Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 4 August 2010

Featured Modern Warfare 2 Video
Sandy Ravage - Duke Mode on Wasteland

Uploaded 2 August 2010 by Sandy Ravage

    Call of Duty Links:

• BASHandSlash's Crosshair's 7 podcast covers the latest confirmations from Treyarch about features in Call of Duty: Black Ops and a bunch more FPS-related topics.
• THQ dismisses Modern Warfare 2's 'steroided out flag-waving'. That'll show 'em, coming from a studio that showed net losses two years running in 2008, 2009.

MW2 Fail Commentary by ONLYUSEmeBlade

Uploaded 3 August 2010 on Machinima

    More Gaming Links:

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Review

Uploaded 2 August on Gamespot

• StarCraft II year's biggest PC launch.
• StarCraft II sold 1.5 million units in first 48 hours. 
• StarCraft II leads UK sales in first week.
• The Escapist warns of a Battle.net account high-jacking StarCraft II email scam.
• IGN has two Halo: Reach features: Deep into the Halo: Reach campaign and Halo: Reach gets map remakes and the Spire.
• Bungie: We won't lose sleep over future Halo titles.
• Nintendo interested in 'cloud gaming' market. But...
• Nintendo's Iwata 'dubious' of 'cloud gaming' inevitable lag.
• How will contemporary war games affect combat veterans?

Blacklight: Tango Down 'Black Ops'

Speed Run of Street Fight - Compton EMT

Uploaded 2 August 2010 by HighStakesAnonymous

• IGN Daily Fix for 3 August 2010 with the luscious Jessica Chobot. (YouTube version embedded below.)

IGN Daily Fix for 3 August 2010

Uploaded 3 August 2010 on IGN Entertainment


Is The Force with Jessica?

Yes, it certainly is.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Scientists brace for huge 'solar tsunami'.
• Wired: Sun puts on huge solar storm display. 

• Can huge solar storms destroy human civilization?
• NASA robot to tweet from space. I, for one, welcome our new robotic social media overlords and seek their protection from huge solar storms.
• Android clocks in 100K app submissions. 
• Super lightweight PDF reader perfect for notebooks.
• Filmmakers resisting Hollywood's 3D push.
• Mashable's ten most ridiculous iPhone accessories. (Thanks to dgupta5150 for the tweeted link.)

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