As did I. The backstory revealed in the intel was a great incentive; in fact Black Ops is the only COD where I bothered to track them all down.

"Førstepersonsskytere" is a really rad way to say "first person shooter."

My own two cents on the whole MW3/BF3 dust-up, having bought both:

Still up as of 1:47pm Eastern.

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

This is the only trick you need to know.

I'm totally with you on not being able to back out to the main menu after a match has ended. It's just plain bad design that you have to wait until a new match has started before you can leave.

I played Oblivion for a few days, got bored, forgot about it for a couple of months and then sold it back to Amazon for $20. The crime being I think I ripped 'em off.

I am definitely glad I don't do stuff like that for a living.

Just how meta is it that reviews are getting reviewed now? We should start an academic/literary journal. Kotaku Quarterly.

Vive la différence.

What the fuck, Vimeo.

Geez, I hope so. These first few levels are a real slog and not much fun at all.

So, will those of us poor saps who still play on standard def TVs be able to tell a difference?

It...was...the...Dukes...it...was...the...Dukes!

Man, I love me some Stana Katic. Especially in the third "Librarian" movie, since it's such a departure from the tough women she usually plays.

This is an interesting point to raise, though I didn't notice it myself. Perhaps because— at least in American English— it's definitely unusual to call a woman "asshole," "dick," "douchebag," etc. Of course, I suppose this in turn raises the issue of gender-neutral invective.

It might have just been the Operation Metro map, since it didn't have vehicles (and to me that's a selling point of the BF series). I played and enjoyed the Bad Company beta, which was also a rush map.

I gotta admit, I have a few worries about this. I played the 360 beta (no PC) and didn't have that much fun with it. I don't know if I'm too tuned to COD or what, but I just couldn't get into the swing of things.I'm also concerned that there only being 24 total players for these huge maps will be...suboptimal?

Did everybody get a trilingual (English/French/Spanish) box for this game? When I opened up the package from Amazon I noticed the Spanish paragraph first and was alarmed for a second.