BFBC2: developer walkthrough

The narrator is Gordon Van Dyke: a former modder that impressed DICE so much they gave him a job. The video gives you a good sense of how the game will play, but it's a PS3 implementation, so the movement won't be as chunky when you get your grubby little fists on the PC version.

Video Games - E3 2009 - PlayStation 3

United We Fail

Steam reports a peak MW2 (MP) population of 68,026 today. View the hypocrisy in real time here.

Day Two

Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling on the advantages of IWnet:

Cheat / Hack Free Games: The biggest benefit of using IWnet by far is the fact that you don't have to worry about joining a server full of aim-bots, wallhacks, or cheaters. Or relying on the server admin of the server to constantly be monitoring, banning, and policing it. Modern Warfare 2 on PC allows us to control the quality of the game much more than ever before as well as utilizing the VAC (Valve-Anti-Cheat) system to keep games clean of hackers and cheaters.

UPDATE: Apparently, Activison doesn't want you to know about this. You'll see all kinds of MW2 gameplay videos in the coming days, but those won't be pulled for copyright claims, will they? (Note that the video is available here, thanks to an unnamed source.)

Destructoid previews Bad Company 2

Words here.

If reading isn't your thing, just watch the video with the volume maxed. I have never heard a game (surround) sound that good.

Pirating MW2: the 360 takes the lead

The story is interesting on its own. That it's not a PC story makes me fell all good inside.

The posting last Thursday on Craigslist was alarming. Someone was selling a Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle, with both a console and a game, for $500. The problem was that Modern Warfare 2, one of the most anticipated games of the year, doesn’t officially go on sale until Nov. 10.

Activision Blizzard, the game’s publisher, called in IPCybercrime.com, a Dallas private investigation firm that specializes in online investigations. The investigators tracked down the seller and stumbled into a scheme to pirate the game and sell a bunch of fake copies over the Internet. While the bust led to the arrest of just one hacker among many, it sheds light on the shadowy underground of the business of illegal piracy. It also offers a peak at how investigators try to head off a major piracy disaster before it happens.

And later:

Coincidentally, pirate digital copies of Modern Warfare 2 flooded onto torrent sites, which are peer-to-peer sites for sharing software, on the same day. That has likely caused untold losses for Activision Blizzard, Holmes said.

Full article here.