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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..

Bored of the Bayformers and Megan Fox pouting? Us too

We want a real Transformers experience, and thankfully Activision's latest title, War For Cybertron, looks set to capitalise on that. Aside from being a new Transformers game that actually might be good, the game's going to have three-player online co-0p, multiplayer, and epic God Of War-esque set-pieces. Obviously, playing as Transformers..

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..

Bizarre Creations' announced that its power-up focused racing title Blur will hit the UK on May 28th

The game was due in November but has since been pushed back for an extra lick of polish or two. Interestingly, that's in a similar window to Disney's destructive racer Split/Second. Decisions, decisions. Although arcade racing games are one of our favourite genres, so we'll probably be playing both..

It's a funny one Blur

It's coming from a team with a fantastic heritage — the Metropolis Street Racer and Project Gotham Racing franchises were both absolutely fantastic. But Blur's never looked quite so exciting; particularly not for a Bizarre Creations game. This latest trailer makes more sense however. It's clear Bizarre are aiming for a super social game, and in many ways that has its own..

It's been a long time since that semi-decent Transformers game on the PS2

What with the recent Bayformers movies, we'd given up hope of a more traditional Transformers experience. Thank goodness for High Moon Studios, who appear to be keeping our dream alive with Transformers: War For Cybertron. The big shoot-out with Omega Supreme at the end looks really fantastic. <div style="width:..

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..

Y'know, we might be just having a blonde moment, but until we read about Transformers: War For Cybertron's preorder bonuses, we didn't even know the game had a multiplayer component

It must do though, because if you preorder the title from GameStop, you'll unlock Shockwave as a playable character in the multiplayer mode. Awesome. Does the game even have a release date?

Activision's confirmed during a consumer call tonight that there will be new iterations Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk and Spiderman by the time 2010 is done and finished

The Call Of Duty title in development is believed to be set in Vietnam, and is being developed by Activision's secondary CoD team Treyarch. Robomodo confirmed they are working with Tony Hawk again for a new title in that..

Activision's announced LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is coming to the Playstation 3 and PSP later this year

The game's set during the first couple of seasons of the animated series, which you probably haven't watched.“The LEGO Star Wars franchise is a massive hit with fans, bringing in sales of over 20 million units worldwide. We’re thrilled to extend this experience to LEGO Star Wars III:..

Gah, it feels like every week we're posting about another Modern Warfare 2 patch that fixes some glitch or other

Take the latest patch, which fixes the following: Care Package, Emergency Airdrop, and Sentry Gun marker grenades sprint speed normalized Fix for "infinite care package" exploit Sentry Guns: Improved placement detection, preventing cases of Sentry Guns inside geometry Model..

Someone grab that little dude with the funny suit from Braid because I'm about to take you on a trip through time

Rewind the clocks back to November 2006 when Sony released the Playstation 3 upon the world. It was met with feverish anticipation and was considered the second, err, third coming of the great Playstation home console series. All was good with the world. That is, until it was decided by..

Microsoft announced at E3 that they'd given Activision lots of money secured "exclusive first looks" at the upcoming Modern Warfare 2 DLC, but until today the exact context of that statement had not been revealed

However, Eurogamer are reporting today that Modern Warfare 2 DLC will receive a period of timed-exclusivity on the XBOX 360, for 30 days. So basically, you'll be able to play all Modern..

Probably one of the most hated figures in the video game industry, smug money maker Bobby Kotick has admitted to Game Informer (via Destructoid) that, yep, Activision's Spider-Man games have kinda sucked

“Our Spider-Man games have sucked for the last five years,” Kotick claimed. “They are bad games. They were poorly rated because they were bad games. “We went away from what is Spider-Man..

Maybe next time, we'll drop the clue

But our little game still won't be much fun, yo. It's too obvious. At this stage we're starting to believe that even when something huge, like, say, Final Fantasy XIII or God Of War III launches; Modern Warfare 2 will still be sitting atop the British sales charts. It'll probably still be there in 2011. By which time we'll have run out of funny comments to write..

Blimey oh riley

Here's not news you expect to report on everyday. According to reports from Destructoid, Infinity Ward are hiring staff to develop an MMO. The company are apparently sniping employees from Sony Online Entertainment and Blizzard to help out on the game, including EverQuest II's Ryan Barker. Destructoid reckon the MMO will run alongside the main CoD franchise. Several sources reported..

Treyarch's next foray into the Call Of Duty franchise - widely rumoured to be set in Vietnam - is due for release in November, ahead of the "gifting season" according to CVG

Their source - a "senior UK trade rep" - said Activision had told them to expect the game in the same window as Modern Warfare 2.“Activision believes that it can own Christmas again, just as it has in the last two..

Top DJ David Guetta [and the mastermind behind tons of amazing French house - Ed] has hinted he's working on a follow-up to DJ Hero

In an interview with Kelowna, Guetta said, “I think it’s amazing, this game [DJ Hero], and I’m going to work on the No. 2 version. It’s a really crazy game,” he said.“After ten minutes, you get the rush that a DJ gets after ten years of practising. I have fun..

Guess what's top of the UK sales charts? That's right, Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2

Word. Get all your chart-based excitement right here.