Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 broke records this year as the biggest ever entertainment launch in history. With 4.7 million units sold in the US and UK during the first 24 hours, it pulled in revenues totaling $310 million.
TorrentFreak posted their yearly research into the games people love to steal and has found that the first-person shooter hit the top of both the PC and Xbox 360 lists for most unauthorized downloads with 4.1 million and 970,000 downloads respectively.
It’s frightening when you consider that the game has only been …

The nation of Activision has amassed an intimidating virtual army of 8 million gamers. Activision was kind enough to do some number-crunching comparisons to show off its military e-peen. The Modern Warfare 2 army of Activisionland is larger than the world’s top five armed forces combined. It’s more than twice the size of NATO’s 28 country member’s military force (3.9 million troops). It’s also three times larger than the People’s Liberation Army of China, which is only 2.3 million strong. The Modern Warfare 2 army is also more than five …

There’s a nasty glitch in Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer that’s being exploited to score cheap kills right now; Using the Javelin, players can essentially become bombs which detonate as they get killed. To ‘encourage’ people to reduce the usage of the glitch, Microsoft has warned that they will be banning Xbox Live accounts from 24h to up to two weeks in the case of excessive use.
“…people we catch using [the glitch] will recieve suspensions from LIVE,” tweets Xbox LIVE’s Director of Policy and Enforcement Stephen Toulouse, later adding that “cheating suspensions are …

Modern Warfare 2’s airport level is one of the most discussed sequences in the history of the medium. So when the scriptwriter behind it speaks up, it’s probably worth listening.
In an interview with GamePro, MW2 scriptwriter Jesse Stern had some interesting things to say on the level and its creation. “Every single person in testing opened fire on the crowd, which is human nature,” said Stern. “I hope that people don’t just look at it as being this simplistic and brutal sequence. We’ve done our best to treat it with …

Oh, you l33t hax0rz, how we envy you – bending binary code to your will and making a computer program do things that it really was not intended to do. Given enough time and effort, someone could probably make the TVGB office microwave download the latest episode of Dexter while we heat our Hot Pocket. Until that happens though, we have the current nerd-gasm occurring over thedev console that was found inside Modern Warfare 2.
After some crafty hackers got into the developer console within the game, setting up dedicated servers and …

Yesterday it was widely reported that Russia had banned Modern Warfare 2 due to the controversial “No Russian” mission near the beginning of the game and that the government had ordered a recall of all copies pending a re-evaluation. Unfortunately those reports, originating from Hellforge via Russian game site got PS3, were quite erroneous.
Activision has today given an update on the matter, clarifying that the console versions haven’t even been released in the country and that the removal of the scene from the PC version of the game was their …

TVGB-During Modern Warfare 2’s launch event in the UK, the voice actor for the game’s Ghost character, Craig Fairbrass, mentioned that “they” — presumably Infinity Ward — are considering a game solely for Ghost.
“I did in the last game a voice for a character called Gaz and in this game I’m now voicing a guy called Ghost, who now just got a spin-off comic of his own and they’re talking about another little game to go with it,” Fairbrass said at the event (video’s on Live), “so, I’m quite excited …

Bomb Squad is set within the Favela locale, inspired by the shanty towns of Rio de Janeiro. Players will take a quick run through a similar marketplace within single player mode, but for Bombing Run Infinity Ward combined the bomb defusal concepts found in multiplayer game types like Sabatoge and Search & Destroy with a co-op, time-based challenge. Each level of difficulty — regular, hardened, and veteran — will yield varying challenges in enemy AI, and also an increasingly tight timeframe for you to work your magic.
The level begins with …

During an ad break in an episode of  South Park on Comedy Central, the last Modern Warfare 2 trailer was shown.