This Week in Review is Call of Duty special, with all the top Modern Warfare 2 stories from the past seven days.
That...Is a Lot of Users...
Xbox Live hit a milestone this week as two million users logged on to the system at the same time. Major Nelson's Tweet on the matter didn't go into specifics, but let's face it, we all know that it's because of Modern Warfare 2. Don't be coy Nelson, we know what's going on... we've always known. (link)
Fox News Attacks MW2, No One Is Surprised
Oh Fox News, what would we do without you? Well, we'd all have lower blood pressure and games would probably be much further on as an art form, but that's rather beside the point. Fox News continued its misguided war against games this week, under the pretense of having a 'fair and balanced debate' about the game's themes. Also, a special prize has to go to Jon Christensen of /gamer for being the least eloquent spokesperson we could have hoped for. Hit the link for a video. (link)
IN YOUR FACE, GTA IV!!!
Ok, so Mewtwo comes out, and sells many, many copies. The world is unsurprised, but it may interest you, and this hypothetical and hard to surprise world, exactly how well it sold. Say we pick a market at random, the UK for example. In the UK, CoD: MW2 sold twice as many copies on its first day than Grand Theft Auto IV. That's right, Mewtwopulled a double GTA. Yes, I am making up slang, how good of you to notice. (link)
UK Politicians Catch Mewtwo Fever!
Well, sort of. Labour MP and staunch opponent of videogames Keith Vaz took his concerns over Modern Warfare 2 to the House of Commons, citing recommendations laid out in the Byron report about keeping inappropriate material away from children. At which point Sion Simon, the Minister of Culture, Media and Sport, pointed out that those recommendations were actually already being followed. Smooth going, Keith. (link)
FYI, There May Be A Test
Pop quiz! What was Cod Mewtwo's release date? If you said the 10th of November, then you'd be correct, but if you said the 9th, or 8th or quite a few days this month well, you'd be kinda correct too. Several retailers, most notably gaming giant GameStop, broke the street date for the game and allowed gamers to get their hands on it a few days early. Activision was, somewhat predictably, rather unhappy about this, but says that it will not punish gamers who snagged an early copy. (link)
Haha, the guy who went on Fox News gets too much stick.
He blogs about games he's not a personality journo (like Adam Sessler for instanec), he's not done something like this before, and Fox already had the scales weighing against him - a fair debate does not exist with them.
I love the way that everything is MW2 this week. I want to see what activision does about the rtailers which released early... and I want to see if the people at Fox get horribly murdered by kids who think they are terrorists because of a GAME.
Wow. Did we really need only Call of Duty? How about something meaningful? Like Dragon Age's DLC selling 1 million? Diablo III being delayed? The Zynga CEO?
Flamezdudes: Couldn't you do anything OTHER MW2? I mean, Jesus Christ its a shitty game.
Say that to every single review of it ever.
Modern Warfare 2 week! Yaaay!
I will, short campaign and multiplayer which you can just get IN EVERY OTHER FRICKIN COD GAME. Fucking waste of money, and Activision keeps getting money because of you FPS' retards.
Flamezdudes: Couldn't you do anything OTHER MW2? I mean, Jesus Christ its a shitty game.
Say that to every single review of it ever.
Modern Warfare 2 week! Yaaay!
I will, short campaign and multiplayer which you can just get IN EVERY OTHER FRICKIN COD GAME. Fucking waste of money, and Activision keeps getting money because of you FPS' retards.
A short but enjoyable campaign that sets itself aside from the usual war games and one of the best multiplayer games out there.
Enjoy your suspension for calling people with different opinions retards.
Flamezdudes: Couldn't you do anything OTHER MW2? I mean, Jesus Christ its a shitty game.
Say that to every single review of it ever.
Modern Warfare 2 week! Yaaay!
I will, short campaign and multiplayer which you can just get IN EVERY OTHER FRICKIN COD GAME. Fucking waste of money, and Activision keeps getting money because of you FPS' retards.
A short but enjoyable campaign that sets itself aside from the usual war games and one of the best multiplayer games out there.
Enjoy your suspension for calling people with different opinions retards.
You forgot the Spanish Inquisition bit
OT: I wish other games got as much attention as this...
Flamezdudes: Couldn't you do anything OTHER MW2? I mean, Jesus Christ its a shitty game.
Say that to every single review of it ever.
Modern Warfare 2 week! Yaaay!
