My little moment in the MW2 sun...

    I only got on for 2 the night of the 18th, and I sucked. Badly. In the last game, my controller froze up and made me a sitting duck. Unplugging it and plugging it back in did no good. I wound up having to power off the 360. I never got back online after that which was just as well, since I was playing terribly. Last night (the 19th) was a different story. Still not many games -- a paltry 4 matches -- but I had good games in every one. My primary class was AUG with silencer, claymore, and Scavenger Pro, Cold-blooded, Ninja with the Predator, Attack Helicopter and Pavelow as the streak bonuses. The stand out match for me was on Favela. We spawned as the Rangers and we spread out to our positions on the high ground. We immediately ran into trouble as the Militia pressed hard on the right, and we were flushed out of the high ground. I spawned near the top of the hill and snuck into the watermelon roof building. From there, I was able to access the small brick building front center of the street we usually hold. I claymored up and camped the windows, mercilessly raking any enemy passing by with the silenced AUG. Eventually, they figured out I was right in their midst, and I got fragged by a guy who got past my claymore at the bathroom door in back, but not before I gave three Militia advancing up the right side of the street a Predator Hat™. When I spawned back in, I launched the Pavelow. I finished 22/10 on that game and 51/18 for 4 matches, and I was very satisfied indeed. I even managed to go 18/6 on Scrapyard, one of my worst maps, with a claymore killcam that the losing team whined endlessly about. Yeah, not earth-shaking stats, but really good for me. On to the links:

Today's featured vid is another episode of Top 5 Plays by GameplayUnited.

• VG247: Lace up your jungle boots: Casting call for CoD 7 mentions SOG in VietNam.
• GamerHeadlines: DICE versus Activision rivalry heats up.
• There's a feeding frenzy as the gaming news sites are jumping to the conclusion -- as I first did -- that the AC-130 barrage of death seen in assorted YouTube clips was some kind of in-game exploit. Neoseeker and StickSkills are both echoing the news, but neither article points out that the cheats depicted require a JTAG modded Xbox 360. And, like Hitler on Xbox Live, the cheating douches will get the pummeling they deserve from the Banhammer.

 

• Inquisitr: Medal of Honor screenies.
• BASHandSlash: Bad Company 2 PC beta gets RC3.
• Kotaku: Halo 3 multiplayer servers to survive the Fall of Reach.
• GameTrailers: Aliens vs. Predator video review.
• Kotaku: SEGA is replacing the fragile Alien face-hugger toys featured in the premium edition of Aliens vs. Predator.
• Big Download: Metro 2033 does not use the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. engine.
• IEEE Spectrum thru Slashdot: How Valve takes on cheaters. A 12 volt car battery, some cables, and a bucket of water would be my method.
• Joystiq: Product Jun Takeuchi discusses the hard choices faced on content cutting on the Lost Planet 2 game.
• MaximumPC: Assassin's Creed 2's PC DRM blows.
• GamaSutra: OnLive gaming service details from DICE summit.
• MCV UK thru Slashdot: Switzerland considering getting tough on violent games.

• RadarOnline thru Digg: Megan Fox thinks she doesn't look good in underwear. Hmmm. Girls, with tattoos, less is more. An ankle tattoo of the Grateful Dead teddy bears is cool. A billboard ad on an otherwise flawless buttcheek isn't. Guys, do whatever with tatts. It doesn't make any difference unless you go batshit crazy with them, like this guy: