Avenged Sevenfold rock band’s vocalist M. Shadows will be visiting the Xbox Live and will play Gold Members in Modern Warfare 2.
So, upgrade your Gold Member now if you are not yet and join the vocalist on July 1, 5.00 P.M. ET onwards.
Just you need to send a friend request to the below given gamertag and try to be online 30 minutes before the Game:
Avenged7x GwF
Want to hear sound of Avenged Sevenfold?
Check the music videos of the band that is available on Zune Marketplace on Xbox LIVE.
Xbox Live Game With Fame with Avenged Sevenfold
•Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010
•Time: 5PM – 7PM EST / 2PM – 4PM PST
•Game: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
•Gamertag: Avenged7x GwF (space between Avenged7x and GwF
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Modern Warfare 2 gets two new multiplayer playlists. With these two playlists gamers can now play public matches without any killstreaks.
The Barebones Pro consists of FFA and TDM and the Objective Barbones Pro consists of Domination, Demolition, HQ Pro, and Capture the Flag.
Only Xbox Live users are facilitated with this update, but soon the PlayStation 3 and PC users will also get the updates alongside the Resurgence Package DLC that is coming on July 6th.
In Barbones Pro 4 to 8 players can play where as in the Objective Barbones it is up to twelve players. .
Barebones Pro:
Play Team Deathmatch and Free-for-All. All Killstreak rewards are disabled.
Players: 4-8
*Xbox LIVE Party Chat allowed
Objective Barebones Pro:
Play Domination, Demolition, HQ Pro, and Capture the Flag. All Killstreaks rewards are disabled.
Players: 8-12
*Xbox LIVE Party Chat allowed.
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One more milestone for Modern Warfare 2. Its sales crossed 20 million units worldwide. Speaking at the E3 investor conference, Thomas Tippl, CFO of Activision, said: “Modern Warfare 2 has sold more than 20m units against an install base of 55m on Xbox 360 and PS3.”
20 million copies? Woah.
Now Modern Warfare 2 is very close to some of the best-selling games of all-time. Those are:
New Super Mario Bros – 22,490,000
Nintendogs – 23,260,000
Mario Kart Wii – 22,550,000
Wii Play – 27,380,000
Wii Fit – 22,610,000
Activision’s CEO Bobby Kotick said on the occasion that CoD franchise has “reached life-to-date revenues of $3bn.”
We also know that this Infinity Ward developed title had the biggest opening week of all time. Guinness Book of world Records labeled it as “The Most Successful Entertainment Launch of All Time.”
Let us wait and watch what Call of Duty: Black Ops does.
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Modern Warfare 2 fans may be happy to know that “Resurgence Pack” will be hitting the PS3 and PC on July 6th.
The pack is price tagged at $15 and it adds five maps to the game. Those are as mentioned below:
Fuel
Gamers will see an oil refinery site and it is the largest yet seen in MW2. The location is separated between two buildings and the design of it encourages a focus on rooftop sniping. It is even a window-to-window combat.
Trailer Park
This map is smaller than the Fuel one. The location is around a variety of motor homes and picnic tables. One will see numerous corridors and choke point in it.
Carnival
The map is on abandoned fairgrounds. In it the rides and attractions are left to rust. Gamers will see here themed areas that range from futuristic to medieval. One can use castles and rocket ships type of landmarks to coordinate their efforts.
Strike
This map features a Mideast setting. It has some of the reasonably frantic urban combat.
Vacant
This map is set in an abandoned Russian office complex. The popularity of this map peaked in the original Modern Warfare.
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In US alone ten million copies of Modern Warfare 2 has been sold, though there was too much of trash talk and controversy. It seems that the developers is running off to join Respawn. Activision are in the hope of doing the same with Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Cowen and Company does some prediction for the Black Ops. The game is going to be released by November and it has even started charting in some territories due to the pre-orders.
Well, the main question here is that can Black Ops sale be as fast as Modern Warfare 2, which has hit 4.7 million sales in just 24 hours after its release last year on November 10. Within four months the sales of its had hit ten million milestone.
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Activision still is cashing its effort of Modern Warfare 2. The company reported recently that its profit doubled in first quarter and revenue shot up by 33 percent.
