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Give me gaming dopamine! UK retailer Currys touts the Easter egg hit

February 28, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Currys have put together dopamine crush, with pop culture pundit Hunter Clark to share some Easter eggs you might have missed.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: call of duty, currys, god of war, grand theft auto, pokemon, science

How to make the point: Diamond Lobby reimagines computer game characters with ethnic diversity

September 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

9.5% of games had no ethnic representation in any character other than white.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: call of duty, horizon zero dawn, lara croft, Legend of Zelda, Princess Peach, resident evil, Tomb Raider

Rule 63: Games site reimages male protagonists as non-sexualised women

July 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Rule 63 states that where there’s a male character, the internet can reimagine them a female character (or vice versa).

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: assassin's creed, call of duty, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk 2077, gears of war, grand theft auto, halo, rule 63

Nintendo users spend more on microtransactions as UK gamers call for restrictions

May 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Call of Duty has been voted the worst game for microtransactions in a survey of UK gamers, with FIFA second and Candy Crush third.

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: call of duty, stats

Xbox One: Call of Duty – Ghosts, first pictures

May 21, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native doesn’t ignore games like Call of Duty – it’s just that the title is a little off our beaten track. Call of Duty: Ghosts qualifies for some attention as it’s one of the first games for Microsoft’s Xbox One. You an already check out the website here for more Ghosts info. The short […]

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: activision, call of duty, microsoft, xbox, xbox one

Regulators clear Activision Blizzard over any Nuketown 2025 wrong doing

March 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

UK regulators have found that Activision Blizzard did nothing wrong in how they advertised and later handled the pre-order bonus of the Nuketown 2025 bonus map for Call of Duty: Black Ops II for the Xbox. The authorities received official complaints about the advertising which argued that the map had been withdrawn too soon after […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: activision, blizzard, call of duty, legal

Mega Post: All of today’s Wii U game trailers

September 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today was a big one for Nintendo. They pulled off a live stream preview of the Wii U via Nintendo UK. I was more impressed than I thought I’d be – but my expectations were pretty low. However, it was clear that there would be plenty of titles available at launch and that games like […]

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: assassin's creed, Avengers, call of duty, cthulhu, darksiders, interview, lego, mario, marvel, nintendo, trailers, wii u, zombies

Standards body rules against Activision

May 30, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the United Kingdom the ASA is celebrating 50 years of helping to enforce legal, decent, honest and truthful advertising. Today they ruled against Activision and adverts for Call of Duty Elite. The Call of Duty Elite site was designed as an online community for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and offered both a free […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: activision, ads, call of duty, legal

Check out the Call of Duty First Strike zombies

February 1, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

“First Strike” is the first DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops. Whereas Call of Duty doesn’t really get that much of a look in here at Geek Native there are certainly some things the mega popular game can do it get our attention. For example; zombies. Sure enough, players who grab Call of Duty: […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: call of duty, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, zombies

Um. Yeah. The Assault Rife controller

July 24, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’m really not a shooty-shooty type of gamer but I do like controllers that add to the game play. Mario Kart, for example, was so much better with a steering wheel. It’s not surprising that there are controllers out there to try and get your attention for smash hits like Call of Duty. I’ll just […]

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: call of duty, playstation, PlayStation 3

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