Call of Duty

Activision released the latest version of Call of Duty this month. It has been breaking all sales records with ease. On the first day, it sold over 5 million copies for a revenue of $360M. In the first 5 days, it has raked in $650M in sales. Damn.

This is the seventh installment of the Call of Duty line. The game is titled Call of Duty - Black Ops. The game was previously announced back in April. It has some sketchy material like torture of prisoners and assassination of heads of state. Good stuff eh?

You are going to need some serious hardware to run this game. A lot of people with decent gaming machines have complained of severe lagging. The stated system requirements are Windows XP/Vista/7, 2G RAM, Intel Duo Core2 processor, and Direct X 9. I don't think my weak laptop can run this thing. Man I need me a good gaming PC.

Minecraft Hype

I heard that there was some game developed by a dude that was earning $250k a day. WTF? How can a game make that much money every day? The thing only costs 13 or 14 bucks a pop. Looks like there is a lot of hype out there about the game. And that is a good thing for sales.

So I figured I would try out the game. Now I was not a out to go out and pay $13 for the thing. I wanted to play a free version of it. I went to the web site. The thing had some weird message at the top of the page about the servers being overloaded.

I downloaded an executable. It required Java. So I downloaded and installed Java. Then the game I downloaded said I needed a login. What the heck? I went back to the web page and tried to sign up. Got a user ID and password. Tried again and the game would not accept the credentials. Then I tried to play the game on the web page instead of the one I downloaded. The thing hung my browser. If I have all these problems, I doubt the thing is selling 20k copies a day. Must be a fluke some type of fake propaganda to get sheeple to buy the thing.