Robert Kotick, Chief Executive Officer, said in an interview: “The results definitely speak for themselves… Our key franchises are performing.”
The publisher posted a profit of $381 million in the quarter ended March 31.
Modern Warfare 2 generated about a sales of $1.3 billion across the world. It became the best selling of the publisher of all time.
The Stimulus Package, add-on of MW2, sold 1 million copies on one day, March 30, when it was released for download on Xbox Live. At $15 it generated $10.5 million in a single day.
Analyst Colin Sebastian said, “Activision’s game franchises are pretty healthy in spite of what’s happening with Infinity Ward… The impression was that things were falling off track, but for now Call of Duty remains strong.” Sebastian is an analyst with Lazard Capital Markets.
In a recent management turmoil the publisher lost around three dozens key talent at Infinity Ward studio. In March the company fired two top executives who in return sued the publisher for allegedly withholding royalties from MW2’s sale. Following this other talents who made MW2 started resigning.
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It seems that Infinity Ward will be following its earlier formula for its new map pack for Modern Warfare 2. Recently community manager of the studio, Robert Bowling, shared some details about the Resurgence Pack.
He said that the Resurgence Pack will be sold for 1200 points ($15) and as the earlier Stimulus Package, this map pack also feature five maps, in which there are three new environments and two maps updated from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. These two are
Vacant, set inside an open Russian complex, and urban environment Strike.
Below are the details of three new maps as shared by Robert Bowling:
Carnival – This map is set inside a “desolated amusement park” and it has unique locations like a rollercoaster and fun house.
Trailer Park – Bowling says that this is a cozy map and it features abandoned trailers and tight corridors. He also says further that this map is like a maze with various chokepoints.
Fuel – This is like a “sniper haven”. It is based in an oil refinery and according to him this is one of the larger environments of the game.
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A second map pack for Modern Warfare 2 is under development confirms Activision.
Thomas Tippl, the COO of Activision says in the quarterly earnings call of the company, the downloadable content will be available late this year.
As with the earlier and original package, Infinity Ward will be developing the second set of maps.
However, the publisher did not said anything upon the pricing.
The first DLC was sold for $14.99. It was titled as Stimulus Package and was sold on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. It featured five new maps, of which two were featured in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare released in 2007. In the first week of its launch, the DLC downloads was 2.5 million.
The publisher releases data saying they have sold 17 million map packs till date for the CoD franchise excluding the recent release on PC and PS3.
Activision says gamers have spent 1.75 billion hours on MW2 online multiplayer since its release in November last year.
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All the fans of Modern Warfare 2 across the world should be able to play the game now with a little less lag now. This is possible because a new fix has been applied to the matchmaking system of MW2.
However, this does not mean that you will log on and see anything fundamentally different in your gaming experience, but if you are facing any such problem then this update to the process will be helping you a bit.
According to Microsoft in a blog post of Xbox Live says, “When you search for a match, our servers sort through the many thousands of available matches to find the ‘best’ potential games for you.”
It is also added there, “We’ve changed how we determine ‘best,’ and your country is now an even more significant factor than it was before.”
By now the international lag issues entirely won’t be eliminated, but may be the fix doing good job and the game may be good and swift.
“If you live somewhere that’s geographically isolated – like Australia, for example – most of the world is not near you,” the post states. “On behalf of that Australian gamer we’re now trying harder than ever to find a session in their country for them to join. Of course, this requires there to be games hosted in Australia with open slots at the moment they’re looking – but we’ve maximized the odds of those gamers getting together.”
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After most of the high profile executives left Activision, the company said in a legal document that Mr West and Mr Zampella had “morphed from valued, responsible executives into insubordinate and self-serving schemers”. However, both of them have described the claims as “false and outrageous”.
According to analysts, the other 9 employees that left Infinity Ward last week apparently disgruntled at the treatment of the creators. Before these employees left the company, the game was believed to have the strength of about 90 executives.
The global first-day sales of Modern Warfare 2 crossed $500 million (£323 million). Modern Warfare 2 puts players in the position of special forces across the Middle East and former Soviet states in fictional way.
Industry analyst Evan Wilson said: “Investors are starting to think that Activision really ticked off the whole studio.”
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