Modern Warfare 2

Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Global Agenda top Steam weekly sale list

Posted Feb 8th 2010 9:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: FPS, MMO, Multiplayer, RPG, Modern Warfare 2, Mass Effect Series, BioShock 2

Pre-orders for the PC version of Battlefield Bad Company 2 continue to do well on Steam. The latest weekly top 10 sales list for the download service shows the upcoming first person shooter at the number one position. However, the indie FPS MMO Global Agenda from Hi-Rez Studios came in at number two for the past week. The game officially launched on February 1. Steam is currently the only place to download the game (Hi-Rez is also selling a box copy via Amazon.com).

BioShock 2, due for release next week, comes in at number three on the list with Mass Effect 2 and Modern Warfare 2 at number four and five, respectively: The full list is as follows:

1. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Digital Illusions/EA
2. Global Agenda - Hi-Rez Studios
3. BioShock 2 - 2K Marin/2K Games
4. Mass Effect 2 - BioWare/EA
5. Modern Warfare 2 - Infinity Ward/Activision
6. Aliens Vs Predator - Rebellion/Sega
7. Mass Effect 2 Digital Deluxe Edition - BioWare/EA
8. Titan Quest Gold - THQ
9. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
10. Star Trek Online Digital Deluxe Edition - Cryptic Studios/Atari

Battlefield Bad Company 2 on top Steam's sales list again this week

Posted Feb 1st 2010 9:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz, FPS, MMO, RPG, Modern Warfare 2, Mass Effect Series, BioShock 2, Star Trek Online

Perhaps because of the free multiplayer beta offer, Steam's top 10 best selling games for the past week has Battlefield Bad Company 2 on top for the second week in a row. The upcoming shooter title from Digital Illusions is followed once again by BioWare's just released RPG Mass Effect 2 in second place with the Digital Deluxe version taking fourth place. In fact the original Mass Effect found itself in eight place on the list this week. Third place went to Modern Warfare 2 while the indie MMO game Global Agenda plants itself in the fifth position.

1. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Digital Illusions/EA
2. Mass Effect 2 - BioWare/EA
3. Modern Warfare 2 - Infinity Ward/Activision
4. Mass Effect 2 Deluxe Edition - BioWare/EA
5. Global Agenda - Hi-Rez Studios
6. BioShock 2 - 2K Marin/2K Games
7. Star Trek Online Digital Deluxe Edition - Cryptic Studios/Atari
8. Mass Effect - BioWare/EA
9. Aliens Vs Predator - Rebellion/Sega
10. Pychonauts - Double Fine/Majesco

Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Mass Effect 2 top Steam's sales list this week

Posted Jan 25th 2010 9:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead Series, Mass Effect Series, BioShock 2

Two of Electronic Arts' big PC game releases found themselves at the number one and two slots on the top 10 sales list for the Steam download service this week. Battlefield Bad Company 2 was on top of the list (based on revenue) and Mass Effect 2, due for release on Tuesday, was at number two in its Digital Deluxe version (the regular edition was at number 5

BioShock 2 managed to grab the number three slot on the list this week while Modern Warfare 2 continues to sell well on Steam at the number four position.

1. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Digital Illusions/EA
2. Mass Effect 2 Deluxe Edition - BioWare/EA
3. BioShock 2 - 2K Marin/2K Games
4. Modern Warfare 2 - Infinity Ward/Activision
5. Mass Effect 2 - BioWare/EA
6. Aliens Vs Predator - Rebellion/Sega
7. Company of Heroes Complete Pack - Relic/THQ
8. Global Agenda - Hi-Rez Studios
9. Star Trek Online Digital Deluxe Edition - Cryptic Studios/Atari
10. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve

Peter Jackson says he enjoyes Modern Warfare 2 more than movies

Posted Jan 20th 2010 9:30AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, Modern Warfare 2

When Peter Jackson, the writer-director of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, says in a new interview that he's enjoying playing games like Modern Warfare 2 "more than I am enjoying films at the moment" you know that he's a serious gamer. In a new interview with Aint It Cool News, Jackson says games, "are using a lot of the film techniques now, especially the cinematic areas or those little movie things. "

Of course, Jackson was supposed to produce a Halo movie as well as some kind of Halo game but both projects fell apart. He's currently working on two gaming projects that are connected to movies. One is a Tintin game that was announced by Ubisoft last summer and the other is a Hobbit game based on the upcoming prequel to the Lord of the Rings. He also says, "I think some of the ideas I've got I'd rather do them as a stand alone game, because that world is getting more and more interesting. "

Mass Effect 2 among games named in 2010 Visual Effects Society awards

Posted Jan 19th 2010 3:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Modern Warfare 2, Mass Effect Series, Star Wars: The Old Republic

It's awards season in Hollywood and even games are not immune to be caught up in the glitter. This week the Visual Effects Society announced their nominees for their 2010 awards. As shown by The Hollywood Reporter, they include two game categories. One is for Real-Time Visuals which include two PC games; Modern Warfare 2's Gulag Extraction and Need For Speed Shift's World Sequence.

