Activision is calling in its crack team of elite copyright lawyers in take-down strikes against YouTubers who reveal cheats and exploits in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Activision is calling in its crack team of elite copyright lawyers in take-down strikes against YouTubers who reveal cheats and exploits in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Eurogamer reports that YouTube network Machinima recently issued an email warning to its affiliates, that Activision is on the warpath. "Activision is being particularly vigilant about their Call of Duty videos lately; issuing strikes on videos showing glitches. If you post videos highlighting these glitches, your channel may be liable to receive a copyright strike so please be careful," stated the email.


Activision says that it's focused on video posts that reveal unfair advantages and tricks to multiplayer competitors. "We're excited that so many fans are having fun playing the game and posting videos of their gameplay," offered a company statement. "We love watching the videos ourselves. Occasionally, some folks post videos that promote cheating and unfair exploits. As always, we keep an eye out for these videos. Our level of video claims hasn't changed."

Copyright take-downs deprive YouTubers of advertising revenues from videos. Multiple takedowns can cause the cancellation of an account.

SOURCE
Eurogamer

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare had the biggest launch of any entertainment in 2014?!

Activision has claimed Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare had the biggest launch of any entertainment product in 2014 in terms of revenue, coming in ahead of all other music, movies and books released year.

The achievement is backed up by information including the digital and retail sell-through for the title, compared with reported movie, music, and book gross sales, each for the first week following initial launch.

The publisher has also announced the Call of Duty franchise as a whole has now generated over $10 billion in sales revenue since its launch in 2003. 

We will update You when Activision releases the full numbers 

PS4 Share Play Blocked for Advanced Warfare?!

The PlayStation 4 edition of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare blocks Share Play functionality, GameSpot can confirm.

Internal tests at GameSpot show that Activision has marked all gameplay footage as censored, which does not affect the owner's console, but ensures that gameplay cannot be streamed to another user.

Activision's block on Share Play functionality comes little more than a week after Sony claimed the feature would work on all games. It marks the latest setback for Sony, following weeks of major network and update problems.

Share Play allows two PS4 owners to play the same single copy of a game over the Internet. The owner is designated as the host, and can stream gameplay footage to a guest console. The host can relinquish control of the game to the guest too, effectively giving another user the chance to play without paying.

While Share Play is limited to sixty minutes per session, users can return to the mode immediately after the time ends. There is no cap on Share Play sessions either, meaning that a game can effectively be shared indefinitely.


When the concept was presented during a media briefing in late October, Sony was questioned by GameSpot about whether all third-party publishers were on board with the system.

At the time, Sony representatives told GameSpot that Share Play works across all PS4 games. When asked whether publishers could opt-out, the representatives suggested that there was no existing option to do this.

When asked to clarify on the matter further, the representatives offered an unequivocal indication that Share Play will work on all released PS4 games, providing they do not need an additional peripheral.

However, built into the system is a "censor" option for publishers, which was intended to circumvent spoilers being revealed to a guest console. Though it was thought this censor would be limited to certain scenes only, Activision appears to have extended it across an entire game.

Representatives for Sony and Activision were unable to comment at the time of going to press.

Update: Sony has issued GameSpot with statement clarifying that not all games will work with Share Play.

A representative for the company said: "Share Play is a system level feature enabled by System Software Update 2.0 making it available for all PS4 titles, however the option is available to developers to disable the feature according to what they feel will best benefit the consumer experience." Update ends.

Thanks To GameSpot for the Update!!

Xbox's GamesCom

Microsoft's press conference at Gamescom 2014 showed the platform's deepening commitment to games, but it wasn't without a few notable entertainment and hardware updates.

Here is all of the biggest Xbox news of the day in one place.

)1. Rise of the Tomb Raider will be Xbox-exclusive when it launches in 2015


)2. The Halo 5: Guardians beta won't be the usual sort of Halo experience we've come to expect. The grander scale of Halo 4 will be dialed down to focus on more tense, intimate 4v4 fights in seven smaller arenas.


)3. Halo 2's Sanctuary is getting a full-on reboot in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Plus, The Halo Channel was announced, and if you're into learning about the series, love watching pro players, or just want a preview of upcoming stuff, this could be great.

)4. Evolve beta on Xbox One kicks off in January and All Evolve DLC will come to Xbox first.

)5. Smite, the 3rd person MOBA, will be coming to consoles, starting with Xbox One. It was one of several games announced as part of the ID@Xbox initiative. Joining Smite are a slew of other games, including the time-bending indie FPS Superhot, Capy's immersive-looking dungeon crawler Below, and a Team 17 published prison break game called The Escapists.

)6. Call of Duty Advanced Warfare will be getting an Xbox One hardware bundle on November 3rd, and it will include, among other things, a whopping 1 TB hard drive. For 499.99

)7. Zoo Tycoon developer Frontier is developing Screamride, Microsoft announced during its Gamescom 2014 media briefing. The new IP launches in 2015 exclusively on Xbox.

Call of Duty with Kevin Spacey

In my opinion this is the best part of The Gamers Talk Episode 15.

Cody and I talk the new Call of Duty with Kevin Spacey! 

This is just a part of our podcast that we thought everybody should hear. What does Kevin Spacey have to say about Call of Duty Advanced Warfare (for the full podcast head over to iTunes of TuneIn)

The Gamers Talk Episode 15: Kevin Spacey

The title says it all!!! Kevin Spacey starting at (36.12) We're back this week with some awesome News about the future of The Gamers Talk!. we talk Call of duty: Advanced Warfare, A new Power Ranger Movie by Jason David Frank, GTA V DLC, Halo and Minecraft, New Star Wars News, and a whole lot more! Plus Kevin Spacey Sings!Kevin Spacey Episode 15

Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare Trailer

BRAKING NEWS The new Call of Duty has leaked ahead of this Sundays announcement. Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare and If you thought the second Black Ops game took some technical liberties, hoo boy. This one is going full-blown science-fiction. Note that the game doesn't just star the vocal talents of Kevin Spacey; the guy is literally in the game! and Here's The Debut Trailer