DOWNLOAD CALL OF DUTY MODERN WARFARE FOR £9.99 ON STEAM!

Still mourning the passing of the Infinity Ward that was? Lost that Xbox360/PS3/PC disc ? Fret not for Gabe and the Steam people will let you Download Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warfare Game Of the Year for £9.99. I am so shocked and awed that I have as yet resisted my usual Oscar Mike joke...

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CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS PRESTIGE EDITION AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER NOW!

Preorder  CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS PRESTIGE EDITION   for the PS3 or XBOX 360 or the normal version from Zavvi or Game   but then you will miss out on the Prestige  set which  includes an entirely original remote controlled surveillance vehicle inspired by the RC-XD from Black Ops Multiplayer. With a range of up to 200 feet, the RC-XD Surveillance Vehicle has a fully-functioning remote camera that transmits both TFT colour video and audio to its operator. The Prestige Edition also includes the Hardened Edition, with a custom Black Ops limited edition medal, exclusive Black Ops Avatar outfit, as well as four playable cooperative maps.  


What happens if I attach my Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 night vision goggles to the Call Of Duty Black ops RC camera????????? 


So Kotik and ActiBlizzard have moved the Call Of Duty franchise through Infinity Ward and beyond..... as everyone has all but forgotten about the Modern Warfare coders. 

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CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS PRESTIGE EDITION PREORDER THE XBOX 360 AND PS3 VERSION NOW

Limited stock available to pre order now check the links below

Preorder  CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS PRESTIGE EDITION   for the PS3 or XBOX 360 here or the normal version from Zavvi but then you will miss out on the Prestige  set which  includes an entirely original remote controlled surveillance vehicle inspired by the RC-XD from Black Ops Multiplayer. With a range of up to 200 feet, the RC-XD Surveillance Vehicle has a fully-functioning remote camera that transmits both TFT colour video and audio to its operator. The Prestige Edition also includes the Hardened Edition, with a custom Black Ops limited edition medal, exclusive Black Ops Avatar outfit, as well as four playable cooperative maps.  

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From Core to Casual cancelling Call Of Duty Black Ops prestige orders and readying the lycra for Kinect instead

the rumoured in game messaging shop system possibly never to appear in a Call Of Duty game near you ever

Something in  me has snapped , I have just cancelled my Call of Duty Black Ops Prestige preorders , now as you can see from this site , I am someone who buys EVERY game in existence , usually across several formats , and some so ancient that the carbon dating results are still out...

But there is one common linkage to the games I buy or collect , they have to have intrinsic gaming value , i.e be fun and frankly having just gone through the horror that is Medal Of Honor , looking at my Halo Prestige Edition which remains shelved for fear of all the negative waves awaiting me when I open and start playing , realising that the best Michael Bay movies [ I am a fan sorry  Tarantino film students] are actually Michael Bay Movies and not knock off  4 hour First Person Shooters of the ilk of Call of Modern Halo Schwarz Ops , and with actual fun stuff like Kinect and  30 years of skill based games to play as well as a ton of free stuff like Lord Of the Rings Online, Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures , Betas from Atlus for their new RPGS  , a Star Trek Browser game , 30000 odd iOS apps to peruse,Steam sales galore,  I got to wondering why in  Nam would I need to spend £130 on Call Of Duty Black Ops Prestige  and Treyarch with their usual technically sound but soulless by the numbers game coding.


I could actually code an app in the 4 hours wasted playing another uber fps , that makes you realise how great Half Life and the original Goldeneye were...

Its time every one woke up to what the Call Of Duty Franchise has done to damage the video game industry , you have once great Japanese coders leaning to the West and producing drivel as a result , great games to look forward to delayed [ GT5] to avoid the annual Call of Duty launch date ...

There are great Call of Duty games , they are the Infinity Ward ones , but they no longer exist in the form that we remember them .... or code pushing the limits of the platform that made them ...

