Cold War

On 19 June 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sent to the electric chair for being Soviet spies. Sixty-eight years later, their sons are still trying to clear their mother’s name. Hadley Freeman reports “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs…” So begins Sylvia Plath’s…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and the battle royale game Warzone are celebrating 4th of July with a new DLC pack that comes with a series of patriotic items. Available now from the in-game shop for Black Ops Cold War and Warzone is the "Fireworks" bundle headlined by…

Don’t Be Toxic Online multiplayer video games have brought people from all over the world together, yet since its inception and drastic, exponential growth in popularity, in-game voice and text chats have been plagued by toxicity. The toxicity includes racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic and other slurs that cannot be tolerated…

Call of Duty's Season 3 has been one of the best seasons of content since the integration of Black Ops Cold War. A lackluster Season 2 is in the rearview, and players are currently racking up kills as Rambo and John McClane in the '80s Action Heroes event. However, as…

Screenshot by Gamepur When you are playing Zombies in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, you want to have the very best weapon possible at all times. As time goes on, zombies and other enemies increasingly become more robust and harder to kill, so the specifications of your gun…

Veterans of the Black Ops series may remember the PM63 submachine gun in the original game, and now it’s back as a pistol called the AMP63. Is that fair? Possibly not. Regardless, this is a fully automatic weapon that is quite deadly at close range thanks to its high firing…

The 80s Action Heroes event for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone throws an overwhelming number of challenges at players, and not all of them are clear on how to complete them. One in particular is the challenge titled A War You Won’t Believe, which reads: “In…

"Yipee-Ki-Yay...." The first trailer for Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops Cold War‘s ’80s action movie update shows off an in-game John McClane and John Rambo — yes, you read that correctly. Lights. Camera. #80sActionHeroes 🎥 TIGHTEN YOUR HEADBAND AND DON’T FORGET YOUR SHOES. THE ACTION BEGINS MAY 20 in #BlackOpsColdWar, #Warzone,…

Nakatomi Plaza! A lift! Crawling through a vent! More! Activision has released a new trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone that shows off Rambo in action. The video, below, reveals how Rambo looks in Activision's mega-shooter. We see the '80s action hero leap out of a…

An American historian who advised the former President Ronald Reagan about the Soviet Union in the final years of the Cold War, has appealed to Vladimir Putin to grant her Russian citizenship. Suzanne Massie, 90, is a Russia expert who schooled the late Republican president about the country and its…