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In the video above, Infinity Ward man Robert Bowling takes us through a video tour of Modern Warfare 2 ’s upcoming Resurgence map pack, showing off the quintet of maps and giving pointers along the way. The line-up of new maps consists of a Disney World from hell – no, not Euro Disney – called Carnival, the largest map to date in Fuel, and the closed in Trailer Park that makes me a bit homesick. Those who have played Call of Duty 4 know what to expect on the open building complex of Vacant and the urban sprawl of Strike, but those who memorized each map’s layout should be forewarned, Infinity Ward has changed things up just a bit.

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Activision announced today that the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 “Stimulus Package” set a new Xbox Live record — clearly, mapathy had set in. According to Microsoft’s figures, the DLC pack was downloaded over one million times in 24 hours, surpassing 2.5 million units within a week. All at $15 a pop.

To recap: 2.5 million of you are totally okay with a $15 map pack so, if this happens again, we aren’t going to be there to kiss the boo-boo if it’s suddenly $20. Just so we’re on the same page.

Modern Warfare 2 ‘Stimulus Package’ sells over 2.5M units in a week originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Day one purchasers of Modern Warfare 2 ’s Stimulus Package downloadable content are getting a little unexpected bonus from Microsoft: 7 days of free Xbox Live Gold membership. The gift is not to compensate for the launch day connectivity issues that the downloadable content caused, Xbox Live’s director of programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb tells IGN , but instead a way to thank customers for their loyalty to the Xbox 360’s online platform

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Activision is spending £1 million to promote the five maps that make up Modern Warfare 2 ’s Stimulus Package, MCV writes . The campaign includes extensive online marketing as well as a TV spot, both of which started running before the map pack became available this Tuesday and will continue to run throughout Easter. On top of that, “Our partners are playing a crucial role in driving the Stimulus Package message out to consumers through their in-store activation,” according to David Tyler, Activision’s marketing director for UK and Ireland

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Modern Warfare 2 may have offered quite the buggy online experience in the months following its launch but, according to Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling, only a fraction of players were ever affected. Talking specifically about the care package glitch that allowed players to call in and abuse Harriers, AC-130s, Predator Missiles etc, the community man said , “No, there was no drop [in players]. Since people take this game very seriously and they play so hardcore – we do as well – you know that stuff gets a lot of attention.” Out of their 25 million players , Bowling continued, “the people who experienced those types of things and even participate in those types of things are very very small – like one per cent of our user base.” “So in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t really impact the overall experience of the majority of players.”

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You may have noticed that  Modern Warfare 2 ’s Stimulus Package launched yesterday. You may also have noticed that it was knackered, kapput, broke. Here’s why

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The first round of Modern Warfare 2 downloadable content just got all video-fied for our ogling pleasure. Costing 1200 Microsoft Points for the Xbox Live version on March 30 , and $15 for PC and PS3 about a month later , the Stimulus Package will deliver three new maps called ‘Bailout,’ ‘Storm,’ and ‘Salvage,’ as well as ‘Crash’ and ‘Overgrown,’ two popular maps from Call of Duty 4 .

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Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling has detailed the contents of the upcoming Stimulus Package DLC for Modern Warfare 2 . The content will include five maps — ‘Bailout,’ a multi-level apartment complex; ‘Storm,’ an open industrial park littered with heavy machinery; ‘Salvage,’ a snowy junkyard fortified by stacked debris and crushed cars, and two maps from Call of Duty 4 ; Crash and Overgrown — the community man said while speaking on Xbox Live’s director of programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb’s podcast yesterday, and will come with a price tag of 1200 Microsoft Points

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In what’s certainly a unique approach to announcing downloadable content, Infinity Ward has revealed that the first new multiplayer maps for Modern Warfare 2 will arrive later this month, on March 30. “Mapathy (n.) [map-uh-thee] (often expressed as, “How the hell did you know I was there?!) is a state of indifference to the game old maps one has been playing for the last several months,” a website set up for the announcement reads

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A release date and details for Modern Warfare 2 ’s long speculated on first piece of downloadable content may arrive soon; community man Robert Bowling has said that the studio is “oh so close” to settling on the details. “Lots of #MW2 DLC related meetings today, which is a good thing,” he tweets .

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Considering the Xbox 360 received the lion’s share of Modern Warfare 2 purchases, it comes as a bit of a shock to us that the already released on PS3 and PC “care package patch” is just now being submitted to Microsoft for certification. That said, developer Infinity Ward’s community man Robert Bowling tweeted as much to Game Informer’s Andrew Reiner approximately 24 hours ago when Reiner asked about a possible release for the much anticipated fixes.

As Bowling has pointed out before (and details in this forum post on the subject), the patch is set to remedy the following (you might need a pillow for all of this pure, unbridled excitement:

• 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 1887: Bling using Akimbo and FMJ combination now has same range and damage as non-Bling Model 1887s.
• Fixes to prevent various XP hacks.

And no, there’s no date given for when it’s coming out. So stop asking. (Seriously.)

Via Game Informer

Modern Warfare 2 ‘care package’ patch submitted to Microsoft certification originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Don’t you love lists? Entertainment tracking firm Rentrak has recently released its list of the 20 most rented games of 2009 and the results show a very strong presence of Xbox 360 titles. Indeed, 17 of the top 20 games were for the 360 platform

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