According to reports, a 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' listing popped up on Amazon France this week.
This, says GameBlog (thanks Joystiq), has triggered a serious dispute between the site and Activision, who has done the rounds in asking several other sites to remove their respective reports, and cut off GameBlog from ad support, review game mailings and future Activision events for refusing to comply.
Efforts to censor the press can often point to a story's validity. And Black Ops 2 listings aren't particularly surprising, considering there's already been much talk of Treyarch's 2012 follow-up. It's not exactly a major revelation, but it would be the first time that the Treyarch team, previously responsible for World at War and Black Ops, does a direct sequel to its previous game.
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Panou on 17 Feb '12 said:
The French videogame website Gameblog.fr has been blacklisted by Activision for not having removed this news from the site!
The whole story can be read here (in French): http://www.gameblog.fr/news/27499-activision-blackliste-gameblog
Or, if you don't speak French, a few English-speaking websites also wrote news concering this "affair":
- http://www.vg247.com/2012/02/17/rumor-amazon-france-lists-black-ops-2-french-site-blacklisted-for-reporting-it/
- http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/121/1218982p1.html
- http://kotaku.com/5886065/black-ops-2-reportedly-outed-by-french-as-this-years-call-of-duty
P.S.: Sorry if my English is not perfect, but I'm French so I do my best ^^
gmcb007 on 17 Feb '12 said:
In other news, Christmas will be n the 25th of December this year.