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No Call Of Duty XP Convention This Year

The future of Activision’s fan celebration and convention is thrown into doubt.

Last year in Los Angeles, Activision held an event dedicated solely to Call of Duty. This event was called the Call of Duty Experience (Call of Duty: XP) and it featured live music from kanye West and the Dropkick Murpheys, paintball, a $1 million gaming tournament, Jeep off-loading, and a full scale model of Burger Town from Modern Warfare 2.

It appears that Activision does not intend to stage the event this year, saying in an official statement to Polygon: “Each year we try to surprise and delight our fans and this year we are planning to host some new experiences for our fans around the globe including at Gamescom later this summer in Cologne, Germany. While its possible we may host another XP in the future, we don't have plans to hold the event this year.”

To give you a better idea of last year’s Call of Duty: XP, check out the video below from One of Swords.

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Comments
  • That's not surprising, seeing as they made no money off of the freaking event. Donated it all to military charity, if I remember correctly.
  • Cheeers!... here's to the selling of Acti-blizzard.
  • Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead. Seriously though, I'm tired of CoD. I got tired of the template after playing WaW. It works, but there is no innovation and big explosions aren't enough to distract me.
  • That guy looks like Patton Oswalt.
  • Aw, lat year was sooooo fun. Sarcasm and the internet lol

  • Makes no difference to me.

  • OMG NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! (sarcasm)

  • Wow...Didn't see that coming. NOT!!!!!
  • A bit bummed about this. Conventions are a community event. And if anyone needed to see real people and get out of the basement it's the COD fanbase. Sorry cheap shot Seriously, this was a cool event who wouldn't want a convention dedicated to their favorite game. Half life convention - Fallout convention.
  • That's too bad. I was hoping they would do one this year

  • Hmm... XP seemed like a hit. Hopefully BO2 has a beta like CoD4.
  • http://tinyurl.com/top2biz     .0 .0 .0 .0. 0. 0 .0.

  • Good. Because it sucked!
  • while i do think it was a good idea to donate the money made to military charity, i really think its because of how mw3 has played out. its sales didnt trump black ops and the changes in the company itself might be a reason as well. i can say that i didnt like the fact that robert bowling supports the controversial mission in mw2 that can be skipped and quick-scoping because it's extremely cheap and unbalanced, but i will give him credit that as the community manager, he did work to make patches to help balance the game. and how the clan ops, elite mobile app, and the elite servers at the beginning of the release, i think it may have doomed the modern warfare series. i do think black ops 2 will be good, but call of duty now is just boring. prestiging over and over again really isnt worth it, seeing as the developers will just add five more with every other patch.
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    Wait...I just bought my tickets from some creepy guy on craigslist.
  • Yeah... it's probably because Activision can't afford it.
  • That looks so fun.

  • Well of course they cancelled it, they weren't getting enough PR because of it.

  • I like that this is filed under "sad day".
  • whatever....
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