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Call of Duty: Black Ops Rezurrection DLC dropping August 23

New zombie-themed add-on confirmed for release on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC this fall; publisher says Treyarch shooter has surpassed Modern Warfare 2 with 25 million copies sold.

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Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops is still going strong, but that's not stopping the publisher from trying to breathe new life into the Cold War-era shooter. In announcing its financial results today, Activision said it expects that the next Call of Duty: Black Ops content pack will go live for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC versions of the game sometime before September 30.

Zombies invade the moon in the next DLC.
Zombies invade the moon in the next DLC.

While Activision referred to the DLC as "Resurrection" in its financial report, the publisher's social media manager, Dan Amrich, is calling it the "Rezurrection" pack. As for the content, the $15 add-on drops on August 23 on Xbox Live and includes five levels for the game's Zombie mode as well as a 20-song Zombies soundtrack and a Moon Xbox 360 theme.

The first four maps (Nacht der Untoten, Verruckt, Shi No Numa, and Der Riese) are remakes of the environments from Call of Duty: World at War, the game that first introduced zombies. The fifth map--Moon--is entirely new and takes place in outer space, on the moon.

The four upgraded World at War maps won't be new to all gamers. These maps were included with the Hardened and Prestige iterations of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Owners of these top-tier editions can download the Rezurrection pack for free on August 23 to get the Moon map, soundtrack, and theme.

The publisher also elaborated further on the series. According to the publisher, Black Ops was the best-selling title in the US and Europe for the first six months of 2011, with players logging a cumulative 2.2 billion hours of online action in the game.

In a postearnings conference call, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg said the company had already sold more than 14 million add-on packs for Black Ops. He also compared the game to microtransaction-driven titles on Facebook, saying Call of Duty sees more daily unique players and has higher average revenues per player than any title on the social network.

Hirshberg also updated the lifetime-to-date sales for Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2. Black Ops has now sold 25 million copies since its November debut last year, surpassing its predecessor's lifetime total of 22 million units sold.

The series is also trending upward, as Activision said the total number of unique online gamers in Black Ops' first eight months has surpassed that of its predecessor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, by 30 percent. The next installment in the series could be even more successful, as Activision said that preorders for this November's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 are significantly higher now than they were for Black Ops at the comparable point in that game's development. Finally, the publisher confirmed that it is still working on bringing a microtransaction-driven installment in the Call of Duty franchise to gamers in China.

For more on Call of Duty: Black Ops, check out GameSpot's review.

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@Entropy730 yeah but those are old weapons from battlefield bad company 2 and those suck

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@Entropy730 And the people who preordered black ops got the 4 of these maps already, will get the new one free, soundtrack (which is epic) and a theme.Free So all fair?

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AWESOME!!!! i really want to play shi no numa again!! it is by far the best map!! shame i wont be able to use the ppsh or the mg though. i hope the gun glitch is still active

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lol soooooooo many people get duped into buying this trash from them... only good thing about it is that it's purely a zombie map pack. but i can get a map pack plus weapons for pre-ordering Battlefield 3 on Origin so... pretty lame of them to do this like they're giving us a deal.

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wooooo you go activision! MOOOOOOOOOOO

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kay, take it easy treyarch, its not a race now.

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This is about Black Ops not Battlefield.... >_> Can we at least try to talk about the game featured?

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you know what sucks is that they just released the last DLC and they announce this one give it a breather man let people's wallet's have a break and give some DLC for free already you greedy bastard's holy crap.

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@smoke_dog_4ever Did you even bother reading the article? If you have the hardened or prestige versions you get this for FREE.

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Jeez they wait almost a year to release the four zombie maps I've had since Black Ops came out but have been unable to play with my friends because none of them got anything other than the standard edition. Now they want me to pay $15 for the one map in that pack I don't have? Thanks for giving me the finger and a big FU Activision >

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Thank god I didn't support them until now. And heck! 5 zombie maps for $15? I was hoping that the original 4 would be $20, but this is even better!

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Why couldn't they have done this sooner? I would have much rather gotten just zombie maps in a DLC pack since the beginning

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I love Bobby Kotick :D

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Stop buying these!

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@Hurvl MW3 will not have Zombies so they don't care about a Zombie map pack this close to it's release (notice standard maps aren't included.

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Zombies on the Moon Next Zombies on Mars Then Zombies take manhatten Then the all new Chinese theme park DLC Then ULTIMATE ZOMBIES CHINESE THEME PARK DLC!!! *****Really Gamers you should be upset. After all the standing up to politicians, various organizations, and anyone else that has tried to hurt the gaming industry weve done only to have the leading publishers EA, Capcom,Activision, Treyarch treat you/us this way is deplorable. If you buy this you will be contributing to a terrible gameing future where you have to buy parts of games in order to get a full one. This will lead you to spending upwards of 100 per game ( COD BO is now over $100). I know it might be hard but DO NOT SUPPORT THIS!!!! It will only hurt us in the long run!!!!

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Kinda sucks I missed the pre-order window for Black Ops and couldn't get the free import for the original maps, but for me, $15 is a fair price for a new map (Moon) and Der Riese alone. The other 3 for me are just the icing on the cake. I approve of this announcement.

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WTF these MF's can GTF.

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'The next installment in the series could be even more successful' I love and loved the COD series from the beginning (IMHO COD 4 set a new standard for FPS's) but the games have become repetitive, almost stale, with no real innovations. Considering the fact that they are going up against Battlefield 3 (having played the Alpha last week its going to be epic) which, by its name recognition alone, will at minimum split the fan base. There is no chance they will match the numbers that Black Ops pulled.

