Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 7 May 2010

"Please" always makes ultimatums go down easier.

Featured MW2 Video

MattHDGamer: Territorial Control on Scrapyard

Uploaded 29 April 2010 on CallOfDutyComedy

    WePlayCoD raised a good point in a tweet yesterday: Infinity Ward announced a planned map pack release for late in 2010 - which coincides with the release, more or less, of Call of Duty: Black Ops, currently being developed by sister studio, Treyarch. Is this a calculated dick move on the part of Infinity Ward? Speaking of dick moves, Activision Evil Overlord Bobby Kotick was like a rash all over the game media sites offering his explanation for firing Infinity Ward co-presidents Zampella and Ward. He told everyone within reach of his tentacles that Infinity Ward was 'on track' with a CoD project. How 'on track' they could be with an admitted 35 employees resigning since he gave West and Zampella the axe is another issue. Guess he's comforted by the financial news that Activision's profits doubled in 1Q 2010.
    Today's featured MW2 vid is a fine example of Free-for-All territorial control by F1sTDaCuFFs on Scrapyard impressively played with no Killstreaks. After the CoD jump, there's a pretty lousy series of spawns from iBashTV on Salvage. On to the CoD links:

F1sTDaCuFFs FFA, Scrapyard, AK-47, no killstreaks

Uploaded 6 May 2010 on MachinimaRespawn 

• CoD Black Ops News: Zombies in Black Ops? More likely than you think. (Thanks to codblackopsnews for the tweet!)
• Kotaku: 2nd Modern Warfare 2 map pack due in late 2010. (Thanks to WePlayCoD for the tweet!) Also, Bobby Kotick explains the IW firings and says the remaining IW slaves employees are working on another CoD product. (Thanks to WePlayCoD for the tweet!)
• Joystiq: Activision's Bobby Kotick drops hints of Call of Duty marketing in China, Korea. Or he's planning to outsource Infinity Ward there. Plus, he says tho MW2 has sold 17 million map packs so far, continued success is only thru traditional retail channels.
• Edge Online: PSN technical issues disrupt MW2 "Stimulus Package" launch.

 MLG Pro Moment # 8 (Bad Spawns)

Uploaded 5 May 2010 on iBashTV 

    More Gaming Links:

    Today, there are  4 Halo: Reach beta vids to enjoy: Knight gives us his walkthrough of one of the less popular Reach maps, Swordbase. Then, Shaun (AKA Hutch) gives a LOL with an epic sneak fail. Next up is a montage of shotgun kills from the Reach beta. We close with some Halo: Reach SWAT gameplay, showing off the Halo franchise's version of hardcore.

 Halo: Reach Beta: KnightxofxLight's Walkthrough of Swordbase

Uploaded 6 May 2010 on Machinima

Halo: Reach beta - Sneak Fail

Uploaded 6 May 2010 by shaun0728

Halo: Reach beta - Shotgun Montage

Uploaded 6 May 2010 on GamerSpawn

Halo: Reach beta - SWAT (HC) gameplay

Uploaded 6 May 2010 by jpinuranus

• Joystiq: Activision to fund new Bungie shop; 200 staff expected.
• BASHandSlash: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC patch in QA.
• Edge Online: Microsoft: Gaming to popularize 3D, headache medication.
• GamesRadar: Could motion control cause a game market crash? My idea of Hell: A 3D motion control game with the current generation consoles.
• OXM: 40 things we love about the Xbox 360.
• GameBlend: Splinter Cell: Conviction patch adds DLC support.
• GameSpot: Splinter Cell: Conviction Game Guide.

Zero Punctuation: Splinter Cell: Conviction

 

    Non-Gaming Links:

• CNN: iPad is destroying netbook sales.
• PhysOrg.com: World's biggest beaver dam - visible from space. I guess that would make it the biggest.

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