Call of Duty Notes...

From my 17 February blog:

    I played some MW2 HC TDM last night with Reibo, Matt64, and JKDJose. Matt had a scorching good night, tho he had to leave early. He went positive in nearly every game with his best game on Quarry, going 14/5. I managed to stay positive, tho I had a couple of decidedly undistinguished games. My best game was on Highrise, where I camped the right side hallway, gunning down dumbass after dumbass coming in from either side. I was using the Vector, of all things, with the RDS. The only other standout game for me was on Scrapyard, where I lucked out with the killcam using the silenced AUG LMG.
    When aiming down the sights and being real careful with the trigger, the grip doesn't seem necessary. It's really useful for sustained bursts, tho. I'm a pray and spray guy, so I'm torn whether I'll keep using the grip or the silencer, or Blinging them both.

• Modern Warfare 2 PS3 has been patched again to bring the anti-care package fix to PSNet.

• GameTrailers: Halo: Reach Gameplay Extract (1 min video) and X10: Visual Upgrades Interview.
• BASHandSlash has this translation from German of a GameStar interview with Patrick Bach of DICE.
• Electronic Arts closing PS3, Xbox, and PC game servers on some titles, including Battlefield: Modern Combat.
• Kotaku: Electronic Arts "Project Ten Dollar" invades Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
• GameSpy: More on the as yet unnamed FPS from Codemasters.
• 1Up: Star Trek Online (PC) review.
• VoodooExtreme: Star Trek Online Cosplay World Record video. Worth a look, if only for the redhead in the awesomely tight Starfleet Science division TNG uniform.

• Edge Online: Michael Atkinson thinks gamers are worse than gangs.
• Destructoid: Aliens vs. Predator death montage video. Ouch!
• Kotaku: Alien vs. Predator dedicated servers coming.
• Joystiq: NECA making action figures based on Borderlands, BioShock 2 and more.
• Metro 2033 to support DirectX 11, Physx, and 3D.
• GamesRadar: The Top 7 Ways Bioshock 2 is better than Bioshock 1.
• Kotaku image: Mel Brooks, Chevy Chase & Superman Sound Off On Video Games -- in 1982.

• Slashdot: Today's best CPUs compared -- to a Pentium 4.