As we’ve told you many times in the past, Activision’s Call of Duty has continuously been one of the most popular with the company even coming forth to note that the franchise’s recent entry, Call of Duty: Black Ops, managed to become the best selling PS3 game of all time. But, if you’re a fan of the series you might not care about things such as sales numbers and all that jazz but what you will care about is the fact that a Double XP weekend as just gone live.
That’s right, to celebrate the recent launch of the PS3′s First Strike Map Pack, Treyarch is giving gamers on any platform (Xbox 360, PS3, PC) the ability to rack up double experience points this weekend until 11AM EST on Monday, March 7th.
So folks, what are you waiting for? Get fragging!
Activision’s Call of Duty is without a doubt the biggest first person shooting franchise on the market today. Spanning numerous titles, the franchise’s latest release is none other than Call of Duty: Black Ops which has managed to impress in terms of sales numbers just like pretty much every other release.
One of the biggest draws to Call of Duty is its online multiplayer component which features high paced gameplay that’s generally easy for folks to pick up and play gunning down numerous enemies along the way. Anyways, folks who play Black Ops on Xbox 360 have been enjoying the First Strike DLC pack for quite some time with PS3 owners still waiting for that fateful day.
Luckily, seeing how First Strike will be making its way to the PSN this weekend, Treyarch has announced by way of Twitter that all versions of the game (Xbox 360, PC and PS3) will be getting a Double XP weekend. Get to it!
Call of Duty is one of the biggest names in the video game world with just about every single one of its releases selling like hot cakes. Currently, Call of Duty: Black Ops, developed by Treyarch, it the most recent release and has been generally well received. But enough of that – if you’re a Call of Duty: Black Ops player or looking for a reason to get online make note that this weekend is a Double XP Weekend. If you couldn’t tell by the name, everything you would do to normally get experience will be doubled.
The promotion runs from now until 8:00 AM PST on Monday morning so folks, start your XP gaining engines.
via destructoid
It seems that Bungie has followed Treyarch and Epic’s examples with Double XP weekends for Gears of War 2 and CoD: WaW, respectively, and announced the same for Halo 3.
This event begins today and runs until 2AM Monday and will require the Heroic, Legendary and Mythic map packs to participate.
Common developers, now’s your chance, anymore Double XP weekends we need to hear about?
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Just like Epic, Treyarch has decided that they will hold a Double XP weekend for Call of Duty: World at War to celebrate the 4th of July. Just like Gears of War 2, this event will take place on July 3rd and run until July 6th.
Additionally, on July 3rd, Treyarch is gearing to launch a playlist update that will incoporate the recently released Map Pack 2 into the Core and Hardcore playlists.
For those of you who are waiting for a Double XP weekend to go prestige, now’s your chance.
Epic has recently announced that they will be holding a Gears of War 2 Double XP weekend to celebrate July 4th. The actual event will take place on July 3rd and run through July 6th.
Not only will players recieve double XP for any ranked game they play this weekend but the winning team will be giving an extra 500 XP.
This is sure to appeal to some but I’m not too sure if it’s how I would like to spend my July 4th. I mean common, fireworks, beer, barbeque, what more could you ask for?
