Got any old titles laying around and want to get a killer trade in value? Gamestop is offering 40% on all trade ins towards any E3 title. The full trade in amount must be applied towards your pre-order. I have made a killing on these before by trading in enough to pay something off and having extra left over to buy a few other things. If your a member you also get an extra 10% on top of that. 40% Trade Bonus toward Pre-Order of E3 Title(s) Get an extra 40% in-store credit on any games traded toward big upcoming releases announced at this year’s E3: Gears of War 3 | Batman Arkham City | Assassin’s Creed Revelation | Just Dance 3 | Uncharted 3 | Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | Rage | COD: Modern Warfare 3 | Mass Effect 3 | Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword I find it interesting that Battlefield 3 is not listed there. Then again it has reached an insane amount of pre-orders over all the above titles according to my Gamestop manager. Online ad Gamestop I also wanted to mention that Infamous 2 Hero Edition is currently priced at $59.99 and the stand alone is at $49.99. Can be found HERE

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Battlefield 3 is outselling Modern Warfare 3 , which is “definitely a first”. This was confirmed by GameStop insiders to Hiphop Gamer. Apart from that, news also has it that the retailer apparently has a standing order to push Battlefield 3 towards customers more than Modern Warfare 3. Looks like EA really is working hard to get those promotions and marketing rolling hard on the tracks.

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Ever imagine how it would be like to step in a video game? Well fret no more because Activision boss Eric Hirshberg just announced Call of Duty XP 2011. A 2 day event that will be held in Los Angeles in September. COD XP 2011 is like DisneyLand COD style. Plans are for two maps to be recreated in full scale so that a people who pay the $150 entrance fee can feel how its like to be in the game. 32 team bracket tournaments, food from Burger Town, a chance to play MW3 in advance.. these are just some of the things you can expect from this event. “We are constructing a full-scale replica of one of our multiplayer maps as a paintball stadium for fans,” Hirsherbg said. “We’re reconstructing the legendary level from Modern Warfare 2, The Pit, which fans can actually run.” More interested in what you’re going to be able to eat at an all-Call of Duty event? “You’ll be able to eat at Burger Town from Modern Warfare 2,” Say’s Hirshberg via an interview with Jostiq . For more information go to the official website . Will you pay the $150 entrance fee? Sound off in the comments below! I personally want to see Nuketown recreated but that’s just me. Also judging by the lay out in the website, this will most likely be across from the LA Convention Center.

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Former Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella, best known for their work on the Call of Duty Franchise, have launched the website for their new formed company “Respawn Entertainment”. EA Games Label president “Frank Gibeau” talked to the press about Respawn’s first project, along with Insomniac Games (best known for Ratchet & Clank and Resistance series, to be a “sci-fi oriented” shooter. “It will allows us to compete with things like Gears and Halo”. Do you think Respawn’s next title will be a Halo killer?

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Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling just Tweeted , “Modern Warfare 3 world premiere gameplay trailer tonight on NBA Western Conference Finals around 6pm PT (2 am UK). I’ll link HD here. #MW3″ The NBA Western Conference Finals will be on TNT, so check your local listings, or check back here shortly after and we should have it for you.

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Infinity Ward just finished a security meeting that entails the hacks displayed on the PS3 version of games for both hacked and non-hacked consoles. Here is what FourZeroTwo had to say: I just left a security meeting with the coders here at Infinity Ward where we discussed a lot of solutions. I feel good about the meeting, but of course I can’t go into detail on the possible solutions we discussed as we don’t want to give out any information that could potentially hinder the security any further. Once I have more information, I will post it here. The key factor I want you to know is, that while any update takes time, we are looking to make the process as quick as possible and nothing is being left unattended. Our main focus right now is on: 1) Preventing hackers from affecting legitimate players. 2) Addressing users who have already been affected. He also stated that some of the problems need to be reported to Sony as well, so if you see someone hacking their way to victory, be sure to report them to Sony using this link.

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Activision-Blizzard announced earlier today that the latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise has surpassed 1 billion in sales worldwide. This is nearly a month faster than it took CoD: Modern Warfare 2 to hit 1 billion. It is now on track to set another milestone in the entertainment and video game industry. Before the games launch the expectations were set pretty high but now it seems that Wall Street’s expectations for the game weren’t high enough. Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Market has stated that they are “increasing the unit estimate for ‘Black Ops’ to 19 million from 17 million”. In its first five days on shelves, Black Ops pulled in $650 million. Just by looking at the numbers you can see that the game is going to break Modern Warfare 2′s record in everyday. Just recently it was released that Activision is already working on the games first DLC. Modern Warfare 2 had two downloadable map packs, the first of which pulled in 37.5 million in its first week. I am sure we can expect that the DLC for Black Ops will top that. According to Bobby Kotick: “people should expect to see more content made available for this game”, as well as why it’s doing so well: “The reason ‘Black Ops’ has done so well is it’s more accessible as a game,” says Kotick. “The folks who are making these games are really thoughtful about incorporating user feedback into the game. Each successive iteration makes it more broadly appealing.” Honestly at this point. it doesn’t matter how bad or flawed the game can be, as long as it has the Call of Duty stamp on it people will run out and get it. I also feel that the reason the game is so popular is because what Infinity Ward did with Modern Warfare 2. SOURCE [ CNBC ]

