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Call of Duty’s $700m dev budget shows the cost of making games is out of control

Is this sustainable?

Creative Bloq

Call of Duty's $28 Squid Game skins are the perfect crossover for our capitalist dystopia, and Activision knows exactly what it's doing

We're living in a whale world.

PC Gamer

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War reportedly surpasses Red Dead Redemption 2's huge development costs, with a massive $700 million budget

It apparently sold 30 million copies

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Black Ops 6 x Squid Game start time, event pass, and skins: What to know about the update

Red Light, Green Light, Piggy Bank, and Roulette are among the new modes coming to the shooter

Evening Standard

'Call of Duty: Black Ops 6' Under Fire for Locking Best Squid Game Crossover Rewards Behind Premium Pass

The Squid Game crossover for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is under fire for locking the best rewards behind a premium track.

Player One

Where And When To Play Call Of Duty’s Squid Game Crossover

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 x Squid Game kicks off this month. Here's where and when to play it and what to expect.

Inverse

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 hits peak lack of awareness with its Squid Game skins which, unfortunately, look rad as hell

Time for the games to begin.

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When and how to play the Squid Game event in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Red light? Green light. Suit up and join the Squid Game x Black Ops 6 collaboration to kick off the new year on January 3.

Windows Central

Call of Duty continues to dominate the charts as the most-played game on Xbox and PlayStation after a free trial weekend

The holidays have graced many of us with more free time than usual, but it hasn't helped other games dethrone Call of Duty as the most played game for the week of December 21.

Windows Central

Xbox in 2025: a make-or-break year for Microsoft's console

2025 could be a make-or-break year for Xbox, and it has to capitalize on recent first-party successes and a potential handheld device would be a boon.

TechRadar

The biggest AI art controversies of 2024

From auction sales to the public backlash and tantrums over copyright, AI art made a lot of headlines in 2024.

Creative Bloq

Activision decides Call of Duty Black Ops 6 players don't spend enough money, introduces a second concurrent battle pass

Sad faces in chat people, Game Pass could only save us so much!

Windows Central

Xbox year in review 2024: 'Next year, we promise'

Xbox still needs more to offer fans from its huge first-party studio lineup, but it’s clearer than ever the brand’s fate lies away from hardware.

TechRadar

The gaming stories and trends that defined 2024

Here are five of the top stories and trends that defined 2024 in gaming across all facets of the industry.

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With Astro Bot winning Game of the Year, Microsoft and Xbox need to start reinvesting in their platforming games

Xbox doesn't really currently have an "all-ages" platformer like Astro Bot, but it could revive a character from one of its many classic series.

Windows Central

Some of the biggest players in Call of Duty are stepping away from Black Ops 6 and Warzone, and the reasons why are inexcusable now Microsoft owns the game

Now that Microsoft owns one of the biggest franchises in gaming, networking issues and an anticheat that just doesn't work cannot be excused any longer.

PC Gamer

Call of Duty devs admit Ricochet anticheat 'did not hit the mark for integration' at the start of Season 1, and want to do better

Upgrades people, upgrades.

Windows Central

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 tops November 2024 US sales, continues to boost Xbox Game Pass

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was the best-selling game of November 2024 in the U.S, per Circana, with the title also contributing to Xbox Game Pass growth.

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"We did not hit the mark": TeamRICOCHET addresses shortcomings in Warzone and Black Ops 6's anti-cheat integration ahead of changes for Season 2

Cheaters have been rampant since Black Ops 6 and Warzone's Season 1 integration, and now Team RICOCHET are admitting the process was botched. New cheat mitigation efforts are on the way, and a wave of bans has rolled out to help.

Windows Central

More Call of Duty titles have been added to the Xbox app for PC, signaling a launch to Game Pass could be soon

Another selection of older Call of Duty titles has surfaced on the Microsoft Store, are they coming to Game Pass?

Windows Central

The Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 free trial is now live, here are the game modes you can try

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is getting a free trial week on all platforms, with a good chunk of the game's content available to try. Here's what you need to know.

Windows Central

A sweeping balance update for weapons has just landed in Black Ops 6 with the latest patch

The latest patch for Black Ops 6 has addressed balancing in virtually all weapons, including addressing headshot TTK.

Windows Central

After saying Xbox multi-platform game delivery would have "no red lines," Xbox's games chief is now saying they'll go multi-platform on a "game by game basis." Does it make sense?

The big controversy surrounding Xbox pertains to whether or not it plans to keep delivering exclusive games to Xbox customers on console. Microsoft itself doesn't even seem to know yet.

Creative Bloq

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is testing gamers' tolerance of AI slop

Fans have blasted Activision's latest AI art as "unacceptable".

Windows Central

"This is unacceptable at this point": Activision faces backlash over AI-generated images in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Call of Duty has come under fire from its community for handing out in-game event rewards that may have been AI-generated.

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