Call of Duty 8: Sledge Hammer take over the development

Now the cat out of the bag. Sledge Hammer Games work the next Call of Duty Offshoot. This is the company founded by Activision Blizzard development studio next Infiniy Ward and Treyarch, now the third with the successful shooter franchise commissioned Studio. The News go from jobs and Website by Sledge Hammer out – this is now proudly sits the Call of Duty logo.

Furthermore, rumors, E.g. want the game to Space Marines and could therefore employ the future, but was still given no food. A Continued from Modern Warfare 2 has been speculated many times before. But whether it really a different studio Infinity Ward, which have developed Modern Warfare 1 + 2 deals, is more than questionable. After all, both parties blockbuster. We may be curious what comes next really.

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“Starcraft 2″ already a million-seller

Midnight sales, publishing giant advertising campaigns and a ban, before the release tests, the hype about “Starcraft 2″ pretty stoked. With success: as the web page video reportage VGChartzWere alone in the U.S. and Europe on the first day of sale 1.8 million copies of the strategy games brought to the gamer nation. This is the Asian region, where reside solely in Korea about four million Starcraft player, not even with counting.

But this is not enough: According to various analysts could end seven million copies sold. For the world record 1.8 million copies of Starcraft 2 launch day but have not passed, continues to hold the “World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King” with 2.8 million units.

“Killer games” for stress and depression

Yes yes, the debate over the so-called “killer games”. Some see them as a stimulus to violence in the real world and cry out for prohibitions. The other hold-violent games for containing relatively harmless opportunities to reduce frustration. The latter opinion now corresponds to a new study that the evil brutal games even attributed a healing effect.

Dr. Christopher J. Ferguson was irritated at Texas A & M International University 103 young men and women, first with a total of frustrating work. On reaching the stress level of the subjects the peak was allowed to gamble some of them violent games, while the other non-violent games or working in nothing at all. Surprise, Surprise: The “killer game” gamers were behind less aggressive and showed a lower tendency to depression than other study participants. Ferguson suggests also use first-person shooter & Co. as a treatment method for frustrated teenagers. The health insurance will pay the cost of this unlikely, but what the heck. Moreover, soon will come for the next study, the results again argue the opposite.