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CoD: Black Ops Surpasses 1 Billion In Sales

The studio that started the Call of Duty phenomenon fell to pieces earlier this year with the firing of its co-founders and the following mass exodus of pissed off Infinity Ward employees. With enough money, you can recover from that. And when you’re Activision Blizzard, you can put Infinity Ward back together again. You can get over it. Activision’s owner claims it has, according to the Financial Times . “We have reconstructed Infinity Ward,” said chairman and CEO Jean-Bernard Lvy of Vivendi, the majority owner of the mega-publisher. “We have been very happy with the way we have been able to reconstruct it.” Not that Vivendi and ActiBlizz need them! Lvy boasts that Black Ops developer Treyarch has outperformed the old Infinity Ward with its latest game. Activision did promise “ Ultimately, Infinity Ward will rise from the ashes ” not long after aggressively hiring new talent for the embattled studio. We’re sure they’ll be wrapping up Modern Warfare 3 any day now. Bobby Kotick is of course all about the money, he cares not for the games nor what goes into them, he only cares about the money he can extract….or “farm” from us players. But Infinity Ward has taken a huge loss this year due to lead developers quitting and founding new companies, it’s not just the developers leaving the company but other key players that develop games for us to enjoy as consumers. Personally I think this is a huge blow to Infinity ward, and it’s all Bobby Koticks fault, as I said he’s more concerned about making a quick buck, not so much concerned with the consumer….the PLAYERS….the people who buy ActiBlizz games. There is a movement on the official Playstation Forums to boycott Bobby Kotick/Actiblizz games, sadly the post has been buried and forgotten…..despite my attempts to keep the topic floated. Now-A-Days it seems that the main focus for the major developers is to develop a game that ‘nets’ the most immediate revenue and to subsequently “forget” about the game and move on. I don’t know about the rest of you but I miss the good-ol-days of gaming where it used to be about the games….not the companies that developed the games. For the gaming veterans out there like myself, do you remember the old days of the NES? Do you remember who made the game, or do you remember the game itself? Take Festers Quest for instance…a TERRIBLE game by today’s standards, but all in all you don’t remember that it was Sunsoft that dropped the ball on a developer standpoint, you just know that Fester’s Quest sucks some serious……well it just sucks. My point is that over the past 20-some-odd-years I think most of us gamers have lost focus on the big picture, and I think its the age of entitlement that has ruined gaming for us old farts. In closing, as I said I think that the modern age of “entitlement” has ruined modern gamers, as a gamer from the 80’s I have seen the industry grow in leaps and bounds, and it still fails to satiate the modern gamer because the modern gamer is spoiled beyond belief. In closing I think as gamers some of us have lost touch and become to greedy in our demands, and with our complaints have caused rifts in companies such as Infinity Ward. You may think that we have no influence in the goings-on of these companies, but in reality, customer feedback is the “word of god” But seriously, we only have ourselves to blame for this “reconstruction” and if the next installment of Call of Duty sucks….well its our fault because we complained and griped about the current development team and demanded new talent, and the new team who has no clue what we want as a community. So when the next COD sucks we only have ourselves to blame, because in the end these companies really do listen to us.

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Yes,  Call of Duty: Black Ops now holds the biggest launch in entertainment history, surpassing its predecessor,  Modern Warfare 2 . That’s for the first 24 hours. What about the next four days? As you might expect, they went on to sell more. According to the latest Gfk Chart-track, the latest CoD topped the softwares sales chart comfortably in the UK. According to Activision, the game grossed US$ 650 million in its first five days of sale. Modern Warfare 2 had US$ 550 million. A very pleased Bobby Kotick pointed out that, “ Call of Duty has become the first entertainment property in history to set five-day launch records for two consecutive years across all forms of entertainment.” Activision isn’t the only one benefitting from the release. Microsoft reportedly had 2.6 million  Black Ops players on Xbox Live at launch day, logging in a total of 5.9 million hours of online play. The game has been patched earlier, so you might want to check the patch notes, too. [via  Joystiq ]

