MW3: New map Revealed by Robert Bowling "Park" Coming Jan. 24th, 2012

From Robert Bowling's twitter account:

Exclusive sneak peek at 'Park' - some of the first #MW3 DLC hitting Jan 24th for Elite subscribers! More info in Jan!

Hot Fix Coming Tonight: Weapon Rebalancing

From charlieintel.com:

Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling has just announced that Modern Warfare 3 will be getting a “Hot Fix” (minor update) later today which will rebalance some weapons in the game:
Hot Fix Updates (Releasing Today 12/12/11):
-Fire rate normalization for Assault -Rifles with undermounts
-FMG9 Re-balancing (Nerf)
-Akimbo FMG9 Re-balancing (Nerf)
-Fix for Shotgun’s with Extended Mags (Prevents them from shooting more pellets than intended)
-Type95 Re-balancing (Nerf) – Reduce hipspread.
-Fix for ACR with Red Dot / Shotgun
-Fix Type 95 bug related to dropping it.
-Fix map exploits on Dome
-SOURCE: FourZeroTwo

Sledgehammer Games Recruiting for next CoD Project

From charlieintel.com: 

It appears Sledgehammer Games will be working on another Call of Duty project in the near future according to a job listing on Gamasutra. The job post says, ” We are actively recruiting top talent for our Call of Duty development team.” The job post is for a Senior Online Engineer in Foster City, California. The post goes on to say “Sledgehammer Games is looking for an exceptional online engineer to help bring our online experience to a new level. The candidate will be involved in the creation of multiplayer game modes and online community features for an unannounced high-end console title.”
No word yet if they are combining the efforts again with Infinity Ward for the next “Modern Warfare Game” in 2013 or if it’s for their original 3rd Person Call of Duty Project that was canceled when work was switched over to MW3. We’ll keep you posted once we hear anything new.
-SOURCE: Gamasutra Job Post Via VG247

 

Official Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - The Vet & The n00b

Exclusive Modern Warfare 3 Livestream on 11/1

Win copies of the game and check out never-before-seen gameplay with Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling and more!

IGN streaming live MW3 game play from 12-4 pm PST

Wanna check out Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 a week before you can play it? I know we do!

Tune in to IGN's exclusive MW3 Livestream, right here, on Tuesday, November 1, 2011, from 12-4pm PST / 7-11pm GMT.

We'll have exclusive all-new gameplay, get your questions answered by Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling, and have a chance to win a copy of Modern Warfare 3 on the platform of your choice, Turtle Beach BRAVO headsets, PDP MW3 controllers and much, much more.
 

Modern Warfare Explained in 5 Minutes

From IGN:

More Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Videos

All MW3 Map Layouts Revealed

From Charlieintel:
Source: The Tech Game Forums

Go here to see the rest of the maps. There are a total of 16 maps shipping with MW3. Fracking Awesome Gamers. Are you ready for this?

MW3: Weapon Progression Behind the Scenes Trailer

The all-new behind the scenes multiplayer video for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3. Learn how MW3 evolves gun progression with its new weapon ranking system. The new progression system is designed to improve specific weapon leveling unlocks (camo, attachments, reticles etc.), and features new weapon proficiencies. Proficiencies allow players to specialize their weapons with new attributes (some unique to specific weapon classes).
Follow #MW3 updates on Twitter via @fourzerotwo, and join us at

http://www.facebook.com/MW3 and http://www.callofduty.com/mw3

***New*** Modern Warfare 3 - Strike Packages Behind the Scenes Video

Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games bring you details on Modern Warfare 3's all-new Strike Packages. With more variety and deeper customization, Strike Packages have been designed to reward different play styles and skill levels. Follow #MW3 updates on Twitter via @fourzerotwo, and join us at MW3 Facebook Page and Call of Duty MW3 website

MW3: Premiere on Gametrailers TV -”Mind the Gap” Mission, Spec Ops and Multiplayer Videos

From Charlie Intel:

What was shown:
-”Mind the Gap” Singleplayer campaign level set in London.
-2 All new Spec-Ops(Multiplayer) Maps.
-Interview with SledgeHammer Games Co-Founder Michael Condrey.
-Munition Earphones

Campaign:
-Taskforce 141′s Cpt. “SOAP” McTavish confirmed returning.
-MI6 Intercepted a message about a package, S.A.S. is sent in.
-Mission starts off in the underground (Subway), after a chase through the subway tracks, you work your way up to the streets of London.

