Call of Duty: Boobfare; More Chobot, More Jovovich
Speaking of Joe Walsh, here's a scorching guitar solo from YouTube. Awesome. Today is resupply day at the HQ, so we're gonna try to get some more coffee. (Thanks to Matt64 for the tip-off about the coupons this week at Ocean State Job Lot!) I did a little more Spec Ops yesterday, trying to get through the Hidden level on Hardened. I got a false sense of confidence by watching a Veteran level play through on YouTube. I had gotten through it easily enough on Regular, so I thought I'd be able to do it at least on Hardened. Such was not the case. After getting cranked a couple of times by the first set of snipers, I got through them, only to get gibbed by a magic grenade once I got to the church. One thing that torqued me out a bit was one of the snipers shooting me from a position essentially outside the map. After getting past the guards and the first two snipers, I was near the tanks, beside a hedgerow that formed an impassable barrier for me on my left, and the sniper was around the corner in a cul de sac formed by the ring of tanks. He could shoot me through the hedgerow, even though he was invisible to me behind the foliage and the player can't go through the greenery. Cheating douchebag AI. 
I've been doing less online gaming, which is probably bad, since it will increase my suckage when I go back. But I can't stand gaming online without a full crew. I had connected with the 2Old2Play friend's list, but almost no one plays hardcore. On the regular playlists, I'm pretty much every Timmy's bitch. Bad Company 2, it turns out, just didn't turn my crank. I haven't picked it up in weeks... Is it Game Over! for me? Or am I just bored?
Big news from Wednesday was that the $15 US price point on the MW2 Stimulus Package didn't do much to deter sales. According to the sales figures which have begun to trickle out, the MW2 map pack had first day sales which matched the sales of the one and only CoD4 map pack for its first nine days. (CoD4 players will recall that more DLC was promised but ultimately became vaporware as Infinity Ward concentrated on producingglitchesCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.) Today's featured MW2 vid is a nicely played TDM match on Crash by Dubblejord. Also, RoosterTeeth has a nice tutorial on beating the Spec Ops mission Evasion on Veteran with two players. Take a look at a 30 second tactical nuke! And it's done without cheating! The last MW2-related vid is an amazing amateur MW2 tribute called Frozen Crossing. Very, very cool, indeed. After the MW2 jump, there's another cool clip from Ronin6337, where he forcefully sends some evil Spetsnaz clones back down the stairs. On to the links:
- VG247: One million Xbox Live MW2 Stimulus Package downloads in 24 hrs - 2.5 million, first week. Afterdawn and other websites describe sales as record-breaking, but no specific record is cited. But GamaSutra's article does say the following "By comparison, the first downloadable content pack for Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sold 1 million units in its first nine days."
- El33tOnline: MW2 holds at number one on Xbox Live for week of 29 March 2010.
- Joystiq: Free Silver Xbox Live Modern Warfare 2 now thru weekend.
- Steam thru Blues News: Free PC MW2 multiplayer this weekend on Steam. You can preload the game now here.
- 200,000 years of Modern Warfare 2.
- Kokatu: 200,000 years in perspective.
- CCL: Review of MadCatz MW2-branded controller.
- 1Up video: Modern Warfare 2 parodies MTV Cribs with Bailout map.
Featured MW2 YouTube Video
TDM on Crash by Dubblejord
Defendthehouse: Myth 19 of 21
MW2 Spec Ops Evasion, Veteran, 2 player
how-to tutorial by RoosterTeeth
The 30 second tactical nuke...
Luck was a factor, but still cool.
[Not cool. Yem was right to be suspicious of this vid. It looks like a lot of people are calling out the BSness of the 30 second nuke linked on 8 April 2010: Blade and Others Chop Shaggy; Muzza's Rant; Analyzation/Proof Video.]
Frozen Crossing (Live Action MW2 vid)
- YouTube: MachinimaRespawn has posted part three of Hutch's interview with Robert "Fourzertwo" Bowling is up. You can view parts one and two here and here, respectively.
More Gaming Links:
Featured BC2 video
Bad Company 2: Get back down the stairs!
by Ronin6337
- New York Times: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 review: In This Electronic War, Momentum Shifts to the Underdog. FTA: "Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a better game than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Yup, I went there. I’m not taking refuge in nuances. Unlike many critics, I’m not weaseling out of making a tough call by saying that they are both great games."
- Port City News: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 review.
- IGN: Halo: Reach, the beta maps. IGN Q&A about the maps for the upcoming Reach beta.
- Joystiq: Lost Planet 2 hands-on.
- VentureBeat: Nvidia chief envisions a year of 3D glasses and tablets.
- BASHandSlash: Gordon van Dyke moves from Sweden (and DICE) to San Francisco, CA (and Visceral Games. When this was first reported on 1 April 2010, I wasn't sure whether it was an April Fool's, but GVD has tweeted that it's true.
- Edge Online: UK Digital Economy Bill passed.
- Gaming Union: Why hardcore gamers don't make good testers.
- Kotaku: What happened to David's junk in Mass Effect 2 DLC? The immortal David by Michelangelo has been digitally turned into a eunuch.
IGN Daily Fix for 7 April 2010
with the luscious Jessica Chobot
Is Jessica Chobot well read?
Yes, she certainly is!
Non-Gaming Links:
- Engadget: KARVT wooden MacBook skins -- because sometimes aluminum just isn't enough.
- Shocktillyoudrop: Inside info on upcoming prequel to John Carpenter's horror classic, The Thing.
- Phoronix: Chernobyl in 2010.
- MSNBC: The uncomfortable truth of why South Park rules.
- EW: South Park parodies Facebook. Related, Kotaku: No one cares about your stupid farm!
- Guardian UK: 12 year-old boy runs up $1400 tab on Farmville.
- IGN: Need a breather from Bad Company 2? IGN gives you a list of Blu-Ray movies for BC2-lovers.
Milla has a strong right hand...