The other game related category is Visual Effects in an video game trailer. Again two PC games were nominated and both were from BioWare titles; Mass Effect 2 and Star Wars: The Old Republic. The winners will be named on February 28.

New Modern Warfare 2 PC patch released

Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Patches, FPS, Modern Warfare 2

Steam has delivered yet another automatic patch update to Modern Warfare 2, bringing with it some more bug fixes and changes for the Infinity Ward first person shooter. There's also been some cheats and hacks that have been dealt with in this latest update.

Some of the changes in this latest patch include normalising the sprint speed for the Care Package, Emergency Airdrop, and Sentry Gun marker grenades. They have also improved the placement of sentry guns and also fixed some player collision issues. The patch has also put in some tweaks to improve the mouse latency in the game. All in all it's a fairly minor update.

Gallery: Modern Warfare 2 Screenshots

Star Trek Online tops latest Steam top 10 sales list

Posted Jan 18th 2010 9:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz, Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead Series, Star Trek Online

It took a massive sci-fi franchise to do it, but Modern Warfare 2 was finally displaced this week on the top of the Steam top 10 PC game sales list. The latest weekly list has the Digital Deluxe version of Star Trek Online at the number one slot with Modern Warfare 2 in the number two position.

The Digital Deluxe edition of Mass Effect 2 debuts at the number 3 slot while the indie shooter MMO Global Agenda surges up to the number four position on the list. The top 10 Steam sales list, according to revenue, is below.

1. Star Trek Online Digital Deluxe Edition - Cryptic/Atari
2. Modern Warfare 2 - Infinity Ward/Activision
3. Mass Effect 2 Digital Deluxe Edition - BioWare/EA
4. Global Agenda - Hi-Rez Studios
5. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
6. Mass Effect 2 - BioWare/EA
7. Kings Bounty Gold Edition - 1C Company
8. Wings of Prey - Gaijin Entertainment
9. Star Trek Online - Cryptic/Atari
10. Dirt 2 - Codemasters

Modern Warfare 2 nominated for Writer's Guild of America award

Posted Jan 14th 2010 8:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, FPS, Multiplayer, Modern Warfare 2

It didn't exactly have the most complicated storyline in the world and the characters are one-dimensional but Modern Warfare 2's script actually got nominated for the Writer's Guild of America's annual "outstanding achievement in videogame writing" award. The 2010 installment of the award will be presented on February 20.

Other nominees this year for the award include another Activision published game X-Men Origins Wolverine (written by comic book and TV writer Marc Guggenheim) and Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed II. The Writer's Guild said the award had over double the number of submissions for this year's award compared to last year.

Gallery: Modern Warfare 2 Screenshots

Modern Warfare 2 PC patched via Steam

Posted Jan 14th 2010 5:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Patches, FPS, Multiplayer, Modern Warfare 2

PC gamers have been waiting for a while to get an update to the PC port of Modern Warfare 2 and late on Wednesday the Steam site provided that automatic update to the Infinity Ward-developed first person shooter. The patch is mostly dealing with fixing bugs and closing some hacks in the title.

Some of the fixes include keeping people with pirated copies of the game from matchmaking with folks who own a legitimate copy of Modern Warfare 2. There are also some textures hacks that have been fixed and a glitch that let players out of a game's playable area has been dealt with.

Gallery: Modern Warfare 2 Screenshots

Modern Warfare 2 brings in $1 billion in worldwide revenue

Posted Jan 13th 2010 10:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: FPS, Multiplayer, Modern Warfare 2

Activision's hit shooter Modern Warfare 2 reportedly brought in over $500 million worldwide in just its first five days. Now the Infinity Ward-developed game has generated over $ billion in sell-through revenue worldwide since its launch just over two months ago.

