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It's safe to say that no matter what, Modern Warfare 2 is going to sell tons of copies for developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision. However, info from the first major media preview of the game (from the latest print Game Informer magazine, natch) indicates that folks who liked the co-op campaign in Call of Duty: World at War will be disappointed.

In short, Gamespot informs us that the article states that co-op play for Modern Warfare 2 isn't available. It quotes Infinity Ward's COO Jason West as saying, "We did a whole lot of co-op stuff early on that we were interested in, and it didn't work with the story at all." The storyline, by the way, takes place a number of years after Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and features the return of one of that game's two playable character "Soap" MacTavish (who gets a promotion from sergeant to captain in the sequel)

As hinted at earlier tonight the end of the Game Developers Choice Awards was the place to show the first teaser trailer for Modern Warfare 2, the next game in the hugely successful FPS series from developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision. And yes, it's just being called Modern Warfare 2; Infinity Ward is apparently ditching the Call of Duty title for this installment. The trailer also reveals a November 10, 2009 release date.

The teaser trailer is certainly one that is different from the norm; there's not really any gameplay featured. But it is certainly suggestive that things in the sequel are going to get personal rather than having it be just a pure military game. You can head to the game's teaser site which allows you to actually zoom in on the video; perhaps some Easter Eggs await. You can check out the teaser trailer after the jump

While we all know the game is under development, rumors are flying that Activision intends to officially reveal the first details for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sometime tonight. Variety reports that the reveal could be a part of tonight's Game Developers Choice Awards that are occurring later tonight as part of the Game Developers Conference.

One big clue as to what might be happening: A newly launched web site, modernwarfare2.infinityward.com, that for the moment has an animated graphic that looks like some kind of sound monitor (that's the image above). But what will be shown tonight? Will there be a gameplay teaser trailer or just a few screenshots? Stay tuned.

Activision is still keeping details about the game under their vests but at least Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is still on target for its release. During the Wedbush Morgan Securities's annual Management Access Conference, Activision's CFO Thomas Tippl said that the Infinity Ward FPS is still due for release this fall.

Tippi's address to the conference, which you can listen to on Activision's investor web site, pretty much gushed over the game. He stated that Modern Warfare 2 will be " . . . the most anticipated game of the year." He added, "There is no doubt in my mind that it will again raise the bar for the shooter genre.The game is looking incredible and Infinity Ward . . . is just doing an unbelievable job." It all sounds good to us. Now we need is a gameplay trailer to convince us.

When we first launched Big Download about 10 months or so ago, we knew we could be covering all sorts of titles, from large publishers and developers to small one man indie games. However we also knew there would be games that we, and we hope our readers, would spend more time in covering and playing over the next several months. These games came to be known to us as the BigAss 25.

This list has remained something that's only been known to the Big Download team . . . until now. Today in a special two part article we reveal what games are included in our BigAss 25 list is for the current time period. Our aim is to revise this list every few months, taking some out and putting new ones back in, so that it remains a fresh and relevant look at where the PC game industry is headed.

While we will still cover the entire PC game industry, this list of games represents what we think will be of special interest to us and our readers. You may notice that this list contains games that have already been released. Why? Because those titles continue to generate interest, especially if they have had or will have new downloadable content and expansions that will keep their games fresh in our heads.

Today we are revealing the first 13 games on the BigAss 25 list in alphabetical order. Stay tuned tomorrow as we reveal the other 12 games on our current list.

Click on the image above to continue reading Big Download's BigAss 25 - Part 1

A few weeks ago we reported that Infinity Ward had launched their own Twitter web page which gave fans a chance to offer up suggestions for their still-not-officially-announced-but-everybody-know-they-are-working-on-it FPS sequel Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Now it appears that one person with some inside access might have let some info out of the bag about the upcoming game.

According to a post on the NeoGAF message boards an unknown play tester for the game posted up what was claimed to be some of the new features and content for Modern Warfare 2 on the Twitter page. The original Twitter post has been deleted and the poster banned but the feature list was reprinted on the NeoGAF boards. This is most definitely a rumor for now (which is why we won't even bother mentioning any specifics about what was supposedly revealed) but if you like speculation that might be true you can check out the list for yourself.

[Via Blue's News]

Developer Infinity Ward has been doing more and more to connect to the ever growing Call of Duty gamer community. This week the creators of the shooter franchise launched their own Twitter site. Ah, but it's not just your normal Twitter page. This site is letting anyone with access to Twitter give their suggestions to the development team,

Currently the site is asking folks to "Name one thing you'd like to see in Modern Warfare 2" which is yet another official (but still unofficial) declaration that the team is indeed working on the sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Not only can you give your suggestions to the Twitter live feed but you can track and vote on other people's posts as well. There's even a leaderboard where you can see which users are highest in the voting. Will this new community outreach be a help to Infinity Ward? Who knows..but it's still pretty cool.

As we said on Wednesday there wasn't anything terrible earth-shattering revealed in Activision Blizzard's latest conference call with investors. You can listen to the entire thing on the publisher's web site. However here are a few choice tidbits:

• Wolfenstein, the long-in-development shooter from Raven Software and id Software, is due out sometime this summer.
• Prototype, the open world action game from Radical Entertainment, is now scheduled for a June release.
• A planned James Bond game in 2009 has now been pushed back to 2010 so that the game won't compete with Activision's plans for their next Call of Duty game.
• Singularity, the new Raven Software temporal themed shooter, will be released sometime in 2009
• And yes, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is also due out in 2009 (most likely this fall).

Ok, we all know that developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision are working on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Their sales folks admitted it in a recent pitch that they didn't know was attended by the press. Now one of Infinity Ward's own has used his blog and Twitter account to basically admit that the game is on the way.

Infinity Ward's communications manager Robert Bowling stated, "Reviewing some radio-chatter VO we just finished recording for Modern Warfare 2 today. "Cujo Two-One this is Vulture, solid copy on all." Once again, Activision hasn't yet made that all important press release but we won't have to wait much longer. Bowling says in a previous Twitter statement about his revamped blog site, "I've got a feeling I'm going to blogging / tweeting a lot more here soon." We wonder why.....

Normally we wouldn't bother giving attention to the latest email scam but the community manager for Infinity Ward decided to put the Call of Duty fans on alert for an email that has apparently been spreading out among the tubes of the Interweb.

Basically some folks have gotten an email saying they have been selected to join the multiplayer beta for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 the soon-to-be-officially announced next game in the shooter series. "Fourzerotwo" states any such email should be deleted immediately as it is almost certainly a way to transmit a virus or trying to get you to download a nasty file.

He states, "For the record, there is no beta. Believe me, if we were having a beta, I'd be screaming it from every internet rooftop from Twitter to Forums. We have yet to even officially announce our next project, let alone a beta for it." Technically Modern Warfare 2 has in fact been revealed (although Activision quickly tried to get the cow after it escaped the barn) but we are pretty sure no such beta would be released until at least a couple of months before the game's ship date.

[Via Joystiq]