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#free Activision hooked us up with some codes for the PC and Playstation 3 versions of the latest Modern Warfare 2 pack. More »

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Pack is now available on Steam for $13.49 (10% off), and will soon be available on the PlayStation Network for $14.99. More »

#column Are games our escapist fantasies, or our outlets for dealing with reality? Either way, why is our most common gameplay choice the pursuit of war? More »

#art "Virtual photographer" Robert Overweg has a portfolio up on his site, showcasing a series of shots he calls "The End of the Virtual World". More »

Who you gonna call?

#mw2 Modern Warfare 2 was released in November 2009. It's now June 2010. That's plenty of time to sell, what, ten million copies? Please. It's plenty of time to have sold a lot more than that. More »

Infinity Ward provides an ETA for Modern Warfare 2's second map pack. PlayStation 3 owners get the "Resurgence Pack" on July 6 in the US, the next day in Europe. PC gamers worldwide get it July 6. Hoorah! More »

Second map pack coming next month.

Modern Warfare 2's second map pack, the "Resurgence Package," will be ending its brief stint of Xbox Live exclusivity next month. On July 6th, the map collection will be available for PC and the North American PlayStation Network. (European PS3 owners will have to wait until July 7th.) The DLC will likely carry the same price tag as its predecessor: a lofty $15. Included in the package are five maps, including two environments from Call of Duty 4:

• Vacant -- the wide open Russian office complex from CoD4
• Strike -- the urban town surrounded by hotels from CoD4
• Carnival -- an abandoned carnival area with a Ferris wheel, fun house and other attractions
• Trailer Park -- full of "super tight corridors" and featuring a pool
• Fuel -- a "sniper haven" based in and around an oil refinery

It's too bad Infinity Ward couldn't get the new map pack out in time for the Fourth of July weekend. We're pretty certain we know exactly what CoD fans are planning to do then.

#republished In games there are three basic ways we experience architecture: as game design, as a personalized space, or through a hybrid of the two. More »

#clips How can this short action flick manage to knock out the previous title holder for best fan made Call of Duty movie? It's bigger, bloodier and has a more substantial budget. And it's from the same creative team. More »

#screengrab As seen at reader Garrett's local Ralphs. More »

Remember who I said we'd be giving away codes for Armored Core Last Raven Portable on Facebook today? Well, we're also going to be giving away ten codes for the Xbox 360 version of the Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence DLC on Facebook as well today. More »

Listen to Modern Warfare 2 without playing it. The Hans Zimmer soundtrack for the game is now available on iTunes for 10 American dollars, give or take a penny. [Thanks, Paul] More »

#clips Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward will unleash the new Resurgence map pack for Modern Warfare 2 next week and creative strategist Robert Bowling is here, in video form, to tell you all about it. More »

Wait, you're telling us that you still haven't hit 10th Prestige? Is this some sort of joke? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been out for like, a hundred years. Whatever the reason for your pathetic, amateurish ranking, you can give yourself a boost by playing during this three-day Memorial Day weekend, when Infinity Ward will be offering double experience across all of the game's cornucopia of platforms.

There, now you have no excuse. Unless you're having, like, a cookout or pool party during the extended weekend. Or if you're going to a baseball game. Or if you're going to the beach ... Those are all pretty great excuses, we suppose.

#lego This year's gathering of some of the world's biggest LEGO fans—they call themselves Adult Fans of LEGO—at Brickworld 2010 will combine their brick engineering talents for two major video game themed collaborations, one adorably Call of Duty-themed. More »

Over one million downloads in the first week.

#opinion We can all agree that video games are a form of entertainment, but just what about them entertains you? What are you looking for, or getting out of them, when you sit down with a controller in hand? More »

In a recent interview with UK gaming mag PC Zone, Treyarch head Mark Lamia announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops -- unlike the last Call of Duty game on PC -- will feature dedicated servers for PC players. "I think dedicated servers are excellent. I don't see any reason not to see them unless ... well, I just don't see any reason not to," Lamia responded when asked about Black Ops' PC iteration, reports CVG.

Covering his bases (and likely not trying to insult Infinity Ward's reasoning behind not supporting dedicated servers), Lamia added, "We do work very hard to reconcile the desire to manipulate and modify those dedicated servers with offering them the persistent experience and benefits that the console system provides ... so people can run dedicated servers and also participate in the communal experience the console players get to have, given they're all on first-party servers."

And with that, it would seem that Treyarch will give us a chance to officially leap through the air while raining an unlimited supply of explosives on the ground below us when the game arrives this November. Hooray?

