters plummet to their deaths as comeuppance for their crimes

The Ricochet Anti-Cheat team is kicking off another year of Call of Duty with some cruelty towards cheaters.

SIXTEEN MONTHS Shocking no one, Modern Warfare 3's campaign was a terribly rushed development - report

Modern Warfare 3 feels rushed and hastily cobbled together because it was.

COD BLIMEY Modern Warfare III's mundane recreation of London's south bank makes me want an entire game of that

Hyper-realistic scenes of ordinary urban afternoons are wasted on Call of Duty.

OLD MAN YELLS AT KID Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer tips for elder millennials and geriatrics

Let’s face it: your reflexes and reaction time aren’t what they used to be, but you still want to play Modern Warfare 3. If you’re facing that dilemma, this guide is for you!

PLAY MW3 EARLY How to play MW3 multiplayer early on all platforms

You can access Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer on all platforms using these clever tricks.

MWIII VIBE CHECK Modern Warfare 3 pre-load and unlock times

With campaign early access behind us, Modern Warfare 3's next big moment is the full launch later this week.

THE ONE THING Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer launch is close, and people are worried about cheaters

Coming off the Modern Warfare 3 beta, which had its own issues with cheating, the community is bracing for bumpy launch.

WHAT A CROCK Modern Warfare 3 campaign: the meal you cobble together from leftovers when you’re broke

The Modern Warfare 3 campaign is Call of Duty at its most unenthusiastic and creatively bankrupt.

HUNT 'EM MW3: Precious Cargo weapon and item locations

We’ve rounded up the locations of every item and weapon you can find in Precious Cargo, the first Open Combat Mission in Modern Warfare 3.

THE TAKEOVER Is this what we should expect now that Xbox owns Call of Duty?

Xbox has an interesting strategy to try and sell you on Modern Warfare 3. And by interesting, we mean intrusive.

GOING LIGHT Even by Call of Duty standards, Modern Warfare 3's campaign is very short

Call of Duty campaigns are always on the lighter side of video game campaigns, but Modern Warfare 3's seems to have taken it a little too far.

NO CONFUSION HERE Modern Warfare 3 will also bring back maps from last year's game

Modern Warfare 3 has one more thing carrying forward from Modern Warfare 2 that's just been revealed.

NOT GONNA HAPPEN MW3: It wouldn’t be another Call of Duty launch without people complaining about SBMM

Modern Warfare 3 isn't even out yet, but some have already brought out the tired old tirades about SBMM.

MW3 BETA PREP Modern Warfare 3 beta: Start times, pre-load, download size, content and everything you need to know

The Modern Warfare 3 beta's second go is not far off, and we have all the information you need to get started.

ROUGH START? Modern Warfare 3 first beta recap: poor visibility, inconsistent TTK, and huffing a gas that makes you stronger

Modern Warfare 3's first-go beta has run into some predictable, and few interesting, issues as players went hands-on with it.

NEXT COD Watch Call of Duty: Next, win free Modern Warfare 3 content, pass judgement on the multiplayer – watch here

It's time to learn a whole lot of new information about Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer, and the game's upcoming beta, at Call of Duty: Next.

BLAND WARFARE 3 Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer trailer can't produce a single thing worth getting exciting about

It's okay to be excited about all the things we've seen before in this Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer trailer, but that's not me.

GUN-FRANKENSTEIN Modern Warfare 3 lets you turn a pistol into an SMG, an LMG into... a different kind of LMG

Modern Warfare 3 is expanding the Gunsmith system with a feature that can essentially turn one weapon into a different one.

STAR WARS LOGIC Warzone’s villain returns to life for Modern Warfare 3 Zombies, because nothing matters any more

Modern Warfare 3's Zombies is taking a page from Star Wars, by resurrecting a villain that was thrown into a pit.

RECYCLE WARFARE Modern Warfare 3's Open Combat Missions sure sound like the MW2 Spec Ops missions no one played

Modern Warfare 3's big campaign innovation is Open Combat Missions, which don't sound like campaign missions at all.

CAN YOU TELL? Modern Warfare 3 beta weekends set for October, new campaign trailer released

Right on schedule, Opening Night Live has brought us a fresh look at Modern Warfare 3 gameplay.

DESPERATE MEASURES Activision Blizzard offers up streaming rights as CMA rejects initial acquisition proposal

Ubisoft would hold rights to stream Acti Blizz games for 15 years, in effort to save the deal.

DMZ+OUTBREAK Modern Warfare 3's "largest Zombies offering to date" has long-time fans questioning its existence

Modern Warfare 3's Zombies mode being the "largest to date" means something different than what you might have thought.

DO YOU LIKE ME NOW? Modern Warfare 3 is bringing back classic minimap and map voting – but will it stop Call of Duty YouTubers whining?

Modern Warfare 3 is courting longtime fans of "classic" Call of Duty in a few ways, especially those with YouTube/Twitch platforms.

CREATIVE BANKRUPTCY Modern Warfare 3 is the first Call of Duty to launch with no original 6v6 maps

Just in case it wasn't already clear, Modern Warfare 3 is really going hard on the nostalgia angle in every way it can.

DEJA SHOOT Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - watch the reveal trailer here

After months of leaks, speculation, datamine finds, and insider information - Modern Warfare 3 has finally been officially revealed.

SAME OL', SAME OL' Modern Warfare 3 brings back campaign early access, Vault Edition content leaks

Unlocking the campaign early was one of the best things Call of Duty did in recent years, and Modern Warfare 3 will continue the trend.

ZOMBIES BACK? After starving them for years, Modern Warfare 3 is finally giving Zombies fans a reason to return

Call of Duty Zombies fans get a saviour from an unexpected place.

CARRY FORWARD DECREE Nearly all your unlocks and purchases in Modern Warfare 2 carry forward to Modern Warfare 3

Activision has clarified exactly what you can expect to carry forward from Modern Warfare 2 to Modern Warfare 3.

RED III Modern Warfare 3 release date confirmed in teaser that tells us nothing new

Yes, the next Call of Duty is Modern Warfare 3, and today's teaser confirms pretty much what we already knew.

FELLOW KIDS Don’t worry, you won’t have to endure Call of Duty’s cringe approach to Modern Warfare 3 leaks much longer

Call of Duty's attempts at countering Modern Warfare 3 leaks are very 'how do you do, fellow kids', but an end is in sight.

ENERGY DRINK? Yes, the next Call of Duty is Modern Warfare 3

Modern Warfare 3 leaks became so rampant that the developer had to acknowledge them.

YOU KNOW WHY Modern Warfare 2 weapons, skins and operators will carry over to CoD 2023 for the first time ever

Weapons, operators, and skins from Modern Warfare 2 will return in Call of Duty 2023, probably because it started out as an expansion.

Back In Black Ops Call of Duty comes back to life as Xbox-360-era games get surprise update

The games had been plagued by server issues for a number of years.

COLOR US SHOCKED Call of Duty 2023 release date leaked by judge during FTC hearing with Microsoft

Legal slip-up.

INADAQUETE Did Modern Warfare 2/Warzone 2 suffer a higher player loss than Vanguard and Warzone?

Call of Duty lost more players the past quarter than it did after Vanguard's release, despite Modern Warfare 2's better sales.