But there is a silver lining to the Call Of Duty cloud , practically every other game release has dropped its price , so for true games fans , and students of game culture,including anyone still interested in seeing video games evolve  , now is a great time to pick up all those obscure and scruffy looking games ... and all of them will last longer than the 4 hour action movie rip off that the Call Of Duty mantra of game design has come to represent , at least Arnold and Stallone hammed  up their roles ....

I can see a day where the ActiBlizzard Chieftains shorten the game time to 3 hours , and ask you to add more quarters , every time you die , and the multiplayer , Zombies ? perks? get an RPG or go for the awesomely cheap Left For Dead 1 and 2 pack on Steam instead for 50 % off that's £11.49 , the price of a couple of DLC modernwarefare maps !

The absolute hilarity of it all is that the developers of soulless 4 hour fps games like Medal Of Honor , Call Of Duty Modern Warfare , and Black Ops want you to take them SERIOUSLY ! 

It will be extremely interesting to see when someone is brave enough to make a DELIBERATELY satirical FPS modern warfare shootemup! A complete send up of the the Call Of Duty genre , in the style of Team America perhaps , complete with singing lonely dictators Now that might be a game  worth ordering the prestige or "Total lack of prestige edition " for ....


No wait what's that I hear you say? Call Of Duty already is already a parody of its once great self .... wow almost makes me wish I didn't cancel my orders .... almost... 

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Call of Duty: Black Ops (PC DVD) FOR £28.97

Call of Duty: Black Ops (PC DVD) for £28.97 is the cheapest it has been  ,if you have a couple of hours spare to run through another cookie cutter fps blindfolded and one arm tied behind your back , thereafter spending months been ridiculed by the social gaming sheep tween hordes that are fleeced long time every year by Mr I am not bad the media made me so Kotik , then join up .

There in the virtual jungles of `Nam  you might come to a frightening realisation that the average age of your fellow virtual soldiers sent to Vietnam is around 19 ,  or even less than the average age of those who were sent to Vietnam and incidentally are serving in Afghanistan ... Who says games cannot be thought provoking ? Oh the humanity ...or lack of it ... or is it , is the reason Muddle of Honor is so berated its closeness to real events? When are softcos exploiting death and suffering and the horror of War , and I mean for our side too , to make a quick buck ? 


Will we ever see a virtual anti war protest using these games ? Could several decades of modern warfare FPS start to put us off conflict , remember  the feeling that landing and lasting seconds on a certain virtual Omaha Beach for instance in the original Medal of Honor evoked? 


You too may also chose to ponder these and other questions the next time you are on the virtual battlefields or taking cover in the virtual trenches.....

U.S.A fans  look here  for your deals 

and check out what Mr Hardcastle has to say on the matter 

peace out people......

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Call Of Duty Black Ops for £21.99 on PC and £28.99 on PS3 and XBOX 360

Whilst the rest of the world's commodities are at the mercy of inflation , the price of games continue to decrease so whilst the cost of your daily bread is sky rocketing , billion dollar game franchises like CODBOP are available for near half their original cost at Game.

Call of Duty: Black Ops: (PS3) £28.99, Save £26.00

Call of Duty: Black Ops: (360) £28.99, Save £26.00

Call of Duty: Black Ops: (PC) £21.99, Save £18.00

Call of Duty: Black Ops: (Wii) £23.99, Save £16.00

Call of Duty: Black Ops: (DS) £16.99, Save £13.00

A bargain or a sign of  retailer desperation .. you decide....

USA fans check  Call of Duty Black Ops  here

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Download All Call Of Duty Modern Warfare games + DLC 50 % off from Steam today!

well Private , what are you waiting for Modern Warefare 3?  These are the good ones the ones that Infinity Ward ( remember them ) were responsible for .....  get on to Steam now to get 50% off Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warfare GOTYR , Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 , and the Resurgence Pack +Stimulus Package , deals like this are why PC fans always win in the end , and your machines probably run these games a 200 fps in a window whilst you watch all the E3 coverage of Modern Warfare 3 in another window , isn`t non console grown up PC technology grand? here is Modern Warfare 3 , let`s hope the single player lasts longer than a Michael Bay film this time ...

preorder Modern Warfare 3 from Game or Zavvi in the UK

  

