Sunday... That's my fun day...

    Had a blast last night as Matt64 came down to play some Call of Duty: World at War co-op. We played through the whole campaign pretty much. Tho I was seriously off my form, it was still great fun. I'm looking forward to being able to do that more now that things are settling down a bit with the family health stuff. 

    I'm wondering how Call of Duty: Black Ops will be without a campaign co-op. I really missed that in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Even on Normal difficulty, I thought that some sections of the game were literally too hard for one player, a common defect - or feature, take your pick - of every Call of Duty game, ever
    Don't get me wrong. The game looks awesome, indeed. Zombies are back, of course, and it might be that mode is the only co-op we're going to get. The Call of Duty: Black Ops weapon and character customization trailer is worth a look, if you haven't seen it. It will add a personal dimension to multiplayer that hasn't been available in CoD before. It'll be interesting to see how the 'currency system' the custom touches are bought in will impact the boosting that has plagued CoD.
    Moving on...

 

• Call of Duty: Black Ops gameplay vid shows the 'Sharpshooter' game.

• US Army on the Medal of Honor 'OpFor' enemy name change, as reported on Blues News. Also linked is Industry Gamers op-ed on the issue: Medal of Honor lost its honor.
• EA defends Medal of Honor 'OpFor' enemy name change in multiplayer.
• Medal of Honor delayed in Japan. 
• Halo: Reach reviews: Bright Side of News; The Independent. 
• Halo: Reach rank breakdown on Kotaku.
• Halo: Reach playlist updates planned for this Tuesday.
• Bungie resets the stats on 15,000 Halo: Reach cheaters. An excellent start. 
• Xbox 360 sales in Japan fall after Halo: Reach debut spike.
• Good Old Games having 50% sale on community faves. 
• Id Software's Willits: The jury's still out on 3D.
• Unearthed treasures: Top 10 Retro Gaming Secrets. (Thanks, Slashdot.)

• Creative Commons film challenges Hollywood's best. (YouTube video embedded above.)
• Peter Jackson to direct 'Hobbit' films in 3D. Waiting for the Arwen Evenstar 'touchable hologram' scenes... 
• Hobbit movie workshop set destroyed by fire.