“Making Call of Duty: Black Ops II not only fun to play, but also fun to watch was a key goal from the beginning of development. We pushed ourselves to build these features right into the game in order to make live streaming as accessible and as social as possible for everyone“ Treyarch’s Mark Lamia said.

In addition to viewing the gameplay visitors of each channel will be able to view player profiles of the ones they are watching, just like their loadouts and detailed statistics about all the games that support the Elite.

[Ed – Although watching players at both ends of the skill set spectrum can be entertaining, we put this up there with watching poker on TV. Honestly, we could see watching a live stream of a game during a tournament, but not for random players on the internet. This just does not seem like a viable option or something that will take off. Of course given the voyeuristic nature of people these days it could end up being a viral hit…]

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