Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 3 October 2010

Featured Modern Warfare 2 Video
Top 7 Killcams w/ TryHardNinja

 Uploaded 2 October 2010 on MachinimaRespawn

    Call of Duty Links:

Zombie Mode! 10 Things I LOVE About ZOMBIES by PrestigeModeGaming

• Call of Duty: Black Ops gameplay vid shows the 'Sharpshooter' game.

    More Gaming Links:

Duke Nukem Forever Exclusive gameplay @ FirstLook

• US Army on the Medal of Honor 'OpFor' enemy name change, as reported on Blues News. Also linked is Industry Gamers op-ed on the issue: Medal of Honor lost its honor.
• EA defends Medal of Honor 'OpFor' enemy name change in multiplayer.
• Medal of Honor delayed in Japan. 
• Halo: Reach reviews: Bright Side of News; The Independent. 
• Halo: Reach rank breakdown on Kotaku.
• Halo: Reach playlist updates planned for this Tuesday.
• Bungie resets the stats on 15,000 Halo: Reach cheaters. An excellent start. 
• Xbox 360 sales in Japan fall after Halo: Reach debut spike.
• Good Old Games having 50% sale on community faves. 
• Id Software's Willits: The jury's still out on 3D.
• Unearthed treasures: Top 10 Retro Gaming Secrets. (Thanks, Slashdot.)

Happy Halo-ween!

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Russian company plans 'cosmic hotel' for rich tourists.
• Encounters with comet Hartley 2.
• Ancient Mars has frigid oceans with icebergs.
• Study: 70% of individual weight variance may be genetic. Yeah, that's the ticket...
• Japanese scientists create 'touchable holograms'. I'm tuning in to the Liv Tyler channel.
• Fossil secrets of the Da Vinci codex.
• Digg in decline? Here's some data from Wired.
• NPR: Public Humiliation: It's not the web, it's us.

Sintel - Open Source Software Animated Short Film

• Creative Commons film challenges Hollywood's best. (YouTube video embedded above.)
• Peter Jackson to direct 'Hobbit' films in 3D. Waiting for the Arwen Evenstar 'touchable hologram' scenes... 
• Hobbit movie workshop set destroyed by fire.

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