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Worried about Mom on Facebook infiltrating your super elite squad of Modern Warfare 3 multiplayers? It looks like that won't be an issue with Call of Duty Elite's Facebok integration into MW3, though that guy from high school you don't wanna talk to might end up bugging you constantly. The good with the bad, folks.

Rumors have been circulating today that Kmart stores have been selling copies of Modern Warfare 3 prior to its official debut next week. It's clear that a handful of copies were definitely sold, as several eBay listings for the game have been popping up (and taken down) all day.

At least one listing that is still active does indeed include a picture of a Kmart receipt. It seems the company got wise to the error, as all the locations we called reported the November 8 release. We suppose if you really want MW3 five days early, you might be able to snag one. Of course, that's assuming you're willing to pay upwards of $100 and the listing survives underneath eBay's watchful gaze.

Incidentally, if you find yourself with a legitimate retail Xbox copy, don't worry about playing it early. Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft's Xbox Live guru, has given the all-clear on Twitter.

[Thanks, Mike]

You can go ahead and cancel that intricate, Ocean's Eleven-style Gamestop heist you've been planning -- we've discovered a sure-fire way to get your hands on Modern Warfare 3 before its release. Just roll on up to your nearest (participating) Walmart at 8 p.m. on November 7, and you'll get to participate in a Modern Warfare 3 tournament, the winner of which will get a free copy of the game. The losers? They'll probably get those Walmart smiley face stickers. It's win-win!

Sure, that just gives you four hours with the game before you can play it indefinitely in the comfort of your own gaming cave. Still, have you played competitive Call of Duty at launch before? Four hours of extra insight is enough to turn the tide of any given match. Like the Joes say, knowing is half the battle, and the other half is having ninja-like reflexes and an unending pool of tolerance for having slurs hurled at you by sixth graders.

Actor Bruce Greenwood has played President John F. Kennedy in Thirteen Days, Commander Pike in Star Trek, and Batman/Bruce Wayne in Young Justice, but nothing prepared him for his first video game role. Greenwood, who is currently filming ABC's new TV series The River in Hawaii and Flight with Denze...

#callofduty The Call of Duty series has traditionally been about shooting your enemies apart online, but with the strong social features of Call of Duty Elite and Facebook integrated with Modern Warfare 3 the latest game in the series is more about bringing gamers together. And then killing them. More »

#callofduty Last night we posted an image of a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 that a reader had purchased in a Tampa, Florida Kmart. Then we started receiving more pictures of the game purchased yesterday. Then videos from the game starting popping up. How was everyone getting copies of a game that wasn't supposed to go on sale until next week? Kmart. More »

The past year has seen a hell of a lot of smack-talk in the realm of modern-day war shooters. It's been Battlefield 3 versus Modern Warfare 3 all year, with the tantalising prospect of a very public grudge match between publishers always simmering in the background...

Missed our Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 livestream yesterday? It's OK, we've gone ahead and cut out some of the hottest clips for you. Check out exclusive footage from the single player campaign, clips from various multiplayer maps (including footage of some new modes), as well as videos from the new cooperative Spec Ops survival mode. Enjoy...

During IGN's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 live stream today, Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling confirmed some details of the game's Prestige Mode. The game's multiplayer mode will be capped at level 80, at which point players will be able to Prestige. Players will be able to Pre...

When Modern Warfare 3 deploys to retail in a few weeks, multiplayer-centric CoD fans are gonna have much more than Deathmatch to enjoy. Project co-lead Michael Condrey is happy to explain those very modes in the latest dev diary, as seen above.

#callofduty Activision's 800-lb gorilla FPS franchise gets a lot of its muscle from its multiplayer and this clip shows what'll be different and new in Modern Warfare 3. New modes—like Kill Confirmed, which tasks players to get dog tags of downed opponents—will show up along with the abilities to tweak and share settings into custom modes. What are you going to do in custom modes when Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 hits later this month? More »

#modernwarfare Dutch porn star Kim Holland was invited and then quickly uninvited from a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 VIP party in Amsterdam later this month after the game's publisher discovered what she did for a living, Eigenwereld reports. More »

#callofduty Several outlets this morning have posted what appears to be the layouts of the 16 multiplayer maps for Modern Warfare 3, giving fans a glimpse at their size, exploits, bottlenecks and what have you. More »

A single disc of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's PC version has been stolen from a Fresno, California shipping warehouse. The disc is only half of a two-disc set, but copies have begun circulating among pirates online. The stolen disc was Disc 2 of the set, and it isn't immediately clear which parts of the game it contained...