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The world plays Call Of Duty Black Ops Multiplayer free this weekend on Steam and Eastern Europe gets to buy it for $16.50 /£10.53

Download Call Of Duty Black Ops  Multi player from Steam , and play free this weekend . And

Your purchase options include the following

1.if you happen to live in Russia ,one of the Baltic states ,or happen to be passing through , or are behind a VPN that makes you appear like you are  ,  then purchase the game already  here and register it to your Steam account ,for just $16.50 which translates to around £10.53 .... beware though it is region locked and you will need to bypass the lock to register the purchase  and apply a translation patch ( go on take a red eye to Moscow , party on and at the hotel or Starbucks use the wifi to register your game )

2. Opt for the retail version which is going for around £19.99 at Game and Zavvi and register it on Steam or from Amazon below:

3. In the USA pay more for the retail version Call Of Duty Black Ops


and 


4. Get 50% off the entire Call Of Duty series on Steam   , including the Call of Duty War Chest from Steam 

5. Save your money for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 

6. fuggedaboutid and check out some Call Of Duty Black Ops gameplay on the Intel i7/ HD3000 powered Lenovo X220T recorded with Litecam 3 

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2011 the year you start paying a subscription for your FPS and get your MMOs for free!

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Elite recently showed up as a pre order on PSN , and is supposed to be launching for PC post the game`s release. Not long to go before the year`s biggest release , and the buzz is focused not on the game but more on the subscription service the first of it`s kind for a First Person Shooter.This is 2011 and the FPS genre is now bigger than the JRPG, RPG, MMO, or any other game genre,even miraculously displacing the FIFA and PES hegemony.


Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition  has Activision forgoing the toys and trinkets associated with past special editions of the franchise . As every COD fan knows the cost of DLC hit`s you like  a misthrown Flashbang only adding to the anticlimax of a 3 hour single player campaign that consititutes your Michael Bay leaning  Modern Warfare experience....So all in all the £75 for a year`s worth of DLC and your very own Founders seat in your very own COD Elite members club does not seem too bad...Wait one....


The irony of it all is that we are now subscribing to play our FPS games and getting our MMORPGS free in increasing numbers .... 

The makers of Modern Warfare 3 feel the need for you pay a subscription to get all the features of their game and in doing so Activision/Blizzard are trying to socially monitise  the humble FPS  the same way Blizzard managed to with it`s MMO subscription model 
There is a cloud on Mr Kotick's silver pressed latinum lining , as a FPS is not an MMO , the social interactions are completely different  ,at present the height of social interaction in your average console FPS is the traditional  expletive contest..usually in the lobby whilst waiting for the next level to load .Further casual gaming people , the ocean in which Call of Duty fishes, actually play in short bursts ( with some noteable lethal Korean /Chinese exceptions..correction ... those marathon gaming session actual fatalities occurred whilst games players were engaged in RTS and MMO games ..not FPS games) , generally do not care outside 3 or 4 friends who they play with ,  have no friends,and the many actually play because the online aspect of FPS games are  FREE !   

Monetisation is why Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 are getting jiggy with the "social network" , and for that matter so is Assassin`s Creed Revelations.


Time was when a major FPS game released  effort was devoted to developing it`s graphics engine , in today`s post social network and App happy games verse  , more time is now devoted to developing a social network based /App gaming revenue engine .  The aim is to make money after all in a market with spiralling diminishing returns , and aged console hardware that barely coping with yet more Unreal 3 engine skinned games.


iD`s 20 hour single player RAGE campaign may have more than Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 put together , but it is the latter two that have led with the promise  of a post social network gaming experience that are generating and have generated the most the most hype and fan frenzy.

3 is a magic number.....

Thus the thing that hits you about this years  new batch of threquels  to last years sequels , apart from the magic number 3 ...and a funny feeling that you are paying for the same game over and over , is that they all invest the player heavily into  this feeling they are socially gaming . But for 40 odd years videogames have been antisocial and proud ,right down to the solemnly lonely chore  of making that boot disk, installing the game and then maybe just maybe making it past the menu screen .Unless you are going to somehow promise to improve this shy set of gamers Mojo with the fairer sex, your FPS pay to play model is going  to be as effective as paid for porn in a Google world where  your target audience is used to getting  all its virtual kicks free.And that includes fragging.


