Joker961's HQ: Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 18 April 2010

Today's featured MW2 vid is Jehovas Witniss test-driving the ACR with ACOG on a TDM match on Scrapyard. On to the links:

BrightHub: Modern Warfare 2 Spec Ops mission guide.
PRNews: Modern Warfare 2: Heading to Nintendo Wii soon?
BigPondNews: Australia's best gamers get the call. As reported on BASHandSlash, CoD4 PC isn't dead, especially in Oz.

Featured MW2 YouTube Video

ACR w ACOG, TDM, Scrapyard

More Gaming Links:

I feel like I've been neglecting Battlefield: Bad Company 2 lately, so I'll try to make up for it a bit now. The first BC2 embedded YouTube vid below is a VZGProductions collection of funny douchebag moments from the multiplayer beta. Suggest you watch with the sound off. You're warned. The second vid shows attempts to air launch the quad by Skaterrob15 with no commentary, just the incredibly appropriate Yakety Sax (the Benny Hill theme song). Finally, there's a neat PS3 vs. PC BC2 comparison. It looks like DICE did a fantastic job keeping the PS3 console version looking awesome, even compared with the PC version.

Bad Company 2 WTF & Funny Moments

Uploaded 20 February 2010 by VZGProductions

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Quad Launch

Uploaded 17 April 2010 by Skaterrob15

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - PS3 vs PC Comparison

Uploaded 3 March 2010 by jerrin91

GameSpy: Bad Company 2 post mortem.
ApertureGames: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC review.
Joker961's HQ: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 review (Xbox 360 single player).

A shout out to Team Xbox for their compendium of Splinter Cell: Conviction reviews, which generated about a quarter of the bazillion review links below.

1Up: Splinter Cell: Conviction Strategy Guide.
GamesRadar: Splinter Cell: Conviction on PS3 - we tell you when.

Splinter Cell: Conviction Reviews

IGN Video Review Splinter Cell: Conviction

Splinter Cell: Conviction review round-up: MetaCritic average 86%; Kotaku Frankenreview (snippets of multiple reviews); Kotaku; GameSpot; GameTrailers video review; CNet; GameDaily; IGN; Joystiq; IGN video review (YouTube embedded above); 1Up; GamingUnion; ShackNews; ITWire; Destructoid; Edge Online; GamePro; VoodooExtreme; VoodooExtreme video review; ActionTrip; GamesRadar; MTV Multiplayer Blog; Kombo; VideoGamer.com; TechDigest; Planet Xbox 360; G4TV; Guardian UK gamesblog; Telegraph UK; Play.tm; StrategyInformer; Terminal Gamer (single player).
Worthplaying: Halo: Reach screenies.
Kotaku: Left 4 Dead 2's The Passing DLC is coming next week.
Joystiq: Singularity falls in line for a June 29 point of delivery. Looks pretty Wolfensteinish to me:

IGN: Daily Fix for 16 April 2010. (No Jessica Chobot. *sob*)
Kotaku: Ubisoft: DRM 'Vital' to 'Creative and Innovative' PC Game. I guess headache-free gaming isn't 'vital' to game dev/publisher douchebags.
GameTrailers: Pach-Attack 112: Pachter discusses whether Xbox Live prices are going up, more.
Attack of the Fanboy op-ed: Does anyone really care about 3-D? If it didn't cost me much extra, I'd like to try 3D gaming, but the cost is prohibitive right now.
Joystiq: Roger Ebert's latest column posits 'games can never be art'.
Platform Nation: Ebert is right - for now.
IGN: Smug Gamer Quotes. My fave FTA: "I won't play a game that runs lower than 60 frames per second." I do think that games that run 60 fps look better than games capped at other frame rates, tho.
Joystiq: Red Steel 2 sells only 50,000 copies in first 12 days of release.