Treyarch’s Noah Heller mentioned shortly before the release of Call of Duty: World at War that the developer was probably going to lay off World War II for a while, leaving many to wonder what the stage of operations for the next CoD would be. If a report from That VideoGame Blog proves accurate, Activision may be taking the franchise to a much groovier era — the 1960s. (Anno Domini, that is — though who are we to assume 1960 B.C. wasn’t equally groovy?)

TVGB is reporting that an anonymous, “trusted” source informed them Activision’s been looking to license “Vietnam War era tunes, as well as Cuban, African, and Soviet Union music.” The source mentioned that Heller (and, assumedly, Treyarch) is involved in the aforementioned license hunting. As with all rumors spawned by anonymous tipsters, we encourage you to take this rumor with a two-ton boulder of salt — just to be safe, we’ve contacted Activision for a comment.

Source: Joystiq.com | Neowin.net

Treyarch announced today that Map Pack 1 has collectively been downloaded over 2 Million times worldwide on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3! Also including that they are so appreciative of all the fans that are online day after day enjoying Call of Duty: World at War. Keep an eye out for new exclusive information on Map Pack 2 coming soon!

Source: CallofDuty.com | JD_2020 on Twitter

Robert Bowling (fourzerotwo) just tweeted that the Call of Duty 4 Title Update for Xbox 360 is now Hack and Mod free. Not that I personally came across this (maybe) but at least I will not now. If you are unfamiliar Call of Duty: World at War had the same similar update last week in its update to fix the same thing going on with hacks and mods there too.

Source: Twitter

Because of Treyarch and Activision selling more than one million copies of Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1 during its first week of release, they will be releasing another map pack, 2, come June 2009.

The Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 2 will introduce three new multiplayer maps: “Banzai,” a jungle environment riddled with caves; “Corrosion,” a Russian train yard; and “Sub Pens,” a rain-drenched submarine base.

That’s all well and good, but now for the good stuff: a new Nazi Zombie map! “Shi No Numa,” home to this guy, promises new Perk machines, a new weapon, new achievements / trophies and flaming Hell hounds. It also promises to keep our repository of nightmare material well-stocked.

Source: Joystiq

This title update not only finally hopefully fixes the matchmaking issues but as well as the recent hacking being done. While I and other bRos have not been playing this game lately because of life, boredom, annoying matchmaking and everything else. There was not mention of having fixed host selection issues but hopefully with matchmaking that will be resolved.

At least the hacking (hopefully) will not be there. While this was not a HUGE problem with everyone being able to do it without some work, it still would of been annoying to get teamed up against them. If you would like to find out much more details, please click the source link below.

Source: CallofDuty.com Boards

As per the post at CallofDuty.com: To celebrate the continued success all of you have helped provide us with Map Pack 1 – and ever since the release of the game – we at Treyarch have decided to host a Double-XP MP Weekend for ALL PLATFORMS this weekend!

Whether you’re on the PS3, Xbox 360, PC, or the Wii; you will be accuring 2X the normal XP from Friday, 10:00AM PDT until Monday 10:00AM PDT.

Source: CallofDuty.com | JD on Twitter

Around 4 days ago Diallo purposely stopped his Overall and TDM Win Streak at 1337. If you have played against us, you probably know how good we are, so losing for us never comes around. So we have to purposely end it once we get so high and want to stop it somewhere.

Activision brand manager Simon Wells told MCV that the company hopes Modern Warfare 2 will be the “biggest selling video game of all time,” beating out the high sales figures of Call of Duty 4 and Treyarch’s Call of Duty: World at War.

“We want to propel this year’s title to be the biggest selling video game of all time. That may raise some eyebrows, but step back and look at the franchise’s trajectory through preceding launches, and this objective starts to look viable.”

He also added: “We firmly believe we have the potential to be the No.1 entertainment property of the year. The reality for a franchise as large as Call of Duty is that we are competing directly with entertainment propositions outside of the video game space,” said Wells.

Source: Joystiq | VideoGamer

Microsoft today revealed that Activision Publishing Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) new Call of Duty®: World at War, Map Pack 1 set a new record for number of downloads in its first week of release on Xbox LIVE. Since the launch of the pack, Xbox LIVE members have played more than 150 million multiplayer sessions on Call of Duty: World at War, with friends and rivals joining in the action from all corners of the globe.

Source: Xbox 360 Press

Make sure to check out the Binge Gamer source for even more pictures that were not in the video below. Scuba divers? Castle map? Oh yea!

Source: Joystiq | Binge Gamer