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Call of Duty: Black Ops gets Hardened and Prestige editions
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Steel Rat - 30.07.2010 04:44 |
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Online retailer Buy.com has revealed that Call of Duty: Black Ops will be available in a Hardened and Prestige special edition. At least, it will in the US.
While the contents of the two premium versions haven't been detailed, the Hardened Edition is listed for $79.99 while the Prestige Edition will set you back $149.99.
Modern Warfare 2 received similar treatment when it was released last year. The Hardened Edition of MW2 featured a steelbook case, art-book and a code for Call of Duty Classic.
The Prestige Edition had a working pair of night-vision goggles. You can probably guess these will have similarly outlandish gifts thrown in.
According to analysts Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops pre-orders have surpassed those of Infinity Ward's blockbuster, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Comments from Treyarch suggest that the studio is very confident in their follow up to Modern Warfare 2, they recently stated that it 'raises the bar' over Modern Warfare 2 and will exceed expectations.
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Over the last few days various rumours have come out about playing Call of Duty in the future and a possible move toward a pay per month subscription model. Scary news admittedly, and probably a change that would mean many, if not all of the squad being forced to make a massive decision and most likely avoid that release of COD like the plague.
However, Activision, Treyarch and Infinity Ward have all rubbished rumours of a subscription to play Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer, reports CVG on their site today.
Activision's Dam Amrich was the first one to sound off on the rumours, which were sparked by the emergence of a video on CVG's site. Video can be found here - http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=256187.
"MW2 subscriptions? Nope," he says. "There's a video that made the rounds today of a 360 player getting a glitchy, incomplete message that uses the phrase "Modern Warfare 2" and half of the word membership."
"This video shows just a glitch - since you can access a Live subscription renewal from within the MW2 game interface, it appears some data got jammed between two parts of Live. It's not a secret portal to some nefarious plot to charge people for COD multiplayer - and there are no plans to do that" explained Amrich.
Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling also said "nobody has to pay to play COD or MW2 multiplayer, nor will they" in a tweet while Treyarch's community manager joined in with a tweet of his own, saying "No, you will not have to 'Pay to Play'".
In fairness, it's Bobby Kotick's desire for a pay-to-play model that gave the rumours weight in the first place but it seems that we're safe. For now........
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Okay this isnt MW2 news, but ifthis goes through Im sure we can expect to see something like this added into future games. Tenuous link over, its still Cool As Fark™
Have a good shufti (thanks Merlin!) at this:
The All New Tyrannos Transformer
The Tyrannos is nominally intended to provide Marines with the ability to leapfrog over troublesome roadside bombs, mines, and ambushes while remaining able to drive on the ground as they normally might. However, it promises to be much quieter than ordinary helicopters in use and far easier to fly and maintain.
More importantly it goes at 240 mph flat out, and can hover with VTOL capabilities.
Call it the iTyrannos and I'm there!! 
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Looks like the big bad MW2 killer is gearing up for action...
Activision have released 20 new shots for Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops. The Cold War FPS is being made with the advice and guidance of real Cold War veterans and will be getting a Wii version that 'you won't believe is running on Wii' according to studio head Mark Lamia. I'd take that one with a pinch of salt myself....
Head on over to Destructoid for the photos.
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Please click Here to head over to the forum for a summary of Monday 28th Junes training night.
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Please click Here to head over to the forum for a summary of Monday 21st Junes training night.
En-Ger-Land!!
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