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Halo 4: Cortana Made Flesh

I joined in with some of the 2Old2Play crew Thursday night for a retro gaming night of CoD4, and I had the best time I've had playing CoD in years. It's a great crew, and it was a pleasure to play with a full crew of adults. Best of all was the entire team loading up with Juggernaut and Martyrdom for a couple of matches of Ground War. I didn't do very well, but the enemy teams got pummeled badly. The other team's bitching about the Juggy/Martyrdom perks was music to my ears.

Embedded below is a real blast from the past, from the Halo 2 days when our dubious exploits were recorded on a Panasonic DVR for later enjoyment. As you can see, it's a short clip, and it was recorded from a 720p component connection to the Hauppage PVR as a test. So, until we have more modern gameplay (no pun intended) to show off, enjoy this accidental fail from our Halo past...

Matt64 gets kicked from Halo 2

Uploaded 22 April 2010 by HvyWpnsGuy (That's one of my channels)

Today's featured MW2 vid is a multi-kill streak montage (not a lucktage) by tejbz which has been getting thousands of views a day on YouTube. Tejbz's vids are chock full of skilled tactics and ploys. After a short LOL clip by DoubleyouCeeGee there's some MG4 action on Afghan by DubbleJord. On to the links:

• Xbox Live Operations blog: Modern Warfare 2 Matchmaking Update - The Speed of Light Edition.
• BusinessWeek: Did Activision just frag itself?
• GamaSutra: West & Zampella's bonuses distributed amongst other remaining IW employees.
• Xboxic: Former IW employees join West & Zampella's new company, Respawn Entertainment. Kotaku has the short list of new Respawn employees.
• Ars Technica: Dan Amrich: more will leave Infinity Ward, lose bonus.
• NeoSeeker: Activision supports creative freedom, says community manager.
• Spong: Activision Insider: Modern Warfare 2 DLC Pricing "A Mistake".
• BASHandSlash: GKNOVA's Third Message.

Featured MW2 YouTube Video
Naughty Boy - A Modern Warfare 2 Montage

Uploaded by tejbz on MachiniaRespawn

I Had To Upload This, Lol!

Uploaded 14 April 2010 by DoubleyouCeeGee

DubbleJord's Team Deathmatch on Afghan 37-5
(MG4, Scavenger, Stopping Power, Ninja)

Uploaded 9 April 2010 on MachinimaRespawn

More Gaming Links:

• Joystiq: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 VIP Map Pack 3 almost ready for deployment.

GameSpy: Halo: Reach Xbox 360 Behind the Scenes (Promo) - Documentary: Carnage Carnivale

• IGN: Halo: Reach Beta -- Making Multiplayer dev interview.
• GiantBomb: The Halo: Reach beta: The Important Bits.
• GamesRadar: Why Halo: Reach's multiplayer is better than Halo 3's. Also check out Halo: Reach - A Halo-hater's hands-on.
• Destructoid: Halo: Reach launching in 3 different versions.
• WorthPlaying: 'Sniper: Ghost Warrior' screenies Show Off Weather Effects.
• Edge Online: Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 delayed until 2011.
• IGN: Daily Fix for 22 April 2010. (No Jessica today! *sob!*)
• Joystiq: Crysis 2 writer Richard Morgan hopes to avoid 'the Big Mac aesthetic'.
• Edge Online: CryTek's CryEngine moves up to version 3.1.
• Voodoo Extreme: First Madden NFL 11 Screenshots Released; Drew Brees Named Cover Star, Next to be Cursed.
• GamesRadar: iPhone game of the day: N.O.V.A. Disctinctly Halo-esque.
• Joystiq: Ubisoft 'always on' DRM hated, hacked - circle of life continues.
• Kotaku: Why Did The Avatar Game Fail? For the same reason few players of "cowboys and indians" want to play the indians.
• CVG: Xbox 360 surpasses 40 million sales, almost as many RRODs.

Non-Gaming Links:

• Mail Online: X-37B mystery unmanned space craft launched by US. FoxNews has some background on the X-37B.
• Universe Today: Stunning amateur photos of ISS and Discovery from the ground.
• BusinessWeek: NY lawmakers want a retired shuttle.
• SouthParkStudios: Trey Parker and Matt Stone disavow ComedyCentral edits of South Park episode 201:

"In the 14 years we've been doing South Park we have never done a show that we couldn't stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle's customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too. We'll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we'll see what happens to it."

• GamaSutra: Analyst: Consoles To Create 3 Million New Netflix Users In 2010.