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Just wanted to know if anyone still plays black ops because I really wanted to play some online zombies
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The next Call of Duty video game—Black Ops 3—will launch on November 6th, Activision has confirmed—a Friday. Friday is an unusual day for a Call of Duty release. Traditionally, most video games, including the Black Ops games, have released on Tuesdays in North America. “We thought it would be really fun for the fans to kick-off Black Ops 3 on a weekend,” Rob Kostich, Senior Vice President at Activision Publishing told me, explaining the change. “The Black Ops series is the most played in Call of Duty history with nearly 100 million players to date. With Black Ops 3, the team at Treyarch is really taking things to a new level. There’s so much in this game across every mode of play. Campaign has been reimagined and can now be played cooperatively with your friends. Zombies, of course, are back. And multiplayer is bringing a ton of depth and new ideas to the experience. So giving fans as much time as possible out of the gate to experience all the game has to offer just made a lot of sense.” In other words, getting the game out on a Friday let’s players who might have work or school constraints throughout the week, really dive into the game over the weekend. When you think about it, that makes a lot of sense. So why does Activision usually launch games on a Tuesday? For that matter, why does the industry so often release games in the middle of the week instead of when most players can jump in and start playing on a Friday? “Traditionally, here in the States, Tuesday has been a date that has worked really well for our retail partners,” says Kostich. Tuesday is also the day of the week that CDs and DVDs typically hit retail, a somewhat antiquated brick-and-mortar tradition. Of course, video games can trace their Tuesday release roots to Sega’s release of Sonic 2 on the Sega Genesis. That game was the first major global launch of a video game, and Sega’s marketing team called the release “Sonic 2sday” according to the book “Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation” by Blake Harris. That was on November 24th, 1992—23 years before the launch of Black Ops 3. Will this mark a new trend of Friday release dates at Activision? Kotisch can’t say for sure. “As a company, we have released on different dates in the past. It really depends on the game and what works best for it. Again, for Black Ops 3, a Friday release to kick-off a weekend celebration was just something we thought our fans would really enjoy.” There’s also a bit of a marketing pun in the Black Ops 3 Friday release. Sonic got Sonic 2sday; Black Ops 3 gets its own Black Ops Friday, a not-so-subtle nod to the craziest shopping day of the year. Read more about the game and watch the first gameplay trailer here. Source:Forbes
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COD BLACK OPS Call of Duty: Black Ops Coming to Mac
DJ aka GDR DJ posted a topic in COD Series Discussion
Call of Duty: Black Ops Coming to Mac June 28, 2012 Aspyr Media, Inc., the leader in Mac game publishing, announced today that Activision Publishing, Inc.’s record-setting Call of Duty®: Black Ops will be coming to the Mac. Developed originally by award-winning studio Treyarch and brought to the Mac by Aspyr Media, the Mac version of the epic Call of Duty blockbuster will be available on Macs worldwide in digital and boxed formats this fall. “Aspyr has worked with the biggest brands in the entertainment world, but the launch of the original Call of Duty: Black Ops for Apple fans is our biggest in 17 years. Treyarch has created a masterpiece and we are thrilled to launch later this year,” said Ted Staloch, Aspyr’s Executive Vice President. Call of Duty: Black Ops takes players to conflicts across the globe as elite black operations forces fight in the deniable operations and secret wars that occurred under the veil of the Cold War. Featuring an adrenaline-pumping single-player campaign, out-of-this-world Zombies co-operative game mode, and an incredibly deep multiplayer experience, Call of Duty: Black Ops delivers the complete Call of Duty experience with amazing enhanced graphics, streaming texture technology, and superior lighting effects for the most immersive and cinematic action. Features: The hallmark intensity of Call of Duty returns with a cinematically intense single-player campaign that takes players deep behind enemy lines as an elite Black Ops soldier engaging in covert warfare, classified operations, and explosive conflicts across the globe. ZOMBIES! For the first time on the Mac, fight to survive in one of the most thrilling and critically acclaimed co-op experiences in gaming. Expanding on the series' ultimate multiplayer experience, Call of Duty: Black Ops takes competitive play to new heights. Expect the fast-paced, action-packed combat you love with more features than ever before: All new Killstreaks including Napalm Strikes, the remote controlled explosive device (RC Car), and controllable helicopters. Customize the look of your soldiers with a variety of face paints, gun camos, and equipment options. Jump into Combat Training and hone your tactics against A.I. bots in both Free-For-All and Team Deathmatch game modes. First Strike! Escalation! Annihilation! Rezurrection! All four packs of Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC are scheduled to arrive on the Mac later this year. More details to be released soon. source- 7 replies
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