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New Call Of Duty: Warzone 2.0 Update Takes Cheaters' Guns Away
6.4.2023
No one likes cheaters, especially not the Ricochet Anti-Cheat team, Call of Duty’s dedicated cheat-busting unit. On April 4, Ricochet put out a brief report detailing how it’s preserving the integrity of the game. They’ve got some pretty hilarious ways of screwing over cheaters, from making their...
10 Must-See Battle Royale Moments, From Fortnite To Warzone
1.4.2023
No two battle royale matches are alike. Clever, spontaneous tactics springing from the generative collision of varying skill levels, map layout, and randomized items, weapons, and vehicles can lead to theatrical levels of epicness and hilarity—often both at the same time. So it’s only fitting...
The Evolution Of Games Like Fortnite And Warzone Is Already Here
31.3.2023
Battle royales have managed to pull off an unlikely scenario. The genre has remained relevant for players, streamers, and competitive-level play. And it’s not just one game: The genre currently has multiple, big-budget competitors existing alongside each other with relatively healthy player counts....
Warzone 2 Frustration Is Fueling Some Wild Cheating Conspiracies
30.3.2023
Warzone 2.0 hasn’t been a universal hit with fans of Call of Duty. Various gameplay and UI changes and frustrations over a slow and sometimes confusing battle pass structure have pushed many players, including pros and popular streamers, off the game, with many migrating to other games or...
The Best Call of Duty Battle Royale Isn’t Warzone
29.3.2023
Six or seven days a week, MinerHoboJo fires up his PlayStation 5 and signs into Twitch or YouTube to stream a five-year-old game—Blackout, the first Call of Duty battle royale. By his own estimation, and community consensus, Miner is the game’s global leader in solo wins and kills. (There are...
PUBG's Creative Director On The Success Of Battle Royales
28.3.2023
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds went from a mod for zombie survival game DayZ (itself a mod for milsim ARMA2), to an instantly successful Steam Early Access standalone in 2017. The game was inspired by Japanese action film Battle Royale, in which a collapsing society sends students to kill...
One Of Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0’s Biggest Streamer Is Taking A Break
28.3.2023
Aydan Conrad is one of the biggest competitive Call of Duty streamers with over 3 million followers on Twitch and over a million on YouTube. On March 27, Conrad announced that he intended to take a break from creating content for Warzone 2.0.Read more
The True Gods Of Fortnite Are The Expert Snipers
27.3.2023
I’m hiding in a small shack on a lonely hill surrounded by a deadly storm of energy that will destroy me in seconds if I touch it. There’s no escaping the situation. Around me, I can hear other players shooting and breaking walls. I know it’s now or never if I want to win this match of Fortnite....
Welcome To Kotaku Royale, Exploring The Genre That's Defining Modern Gaming
27.3.2023
It’s Aries season, Women’s History Month, the start of spring, and Kotaku Royale week. What’s that last one, you ask? Well, we’re spending all week bringing you exclusive interviews with the teams behind your favorite battle royales, pointed opinions about the state of Warzone and the genre...
After Three Months Of Struggles, Ashika Island Saved Warzone 2.0
27.3.2023
Since its release in November 2022, Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 has undergone immense scrutiny from the community due to its rocky launch. Warzone 2.0 dropped with numerous missing features that undid a lot of the goodwill garnered during the first game’s lifecycle, and while it still has a long...
NBA Player Dropped Over Antisemitic Slur In CoD Gets New Contract
21.2.2023
Nearly two years after NBA player Meyers Leonard blew up his whole career after shouting an antisemitic slur during a Call of Duty: Warzone livestream, ESPN reports he has signed a 10-day contract with the Milwaukee Bucks.Read more
Call of Duty + Warzone's Game-Changing Season 2: What's Worth Knowing
17.2.2023
Season two for the duality that is Warzone 2.0 and Modern Warfare II arrived yesterday and with it a variety of tweaks and changes. But which are the most important? Which ones do you need to know before deploying in your mode of choice? We’re gonna cover all of that here. Read more
Call Of Duty Warzone Players Caught Off Guard By DMZ Progress Wipe
26.1.2023
Warzone 2.0’s DMZ extraction mode has been one of the most popular parts of the battle royale sequel, but a controversial upcoming change has some players wondering if they’ll stick around. Infinity Ward recently revealed that player progress will be wiped when Season 2 goes live next month...
Call Of Duty’s Next Season Undoes What People Hated About Warzone 2.0
26.1.2023
Season two for Call of Duty’s Modern Warfare II multiplayer and Warzone 2.0 arrives on February 15. An official blog from yesterday details the many changes we can expect for the game’s various modes, some of which ought to make fans of the original Warzone very, very happy people. Ya’ll didn’t...
Warzone 2.0 Is Ditching 2v2 Gulags For Boring 1v1 Showdowns
20.1.2023
First came the much-requested changes to loadout drops, now Warzone 2.0 is messing with the gulag. With season two’s arrival on February 15, the gulag will no longer make players team up in pairs of two after suffering defeat on the battle royale map. Instead, as in the original Warzone, it will...
This Warzone TikTok Shows Why DMZ Is So Amazing In Less Than A Minute
11.1.2023
Last year I described Call of Duty: Warzone’s newest Tarkov-inspired mode, DMZ, as capable of “emergent moments of thrilling FPS gameplay—the kind I’d expect from a [...] single-player campaign, but without any of the narrative wrapping.” Now a TikTok video doing the rounds is demonstrating this...
Here Are Some Of The Best Warzone 2.0 Loadouts Right Now
6.1.2023
Doing well in Warzone is often about making the most out of what you can find on the field. But with the ability to recover or purchase your loadout, one of the best ways to gain an advantage over the competition is to grab your curated selection of guns and perks. Read more
A Fatal Warzone 2 Glitch Is Making Helicopters Explode
6.1.2023
Call of Duty’s free-to-play battle royale Warzone 2.0 has an airborne issue. According to one redditor’s January 4 post, a glitch is causing attack helicopters to explode suddenly, spelling instant death for the player. Read more
Warzone 2.0 Finally Lets Players Purchase Full Loadouts
20.12.2022
Warzone 2.0’s been out for a little while now, but not everyone’s been happy with some of the changes the battle royale received in its latest iteration. When, where, and how you access loadouts saw one such unpopular change. Raven Software, however, has recently announced that Buy Stations will...
Call Of Duty's Year-Defining New Mode Is Everything Shooters Should Aspire To Be
20.12.2022
Racing to the last possible helicopter to flee an increasingly radiated map, my heart is pounding. I know the chopper is going to sit there for nearly two minutes, and here I am running, alone and vulnerable. I sped halfway across the map in a truck to outrun the radiation and must now defend...