Newsletter - October 2014

[Hells Warrrior]

You'll all start to receive in your inbox over the course of the next 24/48 hours the October newsletter, nothing special in the newsletter but just reminding everyone we are still here and to come and pay us a visit.

It's also to remind folk that Advanced Warfare is due out in the next few weeks and then shortly after that, news about the next Treyarch release will coming out.

Anyway, here is a copy of the newsletter that we have sent out.

Hi {member_name},

How you doing? It's been a while since we last sent out a newsletter to our members. So what's happened since then and what are we currently doing?

Well, since our last news letter, Covert Gunman has returned to the forums after 2 years of being away, without any computer access and without having played Black Ops 2. We have also welcomed 2 new members of Staff "Slade" and "Boom" - both have been very active members before joing the staff team - so please login and give them all a big hello.

So CoDz is now on a 3 year cycle, man that hurts for zombies. Once every 3 years is tough going for the dedicated zombie players, thankfully it's a game mode that is addictive. You can play it solid for months, then not play it for months and still go back to it. Sledgehammer Games (if you aren't already aware) are the third developer in the Call of Duty team, joing Treyarch and Infinityward. Sledgehammers first game Advanced Warfare releases in just under 4 weeks - why not pop over to callofdutyzombies.com and get involved in the conversations in the dedicated Sledgehammer/Advanced Warfare forum

We have been hard at work on the Frontpage and making it even better than what it was, we are also working in the background to bring the frontpage under the forum system. This will allow comments and so forth to be tied to the members account, on top of that it allows for easier article creation and promoting posts/topics to articles.

In 6 months (roughly) news on Treyarchs next game in the Call of Duty franchise are likely to surface - usuallly around February little bits of news starts to filter out. We can't wait to find out what is going to happen in the next Treyarch release.

Will we have previous maps released on the "next gen" consoles? Will we have bigger, better maps? Will the O4 or N4 return? Will be have 8 player co-op with N4 & 04? Just thinking about the next release is exciting, just to see what Treyarch can produce with the extra time to refine things.

Callofdutyzombies.com uses a forum system called Invision Power Board (IPB) - the next major release of this is scheduled to be released in the next few months, we are currently bug testing on the Alpha release and it's given us time to investigate the powers and ease of use etc. It also gave us some time thinking about style and making things more sleek, more appealing and "less" cluttered.

It's very early days (Alpha release) then we have Beta release and then release candidates (Beta RC1) for example. So we are have been working on the basis that over the coming months we will upgrade the forum to this version, once the modifications etc have been updated for the new release as well.

So here's a quick peek at a very early thought process on the new style for callofdutyzombies.com



So why not popover and come and see us, you last visited us on the {member_last_visit} - we look forward to seeing you around.

All the best
The CoDz Staff