Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 9 February 2010

    I played MW2 hardcore TDM for about an hour last night. Reibo bailed after that, and, after getting put into a losing match on Terminal against a clan of 6 (including one guy on our team who wasn't exactly knocking himself out against his buddies) and getting a care package enema on Rundown, I ragequit for the night. It's just too frustrating for me playing a team game without a team, so rather than get my blood pressure up, I hung up my mouse and keyboard for the night. On to the links:

Featured Modern Warfare 2 YouTube Video

Top 5 kills of the week, Ep.e 2, by MontageModernWarfare.

• Not much MW2 news; everyone (except for cheating douchebags) is waiting on the Xbox Live care package fix. The patch is currently in Microsoft certification, and it's making progress, according to this tweet from fourzerotwo.
• Joystiq: In what seems to me to be a backdoor slap at Treyarch, Pachter pegs Call of Duty franchise to decline $250 million in 2010.

    More Gaming Links:

• Neoseeker: Bioshock 2 Q&A: Returning to Rapture.
• Destructoid: Bioshock 2 devs brace for fan backlash, explain why Bioshock 2 features multi-player. But, as reported on Loot-Ninja, online only: No local or system link multiplayer.
• Destructoid: Saudis use videogames to reintegrate terrorists. Probably care package glitching, too.
• Joystiq: Facebook nabbing its first FPS: Brave Arms.
• GameSpy: Mega64 tackles intergalactic censorship.
• Mass Effect 2 review round-up: The NorthWestern.com; GameGuru; Videogames New Zealand; Telegraph UK; GotGame; GameRant; MMOMFG; StickSkills; Play.tm; VentureBeat. From January: GameDot; USAToday; Ars Technica.
• IGN: Mass Effect 3 and beyond.
• AfterDawn: TeamSpeak Client v3.0.0 Beta 15 & TeamSpeak Client (64-bit) v3.0.0 Beta 15 are available.
• Kotaku: Grading Madden's pre-season predictions.
• IGN Daily Fix for 8 February 2010 with the luscious Jessica Chobot.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Tom's Hardware: Most promising tech of 2010.
• Tom's Hardware: Roving Beer keg-bot.
• Ars Technica follow-up: Microsoft investigating disappearing music from Zune Pass.
• Daniweb via Slashdot: Stunning 95% of user-generated content is spam or malicious in nature.
• Gismodo op-ed: Obama cancels JFK's dream. No moon for you. Not yours.

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