In the interests of whoring up some cheap hits I’m posting Black Ops content just one day before release.
So Hutch is probably the most famous if not the most successful COD player, being picked up by Machinima like some truck stop hooker only instead of receiving a bludgeoning and shallow burial they gave him a job. Thumbs up for him, and he’s a natural choice to forward a copy of Black Ops and have in what appears to be a press lobby. Here he is getting a bit of a hammering (like the truck stop hooker) but also giving back and coming out ok (unlike the lay by temptress).
The advance your weapon every time you score a kill match type.
And standard Team Deathmatch
Well there we are. I hope you weren’t expecting John Simpson quality journalism here.
So there’s been a huge broo-ha-ha about Modern Warfare developers Infinity Ward’s bosses and founders Jason West and Vince Zampella being unceremoniously sacked by publisher and parent company Activision.
We’re going to the judges aaand yes. That was actually a sentence.
The big to-do is all about West and Zampella claiming Activision owed those in the Infinity Ward studio millions of dollars in royalties from Modern Warfare 2, you know, the biggest entertainment launch in history. They claim Activision sacked them unjustly so as to avoid paying them around $36 million. They have since begun to sue their former publisher for this cash and to be able to take the Modern Warfare franchise with them, as they say they own the IP.
Activision claim that West and Zampella were waving their asses in front of EA’s nose in secret, trying to take Modern Warfare and set up shop with them (again,as it turns out; IW was originally set up as the team were disgruntled with working for EA, so they split). Now Activision are counter suing W&Z for fees and costs incurred in the alleged delay of Modern Warfare 3 because of all of this.
So the first Map pack has been announced for Modern Warfare 2. The pack which is likely to consist of 3 or 4 new maps will be released on the 20th of March…..But because Microsoft have no real business strategy or any real idea of how you actually make money have thrown a shit ton of cash at Activision so the 20th of March date is for Xbox 360 users only. PC and PS3 gamers will get the pack a few weeks later.
I’m not sure how MS intend to make any money from the 360 at this rate. Everyone knows you generally lose money on every console sold, yet they keep paying through the nose for time exclusive content. Now this can only result in 3 things in my eyes, Xbox owners having to pay more for peripherals, Compared to the PS3 the Xbox is pretty bare bones as it is, they’ll have to start charging more for this DLC or Microsoft will have to get out of the console market.
I don’t see that happening though, MS have so much money I don’t think they care if they lose some money, the more likely is they’ll start charging more for things. Xbox owners already get screwed plenty by MS in regards to what they have to buy and what they have to pay so we’ll see what happens.
In any event MS continue there game of one upmanship even though no one is really too bothered. I don’t see people switching systems for any reason. People are very stuck in their ways.
Incidentally I’ve owned both machines and can say in my view the PS3 is better in every way and no amount of exclusive content, timed or not would make me switch.
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