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In anticipation of the upcoming Revolution DLC Map Pack for Call of Duty®: Black Ops II, sat down with Combat Designer Anthony Flame and Lead Artist Murad Ainuddin from Treyarch Studios to discuss the bonus Peacekeeper SMG.

Weapon Choice
There’s a lot of excitement around the Peacekeeper SMG, as it’s the first time Call of Duty has ever offered a bonus weapon with DLC. Why did you go with an SMG?

Anthony: First we began thinking, what will get the most people excited – what is something that people haven’t seen before? The conversation quickly gravitated to the fact that our two most popular weapon classes are SMGs and assault rifles, so we thought it would be cool to create a hybrid of those. Having a weapon in DLC is new, having this type of weapon is new and it speaks to the choices that players make – we loved the idea.

Design Inspiration
The Peacekeeper is an original design by Treyarch. What inspiration did the art team take...

Fox News is reporting that Pakistan has banned all Call of Duty and Medal of Honor games for showing their country “in a very poor light.”

Fox News states that this ban came in place due to shop owners telling the government how the games are representing their country. A translated article from a Middle East digital media has stated:

Call of Duty Black Ops II has many sequences in Pakistan showing them as the hotbed of terrorist activity. Activision’s most popular title will no longer be sold in Pakistan, leaving...

Activision revealed their latest tool, The Replacer who’s already and set to fill in our shoes so we can carry on playing Black Ops 2.
Starting Friday, January 25th (10am/PST) and running through Monday, January 28th (10am/PST) jump online to earn Double XP.

Mark your calendars: the Revolution DLC Pack drops January 29th to the Xbox Marketplace and the in-game Store. Better yet, pick up your Season Pass right now and get all 4 of this year’s DLC Map Packs at a discount.

This also means the return of yet another Nuketown 24/7 playlist. As game design director David Vonderhaar mentioned, “It will be back as a single map playlist for Double XP weekends or other events. It’s how we’ve always done it.”


Many people also want to know how exactly the new Gun DLC is going to work. Will other people be able to use the weapon if they haven't download the DLC? Will...

Get a first look at “Revolution,” the first DLC Map Pack available for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. One of the most robust and diverse DLC offerings in Call of Duty history, Revolution includes four all-new Multiplayer maps, a new Zombies map, an exclusive Multiplayer weapon, and a brand new Zombies game mode.

The Revolution DLC Map Pack arrives first on Xbox LIVE on January 29th, with other platforms to follow. Purchase the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 DLC Season Pass to get Revolution plus the remaining three DLC Map Packs at a discounted price.

Multiplayer Maps:

• Downhill – is set in the ski country of the French Alps, where players fight their way down the slopes and through a ski lodge, while avoiding the moving hazards of the mountain’s gondola system.

• Hydro – floodwaters in “Hydro” as they contend for dominance of this hydroelectric dam facility in...