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Black Ops 6 devs still looking into unfair spawning – “yes, we saw ourselves in a Killcam before selecting a Loadout too”

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Early reactions to Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer range from frothing dislike through omnimovement hype to our own Ed Thorn’s dead-eyed appraisal that it’s “a good one, I think. Not a bad one. If you like Call Of Duty, you will like this. If you don’t like Call Of Duty, you will not like this.” I feel like we need to emergency-deploy a supply crate of smelling salts, because the sheer OK-ness of Black Ops 6 appears to have tumbled Ed into a stupor.


Perhaps it would be a different story if he’d encountered some of the spawning issues and glitches people are talking about, with players joining games and materialising right into a hail of fire. The players in question include Black Ops 6’s developers, who comically note in the latest Black Ops 6 patch notes that “Yes, we saw ourselves in a Killcam before selecting a Loadout too.” The latest patch seeks to address this, naturally. As regards the campaign side of things, it also resets your safehouse currency to 5000, if you’ve had your single player funds stolen (or multiplied) by technical gremlins.

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign review: a military shooter that comes disguised as other, better games

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As a yearly blockbuster, Call of Duty, through sheer expense and effort, would like you to think it is the Die Hard of video games. Or, depending on the setting, the Saving Private Ryan of video games. But it is barely Black Hawk Down. This latest campaign in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 reminds me more of the forgettable Netflix shootfests that thumbnail their way across your TV screen as you try to find some gritty nothing to aid you in zoning out of life. Still, there is an anecdotal contingent of casual sofa sitters for whom Call Of Duty is the game. A balls-to-the-wall shooter to return to every winter and rinse through in a weekend. Ed has already gestured at its multiplayer, announcing: “yup, it’s COD”, like a deeply tired Captain Birdseye inspecting the day’s catch, wondering when his life will change. But never mind that. How does the single player story mode hold up? Some are calling it the best campaign in years. And I guess that’s true, in the sense that it is the least worst.

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What time do Black Friday deals start at Amazon, Walmart, and other retailers?

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Black Friday officially begins on November 29th, but if you're planning on making that day the only day you buy gifts this holiday season, you're missing out. Several big-name retailers, including Best Buy and Target, have already started offering their holiday discounts online and in-store. Both retailers also offer price protection throughout most of the … Read more

Bose is taking up to 40 percent off headphones ahead of Black Friday

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Well, it took less than a day for the early Black Friday deals to start. Amazon, Best Buy, Lowe's and a number of other major retailers have officially started running their holiday promotions ahead of the annual shopping event, although few of them are offering discounts as deep as Bose. For a limited time you … Read more

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer review: it’s like Call Of Duty

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People have asked me, a Call Of Duty liker, “How’s the new COD?” – such is the mass appeal of Call Of Duty that even a lot of my non-industry pals are invested in whether Black Ops 6’s shooty really does bang. And every single time my brain clunks into gear and I turn inwards, where I struggle to come up with anything meaningful to say. So much so that a fog develops and out of the fog emerges a figure – it’s me. I’m holding an M4A1 with an extended barrel and a vertical foregrip. My brain and body perform a pincer movement of physical response: 1) I shrug 2) I say, “It’s like Call Of Duty”.

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