More Details on Modern Warfare 3 (Updated)

From Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Blog:
 
Activision did not release details of Modern Warfare 3's competitive multiplayer mode yet, keeping that reveal for the Call of Duty XP event on Labor Day weekend. The mode and its maps will probably be the favorite component of Modern Warfare 3, because of the dominating overall performance of previous Modern Warfare and Call of Duty games. Although the maps have not been revealed, it is likely that the multiplayer won't be drastically diverse from that of recent franchise installments, pitting gamers versus each other in first person shooter competition, using a combination of weapon upgrades and gameplay perks.

"How you play team deathmatch is all about your sightlines, your viewpoints-like I said, the hotspots," Bowling added. "I'm coming around the corner. I don't want to have to worry about being shot from 50 different angles. I want to be able to know, 'OK, I cleared the top floor, I cleared the second floor, I cleared the base, I'm good in this area. OK, now I'm coming through this doorway, I have to watch this doorway, this alleyway and this spot.' And then, when you're playing objective [matches], you need to be able to know the routes and break them down in your head as you play the areas. Like Search and Destroy… I know I've cleared this area. There's no way this guy can get there. And then going in an adding the fun secret stuff that people find three months into playing, like 'Did you know if you run up the tail of the plane in Afghan you can leap to the top of the mountain instead of circling around to the route that everyone is covering?'"

Best Buy is Looking to Put Gamestop Out of Business

My daughter works for Best Buy and she informed me that her store was going big on Gaming, devoting an entire section of their showroom to Gamers. It looks like they take back used games for trade-in or a Best Buy gift card.

From Dualshockers.com:

"In this new area of the store, Best Buy will be placing “specialists” who will know a thing or two about games. They’re going as far as hiring “gaming supervisors” who will be designated to oversee the new section in each of their stores. We’ve already seen somewhat of a gaming push in Best Buy stores as of late with some locations going as far as installing DLC kiosks and others being involved in used game sales for some time now.

The retailer will now be jumping into the used hardware business, as well. They’ll be offering more incentive and higher trade in values than GameStop for your used games and hardware offering either cash back or  the option of an additional 20% kick back if you decide to take a Best Buy gift card instead, which can be spent on anything else in the store. Hopefully something like this can actually help bring some serious competition to the used games market, and in turn bring trade values up in favor of the consumers instead of the other way around.

Will you got to Best Buy instead of Gamestop?