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Robert Downey Jr. Takes On A New Action Role In Call of Duty Trailer

by Jill Pantozzi | 9:31 am, November 1st, 2012

Robert Downey Jr. is riding high on his role as Tony Stark in both the Iron Man films and The Avengers but that doesn’t mean he can’t take on other fun project in between. For instance, a Call of Duty Black Ops 2 trailer directed by his Sherlock Holmes pal, Guy Ritchie. It features a few other cameos but it’s obviously Downey for the win.

(via TDW Geek)

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Gamers Against Bigotry Campaign Aims To Curb Online Harassment

by Becky Chambers | 12:36 pm, July 13th, 2012

It’s been a rough month in the gamer community. The furor surrounding Anita Sarkeesian opened up the floodgates for endless discussions of gender in games and gamer culture — and that much, at least, is good. Even if we don’t all agree on the same points, the fact that lots of people are having conversations about it is a healthy thing. But I’ve been bothered. Not because there are people out there saying things I disagree with, or those who disagree with the things I say. That’s to be expected. No, what’s been bothering me is the vitriol. The people who think that disagreement is license for cruelty, or who are just cruel for no good reason at all. Online harassment is a well-established problem, but the casual hatred and bile being thrown around left me disheartened. To see this level of ugliness in a community that I love, one that is based around playing games with friends…it’s just wrong.

But encouragingly, there are folks out there trying to make a positive difference. Meet Sam Killermann, a gamer on a one-man mission to make our community a more welcoming place. In late June, he launched a site called Gamers Against Bigotry, which asks visitors to sign a pledge against using hateful language and identity-based slurs in-game. A few weeks after the site’s quiet debut, Killermann is now running an IndieGoGo campaign to raise the funds needed to make GAB a non-profit organization. I got in touch with him to learn more about the project, and to pick his brain about the issue at hand. 

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Call of Duty: Black Ops II Adds Women and Even A Second Playable Female Character to the Franchise

by Susana Polo | 11:24 am, May 3rd, 2012

Call of Duty and other US-armed-forces-set shooter game franchises have never exactly been a font of female characters, regardless of whether they’re set in a time when women could or couldn’t serve in the armies depicted. Discussions over whether or not more women should be involved in the stories of the games often devolve in to talks about “realism,” whether having female soldiers is “realistic,” and whether “realism” is actually already present in rigorous amounts in a given video game. The Call of Duty franchise has covered a number of different eras of American history, from World War II, to the Cold War, and the modern “war on terror.” And while they’ve got a small group of female characters from French resistance fighters to Sarah Michelle Gellar (in a zombie themed map), the only playable female character in any actual CoD campaign has been Tanya Pavelovna, a sniper for the Russian army born sometime in the nineteen teens.

This week, however, developer Treyarch started to reveal more about the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops II, like how the game features a number of female npcs, and will eventually feature a playable female character.

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Jason Bateman and Will Arnett are Filming Content for Call of Duty‘s Elite Service

by Alanna Bennett | 1:13 pm, August 4th, 2011

If you fancy yourself both a Call of Duty enthusiast and a fan of the late-but-great Arrested Development, you’re in luck! Two of the bluths–Will Arnett and Jason Bateman, to be exact–have been signed on by Activision to record some exclusive Elite video content. Will this tide us over until the movie? (Which is still totally, really happening?)

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Ice-T, Girls, and Call of Duty

by Susana Polo | 10:28 am, February 17th, 2011

I have a clan on Call of Duty, and when you start telling me your kill/death ratio — I don’t give a f**k… You really going to pick up a bitch by telling her your kill/death ratio? That doesn’t really matter.

- Ice-T, to GameInformer.

To be honest, there are a number of different ways we could take this, but we’re just going to stick with: finding it amusing.

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