MW2 character Ghost... Apropos for Halloween!
The uproar about the leaked terrorism vid hasn't died down just yet. IGN conducted a non-scientific poll on its website. The results are here. I'm gonna put on my tinfoil hat here. A lot of folks feel that IW has changed, that its attitude towards players in general and PC players in particular has changed. I wonder if it's because there was a management change. Grant Collier, co-founder and former president of Infinity Ward, was exiled moved to an important job at Activision, and fellow co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella apparently took over as CEOs, with Zampella as the front man. It seems weird that one of the guys who spearheaded the push for the original Modern Warfare was expunged from IW... On to the links.
Yes, it's a tactical nuke killstreak bonus!
- Modern Warfare 2 Dedicated Server Petition has reached 172,000 sigs.
- Really awesome Big Download Op-Ed: An Open Letter to Infinity Ward
- Don't know how long it will last: Modified Gaming's livestream of MW2 gameplay. (Update: The livestream is off; the dude was having his ass kicked and left the game. You can read my quickie impressions here. There's now, 0951, hrs a livestream of single player. OK, the SP livestream is off the air as of 1130 hrs.)
- YouTube vid of some apparent Spec Ops gameplay on the map that looks like the shower room from the movie, The Rock. Check it out before it's yanked by Activision.
- Seemingly poised on one of the biggest game launches of all time, Activision has been downgraded from "buy" to "neutral" by Piper Jaffrey (financial analyst firm). It seems management has recently dumped $20 million in Activision stock. As Keanu Reeves would say, "Whoa!"
- Going to only play the single player campaign & then ditch Modern Warfare 2? Cnet reports a deal from GameStop that lets you return the game you bought from them by 13 December 2009 & get a $40 store credit from GameStop. Or you could sell it on eBay for $50. You do the math.
- MW2 PSA: Stop the grenade spam. NSFW language.
- Xbox Live has brought down the legendary Banhammer according to Kotaku. A "small percentage" of modded consoles were targeted.
- Bioshock roundup: Following up Thursday's Capture the Little Sister vid, Game Trailers has 3 Bioshock Interviews, Multiplayer Mechanics, Character & Story, and Combat. Game Informer has its own Bioshock 2 developer interview. G4TV has a Bioshock 2 hands-on preview, as does 1Up, and GiantBomb. Gamepro has a vid on Bioshock 2's plasmids and splicers.
- Folks concerned about the state of voice acting in video games, should note that SAG has rejected the current offer for voice acting performers. As the latest underwhelming ODST voice acting shows, talent is no guarantee of good voice acting in a video game.
- Halloween related: Games Radar has a feature on skeletons in gaming and a great feature on obscure, but really, really creepy games. 1Up has the best ever scary games.
- Alien vs. Predator hands on preview from Games Radar.
- Best web comic from Joystiq.
- NSFW: Hilarious Left 4 Dead audio mashup "Left 4 Bed" and its sequel, "Left 4 Bed 2".
- Boondock Saints 2 review on UGO.
- Geek Halloween costumes. Geek is right.
- The Droids we're looking for.
- FailBlog: Baseball bat fail.
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