Games Are Going To Win BAFTAs Tomorrow. Here's Who We Think's Gonna Win.

Guess what? It’s the BAFTAs tomorrow night. And that means all the glamorous folks involved in putting together the games you loved last year will be heading to the red-carpet to (hopefully) collect a copious number of gongs. We’ve teamed up with VoucherCodes.co.uk to bring you our definitive list of predictions ahead of tomorrow’s big event. Remember, if you see any game on our list you’ve not bought yet, VoucherCodes.co.uk might just have the Amazon code you need to get it for a steal.

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Modern Warfare 2: Good But Not That Good.

We’re shaking our heads here. Bemused. Look, we know Modern Warfare 2’s a good game. We said as much in our review. But really, it’s not that good. It’s a shooter, you have guns, they fire.

Man, the UK’s video games sales data people GfK Chart-Track have just announced that Modern Warfare 2 has become the second best selling game of all time. It’s leap-frogged Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. That’s bonkers.

It still has some way to go to catch-up to the best-selling UK game ever – that’s Nintendo’s Brain Training lark – but, we’re sure it’ll probably get there. Sigh.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Is Totally Going To Get New Content At The End Of The Month.

DICE has announced that anyone who’s redeemed their VIP code for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will receive mode updates for both the Arica Harbour and Laguna Presa maps on March 30th. That’s the same day as the XBOX 360 version of Modern Warfare 2 gets new multiplayer maps. Interesting.

Anyway, if you’ve redeemed your VIP code, you’ll totally get this stuff for free.

Sounds To Us Like The Call Of Duty Franchise Is Over.

Remember Call Of Duty? Yeah it was a big deal for a little while. It’ll continue to be a big deal for a while longer. But it kinda sounds like the franchise is done.

In a whole pile of drama starting yesterday, Activision has fired the Infinity Ward bosses Vince Zampella and Jason West. Activision’s also filed a document citing a human resources investigation “into breaches of contract and insubordination by two senior employees at Infinity Ward”. Gamasutra argue that the “insubordination” clause might be Activision’s way of getting out of a contract with Infinity Ward that states only they can make games in the Modern Warfare franchise. Big stuff right there. But we haven’t finished yet.

Indeed Activision announced last night that new upstarts Sledgehammer games (formerly of EA’s Visceral team) will work on an “action-adventure” Call Of Duty game in 2011, alongside another Call Of Duty game by an unknown developer.

Basically, Activision are milking Call Of Duty for everything it’s worth and the two guys that were responsible for kick-starting the franchise, well, they’re no longer at Infinity Ward.

Uncharted 2. Bioshock 2. Modern Warfare 2. MAG. Is There Too Much Cross-Over?

It seems to me that every video game has multiplayer these days. More or less. And even when it’s debateable whether a game should have multiplayer (Bioshock 2 springs to mind), the resulting component tends to be rather impressive. But that causes its own sub-set of problems, particularly for someone like myself who has to play through multiple games a week. There just isn’t enough time for all this multiplayer.

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Bioshock 2: "Unnecessary" But Apparently Still A Big Deal.

Apparently Bioshock is still a big deal, as Bioshock 2 has shot straight to the top of the UK charts, removing previous leader Mass Effect 2. Interestingly, after a slew of price-cuts (and perhaps that Playstation 3 patch), Bayonetta has re-entered the charts in number 10 (up from 36). Elsewhere, Fifa 10 and Modern Warfare 2 are still strong propositions.

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The Game Totally Still Needs Fixing Folks.

It never seems to be longer than a few days before we’re posting about yet another Modern Warfare 2 patch. We know the popularity of the game has lead to plenty of exploits but, this is kind of ridiculous. The latest patch should fix the predator missile on care package exploit, plus more rebalancing for the shotguns. Oh and earning negative XP no longer happens.

Anyone still play this game? Dumb question we ’spose.