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Activision has announced Overwatch as the next content drop for Modern Warfare 3 and it will be made available first to Elite Premium Members on the Xbox Live February 21. After the exclusivity period on 360 ends, it will be released for PC and PS3. Overwatch takes place in a construction site atop a New York City skyscraper, and includes two levels “in a near symmetrical layout,” with the central bridge and side routes open to attack from multiple angles. This is the third content drop for the game, and the next two will be released in March and will include Black Box and two brand new Special Ops Missions, Black Ice and Negotiator. New screens are posted below and the content calendar can be found here.

Meanwhile, Beachhead has posted a preview of Elite’s Clan Operations through here, and stated its release is “getting closer every day.”

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Battlefield 3 took fifth position in Google’s annual top ten list of fastest-rising search queries, joining the likes of Steve Jobs, Google+, the iPad 2 and Rebecca Black as the year’s hottest topics.

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A new job listing suggests Call of Duty is already preparing to make the inevitable jump to upcoming hardware.

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Activision has sent over a friendly reminder that Rezurrection, the zombie-filled DLC for Black Ops, is now available on PC. It was released via the PS Store yesterday in Europe, and is out today in the US for PS3. The DLC was originally included in the Hardened and Prestige Editions of the game, and includes the Moon level, four re-mastered levels of Zombie lore: Nacht der Untoten, Verruckt, Shi No Numa and Der Riese, the Zombie factory that started it all, an enhanced Zombies Soundtrack including three tracks never before available for purchase.

Sledgehammer CEO Glen Schofield has said there are discussions “all the time” over Call of Duty’s annualization, and the development teams have conversations about the possibility of the series losing momentum.

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Mammoth. Activision’s said that “four or five studios” in total are working on the Call of Duty series, with a total headcount being 500 people.

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Treyarch’s posted a job listing on its website and Gamasutra for the studio’s next game, calling for a multiplayer level designer with “an expert understanding of the Call of Duty game universe.” And that doesn’t sound like it’s for a Black Ops map pack. Sounds like if you put two and two together and you’ll get Treyarch doing next year’s CoD. This’ll shock the total number of 0 people.

Thanks, OXM.

The Call of Duty Zombie Labs has identified you as a genuine authority on the art and science of killing zombies, and feels its recent research will prove invaluable to you. It has recently identified a rogue zombie population on the Moon – a horrific population of the angriest undead it’s seen yet. Therefore, it has begun battle preparation for Lunar Deployment.

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Activision has released a video featuring Treyarch giving a behind-the-scenes look at the Black Ops pack, Rezurrection. The DLC was originally included in the Hardened and Prestige Editions of the game, and includes the Moon level, four re-mastered levels of Zombie lore: Nacht der Untoten, Verruckt, Shi No Numa and Der Riese, the Zombie factory that started it all, an enhanced Zombies Soundtrack including three tracks never before available for purchase. It is set for release on August 23 on Xbox Live for 1200 MS points, with PC and PS3 getting it at a later date.

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Call of Duty developer Treyarch has put a pile of awesome swag up for auction to support the bereaved family of the late Don Barnes.

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Treyarch is developing the recently revealed Wii version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

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Fresh off news of more Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC, Treyarch design director David Vonderhaar has explained how the studio designs multiplayer maps.

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Just a quick heads up to let you all know that the Annihilation pack for Black Ops has been released for PC. It was also released on PS3 via the usual PSN update. Annihilation includes four maps: Hangar 18, Drive-In, Silo, Hazard, and the Shangri-La Zombies experience. Go get it.

“We’re at a state now in the Call of Duty franchise, where you have several teams working on CoD that have their own very distinct styles on what type of gameplay they deliver. And I think that’s a great thing for Call of Duty in general, especially if you’re having games come out every year. To have very distinct flavors and to have very distinct styles, it allows us to innovate in different ways and not feel forced to innovate in the same ways and build on the same interactions in the other games.” – Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling on having various studios working on the Call of Duty series.

Activision’s announced that Annihilation, the third Black Ops map pack, will launch on PC and PS3 on July 28. The pack’s been available for a month now exclusively on Xbox Live as part of a three-year exclusivity deal between Microsoft and Activision. The content will contain four new competitive maps and new zombie area, Shangri-La.

“You know, we’re on the development side, so we don’t really have much to do with the business aspect of it, but we just strive to give players the most value that we can possibly give. If you look at how many hours – in some cases, hundreds of hours – for some players of entertainment they get, I think it’s an incredible value. We’ve had three DLC map packs for the fans within about six to seven months of launch, which is a record for us. I think it’s incredible, and everyone’s really excited about the fact that we can support a game for that long and keep the fans interested.” – Black Ops multiplayer lead Dan Bunting to Gama on why map packs run 1200 MSP each.

Pick up that control pad, soldier. Treyarch has quickly resolved the network issues plaguing Call of Duty: Black Ops is having a few issues earlier today.
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The Annihilation map pack represents Treyarch’s growing skills as level designers, David Vonderhaar has said.

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Clearly, a chance to use Welcome to the Jungle has been missed. Watch the video after the break, via GameFront. Annihilation is out now for Xbox Live.

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Three? Why stop at three. Go for four and push for the win.

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