Spec-Ops: Mission
-CO-Op “Mission” mode similar to MW2′s Co-Op mode.
-Mission mode will include “reversed” single player levels.
-Mission level shown: “Little Bros” -You and your partner are sperated and have to make it to the extraction point.

Spec-Ops: Survival
-New Spec-Ops(MP) map shown: “Bootleg” *which was on the Kotaku list of Leaked maps in May.

-SOURCE: Gametrailers via @ConK_SheLL

Again please visit CharlieIntel for all of your MW3 news!

MW3 Campaign and Spec Ops Help with Multiplayer Unlocks

from sfx-360.com:

Modern Warfare 3‘s Campaign and Spec Ops progression will contribute to multiplayer unlockables.
Executive producer Mark Rubin outlined the new Prestige Shop feature during the Call of Duty XP.
While other Call Of Duty games just let you unlock more character classes when you Prestige, Modern Warfare 3 will have a more “buy what you like” system and takes in account all the play modes.
“The Prestige Shop is not only for Prestiging… but it’s also complete the single player, complete the single player in Veteran, complete Spec Ops, or do something in Spec Ops,” said Rubin during a press conference.
“You can earn it all throughout the game, the currency, to buy the things in the shop. Some of the things that are in the shop are the Create a Class slots.
“One of the other things I like is early unlocks, so I can spend currency to unlock an item that would normally unlock at Level 42, I can have it at level four.”
Rubin added that “one of the beauties” of Modern Warfare 3 is that the developers can easily change content after release, such as adding new Prestige Shop unlocks, balancing weapons in-game and providing new content.

OK-I really like this. What do you guys think? It will definitely make me want to play the single player campaign and lot's of Spec Ops. It looks like they are taking some ideas from Treyarch and implementing them. Nice..--TC (Tango Down)

MW3 Developers Say Game is Going to be Easier to Update than Previous Call of Duty Titles

From SFX-360:

Infinity Ward (the developer of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3)  announced that there would be an easier way to update the multiplayer sections of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 unlike previous releases.
Infinity Ward’s  Robert Bowling said, “ How we’ve built this current game as opposed to in the past is we’ve made it a lot easier on the backend to update the other aspects of the game beyond just the map packs. So now, as we’re advancing content and releasing new maps on multiplayer, we can also further tweak them to also be playable in spec Ops. We also looked at how to update the game further in other ways like new modes, weapon – whatever we want to do. So we’ve done a lot of work in the backend that allows us to update more easily and quickly. It would be in such a way that’s helpful for DLC but also helpful for post-launch support: listening to feedback. Maybe there’s stuff we want to rebalance. Maybe there’s stuff we want to patch. We have a lot more control in tweaking the game now, outside of a patch, than we ever did before.”

read more at SFX-360!

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will have LAN support, improved theatre mode, no zombies | PC Gamer

Infinity Ward creative strategist, Robert Bowling has been answering questions on Twitter in the aftermath of the Call of Duty XP event that happened over the course of the weekend. Dedicated Servers for Modern Warfare 3 have already been confirmed, but Bowling also mentions that LAN play will be possible, which certainly wasn’t a given, considering how Modern Warfare 3 will tie in heavily with Activision’s online Call of Duty Elite service.

“Yes, #MW3 has LAN,” Bowling tweets, “along with detailed class restriction control + default class creation option.”

The class restriction control will give LAN gamers the ability to “restrict any weapon, equipment, perk, deathstreak, secondary, attachment, ANYTHING from being used when setting up game,” Bowling adds.

In response to Twitter questions asking about PC specific support, Bowling says that he’s been “working on that goal for a long time. Dedicated Servers, Public Server Files, & giving control back to the player. #MW3 PC”

He also drops a few more facts. Modern Warfare 3 will get its own updated version of the theatre mode that made its debut in Call of Duty: Black Ops. That’ll let players cut their own movies and upload them to Call of Duty Elite. At Call of Duty XP, Infinity Ward revealed that Call of Duty Elite subscribers would get more online storage space for their films.

Finally, as expected, there won’t be any zombies in Modern Warfare 3. The popular zombies mode has been a feature of Treyarch’s entries in the Call of Duty series. “although we do have a very different style of co-op in our new infinite wave based Spec Ops Survival mode,” tweets Bowling. You can see footage of the Spec Ops mode in action in the recent Spec Ops trailer.

