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Treyarch aims to make Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 as eSports friendly as possible, but isn’t ready to comment on LAN and dedicated server functionality.

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A mysterious reference to non-linear sections in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2′s single-player campaign has been explained.

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Robots, horses, yadda yadda yadda – tell us about the zombies already, because Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is going to have a lot of them.

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Activision has officially announced Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 for a November 13 worldwide release, envisioning a new Cold War in the year 2025.

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The special effects team that worked on the FPSRussia Quadrotor video that’s appeared in relation to the next Call of Duty announcement on Tuesday has posted a photo showing in-game shots of the drone in Black Ops 2.

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Activision has launched a countdown to the global reveal of the next Call of Duty – which rumours have pegged as Black Ops 2.

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A retail source has sent Kotaku an image of teaser poster which is purportedly some sort of save the date deal for Black Ops 2. The date on the poster is for May 2 where it states to come back for a “debriefing.” Note the Treyarch and Activision logos on the poster. If legitimate, it means more news on the next Call of Duty game will be revealed in the next couple of weeks. We’ll send a mail to Activision on this, but we don’t expect the firm to confirm anything until it’s ready. Here’s a larger picture of the promo (thanks, AHA-Lambda).

A thread on the official Black Ops forums, which has since been taken down, has supposedly revealed much on the still unannounced Black Ops 2 and its multiplayer component.

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Call of Duty developers Treyarch and Infinity Ward have a famous rivalry, but have joined forces to share feedback for the good of the franchise.

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Activision has said French journalists will not be blacklisted over the apparent leaking of Black Ops 2 last week, saying a “misunderstanding” led to several sites believing otherwise.

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Amazon France has once again announced a game before the publisher gets a chance to, and this time it’s reportedly Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Meanwhile, the title has also been listed on a resume belonging to an art studio employee contracted by Treyarch.

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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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