I will, short campaign and multiplayer which you can just get IN EVERY OTHER FRICKIN COD GAME. Fucking waste of money, and Activision keeps getting money because of you FPS' retards.
A short but enjoyable campaign that sets itself aside from the usual war games and one of the best multiplayer games out there.
Enjoy your suspension for calling people with different opinions retards.
You forgot the Spanish Inquisition bit
OT: I wish other games got as much attention as this...
So that games you'd enjoy even more than MW2 would get more publicity or because that would result in more trolls to report?
Flamezdudes: Couldn't you do anything OTHER MW2? I mean, Jesus Christ its a shitty game.
Say that to every single review of it ever.
Modern Warfare 2 week! Yaaay!
I will, short campaign and multiplayer which you can just get IN EVERY OTHER FRICKIN COD GAME. Fucking waste of money, and Activision keeps getting money because of you FPS' retards.
A short but enjoyable campaign that sets itself aside from the usual war games and one of the best multiplayer games out there.
Enjoy your suspension for calling people with different opinions retards.
You forgot the Spanish Inquisition bit
OT: I wish other games got as much attention as this...
So that games you'd enjoy even more than MW2 would get more publicity or because that would result in more trolls to report?
Caliostro: This week: Modern Warfare 2. That is all.
And I plan on drinking this weekend to forget the week that's happened. The fact that the most exciting thing that happened to gaming this week was another war game makes me incredibly sad.
Caliostro: This week: Modern Warfare 2. That is all.
And I plan on drinking this weekend to forget the week that's happened. The fact that the most exciting thing that happened to gaming this week was another war game makes me incredibly sad.
Tell that to my level 15 Assassin/Duelist Rogue. Stabby stabby!
Caliostro: This week: Modern Warfare 2. That is all.
And I plan on drinking this weekend to forget the week that's happened. The fact that the most exciting thing that happened to gaming this week was another war game makes me incredibly sad.
Tell that to my level 15 Assassin/Duelist Rogue. Stabby stabby!
Dragon Age didn't get this much attention and that's a decent game.
That was great, the slash gamer guy: "Oh no no... you are not really a terrorist killing innocent Americans at the airport... you are a CIA AGENT killing innocent Americans... oh whoops... sorry."
And then he didn't even argue the point about gaming making kids violent. LoL.
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The Week in Review
This Week in Review is Call of Duty special, with all the top Modern Warfare 2 stories from the past seven days.
That...Is a Lot of Users...
Xbox Live hit a milestone this week as two million users logged on to the system at the same time. Major Nelson's Tweet on the matter didn't go into specifics, but let's face it, we all know that it's because of Modern Warfare 2. Don't be coy Nelson, we know what's going on... we've always known. (link)
Fox News Attacks MW2, No One Is Surprised
Oh Fox News, what would we do without you? Well, we'd all have lower blood pressure and games would probably be much further on as an art form, but that's rather beside the point. Fox News continued its misguided war against games this week, under the pretense of having a 'fair and balanced debate' about the game's themes. Also, a special prize has to go to Jon Christensen of /gamer for being the least eloquent spokesperson we could have hoped for. Hit the link for a video.
(link)
IN YOUR FACE, GTA IV!!!
Ok, so Mewtwo comes out, and sells many, many copies. The world is unsurprised, but it may interest you, and this hypothetical and hard to surprise world, exactly how well it sold. Say we pick a market at random, the UK for example. In the UK, CoD: MW2 sold twice as many copies on its first day than Grand Theft Auto IV. That's right, Mewtwopulled a double GTA. Yes, I am making up slang, how good of you to notice. (link)
UK Politicians Catch Mewtwo Fever!
Well, sort of. Labour MP and staunch opponent of videogames Keith Vaz took his concerns over Modern Warfare 2 to the House of Commons, citing recommendations laid out in the Byron report about keeping inappropriate material away from children. At which point Sion Simon, the Minister of Culture, Media and Sport, pointed out that those recommendations were actually already being followed. Smooth going, Keith. (link)
FYI, There May Be A Test
Pop quiz! What was Cod Mewtwo's release date? If you said the 10th of November, then you'd be correct, but if you said the 9th, or 8th or quite a few days this month well, you'd be kinda correct too. Several retailers, most notably gaming giant GameStop, broke the street date for the game and allowed gamers to get their hands on it a few days early. Activision was, somewhat predictably, rather unhappy about this, but says that it will not punish gamers who snagged an early copy. (link)
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