Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 28 July 2010

Featured Modern Warfare 2 Video
The Ken Burton Show Part 84 - Sh*t I Never Use M21-EBR

Uploaded 24 July 2010 on MachinimaRespawn

    Call of Duty Links:

Booster Destruction Ep. 5 by ProsDONTtalkSHIT

Uploaded 26 July 2010 on MachinimaRespawn

• Call of Duty: Black Ops announced for Nintendo DS.  IGN's article on CoDBlackOps DS has some screenshots, but they've apparently been yanked.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 'Hardened' and 'Prestige' Editions announced.
• Modern Warfare 2 'Resurgence' map pack still tops Steam sales list.

Promo for CTADigital Assault Rifle Controller for the PS3 console

Uploaded 22 July 2010 on CTADigital

• Reviews of CTA Digital's PS3 'Assault Rifle' controller: Tom's Guide; Gadgetsteria; I4U; JustPushStart.
• Earlier in the week, the Avenged Sevenfold 'Welcome to the Family' CoD Black Ops music video was blogged here. Today, Avenged Sevenfold's 'Nightmare' album is reviewed: LA Times.

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StarCraft in Five Minutes

Uploaded 23 July 2010 on IGN Entertainment


StarCraft II Campaign Overview

Uploaded 26 July 2010 on IGN Entertainment 

• StarCraft II launch coverage: USAToday.
• StarCraft II hits 800,000 preorders in the Americas.
• Activision Blizzard price gouges with StarCraft II.
• GamePro's History of StarCraft.
• Narrative in an RTS: StarCraft II's Presentation of Story. 

StarCraft II Collector's Edition Unboxing

Uploaded 26 July 2010 on IGN Entertainment

• New Medal of Honor already doomed via association with Linkin Park?
• What will Diablo 3's final character class be? Game show host?
• Pachter: Xbox 360 Kinect to sell 2-4 million by March 2011. O RLY? A console accessory that costs almost as much as the entire Wii console itself... Are there that many people who want to look like complete tools in front of their HDTVs?
• The 25 Greatest Gaming Easter Eggs. Cue the Quake II 'Pimpin' Tank Commander'!
• KokuGamer op-ed: Sony and their perpetual hole.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Prehistoric African 'Eden' sheltered last few humans during Ice Age that wiped out populations elsewhere.
• Human ancestors lived in Britain 840,000 year ago.
• Scientists find 140 Earth-sized planets. But the commute's a bitch.
• Facing 16 years in jail for videotaping police - in public. 
• Behind the special effects of Inception.
• Cracked: 5 People who turned awful disabilities into superpowers.
• On Duty Fail. ROFL.

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