Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 9 October 2010

Featured Modern Warfare 2 Video
Commando Perk - 'Just say No.' 

Uploaded 19 August 2008 by devin119

    Call of Duty Links:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Level Based on Vancouver, WA?

• Call of Duty: Black Ops storms New York (on Facebook).

    More Gaming Links:

Halo: Reach: WatchThis! Gaming: Top 5 Plays: Episode 1

(Warning: Possibly Obnoxious Music Track)

• Medal of Honor open beta: DirectX 9 vs. DirectX 11.
• Gears of War 3 multiplayer preview from Joystiq. Also at Joystiq, GoW3 beta tapped for 2011 with 'dedicated servers'.
• Duke Nukem Forever cost Broussard $20-30 million US for development. Madness.
• Lord of the Rings Online revenue doubles since it went 'free-to-play'. Howzabout that?
• Activision announces X-Men: Destiny. 
• More on the Kinect from 1Up: Mandatory 6-8 foot operating distance; change clothes if it's not working right. I knew a girl like that once. 
• Bungie dev comes full circle on Halo.

You might get eaten by a grue...

    Non-Gaming Links:

25th Mission Launch to ISS

• The crew of the simulated Mars Mission. Five hundred plus days in isolation... Meanwhile, NASA moves ahead with robotic plane to explore Mars from the skies. I, for one, welcome our robotic, Mars-exploring plane overlords.
• Graphene will change the way we live.
• Questions you never thought to ask: Why can airplanes fly upside down?
• Forget pre-exercise stretching. 
• If I'm drunk, you're a jerk.
• Facebook's new groups feature worries some. And worrisome.
• OTOH, the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine can erase all traces of you on Twitter, Facebook, etc. in under an hour.
• White House tried to quash 'worst case scenario' report on BP oil spill.
• Twenty things you didn't now about The Exorcist.

My Science Project

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