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Modern Warfare 2 Server Petition … Sigh … at 21,000 Sigs and Counting
Online petitions ain’t worth much to me – just once, I’d like to see someone with a clipboard outside a GameStop doing this in person. But on some topics they’re meaningful, like the Infinity Ward/dedicated server fiasco that broke yesterday. Especially when the petition registers 20,000 in just a little more than a day since…
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DICE Makes Hay With Dedicated Server Controversy
Earlier this morning, the executive producer for the Battlefield franchise tweaked Call of Duty over Infinity Ward ending dedicated server support, “confirming” that, yes, dedicated server support is “a given” in Battlefield titles on the PC. “Dedicated servers FTW. What ever secures a better online experience is a given for us,” Tweeted DICE’s K.M. Troedsson.…
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FourZeroTwo: Modern Warfare 2 is Not Delayed on PC
From Robert Bowling’s Twitter, good news for PC gamers – “No delay on PC for Modern Warfare 2,” says the Infinity Ward community manager, debunking earlier rumors that it was on hold for two weeks past its original drop date. Furthermore: “You’ll also have Prestige Mode in PC as well as lots of Steam support,”…
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Classic Call of Duty Offers a Dirty Dozen Achievements
Xbox360Achievements.org, on the ball as ever, found the set of 12 achievements for the original Call of Duty, which will soon arrive on Xbox Live Arcade and will be free with Modern Warfare 2’s Prestige Edition. The achievements are worth 200 points in total and not one of them is offered for multiplayer performance. Here’s…
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Activision Originally Didn’t Want Modern Warfare
Speaking to Official PlayStation Magazine, Infinity Ward’s boss said that Activision did not believe in Infinity Ward’s concept for a modern Call of Duty setting and was actively working to demonstrate the idea wouldn’t succeed. Vince Zampella, IW’s chief, said the studio had wanted to do a modern combat shooter for years, and bring their…
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Spies Dig Up 20 of 23 Spec Ops Names in Modern Warfare 2
Ever since folks noticed Infinity Ward types playing Modern Warfare 2 over Xbox Live, some have been glued to their sets for map and mission names. They’ve now gotten nearly the full mission list for MW2’s Spec Ops. Spoiler alert, as the names of these might give away general mission details or capabilities. if you…
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Here are Your Modern Warfare 2 Achievements
The achievements list for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is out already and I suppose it rates a mild spoiler alert, as some of the descriptions of each title might give away plot details. Edit: I updated the headline to be something mildly more compelling and less embarrassing than that facepalm-inducing placeholder hed that…
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The Next Modern Warfare Trailer Will Be Televised
Activision is kicking off a multi-million dollar advertising campaign for Modern Warfare 2 with a new trailer, airing during this week’s installment of NBC’s Sunday Night Football. Interrupting a football game between the San Diego Chargers and Pittsburgh Steelers is enough reason to cause some sports fans to want to shoot someone, so slipping the…
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World at War Map Pack 3 Releases Next Week for PC
Patch 1.6, which includes Map Pack 3 for PC, deploys next week. This time I am going to get his name right and attribute the news to Josh Olin, the Treyarch Community Manager. Map Pack 3, of course, includes the multiplayer settings Battery, Breach and Revolution, plus the Nazi zombie map Der Riese. Unlike the…
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Dad’s Tribute: Call of Duty on Soldier Son’s Grave
Touching? Whether a man and his son enjoy kicking a football or playing a video game together, who’s to judge. But there is a helpless irony in seeing Call of Duty left on the grave of a fallen soldier. In Wales, the 200th U.K. soldier to die in the Afghanistan conflict was memorialized this weekend.…
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World at War Map Pack 3 Surpasses … One Million Downloads
And that’s in its first weekend of availability. Activision announced yesterday that Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3 registered more than a million paid downloads through Xbox Live and PSN from Aug. 6 to Aug. 9. The seven-figure weekend brings to 6.5 million the worldwide downloads of World at War map packs,…
By Owen Good
