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December 2, 2009 Leave a Comment

Call of Duty Director to Helm Feature

For the longest time, Hollywood turned to music video directors as the great new talent for visionary filmmakers. Now, they’ve turned to video game directors. Keith Arem, the director of Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Unless you live under a rock, you’d know that the game has collected $550 million in worldwide sales in its first five days. Infinity Ward hired Arem to direct, cast, and engineer all the actors featured in the game.

Arem will be making his feature film directing debut with the action thriller, Frost Road. The film is being produced by Cary Brokaw’s Avenue Pictures (Closer, Angels in America). The film is about a small coastal town which is suddenly hit with an invisible contagion. A young man awakes from a car accident to discover he’s one of the few survivors. Somehow immune, he tries to save the remaining survivors, and struggles to prevent the deadly wave from spreading across the planet.

I’m a pretty big gamer, and I can always rely on Infinity Ward to put out blockbuster games with fun, engaging stories. Whether or not this qualifies Keith Arem to direct a film, I’m not sure, but I’m sure as hell interested.

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July 16, 2008 Leave a Comment

Kiefer Sutherland Joins ‘Call of Duty’ Cast

Kiefer Sutherland is the man. Anything he does, I will see. Treyarch, makers of Call of Duty 3 (the sub-par follow up to Infinity Ward’s far superior Call of Duty 2), have signed him on to join the cast of their new game, Call of Duty: World at War.

The new shooter, taking place in the Pacific theater, is being called the “grittiest Call of Duty ever,” according to Treyarch head Mark Lamia. The trailer featured a Japanese soldier stabbing an American with his Katana.

I wasn’t impressed with Call of Duty 3, and Infinity Ward redefined the standard with Call of Duty 4, so this new entry into the series has as lot to live up to, but, then again, Kiefer Sutherland will make anything 10x better.

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July 11, 2008 Leave a Comment

Vivendi and Activision Merge

It was only a few years ago where Vivendi was trying to pull itself out of the videogame biz, yesterday, they closed the deal with Activision, creating a publisher valued at $20 billion.

Prior to its merger with Activision, Vivendi’s most profitable video game subsidiary was Blizzard, whose “World of Warcraft,” brings it money by the boat loads. Activision approached Vivendi prior to the merger with talks of acquiring Blizzard.

Now that the companies have merged, some of the biggest video game franchises fall under one roof, “Warcraft,” “Guitar Hero,” and “Call of Duty,” to name a few.

Though, have no fear, Blizzard will continue to operate independently, where they are hard at work with “Diablo III,” and the much anticipated “Starcraft II” on the horizon. As well as a yet to be detailed new MMO.

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April 2, 2008 Leave a Comment

Call of Duty 4 Map Pack Montage

I last reported on the upcoming COD4 Map Pack montage a few weeks ago. I’ll be honest, haven’t popped the game in a few weeks, and when I first heard about the map pack, I was a bit skeptical on whether or not I’d check it out. But, I still think COD4 is one of the best shooters to come out in a while, so I may have to check the pack out.

Here’s a montage of the map pack!

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