I've spent the last three weeks getting married, going on a honeymoon, diving The Great Barrier Reef and getting The Bends. It seems a lot went on while I was gone, but rather than spam your RSS, Twitter and Facebook feeds with a dozen new articles, I thought a summary of those stories would be best, prior to business as usual.

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2011 brings us Modern Warfare 3, the third in the series and the eighth major Call of Duty title. In it you will as and alongside numerous characters in numerous units, some returning from previous games, on a mission to bring an end to a global conflict that has been masterminded by a single ruthless psychopath. If it were a film it would be a popcorn flick at best and at worst inexcusable b-grade rubbish. But because of its delivery as a game, like the previous Modern Warfare titles, it's yet ag...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's social features sure do sound a treat, as explained in this article's video embed. Battlelog-esque, there's some deep integration that looks to improve your multiplayer experience. Unfortunately, it has been delayed for PC gamers. Not only is ELITE not launching on day one, but the developers have absolutely no date for us, not even an approximate a release window. This blow comes just after news that the freely available PC dedicated aren't actually ranked at a...

It looks like the "soldier in all of us" theme from Call of Duty: Blacks Ops is being carried forth into Modern Warfare 3. In this new live-action trailer you'll see Sam "The Vet" Worthington and Jonah "The Noob" Hill make a mess in the street of New York, and across the world.

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The guys over at Activision also have a launch trailer for their year's big shooter, Modern Warfare 3. Like the Battlefield 3 launch trailer you'll see a heap of excellent single player campaign sequences, but the horrible voice casting and dated graphics might send you straight back to watch that instead. MW3 hits Steam on November 9.

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Aired during an English Premier League match on Friday was this Modern Warfare 3 campaign trailer. Titled "Redemption", the all-new single player trailer provides a lot of action as well as a few spoilers. The description reads "in the world's darkest hour, are you willing to do what is necessary? Prepare yourself for a cinematic thrill-ride as only Call of Duty can deliver."

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The latest official Battlefield 3 video takes us back to Paris for an extended look at some chaotic combat and destruction across their highly awarded map; Operation Metro. Also on the BF3 front is Cowen & Company's first year sales forecast of 11 million units, putting pre-orders on par with Call of Duty: Black Ops. Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling even says he'll buy a copy.


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Modern Warfare 2 was the biggest day-one launch in entertainment history. Was. Call of Duty: Black Ops has made an astonishing $360 million in the US and UK alone during the first 24 hours of sale - $50 million more than MW2! Activision internal estimates suggest that's approximately 5.6 million copies, compared to 4.7 million....

It turns out that 2K Marin has gone the way of Infinity Ward. It has just been made clear that there will be no LAN support, and no dedicated servers for the sequel's new multiplayer component. The explaination given is a contradiction in itself, and reads "We chose to spend the time we had creating a solid game foundation and unfortunately that did not include LAN play or dedicated servers." Make of that what you will....