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• Breach & Clear: Bowling warns against forcing free-to-play into games

  Breach & Clear developer Rob Bowling has stressed that free-to-play models cannot be forced into games without sacrificing in quality. If you’re going to go free, it has to make sense he says.

• Rob Bowling details Human Element, Ouya prequels & more

  Rob Bowling, ex-Infinity Ward creative strategist and founder of start-up Robotoki has spilled the beans on his new zombie game Human Element. The game won’t be out until 2015, but it’s getting a raft of Ouya-exclusive prequels.

• Modern Warfare 3 PC to feature LAN support

  Infinity Ward’s confirmed that the PC version of Modern Warfare 3 will have LAN support. Studio comms boss Rob Bowling spilled the news in a tweet: “Yes, #MW3 has LAN along with detailed class restriction control + default class creation option.” He also specified how those restrictions played out, adding: “Ability to restrict any weapon, […]

• MW3's Survival mode - hands-on, Bowling face-time

  VG247 spends time with the shooter set to cause widespread absenteeism from work and school come its November launch, and speaks to Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling.

• MW3: Spec Ops shown live on Jimmy Fallon - watch it now

  Jimmy Fallon’s shown off Modern Warfare 3 on US TV overnight, with Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg, Infinity Ward creative strategist Rob Bowling and Sledgehammer co-founder Glen Schofield all making appearances. Footage of the New York demo that was played at Microsoft’s E3 presser was shown, with Spec Ops demoed live on the show by […]

• No lead platform with MW3, says Infinity Ward

  Infinity Ward’s said on Twitter it doesn’t have a lead platform for Modern Warfare 3.

• Infinity Ward: Modern Warfare 3 post-launch support to be "major focus"

  Infinity Ward community boss Robert Bowling has said that post-launch support for Modern Warfare 3 will be a main aim for the studio after it launches in November.

• Infinity Ward: Modern Warfare 2 security patch in QA

  Infinity Ward’s confirmed that its security patch for Modern Warfare 2 has now finished production and has gone into QA.

• Infinity Ward looking to fix PS3 MW2 security problems "as quick as possible"

  Infinity Ward comms boss Rob Bowling has provided an update to the security problems facing the PS3 version of Modern Warfare 2.

• Bowling: I-Ward will "not rely solely on platform security" after PS3 crack

  Infinity Ward community head Rob Bowling has said that it will no longer solely rely on the first-party security of consoles, following reports that Modern Warfare 2 online stats were affected on PS3.

• MW2: Resurgence map pack detailed

  The new Modern Warfare 2 map pack, Resurgence, has been detailed in an interview with Major Nelson.

• Bowling: "Anyone's guess" what'll be in next MW2 DLC pack

  With Modern Warfare 2’s first major piece of DLC, the Stimulus Pack, out today, Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling’s told Eurogamer the content for the next chunk of content is undecided.

• Bowling: MW2 online won't be threatened by other titles

  Modern Warfare 2 is top dog as far as online multiplayer goes in shooters, like it or not. And no one is going to come and take over any time soon – including Call of Duty 7.

• Infinity Ward: "Morale is high" despite Zampella/West layoffs

  Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling has insisted that “morale is high” at the studio, despite the surprising layoffs of ex-leaders of the studio, Jason West and Vince Zampella.

• MW2 Stimulus map pack to cost 1200 MS points, features five maps

  Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling has revealed the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus map pack will cost 1200 MS points when it releases later this month.

• Source - Infinity Ward not developing Modern Warfare 3

  Infinity Ward is not creating Modern Warfare 3, according to a VG247 source, and is instead working on something “completely new”.

• Infinity Ward moves onto MW2 DLC, doesn't know what next project is

  Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling’s told MTV that its next game’s a mystery. “We don’t know what our next game is,” he said, talking in the video interview after the break. “Once we’ve finished [Modern Warfare 2], we’re going to do a lot of DLC support for it, and then we’re going to sit down and […]

• IW: No multiplayer reset for anyone who has retail MW2

  Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling has tweeted that anybody who has a retail copy of Modern Warfare 2, instead of a pirate/modded version, their multiplayer stats won’t be reset. It comes as last week, Bowling said that a full multiplayer reset was on the cards. “Any players who purchased a legit retail copy will not be […]

• Bowling: Wii not able to "deliver" IW's "cinematic experience"

  A worthy winner of the “no shit Sherlock” tag, a story posted by Develop has Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling saying Wii isn’t up to delivering tech parity with the likes of PS3 and 360. “If we felt like we could deliver the cinematic experience we were going for on other platforms, then we would gladly […]