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From the Call of Duty:Black Ops Intel Page:

The official Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer has arrived! This extended 90 second trailer is available first, exclusively on Black Ops, and is comprised entirely of in-game footage. It should set the scene we at Treyarch intend to capture this year with Black Ops.

One other little tidbit of information is that the callofduty.com domain name is now forwarding directly to callofduty.com/blackops so there is no more home page selection screen to go to the title of choice.

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In the latest issue of PC Zone magazine there was a question & answer session with  Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia and he offered a pretty clear picture that Call of Duty:Black Ops will definitely be including dedicated server support.

When asked whether the popular feature would be present in Black Ops in the new issue of PC Zone, Lamia replied, “I think dedicated servers are excellent. I don’t see any reason not to see them unless… well, I just don’t see any reason not to.”

“It seems people like them and we’re excited about what we’re doing right now.”

Lamia showed his appreciation of how much dedicated servers meant to a lot of PC gamers:

“We do work very hard to reconcile the desire to manipulate and modify those dedicated servers with offering them the persistent experience and benefits that the console system provides.”

“We’re working very hard to marry those two things, so people can run dedicated servers and also participate in the communal experience the console players get to have, given they’re all on first-party servers.”

Source: www.computerandvideogames.com

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Since the teaser trailer went live last week the advertising campaign pushes on with a handful of online retailers launching their pre-order options over the weekend. Amazon, BestBuy, GameStop and Walmart are already taking pre-orders for the now normal $59.99 price and I am sure plenty others will soon follow. As of now Call of Duty:Black Ops is set to release later this year on November 9th 2010.

• Call of Duty:Black Ops pre-order at Amazon
• Call of Duty:Black Ops pre-order at BestBuy
• Call of Duty:Black Ops pre-order at GameStop
• Call of Duty:Black Ops pre-order at Walmart

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The first released DLC for COD:MW2 is now available in the Steam Store.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/10195/

The map pack includes five multiplayer maps named Bailout, Storm, Salvage, Overgrown and Crash. Have fun playing three new maps and two regurgitated maps from COD4.

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BASHandSLASH.com did a great two part cast breaking down what COD:BO might or might not be all about along with a live viewing of the official COD:BO teaser and then they continue the discussion on COD:BO. Treyarch Community Manager Josh Olin (AKA JD_2020) also makes an appearance on the show and shares a few words. A great listen that will build your excitement even more if you are already getting excited about COD:BO!

Props to the B&S team as this is another stellar cast with a great group of guys.

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The official COD:BO debut trailer is here and it definitely is a teaser as it is quite hard to tell what all is really going on. The video can also be seen on the homepage new COD:BO website at www.callofduty.com/blackops.

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This announcement note was also posted on the Treyarch website here.

We at Treyarch are excited to reveal our latest development – Call of Duty: Black Ops! Be sure to head over to CallOfDuty.com/blackops as more details begin to unfold! Follow @JD_2020 and @Treyarch on Twitter for the latest news & discussions regarding Black Ops.

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Whether it was a mistake of launching the website just a little to soon on the Activision/Treyarch side or if it was just a little teaser to keep us excited a few more days; a new branch of the COD Headquarters went live earlier today with a somewhat functioning website. With the basic entry screen alone it does in fact confirm the name for COD 7 to be Call of Duty:Black Ops and it also confirms a release date of November 9th 2010. Be sure to check out the new website www.callofduty.com/blackops for much more information over the coming days & weeks.

More will be known after tonight after the GameTrailers TV episode 310 on SpikeTV showing the exclusive official first trailer.

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According to the GameTrailers TV episode 310 promo on GameTrailers.com; they will be presenting the first official Call of Duty 7 trailer on it’s show titled GameTrailersTV on SpikeTV Friday night at 12:40AM EST (actually Saturday).

The next Call of Duty game debuts on this week’s GameTrailers TV, plus interviews with Prince of Persia star Jake Gyllenhaal and Resident Evil: Afterlife stars Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter!

This will be the first view of really anything to be seen of COD 7 since the rumors started flying quite a while ago. It should be interesting to at least get a glimpse of what is to come.

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It appears Activision Blizzard is considering a potentially controversial new way to generate revenue. During yesterday’s quarterly conference call, CEO Bobby Kotick hinted that the Call of Duty franchise will head the way of World of Warcraft and become subscription-based.

Activision Blizzard acts as the publisher of the Call of Duty games developed alternately by Infinity Ward and Treyarch. Though the franchise’s latest installment, Modern Warfare 2, was the best-selling video game of 2009 and generated more than $1 billion in revenue according to the NPD Group, Activision Blizzard still reported a $286 million loss in its fiscal fourth quarter. The loss was due, in large part, to the bottom falling out of the Guitar Hero franchise.

Conversely, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft franchise continues to be a cash cow for Activision, raking in $15 subscription fees from a reported 11.5 million people every month.

Put the pieces together and you can understand the company’s thinking: a financial loss, an enormously popular franchise, and a proven subscription model that generates a river of revenue. Kotick described the future of Call of Duty this way:

 

If you think about the success that we’ve had in other product categories on subscription, you can get a sense of the direction that we want to take that franchise.

 

World of Call of Duty? Subscription fees on the game’s online multiplayer? Kotick had nothing else to say on the matter, though the company did confirm that the next installment in the series is due out late this year.

 

If this subscription model does actually get applied; especially on the next installment of COD by Treyarch due out later this year, it will for sure be the killer of the Call of Duty series – especially after the blow that COD:MW2 did to the “true” COD community. The WOW community is a very different group of individuals than the COD community and a subscription based model for a FPS game like COD will only rid the game of the true players and leave the kiddies and casual gamers that feed off of their mom and dads bank account left to play.

Could this be the final stab in the heart of the COD gaming community minority?

Source: http://videogames.yahoo.com/news-1389056

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Well I have still been watching the COD:MW2 player counts on the Steam’s stats page every now and then but lately as I check the stats it seems that the MW2 peak is dropping little by little. Before Christmas the peak for the day was almost consecutively right around 100,000 and with gifts of MW2 for Christmas that number surged to 120,000 and even up as high as 124,682 in mid January however it seems that the numbers are on a steady decline now. Well the Battlefield BC2 BETA is out now and there seems to be a pretty big interest in that; including myself, but I there are definitely some other games affecting that total as well. Whatever the reason over the last three weeks the peak player count has steadily declined down to where it is now averaging a peak just over 110,000 this week so far so there is a decent number of people that are sick of playing MW2 already or they are defiantly shopping around for something else to get into.

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