Cold-blooded! Check it and see!

From my 11 February 2010 blog:

Last night, I played some MW2 with Reibo, Matt64, and JKDJose. Matt64 had a screaming good game on Highrise, laying waste to the enemy team with the RPD. He had a good camping position on the right, hosing anyone making the approach to the building front. I finally managed to make it to level 25 to get the flipping Cold-blooded perk back, and I wasted no time in plugging it in on all my classes.
Afterwards, I joined Reibo for a private match of 3rd person free-for-all. It was really disorienting, and everyone was blasting me from everywhere. I was using the default LMG class, so I had no Cold-blooded on and the always-on narc-map gave away my position as soon as I fired. Naturally, the flashing red dot would attract all players to my position so that I could take turns being their bitch. If I ever get into one of those fooling-around games again, I'll equip the RPD and bling it with the grip and silencer. I managed to come out positive by one measly kill, but, considering the high level of skill of the other players, even that felt like a triumph. And, truthfully, there's a savage satisfaction about pulverizing someone at contact distance with the LMG. It feels like... victory.

• Not news from Shacknews: New Call of Duty game due in 2010. Meanwhile, Xboxic reminds us of its May 2009 report of licensing activity on Vietnam ear music, as well as Russian, Cuban, and African music.
• New York Daily News: Activision sells bajillion copies of Modern Warfare 2, still loses $286 million. Probably not due to the shafting of the PC community since Activision claims Modern Warfare 2 has been the biggest digital download success for them ever.

More Gaming Links:

• Edge Magazine: Microsoft working to restore original Xbox DLC for Halo 2 farewell party.
• BASHandSlash: Get to the choppa! (Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC beta air vehicle low-down.)
• Kotaku: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 impressions - The Tougher Battle.
• GameTrailers: Metro 2033 Interviews: Life after Nuclear War and Combat and Tech.
• Big Download: Ghost Recon: Future Soldier teaser trailer.
• Blue's News: Aussie pirate settles with Nintendo out of court for $1.5 million. O RLY? Kotaku thinks something's fishy about the story.
• GamesRadar: ModDB Mod of the Year winners announced.
• GamaSutra feature: The Sensible Side of Immersion.
• Escapist: Gamepeople Calling. You are what you play.

Non-Gaming Links:

A trifecta of artificial intelligence/robotics related links from Slashdot make me yearn for the buzz that followed announcement of the "cannibal robot".

• Wired UK thru Slashdot: Armed Robot Drones to Join UK Police Force. I, for one, welcome our new robotic Hot Fuzz overlords.
• Fox News thru Slashdot: Six-legged Robot Teaches Itself To Walk. I, for one, welcome our new robotic tap-dancing overlords.
• Hplusmagazine thru Slashdot: When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? Find out who'll be giving the orders to the armed drones and robot spiders.