Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 30 March 2010

    It's 0645 hours, and the Modern Warfare 2 DLC still hasn't hit Xbox Live Marketplace. Today's featured MW2 vid has some excellent gameplay with the silenced SCAR-H, using a 5-7-9 killstreak combo. On to the links:

     Infinity Ward forums: Fourzerotwo has vague details of the title update & DLC for today. Judging from this 402 tweet, only players in the Simulus playlists will get double XP. Everyone else apparently, will not. Doesn't seem quite fair, but maybe they'll change it.

    CVG: Infinity Ward: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 no threat to Modern Warfare online.

Featured MW2 YouTube Video

MW2 TDM Estate 41-4 Scar from
MW2 Commentators

Defendthehouse: Myth 11 of 21

• NetworkWorld: Modern Warfare 2 dominated UK sales in 2009.

    More Gaming Links:

Is the M60 overpowered?

No, it isn't. It's just right.

• Destructoid: What the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 VIP package gets you.
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 reviews: LiveMint; VentureBeat.
• GameDaily: Bad Company 2 stays on top of Steam sales list.

• BigDownload: StarCraft II prequel novel collector's edition announced.
• OriginalGamer: 5 reasons why MAG is a better multiplayer experience than Bad Company 2.
• Joystiq: Best of Big Download 22-28 March 2010.
• Playstation Blog thru Slashdot: "Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3.
• Xbox Engineering Blog: Xbox Live Parties.
• VG247: Miyamoto: Violent games may damage “the potential of what games can do”.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• DailyTech: Lady Gaga is First to Reach 1 Billion Web Video Views.
• MaximumPC: 40 most important phone models in history.
• Telegraph UK: The Origin of coffee. "It is by Caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, It is by the Beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, The hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning, It is by Caffeine alone I set my mind in motion." 
• FoxNews: Global warming advocate freezes to death in Antarctica.

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