Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 22 December 2009

Sit her on your lap, Santa!

   Late update today as real life, as opposed to a nasty head cold, put things on hold for a while. As noted in today's Vent, today was job interview day, and I'm playing catch-up, still. On to the links:

• Christian group wants to ban Modern Warfare 2. More on the group: Kombo reports that these folks recently boycotted a store because the owner is a witch.
• Not much of a surprise: Modern Warfare 2 tops UK Christmas sales charts.
• Call of Duty: World at War mega-map bundle deal.
• Talk about being late to the party: Lanthrax reports on the MW2 PC dedicated server petition. In case you're curious, the Modern Warfare 2 PC dedicated server petition is over 239,000 sigs. For the naysayers: The folks running the petition have
  
• Video games step up to explore current conflicts as movies back off the subject.
• YouTube: A care package speed glitcher. Prestige or not? Machinima Headshot debates.
  

More Gaming Links

• Update to Team Fortress 2 blog has details on (PC-only) Valve-sanctioned bots. Kotaku has the dope on the TF2 bots.
  
• Story trailer for Aliens vs. Predator.
• Rise and Fall of Duke Nukem. I think I'm the only FPS player who never played any of the Duke games.
• Leonard Nimoy to appear in Star Trek Online.
  

Non-Gaming Links

• KooKoo the GPS kitty.