Mark your calendars now! April 2nd through April 5th is the first Double XP weekend that is coming to Modern Warfare 2! Also according to Robert “fourzerotwo” Bowling’s tweet, this looks to be exclusive to Xbox 360 users too, so PlayStation 3 and PC users are out of luck.

But I am more than sure that you players on those platforms get your own Double XP weekend a month after when the maps are not exclusive to 360 anymore.

Source: Robert “fourzerotwo” Bowling’s Tweet

Mark the calendars now! April 2nd – 5th marks the first Double XP weekend on #MW2 for #xboxlive worldwide. New Maps + Double XP = No sleep.

Details about Infinity Ward’s upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 map pack, titled the Stimulus Package, have been revealed via the weekly Xbox LIVE Marketplace podcast (from special guest Robert Bowling). This download contains five maps in total, two of which appeared in the first Modern Warfare title.

This pack will be available to download exclusively on Xbox LIVE starting on March 30, 2010. PS3 and PC owners will have to wait a bit longer but no official release for those systems has been revealed. Activision has confirmed the pack will cost 1200 Microsoft points ($14.99). 3 completely new and 2 rehashed (from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare) maps is below:

Here are the map descriptions:

It has just been confirmed by Robert “fourzerotwo” Bowling that Modern Warfare 2’s first DLC (downloadable content) will arrive on Xbox 360 March 30th, 2010. If you are unaware of this, this is exclusive to Xbox 360 for the first 30 days only. Afterwards, those PS3 and PC players will be able to play these new maps as well. So mark your calendars!

In this new downloadable content currently titled from my knowledge as “Stimulus Package” I do know contain 2 maps from Call of Duty 4, those being Overgrown and Crash. I am more a fan of Strike and Bog and wish those were coming over instead. Could you imagine a game of Bog on Modern Warfare 2? Hell yeah, I wish it would happen. But I would be more than happy with just Strike, my favorite map of all time.

They also contain 3 new maps Complex, Compact and Storm. I can not post pictures that have been previously leaked days ago. You will just have to wait till the end of the month to play them or as new information arrives over the next few weeks. I am sure there will be and we will be posting them when the time comes too.

Source is from Robert “fourzerotwo” Bowling himself over a tweet of his. Which also links to a website made by them: Mapathy.com.

http://www.mapathy.com – Feeling the effects of Mapathy? It’s okay, the cure is hitting #Xboxlive in just 3 short weeks. #MW2

Are you looking to get the two achievement for collecting 5 collectable weapons “New Shiny Weapon” in Battlefield: Bad Company 2? As well as the other final achievement for weapons, “Guns Guns Guns” for collecting 15? Then you are at the right place. Looking for the M-Com Station Locations Guide? It will be up here shortly.

If you are looking at collecting ALL of the weapons, for which you get no achievement or anything else from the game other than filling the list, then this is a guide for you as well. Here you will find very, rare and only one location weapons such as the USAS-12S and SPAS-12S (slug versions).

I am more than happy to hear that Infinity Ward fought for these titles to be released. I do not know what heads over at Activision think that such a title would be a risk. What type of people are they actually asking or who was doing the marketing research to think that no one would want such a title? These guys should be instantly fired from the company.

Why? The outcome was fucking crazy, ignore Modern Warfare 2 sells for a moment and just take a look at just Call of Duty 4. Yup, not much a risk anymore was it Activision and now you are rich. Not many people want games of the past anymore. Everybody is loving Modern this and that. Examples: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2, Medal of Honor, Battlefield Series and others.

Former Infinity Ward bosses Vince Zampella and Jason West said last year that Activision never wanted to create a Modern Warfare title – and the studio had to “fight” to convince the publisher to let them create CoD4.

Zampella and West were sensationally ousted from their positions yesterday – after Activision security ‘stormed’ Infinity Ward HQ in California. The publisher accused some Infinity Ward staff – thought to be West and Zampella – of ‘insubordination’.

But it appears disagreement between the parties was nothing new. In October last year, Zampella and West discussed their differences of opinion with Activision to OPM. West even said Infinity Ward had to “fight for everything” with their owners.

Zampella added: “Activision also did not want Modern Warfare. They thought working on a modern game was risky and [thought], ‘oh my god you can’t do that, it’s crazy!’ They were doing market research to show us we were wrong the whole time,” he said.

Source: ComputersandVideoGames.com

Here are the changes, the same as last time. This patch does not include the PERMANENT care package exploit as Infinity Ward has been working on. But it does fix the current easy simple way for the infinite care package exploit.

• 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 (including the prevention of negative XP)

Here is your typical game scenario after inserting a copy of Modern Warfare 2 and playing online.

Robert “fourzerotwo” Bowling tweeted 10 hours ago that the Care Package, Sentry Gun and Emergency Airdrop Glitch has been fixed on the PC version. It has already been fixed on Xbox 360 and PS3 but only when the patch arrives on the consoles. There is no time estimate as to when though, this is still going through Microsoft’s Approval and Certification process.

fourzerotwo tweeted the following:

@NFunmaker That’s already been patched on the PC version and will be included in the next patch for consoles.

when NFunmaker asked the following:

@fourzerotwo you guys looking into the new unlimited care package/emergency airdrop glitch?

The following updates have been issued to the Xbox 360, PS3 and the PC version of MW2. The PC version updates have already been released. There is no time frame as to when the Xbox 360 or PS3 will get them, expect the PS3 to get them sooner than the 360 though.

• Care Package, Emergency Airdrop, and Sentry Gun marker grenades sprint speed normalized.
• 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.
• Improved player collision removing cases of getting into geometry and ‘elevators’.
• Fix to prevent various XP hacks, including the prevention of obtaining negative XP.
• Mouse latency tweaks for more mouse movement consistency. (PC-ONLY)
• Fixes to prevent various texture hacks (PC-ONLY)

Source: fourzerotwo.com

Here is a screenshot of the upcoming Verruckt iPhone/iPod Game. This is the first Zombie map from Treyarch’s Call of Duty: World at War.

Source: JD_2020’s Twitter (Josh Olin of Treyarch)