Of course as a games fan I will contribute to Mr Kotick`s pension fund , through the purchase of MW3 hardened edition,purely through the kindness of my heart , but this pay to play model has to provide sufficient content.

Has Mr Kotick missed a beat as gaming revenue returns  models have also adapted , whilst he has been adapting his to reap maximum returns...?

The  new kids in town, iOS ,Android ,Browser based games have been leading with freemium models . This year they have been joined by the genre that draws most revenue and  the highest number of gamers the the Facebook gamers , potentially 500 million of them . Add to that the traditional millions of players that play MMOs. Lord of The Rings , Dungeons and Dragons , Conan , and soon  Star Trek Online , Battlestar Galactica online , are just a few examples that have gone FREE. World of Warcraft on the other hand has seen declining subs and has responded with a limited free to play version. 


And there`s more : The  biggest name in PC game distribution , (no ,not Zynga !)  but  Valve ,purveyors of Steam are moving big time into Free 2 Play gaming, and with the likes of Counter Strike , TF2 , and the coming Counterstrike GO ,with more added weekly, all based on free to play or 0 sub models , not to mention EAs Battlefield Online , Battlefield Heroes and the rest of that series .


The Flash is about to hit the fan....
Recently Epic  showed the Unreal Engine running in Flash , now that brings a world of FPS games closer to running from your Facebook Page , or browser , or tablet or tv... a world of FPS games , to gamers choice always beats out  dictated games playing schedules ... can DLC really extend and hold interest on one FPS game , over the space of one whole year , a year in which sooooo many games across the vast array of formats that we have access to: every thing from phones to tablets and pcs to tvs will taking up our time ? 


Did not an Angry Bird and Farmville outshine all last years AAA multimillion $ gaming franchises? At least they did according to the number of live TV sketches on US chat shows.. 


Thus ,unlike Modern Warfare 2 which launched in a world yet to be enslaved by Freemium games  , MW3 is swimming against a tidal change in the way we game . But there is yet more potential doom and gloom.


How many players can actually play at one time? MMOs have seriously large numbers of players playing at any one time from PCs , consoles cannot compete , and certainly cannot compete in the FPS genre , the current console game with the largest number of online players is MAG , a PS3 exclusive that is a riot to play , but hardly taking the world by storm . And it is of course FREE of a subscription fee. MW3 and Battlefield 3 on consoles are going to have significantly smaller in game player counts , on the PC though they will shine .  To feel this you have to have been around when Battlefield 2 was at it`s height with 64 player battles , once you are part of those you never want to go back to sparsely populated  console FPS games .  Do you see the server problems coming ? Millions of players vying for a small number of play slots in each MW3 game , you may actually spend more time in the MW3 lobby ,than on any of it`s maps .




£70 to £90 or so for MW3 Hardened edition   , there are going to have to be a hell of a lot of maps and upgrades to justify that cost , and considering you will only get one year or so free , so next year you will also be paying £90 for Modern Warfare 4 or Treyarch`s latest . And really do FPS gamers have the devotion that even MMO players of late have been lacking which has led to all these great MMOS being free to play . 


An FPS however good it is cannot have the staying power of a great MMO , or the mass addiction of a Facebook game. Call of Duty like all FPS games has a half life so to speak , where interest gradually wains. Of course what is left of Infinity Ward could be holding back two thirds of the game to release as DLC  to make the £90 or year long sub worth it.

What may kill Activision Blizzards FPS gamer farming quest is one of  the major criticisms levelled at the Modern Warfare series:brevity  .We have been tuned to the idea that a Call Of Duty games single player length runs at around the length of a Michael Bay film (directors cut). On PC in fact you may actually play through the entire game in a shorter time than it takes to install the 20gb or so... ( note to self ... a worthy challenge) . So maybe I will play through , and pass on the multiplayer , instead playing that other social FPS that is free to play online Battlefield 3 , on my PC and consoles . MW3 with its inflated value will be a good 1 day play through and trade , I kid you not Mr Kotick , later when they release the GOTYR I may get the Steam version to play .. for around £10 like I did with COD Black Ops ... At least I would if I had more sense than gaming addiction...


