Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 9 January 2010

Family resemblance, don't you think?

     

     Hot rumor for the day is linked below. Hot on the heels of the rumor mill thrashing about Modern Warfare 3 being made by another studio and Infinity Ward pumping out a Call of Duty MMO is the rumor that the promised DLC may take the form of an expansion pack, rather than maps as is traditional with CoD DLC. My guess would be that the DLC would be more Spec Ops missions, rather than any advancement of the Swiss cheesy Modern Warfare campaign story line. 
    One of the comments that got DXed on my gaming blog by a rogue spam filter on my email was from The Rock (no, not that one), who made this really cool MW2 suggestion on 12 December:

Here's a thought since today is the Army-Navy game (hey, I know it is mainly a game for the officers to brag about)- why don't they have an inter-services tournament or event for the active duty and retired, equipped with branch clan tags?

Just a thought since a lot of us sailors pretty much play this game to death as well!

12 December, 2009 15:16

    His comment made me think that former service guys should try to party up together and play. I'd bet that some pretty formidable MW2 teams could be fielded, since military guys (and gals, I'm sure) usually have a feel for the give and take of tactical play. In regard to The Rock's suggestion, I sent a tweet to fourzerotwo about it, saying that a sponsored inter-service MW2 tourney would be great for the troops and really nice publicity for IW. On to the links:

• Modern Warfare 2 expansion DLC instead of map packs?
• The hidden thermonuclear multiplayer mode that was unlocked on the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 is apparently unlockable on the Xbox 360, as well. Links include videos.
  
• Sub $1000 Alienware laptop plays Modern Warfare 2 PC at 30 frames per second. That sounds impressive until you realize that Modern Warfare 2, like the CoD4 before it, is coded to run at a consistent 60 fps on your Xbox 360 or PS3.
• Least surprising rumor of all time, courtesy of Bing-search whore, Softpedia: Activision will release a new Call of Duty game in November 2010.
• BASHandSlash reports that the soundtrack from Galactic Warfare, the Star Wars-themed CoD4 mod, is available for download here.
• Today's YouTube vid: TDM on Underpass from DubbleJord.
  

     More Gaming Links:

• BASHandSlash: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC beta details.
  
• GameTrailers Bayonetta console comparisons. Also, Playboy has a contest to see which model is the best real-life Bayonetta. Most sites are billing this as "Bayonetta does Playboy". I disagree. It's Playboy does Bayonetta.
  
• 21 Real-Life Moments given Gamer Achievements.
• Xbox Live brings classic arcade back to life, complete with 25 cent plays.
• Natal motion-sensing uses 15% of Xbox 360 CPU capacity. With newer graphics-intensive games pushing the limits of the Xbox 360 system, how will Natal be shoehorned into games? And how about this?
• Speaking of motion-sensing: Wii six axes motion sensing wand with 1 millimeter accuracy demoed on Left 4 Dead 2.
• Left 4 Dead 2 multiplayer getting Xbox Live free weekend.
• GameInformer features Halo: Reach on its February cover.
• Jeff Keighley tweets Cooper Lawrence about Mass Effect 2. (Thanks, Blues News!) If you're wondering why he might do that, then, check this Destructoid feature/YouTube vid. 
  

     Non-Gaming Links:

• LifeHacker: How to share files across multiple home PCs.
• Terry Gilliam reflects on Heath Ledger's death.
  

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