Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 26 December 2009

Santa delivers one last

Christmas gift! Or is he getting one? 

     The Holiday news slowdown is in full effect. The Call of Duty and gaming links are pretty sparse today. Matt64 is coming over today, so we hope to have some Modern Warfare 2 carnage to report tomorrow. It's been a Xmas tradition on Xbox Live to have boocoo match-making hassles. So far, no news items about player drops or anything, so we might luck out this year. If not, there's always whisky and cognac to fall back on. On to the links:

• Modern Warfare 2 wins GameTrailers FPS of the Year.
  
• CoD4 Galactic Warfare (Rebels vs Stormtroopers) is in public beta.
  
• Celeb Modern Warfare 2 watch: John Mayer. (Who?)
• YouTube: CoD4 Santa Airstrike.
  

More Gaming Links:

• GameTrailers Game of the Year awards.
• GamesRadar Best Games of the Year.
  
• Metacritics Worst of 2009. Rogue Warrior is right up there, er, down there.
  
• New Aliens vs. Predator screenshots.
  
• Reviews: 1Up Bayonetta review. (Girls with glasses are still teh hot!)
  
• Evolution of the Class System in Games. For the record, I loved instagib!
• Best Christmas Easter Eggs in games.
  
• Telegraph UK article: Video games bigger than film.
• First 3D gaming summit announced.
  
• Business Week: Gaming can enhance thinking skills.
• President Obama most wanted teen gaming opponent.
• Satire: Joystiq reports Xbox Live bracing for annual Xmas outage.
  

Non-Gaming Links:

• Most poplar PC world stories of 2009.
• Foxes into puppies. Puppies.
• What could possibly go wrong? Prehistoric antarctic lakes have new, undiscovered viruses. *Cough, cough!*
• The Dumbest Products of the Decade.