MW3′s New PRESTIGE SHOP & ALL MENU Screenshots

From Charlieintel.com

Like that new SCAR-L but afraid to prestige and wait another 31 ranks? Well take it with you to the next Prestige! FourZeroTwo confirmed via twitter yesterday, “It’s a shop that unlocks after 1st prestige where you can use prestige points earned by prestiging to unlock useful features.” and added, “When you prestige you unlock a shop that let’s you choose what you unlock (like taking one piece of gear over to next prestige).” There's still a lot of questions as to exactly how this works but we’re already liking what we’re seeing. One of the main reason I never prestiged in Black Ops was because I didnt want to wait 44 ranks to get the Commando back..

We were able to grab a hi-res screenshot of the “Prestige Shop” durring the XP2011 press briefing. Here are some other menus captured:

Go on over to charlieintel.com and check out the rest of the intel on the menu and prestige shop. Pretty awesome.

Michael Condrey MW3 Details: Interview from GRTV at Gamescom..Nothing New Here. Keep Moving Along.

GRTV caught up with Sledgehammer Games at GamesCom to find out more about one of this year's big blockbusters - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. From updatesmw3 channel:

Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Will Look and Feel More Like COD 4, Less Verticality and Killstreak Reliance

It looks like MW3 is going to have a lot less camping opportunities. Unlike MW2, it's predecessor, MW3 is only going to feature 4-5 hot spots per map. It looks like Sledgehammer is going to make it look more like COD 4, more gun on gun, you're done. So don't look for stackable kill streaks, marshmallows, or tents in the upcoming Call of Duty installment. I am liking what I am hearing and can't wait to get my hands on the game. BTW--COD Elite Beta starts today. Look in your email box for an invite! Thanks to Kotaku for breaking the story, here is a preview and a link to the article on MW3 on Kataku's website:

Stephen Totilo —"A reduction of the number of so-called hotspots on the multiplayer maps of Modern Warfare 3 will alter and accelerate the flow of action in this fall's installment of the Call of Duty franchise juggernaut, one of the game's creators told Kotaku this week in New York City.
The makers of Modern Warfare 3's multiplayer mode are creating maps that include no more than five hotspots—places from which enemy players may be hiding or shooting—for a gamer to worry about at any one time.
"It simplifies it so that the less skilled player has less to think about," Robert Bowling, creative strategist at Modern Warfare development studio Infinity Ward told me yesterday. "What happens when you have more is that the professional guys are using that spot that is either difficult to get to. … There's fewer places to hide, which discourages the more camper mentality that seemed to emerge in the map design of Modern Warfare 2."

Call of Duty XP: Event Map

Call of Duty XP Event Map Revealed

Event takes place September 2nd & 3rd in Los Angeles

Here are just some of the highlights:

$1 million Call of Duty Operation

It's time to compete for a chance to play on the world's biggest stage at Call of DutyXP and walk away with your share of one million dollars in cash and prizes. This thrilling tournament will be a 32-team, single-elimination bracket competition with 4 players per team. Fans around the world will have various opportunities to qualify prior to the event by showcasing their skills in Call of Duty^®: Black Ops multiplayer…and there will be additional ways to qualify on site at Call of Duty^® XP.

Compete for Fun and Prizes

Fans of all skill levels will have a blast competing for prizes in a variety of free-for-all, Zombies, Spec Ops, and team-based multiplayer competitions. Who will win the most consecutive free-for-all matches? Who can survive the longest in Zombies? Who will qualify on site for a seat in the million-dollar tournament? It could be you!

Run the Pit

Gear up and clock your best time in the Pit, for real. This iconic moment from Modern Warfare^® 2 comes to life as you run and shoot to win prizes and bragging rights.

Live Multiplayer Experience

How well do you know Scrapyard? Find out as you throw down in an all-out paintball battle in our life-size recreation of this iconic map from Modern Warfare^® 2.

Burger Town

Working out your trigger finger really works up an appetite. So grab burgers and fries at Burger Town. It's time to eat like a soldier, sort of.

Call of Duty® Armory

You've seen them in game. Now it's time to see the wide arsenal first hand. The immortal weaponry of Call of Duty^® will be on display at our one-of-a-kind armory along with a unique look at the history of our franchise.

New York Yankees Teammates Stop by Sledgehammer to play MW3

Nick Swisher, Left Fielder Chris Dickerson and Pitchers David Robertson and Joba Chamberlain showed off their skills when they recently stopped by Sledgehammer games.
See Sledgehammer's blog post here.