#dlc It's hard to be angry about paying $15 for another mix of new and old maps in the Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence map pack when the Funhaus is staring you right in the face, now is it? Let's visit the carnival! More »

[Vacant, as seen in Call of Duty 4]
Xbox Live's Major Nelson had Infinity Ward "creative strategist" Robert Bowling on his podcast recently to talk about the upcoming Resurgence Map Pack for Modern Warfare 2. Set to release on June 3 on Xbox Live, the pack will be priced the same as its predecessor, the Stimulus Pack, at 1200 ($15). Resurgence will feature maps old and new, including two Call of Duty 4 maps and three new locations:

• Vacant -- the wide open Russian office complex from CoD4
• Strike -- the urban town surrounded by hotels from CoD4
• Carnival -- an abandoned carnival area with a Ferris wheel, fun house and other attractions
• Trailer Park -- full of "super tight corridors" and featuring a pool ("Mobile Estates," Bowling calls it)
• Fuel -- a "sniper haven" based in and around an oil refinery

Bowling says that the new maps will be tied to specific playlists, just like the Stimulus maps. With the Resurgence collection, however, it's possible that all of the maps will be available in every playlist, as long as "demand is high." And, as with the previous pack, the new maps will be exclusive to Xbox 360 for a short time before coming to PC and PS3.

[Vacant, as seen in Call of Duty 4]
Xbox Live's Major Nelson had Infinity Ward "creative strategist" Robert Bowling on his podcast recently to talk about the upcoming Resurgence Map Pack for Modern Warfare 2. Set to release on June 3 on Xbox Live, the pack will be priced the same as its predecessor, the Stimulus Pack, at 1200 ($15). Resurgence will feature maps old and new, including two Call of Duty 4 maps and three new locations:

• Vacant -- the wide open Russian office complex from CoD4
• Strike -- the urban town surrounded by hotels from CoD4
• Carnival -- an abandoned carnival area with a Ferris wheel, fun house and other attractions
• Trailer Park -- full of "super tight corridors" and featuring a pool ("Mobile Estates," Bowling calls it)
• Fuel -- a "sniper haven" based in and around an oil refinery

Bowling says that the new maps will be tied to specific playlists, just like the Stimulus maps. With the Resurgence collection, however, it's possible that all of the maps will be available in every playlist, as long as "demand is high." And, as with the previous pack, the new maps will be exclusive to Xbox 360 for a short time before coming to PC and PS3.

#modernwarfare Repeating a pattern set by the game's first batch of downloadable content, Modern Warfare 2's "Resurgence" pack will contain a mix of maps, some new, some not so new. More »

#dlc Enough whining about the high price of the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack! It's time to whine about the likely high price of the Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Pack, due out early next month for the Xbox 360. More »

In what might be the briefest press release we've ever received from a major publisher announcing a new chunk of DLC for an über-successful game, Activision revealed that another set of five multiplayer maps for Modern Warfare 2 will drop on Xbox Live on June 3. We know two things about said maps so far: They're coming in a set called the "Resurgence Pack," and their release will be heralded by two double XP weekends on May 28 and June 4.

Now, that's what we know. What we assume is that the pack will feature a mix of new maps and renovated versions of Call of Duty 4 maps -- perhaps a bit more of the latter, given the title of the bundle. What we also assume is that the "Resurgence Pack" will carry the $15 price tag of the "Stimulus Package" (it worked well enough before). We'll contact people in the know to see if we can squeeze out any firmer details.

Nintendo continues strong software sales performance.

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Bizarre Creations is known for its racing expertise, honed in the great Project Gotham Racing series, and their latest title, Blur, is no exception. The arcade sensibilities of Bizarre's own Geometry Wars and the underrated (I said it!) The Club add a few new colors to the mix, but the driving is as solid as ever -- as you'll know if you've been playing the multiplayer beta.
The real key to Blur, though, is the much-discussed social features. Bizarre has more or less perfected console racing over all of its past iterations, and so when we were invited to Activision HQ last week to check out Blur's single-player components, the focus wasn't so much on the how of racing, but the why.

#activision The second map pack for the blockbuster Modern Warfare 2 will be released in the second half of 2010, an Activision executive confirmed today. That will be the first fresh dose of Modern Warfare since the recently-issued Stimulus Pack. More »

#activision The canning of Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella was not a decision that Activision took lightly, says big boss Bobby Kotick, saying that the pair's conduct was a disappointing "compromise of our friendship." More »