Internet/Web Research - Treyarch.com

The forth website that i am looking at in terms of my call of duty text is the developer behind the call of duty installment black ops.
Treyarch is also a major developer of the call of duty series, they have made Call of duty 2: Big red one, Call of duty 3 and Call of duty: world at war.
Call of Duty: Black Ops holds the record for the largest ever entertainment launch in history in any form of entertainment, breaking the record within 24 hours of its release. Sales from the game worldwide reached US$650 million within five days after its release.
The reason why i have chosen this website is because the company teryarch has a contribution to the quality that call of duty black ops have to offer, as call of duty is one of their biggest projects.

Looking on the treyarch website it includes clips from the call of duty games and it gives insight into the history of the franchise and what you can expect from the game, they also have an insight of the awards tht they have won showing the quality of games that they develop showing that they are a good games developing company.
Treyarch has developed a number of games ranging from different platforms of consoles, old and new and for each games that has been developed the quality has also been developed along with it.

Screenshot of the official website 

The screenshot shows the official website of the makers of call of duty black ops, and as you can see call of duty is the main focus in the website as the developers are best known for making a high rated game like this one.

Internet/Web Reasearch - Activision.com

The third website that i am looking at for my call of duty text is the publisher of each of the call of duty games which is Activision, the reason why i choose to broaden my research and focus on the company that is outside the game is because activision is has worked on one of the highest rated and best selling video games such as the call of duty franchise, activision is the premier international publisher of interactive entertainment software. 
They maintain a diverse portfolio of products that span a wide range of categories and can be used on a variety of game hardware platforms and operating systems. They have created, licensed and acquired a group of highly recognizable brands, marketed to a growing variety of consumer demographics. 


The games that activision has worked on is such games as; 

• Call of Duty 
• Spiderman 
• X-men 
• James Bond 
• Transformers ......and more 

The Official Activision Website 

The screenshot shows the website of activison and just like treyarch you can see that their main focus is of call of duty, at the top of the website they also show other games that they have published along with the call of duty franchise. The website also contains a youtube clip of the game and what you can expect from it. 

Internet/Web Reasearch - Call of duty.com

The second website that i am focusing on for my call of duty text is the official website itself for the whole game, the call of duty website in whole focuses on all of the call of duty franchise on both of the playstation platforms, playstation 2 and playstation 3.
The website includes insight into the latest call of duty game, 'Modern Warfare 3' which includes clips and information on the game and their own 'latest intel' which has discussions and a clip which goes behind the scenes of the new modern warfare multiplayer which contains 'Kill confirmed' and 'Team Defender' modes.
The call of duty website also contains mini sites and links of all the other previous call of duty games, by call of duty doing this they are not only looking at the latest call of duty game and ignoring the previous, they keep all of them so the public can go back to there favourite call of duty game out of the whole franchise.

The Official Call Of Duty Website 

These are the screenshots of the call of duty sites for each game:

Call of Duty: Black Ops 

Call of Duty 2 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 

Internet/web Reasearch - Infinity ward.com

One of the online sites that i am focusing on that contributes to my topic in terms of my Call of duty text is the online site of the developers of the game which is Infinity ward.
For Infinity ward they have only been producing Call of duty games such as the mordern warfare trilogy and world at war. The infinity ward website is a interactive website which allows the audience to get more out of the website and participate in whhat the website has to offer, e.g 'join the infinity ward community to get involved in every aspect of its development by connecting directly with the studio'.
As for each of my texts it is already clear that there is more to the game than just playing it and it is important that the public feels that they can get the best out of the game as possible, so its worth the money and the time also playing the game.

The infinity ward website broadens it self on the media platform in terms of twitter, facebook and myspace, by doing this, the audince can be kept informed with the latest news of the games that the company is developing.

Screenshot of Infinity Ward Website 

the screenshot above shows the official website of the developers of the call of duty franchise, on the homepage you can see that their main focus is of the call of duty franchise, and it also keeps the public up to date of the the latest news that surround these games, for example on the website you can see that they released the trailer for the new call of duty game, and has posted info on what contents the game has, from multiplayer to special ops.

Media Studies Mest 4 - Internet/Web Research

For the 3 part of our critical investigation i'll be doing a detailed study of into the online websites that contribute to my topic in terms of my critical investigation, this will include 'cross cultural' and 'wide-ranging'.

For my Call of Duty text the websites i will be looking at is;
Infinity ward.com
http://www.infinityward.com/

Call of duty.com
http://www.callofduty.com/

Activision.com
http://www.activision.com/atvihub/home.do?site=en_GB&country=UK

Treyarch.com
http://www.treyarch.com/

For my Grand Theft Auto text the websites i will be looking at is
Rockstar.com
http://www.rockstargames.com/

Rockstar.com/grandtheftauto
http://www.rockstargames.com/grandtheftauto/

gta4.net
http://www.gta4.net/multiplayer/

CI Clips - Call of duty

Feminism CI - Issues and debates that are raised

The issues and debates that is raised from the the thoery of feminism, is that in certain societies men have more of a dominance over women, one of the viewpoints and debates that surround the feminist theory in terms of my CI investigation is debate of sexual fantasy and the icons such as lara croft, that inspire the feminist gender in our generation of gaming.
What they say about the this pirticular area of this debate is that lara croft as example was made to be a tough, self-reliannt and intelligent women, she does confounds  all the sexual cliches apart from her extraordinary figure, the strong, independent girls are always the ideal fantasy girls, in the thoery and the way the media represents both of the stereotypical gender, women are seen more as the soft type, the type that stays at home, soft, probably likes to shop and the type that are dependent on their man, the reason why lara croftt is a perfect example to use for this and still keeping the concept of game in to the debates, lara croft defies all the conventional ideologies of the feminine gender, playing the game you will see that she works alone and that she takes on eniemies that are mostly male and usually overcomes them. This goes to show that women still has the power to be dominate and independent and stand on their own feet, and just because Call of duty is mainly a 'guys' game dosent mean that the game was mainly targeted at the male demographic.

As for Grand theft auto, it can be said abit differently, in the game there are women that are seen as strong and wel capable, and has order of few of the chararcters, so it kind of balanced on both sides, but most of the times it is the males that has the 'upper hand'.