Black Ops 2 Leaked by Amazon, Activision Allegedly Threatening Sites to Take it Down

By now, it’s no secret that retailers get early access to product and game info way before it’s released to the public or to us gaming press types. It’s also been a habit of these retailers to accidentally leak games way before they’re announced – and it seems like it has happened again.

Online retailer Amazon (France) seems to have leaked Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 way ahead of time. What gives this particular slip-up more traction is the fact that the site later changed it to “Call of Duty 9,” before taking the listing out altogether. Lucky for us that French gaming site Gameblog.fr managed to take a screenshot of it before it was officially taken down.

If you were thinking that another Call of Duty game being leaked well before it’s expected announce date wasn’t that big of a deal, then maybe this bit of news might change your mind. According to Gameblog, soon after they posted the story, they got a notification from Activision France demanding they take the news post down. Full details of that affair can be read here. Not only that, but the French gaming site also claims that a number of gaming sites allegedly caved in to Activision’s demands and pulled their story down.

To be honest, it doesn’t require a physicist or rocket scientist to figure out that this year’s Call of Duty will be Black Ops 2. Treyarch alternates with Infinity Ward with the publisher’s CoD releases and last year was IW’s turn; so it’s plainly obvious that Treyarch was up next to bat and we all know Black Ops did very, very well  in regards to sales – again, a no-brainer that Activision will make a sequel for it since the publisher really likes money and – ahem – they have a knack for giving the public what it wants (notice I didn’t say milk).

If these allegations of blacklistings and whatnot are true, I shudder to think what Activision will do to us now that I’m revealing that next year’s CoD will be Call of Duty 10: Modern Warfare 4: Futuristic Combat. Yeah, I’m calling it now!

Do you think what Activision did was a bit underhanded and more importantly, do you want to play Black Ops 2?

Source: Gameblog.fr (via VentureBeat)

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  • Anonymous

    Hell yes I wanna play Black Ops 2!

  • elasticdemand

    Why waste their time strong arming journalists into dropping the story? Everyone already knows that Activision is creatively bankrupt and another cut and paste CoD game is as predictable as the tide. All they’ve done by whining about the leak is create bad PR.

  • Battlefield_dog

    Lol wow… Another generic shooter that will play like a game from 2007…And the console kiddies will EAT IT UP

    • Dubbsrevenge

      ahhh… you are one of those gamer fags who has an opinion, and all other opinions are crap! you explain to me what makes Battle field better? (besides the lack of kids playing, have to give you that) and what makes pc better? waiting…

      • Anon

        You’re one of those fanboys who thinks he knows his shit? Tell me, what is different from CoD MW, MW2 and MW3 (Besides the small additions of guns, i’ll give you that). And WaW is the best CoD out at the moment. Battlefields realism with destruction, player interaction and vehicles are some of the things that make Battlefield a more engaging game. Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy CoD 1,2,3, WaW and Black Ops but the Modern Warfares are terrible. PC’s graphics, accuracy with the mouse, key bindings, better connections – dedicated servers, hardly any framerate lag are what make the PC better. Of course it has its own cons and sometimes, consoles are enjoyable. So don’t you go around and shit on other peoples opinions and replace them with you’re own, you look like a pretentious faggot.

  • elasticdemand

    “My big, dumb, generic military FPS is better than your big, dumb, generic military FPS”.

  • elasticdemand

    “My big, dumb, generic military FPS is better than your big, dumb, generic military FPS”.

  • Guest

    As long as it has zombies – which it inevitably will – I’m buying it.