If there was any doubt about the difference in marketing budgets between rival first-person shooters Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, this video will dispel that doubt. Starring Sam Worthington, Jonah Hill and Dwight Howard, the minute-and-a-half trailer puts the action star, the comedy star, and the basketball star into the game. Worthington plays “The Vet” and his cohorts are “The n00bs” as the game, due to be released next week, apparently needs star power more than storyline or gameplay to bring it to the attention of the masses. Then again, anyone who enjoys first-person…

Arguably the most anticipated first person shooter of 2011 is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Sledgehammer Games and Activision prepare for the launch on November 8th. Today, Call of Duty XP in LA gets started, offering players the first full experience of the game and a tournament to start the buzz and bragging rights. If you’re not one of the 6000 people who forked over $150 for the tickets, you’ll have to settle for this interview with the Sledgehammer Games team about what they put into building the game. …

The battle lines have been drawn between the 2 major FPS titles to be released before Christmas this year with both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 getting tremendous amounts of attention since E3. One unknown fan of Battlefield 3 took the war to the next level by redirecting modernwarfare3.com to the Battlefield 3 official website. The domain had been privately registered in 2009, catching Activision asleep at the domain-buying wheel. Before the redirect, the site featured the video below and said that COD was “the most over-hyped first-person action series of all time” while…

Despite being surrounded by tons of controversy and doubts about its launch, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is getting the hype machine going for their launch in November. Here’s the first full trailer for the highly-anticipated game release. There aren’t a ton of details available about the story line, but this at least gives us a couple of clues. It’s not going to be a large country that starts the hostilities (Russia was the enemy in WM2) and it’s going to be staged in large cities rather than the small ones associated with previous titles. The excitement is building. Are you ready? …

Over 60 major tech and gaming publications announced today that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 would be announced next week. The reports gave details of the exact date and time as well as speculation surrounding the storyline and possible characters involved. The only problem with the reports is that Activision is claiming they were all false. From Activision: “There seems to be a great deal of speculation about the next Call of Duty project. Let me be clear that we are not revealing yet. Anything indicating otherwise is a hoax.” A website was launched at FindMakarov.com with a brief flash of an…