Still I fear paying a sub for DLC , cannot work , no one is that invested in MMOs as a gamer any more, even the mighty Bioware knows not what the future holds for it`s Star Wars The Old Republic , as you can see by World of Warcrafts recent problems , and the droves of MMOS moving to free to play models  so how will this model work for a FPS game ? The audience for COD is being misread , no one would describe the FPS scene as  socially mature  on consoles , most online console FPS game sessions are expletive ridden , tribal affairs that descend into playground comedy faster than a weekly Priminister`s Question Time session... always .. go on log on an start playing one now ...how long till the game descends into West Side Story with grenade launchers?


In fact why not make one of the DLCs Modern Warfare 3 Expletive Contest ... and do away with the FPS part altogether....


The blind  hope of ActiBlizzard is that MW3 will have such a strong social network component , where friends chose it`s servers as venues to gather forsaking real life and their better halves , and play and keep paying to play. But again an FPS is not a social experience like an MMO or Facebook game , you play an FPS to frag , not sit around in lobbies swapping stories , so where exactly will you socialise in these games , behind the shed whilst the rest of the games occupants go around sniping and fragging to their heart`s content ..? 


The finest example of an FPS game that used post release DLC to increase it`s base audience is Borderlands , but take a quick look at the price of the game now , and most of the DLC was single player . To make MW3 worth £90 the DLC has to be the equivalent of a full game , full single and multiplayer game ... 


Core gamers will pay £90 for collectors editions ,rare games , but an FPS is something different even if it is MW3 . And the slippery slope that you will find yourself on is an annual fee of £90 for the hardened editions of the same game  to play on servers , that will go for the next year or two before the next gen consoles release and they make you pay £129.99 for the update version of the same games or subscriptions to the next . 


COD games are usually higher priced than normal releases , till this point you justified that cost by saying you would play multiplayer for a year ..but that was free ...now if you want it all you will be paying extra , and at a time when there are MANY alternatives not least in the FPS genre with Battlefield 3 , just the Alpha of which I could have played all year ! 


Then factor in all the streamed games , iOS and Android , all the other great genres , and time hogs , a little real life , and a lot of lost life to all those now free to play MMOS ... and soon to be free MMOS and you know what MW3 may be the first COD game where I am happy with the less than 6 hour single player campaign ... 


In the final analysis I find myself totally annoyed by the way Actiblizzard is trying to milk the COD franchise ,slightly amused at the lack of noise against it , and find it absolutely hilarious that in an age where we get MMOS ,iOS , Android, Browser and Streamed games for free , we find ourselves being asked to pay yearly subs by Activision to a now ageing First Person Shooter franchise ... more power to D.I.C.E... and come on Epic , Digital Extremes  and iD come get some!   






this is what you get with the  Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition :  now for £69.99 on Xbox360 and PS3 in the UK

 multiplayer map packs, memberships, in-game unlockables, and a one-of-a-kind book on many of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s untold secrets, the ‘Hardened Edition’ is the definitive experience for the Call of Duty fan.
The Hardened Edition includes:

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 game disc, featuring unique disc art
• 1-year Call of Duty: Elite membership - includes future Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 downloadable game content (including map packs)
• Special ‘Founder’ status on Call of Duty: Elite - includes exclusive in-game emblem, playercard, weapon camouflage, Clan XP boost and more exclusive benefits
• Premium, collectible Steelbook case
• Exclusive Special Ops juggernaut Xbox Live outfit
• Limited edition, collectible field journal chronicling the entire saga with 100+ pages of authentic military sketches, diagrams and written entries

or get it from Game or Zavvi in the UK ....still no news on a PC version....

Get Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 for 99p when you purchase and then trade in Battlefield 3 online at  Gamestop UK s


  

     

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