Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 24 December 2009

Mrs. Santa says, "Be naughty!"

   

         I wish I could lie and say I was too busy with Mrs. Santa to go online and play Modern Warfare 2, but I'm still just a bit thrashed by the tail end effects of my cold. On to the links:

• Gamer media "Me, too!" articles announcing Infinity Ward's latest Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer "thumb in the dike hole" patch (which, no doubt, is less fun than it sounds): Wired; Examiner; GamingUnion; GameSpy.
  
• Modern Warfare 2 reviews: Expert Reviews.
• Stuff.TV: Modern Warfare is the all-format number one for Christmas.
  
• More on the Maine Christian Civic League's attempt to get Modern Warfare 2 banned: Fudzilla; GameDaily; DriverHeaven.
• Call of Duty: World at War map pack bundle (9 multiplayer maps and 3 zombie co-op maps) still on sale for $25 on Xbox Live for the Xbox 360 and PSNet for Playstation 3.
• Team Fortress 2 PC bots reported on GameSpy.
  

More Gaming Links:

• The First Decade of the 2000s: Turning Points in Gaming from G4TV.
• Big Download's Vaporware Awards of 2009.
• JoyStiq: Controlling video games with your mind.
• Kotaku: The Not-Safe-for-Work Year in Review.
• An Uncharted 2 Christmas: Santa hat for Nathan Drake.
• Reviews: IGN reviews Bayonetta. (Girls with glasses are teh hot!)
• IGN's Best of 2009 on games, gadgets, movies, and TV.
  

Non-Gaming links:

• Harvest your body heat and look like a total tool.
• 10 Christmas traditions that should die.
• YouTube blasts from the NY TV Past: WPIX Chiller Theater opening animation from the '70s. WOR Fright Night intro. Recreation of the WCBS Late Show animated intro; the original Late, Late Show animation (tho the audio is poor). And, in the spirt of the Season, 5 minutes of the classic WPIX Yule Log.
• The story of the WPIX Yule Log.
• NSFW Xmas humor: The Carolers "Touch my Balls".