The numbers, which come from internal estimates from the publisher, show that the game has truly achieved mainstream popularity. In fact, games like Mass Effect 2, an RPG, are aiming to go after the big Modern Warfare 2 crowd by improving the in-game shooting combat features. Kotaku quotes BioWare's Casey Hudson as saying, "We need to put Mass Effect 2 combat against the very best that is out there. And say this is absolutely state of the art shooting. I think in combat moments they will feel it is the same sort of game."

Gallery: Modern Warfare 2 Screenshots

Modern Warfare 2 still on top of Steam's top 10 weekly sales list

Posted Jan 11th 2010 9:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, FPS, MMO, Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead Series, Star Trek Online

Steam's holiday sales for the past couple of weeks meant that their regular weekly sales numbers were heavily skewed by massive temporary price productions for much of their library. With things now setting down from all that activity the weekly top 10 sales list on Steam (based on revenue) is back to normal.

And now that things are back to pre-holiday sales levels, Modern Warfare 2 is also back to its previous position as the number one best selling Steam game with Left 4 Dead 2 following it at the number two spot. Cryptic's upcoming MMO Star Trek Online is making its first appearance in the top 10 with its Digital Deluxe Edition and the regular edition taking the third and fourth spots, respectively.

1. Modern Warfare 2 - Infinity Ward/Activision
2. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
3. Star Trek Online Digital Deluxe Edition - Cryptic/Atari
4. Star Trek Online - Cryptic/Atari
5. Grand Theft Auto IV - Rockstar Games
6. Global Agenda - Hi-Rez Studios
7. Borderlands - Gearbox/2K Game
8. Torchlight - Runic Games
9. Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter - Croteam
10. Aion - NCsoft

More rumors: Infinity Ward working on an MMO game?

Posted Jan 8th 2010 9:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: FPS, MMO, Multiplayer, Modern Warfare 2

When you have one of the biggest game launches in 2009, everyone wants to know what the team behind it wants to do next. On Thursday, rumors hit that Infinity Ward would not be making the next game in Activision's Modern Warfare series. Now comes word via Destructoid that Infinity Ward's next game could in fact be an MMO title.

As usual, the article cites unnamed sources for its info saying that the developer has been hiring people away from major MMO developer Sony Online Entertainment. The article also claims there's some kind of collaboration with Blizzard (both developers are owned by Activision Blizzard) on this project. The article claims not to know exactly what the MMO will be all about although Activision execs have mentioned the possibility of a Call of Duty-based MMO in the past.

Rumor: Infinity Ward not developing next Modern Warfare game?

Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: FPS, Multiplayer, Modern Warfare 2

It's always a good day when a juicy rumor hits the interwebs and this one is a particularly interesting one. VG247.com is reporting through unnamed sources that developer Infinity Ward is going to take a pass on making the next Modern Warfare game and instead work on a all new game project.

The story doesn't go into detail on what that new game might be but it claims its anonymous sources have said Modern Warfare 3 might go to the newly established Sledgehammer Games or an unnamed Canadian studio. Meanwhile Infinity Ward is expected to release the first downloadable content for Modern Warfare 2 this spring for the Xbox 360 version.

Feature: Big Download's 2010 PC Game Wishes

Posted Jan 2nd 2010 12:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, Features, Modern Warfare 2, Starcraft II, The Sims 3

As we enter a new year (and indeed a new decade) we at Big Download are looking forward to playing a lot of great new PC games. But we also have certain things that we wish game developers and publishers would try doing in the new year.

You know the drill. There are certain issues in game releases we want addressed in 2010 such as not releasing games before they are properly tested or making sure that certain games have certain features that we enjoy. We have put our PC game wishes for 2010 out in the public for all to see. We just hope that these suggestions are taken to heart.

Click on the image above to continue reading Big Download's 2010 PC Game Wishes

Gallery: Big Download's 2010 PC Game Wishes

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Report: Modern Warfare 2 PC most pirated game in 2009?

Posted Dec 29th 2009 10:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Action, FPS, Modern Warfare 2, The Sims 3

Modern Warfare 2 for the PC may have become the highest selling game in the Call of Duty series for Infinity Ward and Activision but one group claims that those sales pale in comparison to the pirated copies that have been transfered via BitTorrent locations. The site TorrentFreak claims that a whopping 4.1 million illegal copies of the first person shooter were downloaded via torrent sites in 2009.

That number is a new "record" for a pirated PC game and was generated after less than two months (the game was released in early November). The Sims 3, released in June, is number two on the list with 3.2 million downloads. Somewhat suprisingly, Prototype was third with 2.35 million downloads, according to the report.

Gallery: Modern Warfare 2 Screenshots