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Next Generation is reporting today that Call of Duty 5 will be available on six different platforms as well as take place in a new theater. Take a look:

"For Call of Duty, we're bringing the intensity of the recent Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare title to yet a new military theater to engage our significantly larger userbase which nearly doubled last year," said Activision Publishing president and CEO Mike Griffith.

Griffith said that the next Call of Duty will launch on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, DS and PS2 during this fiscal year.

He also confirmed that more DLC is headed towards current players of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. "We'll drive category sales of downloadable maps and enhance Call of Duty 4 retail SKUs," he said.

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Matthew over at Machinima has brought great news, the release of Episode 3 for the ongoing Call of Duty 4 Series, "Retaliation".

In the third episode of Retaliation, the SAS team rushes to capture one of the masterminds behind the Credenhill bombing before he escapes. In doing so, sniper Mark Schwieters becomes entangled in the hunt to bring the terrorists to justice.

Episode 3 of the acclaimed Call of Duty 4 machinima series, Retaliation, has been released. You can view the video by going Here or by simply watching the embedded video below! Enjoy.

Seven, the maker of Call of Duty 4 Zombie Mod has released its first beta to the public! You can now have Zombies on your own server.

THE MOD IS HERE!
The official Release is Official!

Anyone can now download the mod and upload it to your server and run your own zombie server.

Whats different from this to 82ndID?
You wont be getting the music when there 15% hunters left 82ndID only
You wont get the Kill counter i.e. Ultra kill, God like. 82ndID only too.
You wont get the special Admin tools that our admins use to burn/switch peoples team.

But we have a nice thing for our true fans

We will be Selling Servers with custom features like the Admin tools and constant updates, every time there is an update. you will get it!(more info on the forums)

DOWNLOAD HERE!

FourZeroTwo from InfinityWard has posted rules and where/how to submit your map for their Official Map Contest.

INTRODUCTION

It's time to kick off the submission process for the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Community Mapping Contest. This contest will be rewarding the best of the best in our mapping community from all over the world. We'll be selecting three winners from every eligible region, with the winning mappers eligible to win the following prizing:

First Place:

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX (ARV, $299 USD)

COD4:MW Branded Messenger Bag (ARV, $60 USD) consisting of the following:

o Limited Edition Call of Duty 4 t-shirt
o Limited Edition Call of Duty 4 poster signed by the Infinity Ward team
o COD4:MW Brady Strategy Guide
o COD4:MW Branded Water Bottle


Second Place and Third Place:

COD4:MW Branded Messenger Bag (ARV, $60 USD) consisting of the following:

o Limited Edition Call of Duty 4 t-shirt
o Limited Edition Call of Duty 4 poster signed by the Infinity Ward team
o COD4:MW Brady Strategy Guide
o COD4:MW Branded Water Bottle

Read the entire Submission thread, which includes a link on where to submit your map by clicking here.

Machinima has now released Episode #2 of Retaliation further expanding their video series of Call of Duty 4. Just like the first episode, this leaves you on the edge of your seat wanting more.


Good job you guys at Machinima, keep up the excellent work!

Infinity Ward's community manager FourZeroTwo has posted a new blog today giving us an update on the PC map contest and patch. Take a look:

I wanted to keep you guys in the loop on how the Map Contest is rounding out for all the PC mappers waiting to submit their maps. We had hoped to start accepting submissions by now but regretfully (as typically happens) the legal required participants to be US only which was unacceptable for us. So we’ve been working on making it open to worldwide participants which requires quite a bit more legal / contest rule work due to the different laws and regulations in each country.

We could have launched it and made it US only but I know we have a fantastic worldwide community of mappers that would have got severely screwed if it was that way and I won’t let that happen. So that’s what’s holding things up right now. The good news is submissions should be starting THIS WEEK as we’re in the final stages of chasing down our international legal department. Once we have it all confirmed, I hope to have the submission page linked here for you so you can start sending in your custom maps for the contest. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns and I’ll answer what I can.

As for the 1.6 patch which was going through test, we found a critical bug during QA which broke kill cams when playing with mods among other things which put a hold on it and put it back in development. We’re continuing to evaluate it and looking into releasing it when the map pack potentially hits PC. I’ll keep you updated as it progresses, but right now it won’t be coming out anytime soon while we track down this bug.

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In some surprising news today, Activision and Upper Deck have announced a new real-time card game based on the Call of Duty series. No this isn't a joke! Take a look:

With the Call of Duty® Real-Time Card Game, there’s no more waiting for your turn—just a lot of card-playing action. Based on the immensely popular video-game franchise, the Call of Duty® Real-Time Card Game is all about moving as quickly as possible to take down your opponents—and survive. Players who have honed their skills playing the video game will find that the same skills apply to the new Upper Deck real-time card game, which has all the strategy of other card games, plus requires the quick reaction time that defines the Call of Duty® franchise. In this game, your soldiers fire, move, dive for cover, and attack the enemy with precision, accuracy, and speed!

When the Call of Duty® Real-Time Card game releases in Fall 2008, pick up one of eight Squad Decks for everything you need to play the game right out of the box. You can also buy multiple Squad Decks to combine contents and create a better deck. Each Squad Deck comes with two missions and a double-sided map—combine any map with any mission to change up your gameplay experience!

Best of all, the Call of Duty® Real-Time Card Game is easy to learn and play. The action-packed card game typically takes five to ten minutes to play, making it ideal for video-game veterans. If you’re a regular trading card game player, your strategy and deckbuilding skills will be a valuable asset, but it’s how you hold up under fire that really counts!

To learn all about this new card game based on CoD, visit here.

Are you still unsure what games to spend your hard earned cash on in 2008? Then check out our top 10 list of the biggest games to be released in 2008.

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FourZeroTwo has posted over on his blog that NPD has announced that Call of Duty 4 has no sold over 9 million copies! Read what he had to say..

According to the NPD figures which were released today, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has officially sold over 9 Million copies worldwide since it’s release!

In addition, the Variety Map Pack we recently released on Xbox Live and soon to be released on PS3 in a week; has broke Xbox Live Marketplace records pulling down over 1 Million downloads within it’s first 9 days. Not to mention pulling down Xbox Live Marketplace in the process when it launched.

Some cool numbers we pulled recently to see just how much gameplay that actually is, shows that Xbox LIVE members played more than 30 million sessions and logged over 30 million hours of gameplay!! We’re talking 1.9 billion minutes logged in the first 9 days!!

Read the rest of his blog by visiting his site here.

FourZeroTwo has posted on his blog the official release dates for the DLC Map Pack for Playstation 3 and even more exciting news, double experience points dates where you can rank up 2x quicker! Check it out.

I have some great PS3 news for everyone! We have hammered out the details for the upcoming DLC and will be releasing the new Variety Map Pack on PS3 in North America on Thursday, April 24. In addition, We’re also really excited that the Map Pack passed Sony Europe certification and will be propped on the PlayStation Network on May 1.

To celebrate the release of both map packs we will be hosting a Double XP weekend for North America from 12:01 AM PDT on Friday, April 25 to 11:59 PM PDT on Sunday, April 27. North American players will be able to play the new maps against members of the Infinity Ward team on Friday, April 25 from 5 PM to 8 PM PDT.

Read the rest of the article on FourZeroTwo's blog here. He also noted that PC news should be released to us by the end of the week. Stay tuned!