Black Ops

  • How The Modern Warfare Alpha Made Me A Call of Duty Fan Again

    Back when I was 13, Call of Duty was the main staple of my gaming life. There were other games and franchises I played but Call of Duty was a constant. And I was pretty good. That’s not arrogance speaking but rather the confident memory of having those lightning-fast...
  • Black Ops Sales Rose 13,400% Following BC Release

    With the recent re-release of Call of Duty: Black Ops on Xbox One via backwards compatibility, sales went through the roof and beyond soaring as high as 13,400%. Sales of the budget classic version had also increased by 6,877%. This news reaches us from online retailer Amazon. The unprecedented jump in sales put the...
  • Call of Duty Black Ops Now Backwards Compatible

    Looks like Call of Duty: Black Ops is finally available for Xbox one via the console’s backwards compatibility service. The title is being advertised as “playable on Xbox One” right now via the Xbox 360 dashboard.   Finally some positive Call of Duty news!...
  • CoD Black Ops III, Star Wars: Battlefront and Jessica Curry

    Hear me moan, It was only a week ago that I was in London getting rat-arsed with other gamers, celebrating IGN UK’s 300th podcast. I was happy last week. Now I’m miserable again. Last night the IGN UK team won a prize at the Games Media Awards for best...
  • Tanked Up 19 – CoD ‘Black Hops III’

    This week Ben, Alex and Aadil have only one game to discuss and that is the Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 multiplayer beta. We get into what we like and dislike about the beta version of the multiplayer as well as Call of Duty as a whole. Alex...
  • Blog 4.0

    Here we are again, this time for the first in a 3 part series featuring the best and worst of E3. So look forward to parts 2 and 3 over the next week or so. Please check out all the Out of Lives mini-casts we did for the conferences...
  • Tanked Up 8 – Buxton Beers & Game Morality

    This week Honest Brew gave us a plethora of Buxton brewery craftbeers which we destroy. These are High Tor India Red Ale, Axe Edge IPA, Nth Cloud Double IPA & Wolfscote Black Sour. Whilst we drink we discuss the games we’ve been playing which includes COD Blops, Final Fantasy...