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I think its stupid how call of duty is releasing a map pack of old content for 15 bucks but i can get a free map pack just for preordering battlefield 3.

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@Rocker6 All I can say is that you can always exercise some patience. It will go away - eventually. No need to lash out at GameSpot News at doing what it is supposed to do - fishing for views. :P

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@Gelugon_baat Yeah,thats true,but at least in a few month both CoD and BF3 will be released,then there wont be too many boring news about them,other than financial reports,at least for some time.As I said before,this battle of those games is really becoming annoying,I cant wait for it to stop.

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By the way to all the geeky Battlefield fanboys out there lingering on call of duty articles, "haters gonna hate". lol. losers.

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This is by far the best map pack and best solution to everyone being able to get the old zombie maps. Kind of wish they had done about three months after the game came out though because thats when all my friends still had the game. They loved zombies but got tired of kino and five to quickly and didnt like the multiplayer as much as modern warfare 2 so they sold it. But now i can play with people on the old maps instead of only seeing 72 people online. Good job on making the add-on free for those of us who dished out the extra money early when the game came out.

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@Rocker6 Well, the only way you are going to see those other games get Top Stories is if they are very popular. Or GameSpot staffers are very slanted towards those games. :D

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Good heavens there are alot of hostile comments :P

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haters gona hate

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I already have the classic maps, but this will be great because I get a free new map and soundtrack.The 2 best things about this for me are that now my friends will stop bugging at me to get the waw maps AND there will actually be people online so I can get in a game on verruckt and won't have to worry about the only chance of there being more than 3 players being some guy whos playing split screen with his autistic monkey.

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@Gelugon_baat No,actually this battle of BF3 and CoD annoys me,and I would prefer to see more Top Stories about other games,too often they are either about BF3 or CoD.Dont think Im some mindless BF3 drone,I will be getting the game only because I want a good FPS this year,and BF3 contains more creativity and innovation than CoD,judging from things I saw,and those thnigs are most important to me.If with time BF becomes generic like CoD and CoD becomes innovative I will easily switch,but that is unlikely to happen.

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If you think about it, if you add all the dlc together, you're paying for an entirely different game. Is a couple of new maps worth an entire other game, or even the entire game of Black ops.

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Sweet! Been waiting a while for the classic maps!

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@Rocker6 Perhaps I should have made an implied message in my earlier post clearer. GameSpot is setting Top Stories for popular games to get the users who are following them to view said "news". GameSpot will not care about your complaints about which news deserve coverage or not. That's for GameSpot to decide. That said, I suppose if the Top Story is about a game that you like, you wouldn't have any problem with it and GameSpot, would you? If DICE made color-blind or some other disability options for Battlefield 3, you might just say that this is good news and thumb's-up for DICE and GameSpot for covering this news, might you not?

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$60 for all of Blops DLC. Lol @ dat.

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I don't remember Bad Company 2 getting top stories for all their map packs. How about when Modern Warfare 3 releases actual online gameplay? Which I doubt they will...then make it a top story.

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This is y I can't wait 4 CoD:MW3 cuz I skipped over Treyarch so it's a ever other year thing 4 me

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let me get this straight you gettin 3 old maps some people already got & 1 new map 20 zombie songs like any one wants to hear that SH%# & 1 theme. Tell me how that equals 15$, LMAO at the SH%# for brains who buys this garbage, there playing you guys & you cant see it :) lol

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i wonder how many more dlc they will make in the next 3 week LOL and there some people who pay for this........i hope that bf3 will end this game series i am not a a fanboy of bf3 i wont buy it but it time for activision to be second they want to much and people cant stop to play it like crack for junkie but here it cod for gamer :P lol they want your money and you give

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Activision - "Hey kids, go ask your parents if they will buy you a bit more of the same game that they already paid for but tell her it's different, even though it isn't" Kids-" Mommy said ok" Activision - "Of course she did, SUCKERS!"

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I already have the Hardened edition so this is pretty sweet. Aside from getting this for free there will finally be a decent amount of people playing the world at war maps. At long last I won't have to put up with split screeners in every lobby!!!!

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@Gelugon_baat I didnt say that only stories about CoD are Top Stories,of course other games often make Top Story.But what annoys me is when Activi$ion announces someting inssignificant about CoD that exists in many other games and it gets a Top Story,while there are news that sound much more important and interesting.You cant deny that,IMO news about map pack and color blind option that is present in many other games dont deserve Top Story.

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The moon? The moon?! How are they going to explain this one?

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Biggest money grab ever...

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FYI Activision...you spelled *resurrection* wrong.

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I wonder how many dumb people will buy these....

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Oh god I used to stand with Cod against BF. But now when they try to sell us a couple of zombie maps for $15 as if we are ignorant 12 years old kids. I think I will stand up for BF.

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"The fifth map--Moon--is entirely new and takes place in outer space, on the moon." That is as realistic as the rest of CoD's action, so no surprise there. Doesn't this content pack come too close to the launch of MW3 or are they counting on that the new levels will only give you so much gaming joy so that when you're done with the pack, there is still plenty of time left to yearn for MW3.

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Just zombie maps? Meh

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Rezurrection... the DLC pack named by a 12 year old

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to all the fools who will buy it ha ha

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zombie fans good for you! i don't care for the mode myself, i am always the guy getting downed every five seconds, lol can't seem to get the hang of it, but you guys totally deserve an Independent release all to yourselves! have fun brothers and don't worry i'll stay in multiplayer where i belong woof!

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