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The game media sites appear bent on blaming the DLC release glitch on Infinity Ward, as this Kombo.com article shows. Although IW can arguably be blamed for a lot of things, the glitched "Stimulus Package" DLC release isn't one of them. Microsoft already accepted the blame for not releasing the required MW2 title update first, before putting the DLC on the Xbox Live marketplace. Don't get me wrong: I think IW has done a number of things wrong, including shafting the PC mappers and modders, but they're in the clear for the DLC release rap. A couple of really nice MW2 vids today. First up is an M16A4 FFA on Skid Row. A lot of nice gameplay with a textbook example on how to control a critical area on the map in FFA. The second vid is a Domination map on Salvage with a tactical nuke finish. It's awesome to watch the enemy team bailing to avoid the nuke. Sandy Ravage has posted his first video from his PSNet exploits, a FFA on Quarry. Bonus: He busts up a booster party during the match. On to the links:

• Unbeatable UK: More Call of Duty 7: Black Ops rumors.
• CVG: Robert "Fourzerotwo" Bowling interview: Care package glitch didn't hurt Modern Warfare 2's popularity.
• ZergWatch: MW2 Stimulus Package review.
• IGN: Is the MW2 Stimulus Package worth it?
• GameTrailers: Overgrown Map comparison video. Compare the look of the original CoD4 and the MW2 DLC map.
• Complex.com: 5 Easter Eggs Hidden in the New Modern Warfare 2 Maps.
• ResumePlay.net beats a dead (and rotting) horse: MW2 PC flaws present opportunity for competitors. 

Featured MW2 YouTube Video

Gameplay/Commentary :: OpTic H3CZ FAA with M16A4

Domination on Salvage, Nuke by
MW2 Commentators

Sandy Ravage PS3 FFA on Quarry
(with a coupla boosters)

Growing old is inevitable; getting old isn't.

• IGN op-ed on the MW2 "Stimulus Package: DLC: Call me 'mapathetic'.
• El33tOnline: Linkage to GameTrailers vids of gameplay on each new MW2 map, Bailout, Salvage, and Storm.

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Booster Kill Interlude

    More Gaming Links:

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Top 5 Kills

Lucktage by MachinimaRespawn

• GamingUnion: Why it's safe to have faith in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
• Edge Online: The Manhattan Project: Crysis 2.
• GamingBolt: CryTek: Developing an engine for Crysis on consoles was challenging.
• IGN: Battlefield Evolution: Post BC2 launch interview with Gordon van Dyke of D.I.C.E.
• GameTrailers: Halo: Reach Developer Diary.
• YouTube: IGN Halo April Fool's vid.
• Kotaku: Bayonetta, Watching Bayonetta play Bayonetta. Because you can never have enough Bayonetta.
• GameSpy: Ralph Baer, O.G.: Original Gamer, Inventor of the first gaming console ever.
• Kotaku: iPad Ultimate Gamer's Guide.
• Kotaku: After failing to show up for an arraignment hearing, alleged PAX East Breach code thief, douchebag Justin D. May surrenders to authorities. According to the Escapist, Justin D. May found time to play Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox Live during his stint as America's Least Wanted.

 Artist's conception of

incarcerated douchebag

IGN Daily Fix for 1 April 2010

with the luscious Jessica Chobot

Does Jessica Chobot like to get
comfy when gaming?

Yes, she certainly does.

    Non-Gaming Links:

76mm OTO-Melara auto cannon

Somewhere downrange, Godzilla is being

turned into reptilian Swiss cheese...

• Today's Tactical Error: Somali "pirates" take on US Navy warship - a warship armed with Godzilla-killing rapid-fire cannons.
• Joystiq: First 'Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D' stills are 2D, compensate with Milla Jovovich.
• GamaSutra: Paul W.S. Anderson (a.k.a. Milla Jovovich's husband, the lucky bastard) to keynote 3D gaming summit.
• ReezlChannel: Lindsay Lohan casy as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-reboot. Lindsay Lohan? Really? Really?!?