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“Maintain noise discipline”, a phrase uttered throughout Medal of Honor is a common one used in military dialect and perhaps EA should have followed suit. The controversy surrounding the last minute change of the Taliban’s name in multiplayer has caused plenty of drama but it’s never been anything like Modern Warfare 2’s ‘No Russian’ debacle, In fact there are no civilians present at all throughout MoH, just American soldiers, the Taliban/”Opposing Forces”. As you’d expect this is an incredibly patriotic game best summed up by the cover star Dusty wearing a FDNY cap, there’s no doubt you’re doing this for America with no coalition soldiers of other nationality in sight unlike MW2’s SAS sections but then this makes sense considering the Medal of Honor is only bestowed upon US soldiers. Enough of the politics though (always inescapable when it comes to war, eh?) does Medal of Honor dethrone Call of Duty or even Battlefield 2: Bad Company to become the top dog of war? Medal of Honor aims to be the more realistic title than its competitors by setting the game in Afghanistan and basing it on real operations against a very current opposing force. This is where the realism ends though and MoH moves to the video game stereotype emulating a blockbuster movie, it’s not at the level of CoD’s Michael Bay zaniness but rather Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down without the Hans Zimmer soundtrack… and with more Linkin Park. Luckily the ridiculous elements never go too far and it all operates within a realm of respectability. The gameplay is sold with weapons providing good kickback, headshots are satisfying and quad bikes are decent even if they do suffer from that age old vehicle in FPS syndrome where they have no acceleration or deceleration (I blame Half Life 2 for this). The flow of MoH is perfect switching between the different characters you control sometimes without even leaving the scene for example a sniper saves you at the end of a mission and you’re controlling that sniper in the next. The pace of the story heats up as you get further in too encouraging you to play on as you become more engrossed in the story. This does bring the campaign mode’s short length to your attention however there is re-playability in the form of a Tier 1 mode where you have to beat levels within a certain par time with no checkpoints to test the hardcore out there. There are plenty little touches to add realism with Russian tank corpses in the desert along with references to check weapons as the “dust is like glue”, you’ll frequently find yourself marking targets for air support too and in one particularly engaging encounter you are laying down the covering fire so your squad-mates can mark a target, it works brilliantly as you see a fight from the other side and are not the one expected to charge head on at the enemy for once. The general chatter between soldiers with military lingo feels very authentic really drawing you into the operation you’re carrying out as opposed to MW’s dramatic lines or BF:BC2’s (unfunny) jokes. The best example of this is during the mission as a gunner aboard an Apache helicopter and hearing all the chatter about what to aim for etc. The aesthetics of MoH have been well thought out to immerse you into the war in Afghanistan with sprawling snow capped mountains to the water barren valleys there is always a good view. Dust clouds obscuring your view especially after large explosions you can be completely without sight from dust and smoke as the sun gazes through, it’s a spectacular and haunting 9/11-esque effect. The sound is equally good as gun shots echo throughout the valley, explosions boom with violent bass and your squad mates constant updating of the situation really helps. This results in MoH being a polished game but could still do with the odd buff here and there, some of the edges can look rough as though there is no anti-analysing, and I also noticed enemies spawning in the distance which ruined the immersion somewhat. Before some of the major set pieces you character will also lower their gun disabling your ability to shoot, this definitely ruins the shock factor of a particular scene knowing you can’t do anything to stop it. Interestingly the single and multiplayer sides of the game use different engines with single player developed by Danger Close using the Unreal engine and the multi player develop by Dice using their superb Frostbite engine. The results in MoH feeling almost like 2 completely different games multiplayer using the best engine, it looks nicer, runs with a better frame rate and contains more destructible elements of scenery although not at the same scale as BF:BC2. Multiplayer, of course, offers you a chance to be the Taliban Opposing forces with each side presenting you with different weapons for example M16 if US to the AK 47’s of OP FOR and C4 against IEDs complete with mobile phone trigger. It makes playing on each side more than just a cosmetic. There are a variety of modes from Team assault (team deathmatch), Combat Mission (where you take over a series of objectives), Sector Control (domination/king of the hill) and Objective Raid (2 positions to defend/attack). All these modes are great fun but some of the small maps result in one team dominating the other thanks to poor spawn points allowing a team to be pinned into a corner and that is never fun. There are 3 classes available; Rifleman, Special Ops and Sniper and with no healing, repair or ammunition resupplys MoH’s multiplayer is fast paced and kept simple. The kill streak rewards come in offensive and defensive flavours such as mortars or UAV and are applied via a scope so you have to see the area you’re ordering an air strike on instead of cowering in a corner with a map. There are limited perks that amount to kit upgrades such as laser sights and open-tip ammunition which are all upgraded in the standard XP point system. It fills the middle ground between the fast arcade thrills of CoD and slower more tactical BF:BC2. It’s worth noting that I had no connection or host migration issues in any matches or problems with lag, outstanding. It’s also worth mentioning that the PS3 version contains the exclusive Medal of Honor Frontline a remastered PS2 title included on the disc running at 60fps with updated controls and trophies. It’s not quite the polished job of the God of War collection with some v-sync issues and low res textures but it is definitely worth revisiting this classic game which I have fond memories of. It’s also fun to see the large jaws and slightly comic animation with Nazis standing up to die. The gameplay still stands up well though and you can see just how far FPS games have come on consoles when you check out the old default control scheme – shoulder buttons to sidestep?! Medal of Honor has been touted as EA’s first step into the modern warfare market and it’s a great start, it’s decent in all areas if not a genre leader of any becoming a halfway house between MW2 and BF:BC2. It’s easy to pick up and play and does a good job of raising awareness for the soldiers who are serving in Afghanistan even if it’s not an entirely realistic portrayal. So while Medal of Honor may not be best shooter out it’s still an honorable effort that’s worth your attention. *A copy of Medal of Honor was provided by EA for reviewing purposes. Campaign mode was played to completion twice on normal and hard. All multiplayer modes & maps were tested over 5hours of playtime using all classes.

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