#modernwarfare It's not just pirated, downloaded PC versions of Modern Warfare 3 that are turning up ahead of the game's November 8 release. Seemingly legitimate retail copies are now in people's hands as well. More »

#modernwarfare Look, video games turning up on torrent sites around the days of their release is a given. Happens with almost every game published these days. But no game is bigger in 2011 (at least in terms of sales) than Modern Warfare 3, and the tale of how it's been lifted and pirated is an interesting one. More »

In the latest dev diary showcasing upcoming FPS blockbuster Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, project leads Mark Rubin and Michael Condrey drill into the game's weapon leveling system. But while it's thrilling to learn about the game's customization updates, we're most excited by that jumping explosive. Jumping explosives!

#callofduty Actvision's producers talk about the new ways that weapons usage will change in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. It sounds like the more you use a particular gun, the better it gets. Peep all of that and new weapons in the clip above. More »

There’s a launch trailer floating about – it’s been around for a few days now, but it’s still not out for another couple of weeks – for a game called Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Whatever that might be.

This is, of course, the first game in the official Modern Warfare franchise not to be made by the original team at Infinity Ward. Instead it’s a joint effort of the IW leftovers, Activision’s go-to supply developer Raven, and the Dead Space veterans-containing Sledgehammer Games. With the CoD B-team, Treyarch, only working on the Wii version of this one, it’s essentially a new staff on what is unquestionably the biggest FPS franchise in the world. As they so immodestly point out in the trailer below:

What does it mean when a launch trailer appears two weeks before the game is launched? It means the world’s all messed up. I also like the classy sting for 360 on the end there. *crag* you, PC and PS3 gamers!

Now everyone below write angry comments about how you hate this game, and secretly check if your pre-order is still there.

Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter believes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will outsell Battlefield 3 by a margin of 2 to 1 this fall. According to Pachter, Battlefield 3 will sell eight million copies, while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will sell 16 million. If this proves to be true, Modern Warfare 3 would become the best-selling game in United States history, beating out Call of Duty: Black Ops, which sold nearly 14 million...

Modern Warfare 3's dedicated PC servers will be unranked and admins will have complete control over what's unlocked, Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling said in a PC FAQ. Public PC servers will be ranked and feature a standard unlock system, while consoles will strictly use P2P, with no option for dedicated servers, ranked, unranked or with randomly assigned unicorn mounts. That's right -- no unicorns.

Bowling defended the decision on his Twitter, saying the admin control of dedicated PC servers will be "Nothing like COD4. That's why we built in all the new backend control / security, so we don't have that problem again." Bowling also said that no one on PC is forced to play P2P servers; it all depends on what you want to get out of the game: "Public is about progression, private is about control."

You know all those Modern Warfare 3 videos we'd previously uploaded? Ignore them. They mean nothing to you anymore; they done you wrong, you need to get them out of your life and make room for the official Modern Warfare 3 launch trailer, right here. Embrace your new life. You deserve it.

The latest Call of Duty Elite trailer covers the "compete" section of the website, where players compete for fabulous prizes and bragging rights. "Fabulous" is probably too fancy a word to use. Bro-wsome? Dude-tastic?

From the Twitter of Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling: More »

#callofduty The sorta free, sorta not Call of Duty Elite community and website service has a lot of moving parts. Here's a look at one of those: The game's Compete features. More »

Infinity Ward have posted a heap of information regarding the PC version of Modern Warfare 3 over here. Highlights include some details on how the dedicated servers will work – “Dedicated Servers, allowing players to find and filter via an in-game server browser or set-up their own Dedicated Server for complete control, without being restricted by any 3rd party hosting requirements. If looking for a Dedicated Server to join, if you choose not to set up your own, you can filter and favorite by Ping, Map, Gametype, Hardcore Variants, Voice, Password, and many other options” (such as RCON) – and also graphics: “including enablingand disabling of new rendering features such as SSAO, you’ll also be able to modify DOF, Shadows, Anti-Aliasing, Texture Resolution and more.” It will have Steamworks integration, with VAC as the anti-cheat system, and will also support LAN play.

That is a lot of stuff!

Wanna check out Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 a week before you can play it? I know we do! Tune in to IGN's exclusive MW3 Livestream, right here, on Tuesday, November 1, 2011, from 12-4pm PST...

A new behind-the-scenes video for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has revealed a new system which should dramatically shake up the game's tried-and-true multiplayer component: Strike Packages. These break the player base down into three classes: Assault, which earns the standard set of offensive killstreaks; Support, which unlocks less offensive killstreaks (like UAVs and turrets), but doesn't have their streak reset upon death; and Specialist, which earns no killstreaks, but unlocks additional Perks every two consecutive kills.

Players can also extend their streak by not only killing other players, but by capturing objectives or, with the use of a special Perk, providing their teammates with assists. Check out the trailer above to see how this system's being refined for the series' next installment.