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#explainer The ongoing legal tussle between Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward and publishing giant Activision is full of intrigue, accusations, lawsuits and, more recently, an exodus of key staffers from the studio behind the game. More »

Bobby Kotick cautious with lack of summer releases, however.

Hey, did you ever want to see what it would be like for your fat, obnoxious uncle to take a stab at "the Call of Duties?" Well, you're going to have to undertake that quest on your own. But we've got the next best thing: Family Guy's Peter Griffin trying to play Modern Warfare 2. It's like every single stereotype about those 'rents that just don't get it rolled into one minute-long segment, which you can check out past the break.

#respawnentertainment They say they don't even know what their next game will be yet. But the former lead men behind Modern Warfare 2 tell Kotaku that their new company, Respawn Entertainment, will make something big that won't be "exploited." More »

#respawnentertainment They say they don't even know what their next game will be yet. But the former leads behind Modern Warfare 2 tell Kotaku their new company, Respawn Entertainment, will make something big that won't be "exploited." More »

Infinity Ward to continue working on new projects.

#ea The drama involving the creators of one of the biggest franchises in gaming continues as Jason West and Vince Zampella, the fired former lead creators of Modern Warfare 2, have formed a new company, Respawn Entertainment. EA, their formal rival, is backing. More »

The drama involving the creators of the biggest franchise in gaming continues as Jason West and Vince Zampella, the fired former lead creators of Modern Warfare 2, have formed a new company, Respawn Entertainment. EA, their formal rival, is backing. More »

#modernwarfare The courtroom drama unfolding over the Call of Duty franchise is in many ways big, and important, and heavy, but it's not entirely without petty crap. Take Modern Warfare 2's use (or, not) of the Activision logo, for example. More »

#modernwarfare This week's episode of animated comedy series Family Guy ends with a special treat: a cameo appearance from Modern Warfare 2, complete with the game's community manager. More »

#violence The blowup this week over gun-camera footage showing an Army operation raised comparisons to "video game-like" behavior by the men pulling the triggers. NPR's "On the Media" looked at this controversy and the relationships among games, tactics and weapons systems. More »

#modernwarfare The legal stoush between publishers Activision and former Infinity Ward bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella isn't just giving us all some entertaining reading. It's also holding up development of Modern Warfare 3. More »

#callofdutylegalwarfare We know court documents aren't generally very entertaining, but the Activision Cross-Complaint against Infinity Ward's West and Zampella is so three-thousand and eight, while others are two-thousand and late. More »

#crysis In November, British sci-fi author Richard Morgan said he was hired by Electronic Arts to write stories for three upcoming titles. Today, EA revealed one of them to be Crysis 2. Morgan took the occasion to rip Modern Warfare 2. More »

#infinityward Mega-publisher Activision filed its counter-suit against two former top Modern Warfare game developers today, claiming that the pair purposely delayed Modern Warfare 3 and had designs to "steal the [Infinity Ward] studio." What does the other side have to say? More »

#news Intrigue, backstabbing, secret messages and double agents: Reading the world's largest game publisher's counter-suit against the top people in charge of creating the biggest video game franchise in history is like dropping into one of their Modern Warfare video games. More »

The publisher claims they were "forced to sever the relationship."

If you play Modern Warfare 2, you just might be busy racking another kill. But the people who made the game are in another round of their own combat. Activision, the game's publisher, tells Kotaku the company this was necessary. More »

#lawsuits A little more than a month after the two top men behind Modern Warfare 2 were fired by their publisher and sued because of it — that publisher, Activision, is suing back, the Los Angeles Times reported today. More »

Publisher claims they were "forced to sever the relationship."

Map pack will be released in May.

#modernwarfare2 Modern Warfare 2's five-map, fifteen-dollar "Stimulus Package" will arrive for both PS3 and PC in North America on May 4, the game's studio just said via Twitter. More »

#xbox360 Activision and Microsoft are exploding with joy over the performance of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 "Stimulus Package" map pack, proclaiming today that the downloadable add-on "shattered Xbox LIVE records" to the tune of 2.5 million sold. More »

#modernwarfare2 Via Twitter, Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling just mentioned that Modern Warfare 2 gamers have logged more than 1.75 billion hours in the game, just on Xbox Live. That's nearly 200,000 years. Other fun equivalences on the jump. More »

#clips Take seven of your spare minutes today to watch Modern Warfare: Frozen Crossing, a tribute to the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, if only to see how much fan film $209.42 USD can buy you. More »

Starting tomorrow, the six of you left out there with a Steam account who haven't played Modern Warfare 2 online in some form will get a free three-day pass to Murdertown (read: online multiplayer). Valve announced today that, "beginning this Thursday, April 8," the online multiplayer section of the game will become free-to-play, presumably ending sometime on Sunday evening (no time is specified for start and end, but we've followed up with Valve for a solid schedule).

The announcement also notes that "There is no obligation to participate," though we imagine some totally boring editor somewhere cut off the original ending, which read "unless you're into having fun. Then it's an obligation."

Activision announced today that the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 "Stimulus Package" set a new Xbox Live record -- clearly, mapathy had set in. According to Microsoft's figures, the DLC pack was downloaded over one million times in 24 hours, surpassing 2.5 million units within a week. All at $15 a pop.

To recap: 2.5 million of you are totally okay with a $15 map pack so, if this happens again, we aren't going to be there to kiss the boo-boo if it's suddenly $20. Just so we're on the same page.

#callofduty Want to see what all that Modern Warfare 2 fuss is about, PC gamers? Then play the game's multiplayer mode for free this weekend, courtesy of Activision and Valve's Steam service. More »

We thought Activision had learned its lesson about manufactured controversy in the Modern Warfare 2 ad campaign after Infinity Ward's "Grenade Spam" video. Unfortunately, it would appear that the lesson learned was that manufactured controversy is awesome. So here's a YouTube-only ad (after the break; via Game Informer) featuring an older gentleman talking with disgust about what sounds like sexual behavior -- but what's actually Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer.

A shortened, milder version is currently appearing on broadcast television.