Call of Duty Incrates

From my 8 February 2010 blog:

   We wound up playing for a while before the Big Game with a short crew; we were largely Timmy-free the 1st half. After half-time, tho, Reibo didn't have room for Matt64 and me, so we got our asses handed to us in a basket as the Gaming Gods punished us with crate-crapping Timmies. It was an ignominious second half of the gaming night. As noted in the Vent,  I didn't drink last night, tho I sure wish that I had. On to the links:

   Be forewarned: The commenter breaks into a little joyful yodel sing-song voice when he's happy about something. It's a straightforward gameplay vid demonstrating control of the metal detector area of the Terminal map.

• No real news today, just a bunch of "Me, too!" articles as gaming sites re-report the impending Xbox Live patch to fix the care package glitch.

    More Gaming Links:

• Kotaku: Halo DLC removal threatens Halo farewell party.
• AfterDawn: Xbox 360 120GB HDD has price slashed in U.S. as well.
• PushSquare: Rebellion to fix AvP PS3 match-making issues.
• Metro 2033 trailer from incGamers.
• Examiner.com: Interview: Kyle Brink, Creative Director of Sega Studios, Why Iron Man 2 won't suck.
• GamerCrave: Quake Live player gets 250,000 frags; needs a life.
• 1Up: 101 Best Free Games 2010.
• Joystick Division op-ed: Pretension +1: The Gameplay Fallacy.
• Joystiq: Best of Big Download for 1-7 February 2010.
• GamesRadar: The 50 greatest gaming world records.
• Wall Street Journal: Video-Game Makers Look To Core Customers For Recovery.
• Edge Online: Xbox Live Arcade tops $100 million in 2009.
• Edge Online feature: The Art Of Gaming. Edge's spin on the artsy-oriented conference.
• Kotaku: Sony's PS3 still selling at a loss (now losing $18 per SKU instead of $37). Huzzah!
• GameSpy: Words cannot describe: 25 Worst Stock Videogame Photos.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• AfterDawn: Music disappearing from Zune Pass.

• Tom's Hardware: Ex-Microsoft exec calls Microsoft clumsy and uncompetitive. Microsoft's Dick Brass gets defensive and fires back with "No, we're not. Clumsy. Or uncompetitive. So there."

• Ars Technica: Awkward Stock Photos website nuked by DMCA takedown notice.

• Speaking of awkward: ThatVideoSite: Hundreds of Pictures... One pose. Someone put Crazy Glue in her lip gloss.