The best part about twitter is the constant flow of information that it’s smothered in. A lot of the time, developers like to hint at upcoming events for their games and this is no exception. Treyarch’s Community Manager Josh Olin tweeted about an upcoming trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops. This is all the tweet stated: “Just saw a rough cut of a pretty awesome / unique #CODBlackOps trailer that’s dropping next week. I think you guys will enjoy it! ” That was it. What could it be for? New map pack trailer already? Single Player DLC?  A trailer for the PS3 version

In the same week that a replica of Eddie Van Halen’s Frank 2 guitar was given a permanent home in the Smithsonian Museum following the band’s successful North American tour of 2007/2008, Activision Blizzard has announced they’re dropping the Guitar Hero franchise. It’s been six years since the Simon-esque plastic guitar game was first released on an unsuspecting public, but despite the game’s world-wide success there will be no more titles from the gaming giant, who also produce the successful World of Warcraft and Call of Duty series of games, where the company will

The once insanely popular ‘Guitar Hero’ seems to have run its course. Activision Blizzard has announced that it is all set to “disband Activision Publishing’s Guitar Hero business unit” and along with Guitar Hero, even True Crime: Hong Kong has been scrapped off the Activision map. The reason for the axing of Guitar Hero is the apparent loss of interest in the music genre, which has given birth to the game and gave Activision a license to print money while it remained hot. But with multiplayer online shooting games now capturing all the attention (Read Call of Duty),

Digital distribution service Steam sold almost $1 billion of gaming titles in 2010, with the top 10 populated with titles from gaming giants Activision. 2010′s big Call of Duty games have unsurprisingly generated almost $140 million on Steam alone, mirroring the franchise’s console success. While FPS games seem to dominate, strategy gaming is clearly still popular with the latest version of Sid Meier’s Civilization and Warhammer providing a strong presence. But the real surprise is Portal – the sixth most popular game of 2010 on the Steam platform is nearing 4 years old

Microsoft is warning all Black Ops players that they need to download the First Strike DLC in the proper language. Otherwise, the DLC will not work. Those who chose the wrong language received an error message. This isn’t as big of an issue in the United States but in Canada, gamers may encounter this issue since the English and French versions are both offered. If you a French language version of the game in the states for some reason, you’re really in trouble since the French DLC isn’t available in the marketplace. Just make sure that you’re languages match and you

A new job listing confirms that Sledgehammer Games will be developing the next Call of Duty which is due later this year. The job listing, seen on Gamasutra, states that it’s looking for prospective applicants who would “like the chance to build and drive the studio community management effort for Sledgehammer and the next Call of Duty game.” Plain and simple, Sledgehammer is making the next Call of Duty. What was expected to be Modern Warfare 3, could potentially be their own Call of Duty sub series. Possibly the rumored spin off featuring Modern Warfare 2′s fan

With a new year, comes new rumors. It’s almost expected now and especially with the Triple A titles like the Halo franchise and the ever popular Call of Duty franchise. With Call of Duty: Black Ops still being played by just about every gamer, you’d think that Modern Warfare 3 would be coming down the pipeline this year. That’s not the case this time. According to thisisxbox.com they received a tip from an undisclosed industry source stating that the next Call of Duty, will be about Modern Warfare 2 fan favorite Simon “Ghost” Riley. The skull balaclava wearing British

Treyarch has been hard at work at handling the various cheaters  that have been flooding the the game’s leaderboards. Treyarch has posted the “Security and Enforcement Policy” that discusses all the things that they’re going to do to fix this problem. The policy also discusses the gratuitous emblems that have plagued the in game gamercards. Security and Enforcement Policy: Modders Users who have modified their hardware and have run hacked script or code. This includes modifying profile data to use illegal characters in a player’s

Treyarch has already put out a patch up update for the newly released Call of Duty: Black Ops and that is for both the Xbox 360 and the PS3 users. But despite the patch update there seems to be quite a bit of hassle to all those who are trying to get in on the multiplayer game online. Now you would assume that it would happen with a newly released title and that it would get sorted out as soon as possible. Well, to the surprise of many that seems to be not happening and a ‘Transmission error’ message is greeting many who are playing Black Ops multiplayer online. Treyarch

If you’ve played Call of Duty: Black Ops for at least an hour, you would have noticed the plethora of immature gamer cards that are flooding the game. Most gamercards display a penis doing something vulgar with several fantasy creatures. One of the rare but frustrating gamercards you will see is that of the Nazi Swastika. Every so often you’ll see that gamer with it and it sticks out like  a sore thumb. Microsoft aims to fix this issue by banning the gamers who decide to use the notorious emblem. “If you think the swastika symbol should be re-evaluated by societies all