Finishing up day number 2...

     We had a meeting at work tonight, followed by a nice dinner. All in all, it was an impressive way to get over the hump day of the week. Not sure what the weekend schedule will be like. I've yet to hear anything definite from The Object of My Affections on plans for Sunday. Matt and I are scheduled for some Black Ops gaming on Saturday. I hope the Tech Gods will look down on me kindly and keep my ailing XIM360 working... at least until the XIM3 comes out! There's been no development news on the new gizmo since September, tho. Nonetheless, I updated my XIM info page and added a couple of videos to it, providing background on the XIM technology and a concrete example of the XIM in action in a Modern Warfare 2 Ground War match. Moving on...

Uploaded 10 November 2010 by iExcelStudios

 

 

• Call of Duty: Black Ops review round-up: ZeitgeistGameReview; Cnet; MTV; GamePro. (A 5/5, but then the early Modern Warfare 2 reviews were super-spiffy, too.)
• GamePro's Call of Duty: Black Ops primer.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops apparently sold 7 million copies on launch day. Whoa.  Someone get the defibrillator for Pachter, quick!!
• Call of Duty: Black Ops PC video benchmarks on the GTX 460 versus Radeon HD 6870.
• IGN Video Feature: A Visual History of Call of Duty.

 

This is what nearly 3 million Black Ops players look like...

 (Credit: Kotaku)

 

 

• Zero Punctuation reviews Fallout: New Vegas (NSFW language, as always). 
• New Xbox 360 wireless controller works with Windows 7. They have these - what do you call them? - mice and keyboards that smoke the performance of analog controllers.
• Five things Kinect could do better.
• Tetris may reduce effects of post-traumatic stress.
• The Top 10 (or is it 7?) Addictive Games of All Time.

• Is this evidence that we can see the future? No, evidence of possibly shaky research.
• Having solved all other scientific enigmas, scientists have discovered how cats drink.
• Half the US may be obese by 2050.
• Future soldiers may wear 'Iron Man' suits. In 3X Large, no doubt.
• New phone app will test for STDs. Can you hear me now?