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Because of Treyarch and Activision selling more than one million copies of Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1 during its first week of release, they will be releasing another map pack, 2, come June 2009.

The Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 2 will introduce three new multiplayer maps: “Banzai,” a jungle environment riddled with caves; “Corrosion,” a Russian train yard; and “Sub Pens,” a rain-drenched submarine base.

That’s all well and good, but now for the good stuff: a new Nazi Zombie map! “Shi No Numa,” home to this guy, promises new Perk machines, a new weapon, new achievements / trophies and flaming Hell hounds. It also promises to keep our repository of nightmare material well-stocked.

Source: Joystiq

Diallo has just passed a 1,050 Win Streak and it is still climbing.

Mistical reached a 1027 (Overall) / 1025 (TDM) win streak the other day. While this goal could of been reached months ago, some of us however stopped playing CoD:WaW all together (Dec ’08).

Diallo is currently almost at a 1000+ win streak while other members lost theirs over the months like Joel’s (Hendrix6406) win streak of 462.

Apparently student Breanna Lucci, among other students at Massachusett’s Academy of Notre Dame high school are upset about the need to shoot Nazi attack dogs in Call of Duty: World at War. Now forgive me for calling them idiots but what a pointless protest. Lucci is also the president of her school’s Animal Rights Club, go figure.

Now, I do agree that parents need to know what they are buying their kids. But dog killing in this game is little they should be worried about yet alone other games out there that parents need to be researching before they get their kids.

“Parents need to know what they are buying their kids. Killing animals should not be a form of entertainment,” Lucci told the local Lowell Sun. She was first introduced to the game’s canine genocide while watching her college aged brother playing. “My little 12-pound Pomeranian, Winnie the Pooh, is sitting next to him, and I’m thinking, ‘This looks horrible!’” Although she’s sure her brother “won’t be killing dogs after playing,” she believes “some people might.”

Lucci plans to forward her petition, which has been signed by more than 100 of her fellow students, to Activision. Contrary to some petitions aimed at game publishers, hers is simply a show of disgust, and does not call for any executives to be fired, boiled alive or hung by their feet until dead. You go, girl.

Little do they know that nothing is going to come out of this. Right now as of this post, there are 245,237 people playing Call of Duty: World at War online. I highly doubt Activision is going to issue a patch ever to stop the so called dog violence. Breanna is just another one of those people you hear on the news saying that video games cause violence.

Source: Joystiq

For about a year and half old game, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare still is climbing all the time in players. As said by JoyStiq it has become a judger when comparing modern first-person shooters. It is still in the top 3 or 5 each each on Xbox Live’s weekly activity charts. Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling recently revealed the most convincing testimony of the game’s success while accepting CoD 4′s three BAFTA Awards in London earlier this week — according to Bowling, the game’s online multiplayer component has played host to just over 15 million players.

Bowling clarified that 11 million of said players joined CoD 4′s ranks via Xbox Live, while over four million entered the fray on PSN. He didn’t even mention how many PC gamers had gotten their war on, though we’re sure that when combined with the console players, CoD 4′s total online population would rival that of many average-sized countries.

Source: JoyStiq

The official Call of Duty website has announced that a double XP weekend begins today for Call of Duty: World at War.

They are celebrating the release of this the “new” Makin map. It will run only this weekend (March 6th till 8th). Every platform will be able to take part in this, which are Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Nintendo Wii. It ends Monday morning Pacific Standard Time.

Source: Call of Duty website.

You may remember last month when the above message was seen on construction signs in Austin, a winking reference to Call of Duty: World at War’s zombie-annihilating multiplayer mode. Though the staff behind the game says they had nothing to do with the prank, the sentiment isn’t far off the mark. Developer Treyarch notes that a new DLC map pack — arrives “soon” — will include a fresh zombie level.

So, if you’re tired of seeing exploded zombie heads plastered all over the same old backgrounds, the dev says “to stay tuned for official word regarding upcoming DLC.” We’ll let you know what we hear.

Source: JoyStiq

World At War Sees Less Play Than CoD4? According to GamerDNA analyst Sanya Weathers, who is a former Director of Community for Mythic Entertainment, 64.7 percent of its sampled members have played CoD4 since its November 2007 launch.

“At least ten million copies of the game have sold, but that figure represents sales across all platforms (Gears was initially available only on the Xbox 360, as Gears 2 is at the present time),” Weathers notes. “It too offers a multiplayer component.”

Sales figures for Call of Duty: World at War are harder to pin down, although recent compiled NPD data noted that it sold 4.63 million copies across all formats in the U.S. in 2008. 23 percent of GamerDNA members played World at War title 49 days after its release. But Call Of Duty 4, at the same point in its cycle, had garnered 42 percent of the population.

The following chart shows Call Of Duty player history:


There is MUCH more data at the source link below. Check it out if interested.

Source: GamaSutra

New York Knicks point guard Nate Robinson apparently enjoys playing the video game Call of Duty 5 on Xbox Live.

According to Al Trautwig of the MSG television station, Robinson was playing COD5 against some random other player via the internet, and told the guy who he was. Naturally, the guy doubted he was playing with a real NBA player.

So, according to Trautwig, Robinson told the guy that to prove it’s really him, he’d do a COD5 salute during his next free throws. And Saturday evening, as the Knicks were in Philadelphia playing against the 76ers, Robinson did just that, in the second quarter. Hopefully, that gamer was watching.

Source: InsideHoops

So my friends and I have played about a good 10 hours so far just with multiplayer. My brother and I beat single player in maybe 2 hours? We ran through it so we could play the Nazi Zombie mode which is pretty cool but not something you could play back to back because it takes a while.

I will start with my multiplayer thoughts. I do not think it is better than Call of Duty 4 because it does not an M4 and it is not modern warfare. That does not mean the game is terrible at all, it is a lot of fun. Treyarch has done a lot to its multiplayer that I wish Infinity Ward would of done or added later on. Such as separate leaderboards, more maps, bigger maps, online stats and much more.

Spawn points are ridiculous too. We can only hope they get fixed. Grenades are not as powerful as they were in CoD4.

Single Player Campaign and Coop is just alright. Not much a story what so ever, CoD4 was much better campaign. Coop works but it is not great. It works just like multiplayer does and picks random levels to play on. Yes, you can vote each map as they are in order to play the levels from beginning (Semper Fi) to the last level (Downfall) but that is a big inconvenience. Most achievement do not count either for playing in coop and are single player online, so that is kind of lame.