Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 3 July 2010

Featured Modern Warfare 2 Video
Why do Free-for All Respawns Suck?

Uploaded 2 July 2010 by MachinimaRespawn

    Call of Duty Links:

• New post-E3 Call of Duty: Black Ops screenies.
• Infinity Ward no longer developing Call of Duty?
• GamesRadar rundown on Mad Catz Call of Duty: Black Ops themed peripherals.
• New iPhone app: The Unofficial Modern Warfare 2 Strategy Guide currently $0.99 from App Store.

Bunny Channels Sandy Ravage with SPAS-12

Uploaded 3 July 2010 by TheDrunkenCanadian
 

    More Gaming Links:

• BASHandSlash reports Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has a lag-fixing server patch, R16, currently in beta.
• BASHandSlash's Jockyitch discusses Battlefield: Bad Company 2's helicopter handling tweaks and countermeasures. Here's his YouTube vid illustrating:

 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 heli Countermeasures

 Uploaded 2 July 2010 on bashandslashtv

 

• Team Fortress 2 engineer getting update, Golden Wrench. Joystiq reports on hints about the new update gleaned from this recent engineer comic.
• Red Dead Redemption by the bloody numbers as GameSpy collates the game's carnage stats, from Army men to wolves.
• Microsoft seeing 'unprecedented demand' for Xbox 360 Slim. 
• Do players really care about graphics? For me, it's all framerate. Don't sacrifice smooth framerates for eye candy.
• Pachter: Games industry 'in a state of decline'.
• The Inconvenient Truth of Buying Video Games. 
• Portal 2 could be the greatest game ever.
• Three year-old plays Mirror's Edge and Portal. Great. Now, I'll be getting pwned by toddlers as well as the usual Timmies.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Russian supply capsule misses ISS docking.
• Firefox - the Official browser of IBM. That cracking sound was my jaw hitting the floor.
• Microsoft solves the backwards battery problem.
• Rapper Will.I.Am uses iPad to track down thief.
• Just in time for the 4th: Fireworks Wallpapers.
• I, for one, welcome our robotic beer-toting overlords.
• iPhone holding problem finally solved.
• George Miller 'maxing out' with two new Mad Max films at once? Will newly disgraced Mel Gibson reprise the role?
• Nine historic symbols that don't mean what you think they do.

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