Rowan Ellis

With thousands of players diving into the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 beta over the weekend, we’re starting to get a taste of what the next few years of arcadey high-octane action will have in store for us. We’re seeing intense movement, slick killstreaks gallore, but most importantly a hilarious wave of voice-chat clips thanks to the game’s new human shield feature.Almost immediately after the beta went live, short clips of players taking each other hostage and whispering sweet nothings started circulating online. This feature is a natural evolution of the live mic activation following a death in Warzone, but far more personal, difficult to pull off, and comical. Your pay off for grabbing another player is 12 seconds of uninterrupted banter.To see this content please enable targeting cookie…

Amazon Games and Maverick Games are working on a AAA racing game, that much we knew already. However, thanks to a fresh job posting for a community manager, we also know that Amazon is seemingly now in the process of prepping to oversee the community it hopes said game will develop. The job posting, listed on Gamesjobs.co, states that Amazon is looking for a person with experience in the field of community management. This means “building, executing and scaling cross-functional programs or marketing campaigns from concept to completion”, managing and measuring marketing performance, and using data to measure metrics. Pretty standard stuff from a start to finish video game community management role.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Hiring for roles l…