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Visit ModernWarfare3.com To Check Out... Battlefield 3?

Posted on Tuesday, July 12 @ 10:48:33 Eastern by


Activision's Call of Duty and EA's Battlefield have been entrenched in a bitter battle for the top spot in modern military shooters. Call of Duty is the reigning champeen, and the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is set to break sales records set by its predecessor. This means EA has to pull out all of the stops to come out the victor.

Fierce competition tends to lead to unconventional tactics. But this one is probably the funniest case of chicanery I've seen in the video game industry.

Go ahead, open another browser (you wouldn't want to leave GR, would you?), and type in ModernWarfare3.com... It takes you to rival game website for Battlefield 3. Wait... that's definitely not supposed to be like that.

Is this EA pulling some hilarious shenanigans? Who knows. We did check the WhoIs domain information, and there are absolutely no links to EA or any of EA's partners. Meaning, it could just as well be a supportive fan pulling a fast one on Activision. Yeah, right.
Related Games:   Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
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  • UghRochester
    UghRochester
    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Jul 12th, 2011 at 11:01 am
    Haha how did you find this out Severino?
    1 1
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Jul 12th, 2011 at 11:46 am
    Haha. This is why you buy your domains before you even release the titles.
    0 1
  • NickKmet
    NickKmet
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Jul 12th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
    More like why you buy them when you start development. I wouldn't be surprised if this prompted someone to go out and buy every variant for a domain name for modern warfare 4.
    0 0
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Jul 12th, 2011 at 12:30 pm
    Apparently someone already owns modernwarfare4.com The only domain Activision DOES own is Modernwarfare2.com
    0 0
  • NickKmet
    NickKmet
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Jul 12th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
    So what the hell is activision using for Modern Warfare 3? Yes, I'm too lazy to check teh interwebs myself.
    0 0
  • sandineyes
    sandineyes
    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Jul 12th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
    I haven't been to an official website for a game since the days when they would actually link to the latest patches.
    0 0
  • theoutcast32
    theoutcast32
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Jul 12th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
    one hypothetical reason why the domain goes to bf3 is that the domain owner is waiting for activision to offer a **** load of money for the domain so everyone who types in modernwarefare3(.com) in search engines wont be directed to their competitor.
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