Call of Duty p*sses off a lot of people with live-tweet experiment

There was a famous incident back in the 1930s when listeners to Orson Welles’ radio dramatisation of ‘War of the Worlds’ mistakenly thought an alien attack was going on.

Now we’ve seen the incident brought into the 21st century, with the Twitter account for the Call of Duty series of games bringing updates about a supposed explosion on the Singapore Marina.

https://twitter.com/CallofDuty/status/648905858529759232

https://twitter.com/CallofDuty/status/648907167735480320

https://twitter.com/CallofDuty/status/648908630453035008

Of course, this was later revealed to be “a glimpse into the future fiction” of upcoming title Black Ops 3…but some people were less than impressed.

https://twitter.com/Pyro_HG/status/648906544441073664

Is this some kinda CoD reference or what is going on here? @CallofDuty

— Jordan Kaplan (@JKap415) September 29, 2015

@CallofDuty – & a poorly done marketing gimmick. I truly hope no one was triggered by your "fiction" into thinking something was happening.

— 🧁 Miss Envy (@missenvy) September 29, 2015

Black Ops 3 is due out in November, and a trailer has already been released.

We imagine the creators will see some of the reactions as a glowing endorsement of Call of Duty’s realism.