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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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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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Celebrating a COD:WAW 1 year anniversary and a BASHandSlash 3 year anniversary Jock Yitch and the crew has an excellent podcast with some great information in regards to Treyarch and the future of the other half of the COD development world. The host for this episode is the Treyarch Community Manager – Josh Olin (aka) JD_2020.

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Did you miss playing with the Treyarch Developers the last time back at the end of September? Well although it doesn’t seem like a big deal it is pretty cool to ever get a chance to play with people that made the games we love. By the means of another forum post in the WAW Barracks by JD_2020; he announced that the Treyarch developers will once again be putting up a server to play with the public on next week.

You can catch the action between the hours of 5:00PM to 6:00PM Pacific Standard Time and if it is the same server they played on last time (they didn’t announce that yet) you can check the status of it below.

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Not too much of an advanced notice but if anyone caught the post in the callofduty.com Barracks; the Treyarch PC development team will be holding an open gaming session tonight at 5:00PM PST for all to join!

 

Hi all,

Developers from the PC team will be playing tonight in our server (IP below) from 5:00pm to 6:00pm PST – end time may vary depending on how badly we’re destroying everyone.

Server IP: 64.156.14.55:28960

Note that the server will be password protected until 5:00pm. At that time though, please feel free to join up! All developers will be wearing the [TREY] clan tag.

Hope to see you online tonight!

-JD

 

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