Twelve thousand gamers were banned by accident from playing Modern Warfare 2 via the anti-cheat system. This was done by Valve through its online gaming platform. Steam determined that many gamers were cheating the company. However, after investigation there were no evidence found of such activities.

Now, the company has lifted the ban and has also apologized for the mix up.

Valve is an online gaming platform which has many other war games for gamers apart from Modern Warfare 2.

Valve head honcho, Gabe Newell, explained the issue in his apology. He said, “The problem was that Steam would fail a signature check between the disk version of a DLL and a latent memory version.

This was caused by a combination of conditions occurring while Steam was updating the disk image of a game. This wasn’t a game-specific mistake. Steam allows us to manage and reverse these erroneous bans (about 12,000 erroneous bans over two weeks.”

To make up the mistake, the company is handing out Left 4 Dead 2 for free to all those MW2 gamers whe were inadvertently banned.

Well, it is still bad for those gamers who own Modern Warfare 2 as well as Left 4 Dead 2.

It has been over a month the Resurgence Pack of Modern Warfare 2 has been out in the market, but gamers are still wondering whether to buy it or not. This small review will help those gamers, who are confused, to make up their minds wheter to go ahead and buy it or not.

Vacant & Strike:

Vacant and Strike are basically the re-makes of Call of Duty 4. Both have been improved with lighting effects, morning sun in Vacant and beaming light in Strike. Moreover, amount of objects in Strike have been multiplied such as litter, chunks of concrete etc.

In Vacant the grassy areas have been improved. Flowers growing from the ground is also seen in it.

Fuel

This map is packed with big, white oil tanks also destroyed lorries and cars and most of them are on fire. It is little complicated map. So, gamers really need to concentrate on it.

Trailer Park

This map has twists and turns everywhere and it requires a team work to win. It is most defiantly a confusing map, but it is great to keep players thinking on every turn they make.

Carnival

It is exactly a carnival, which has everything such as merry-go-rounds, roller-coaster track etc. It is a detailed map and is pretty simple. It is in fact a long vertical line with number of obstacles. The colors, the rides, graffiti and everything in this map is adorable.

A mysterious and questionable video was uploaded on YouTube recently. The video showed a potential membership plan for Modern Warfare 2.

Yesterday, Activision confirmed that the YouTube video was not a hoax, as it was thought. It also mentioned that the video only showed an Xbox Live glitch and the company don’t have any plan yet to start a subscription model to the CoD series in near future.

Dan Amrich from Activision said in a blog post, “There’s a video that made the rounds today of a 360 player getting a glitchy, incomplete message that uses the phrase ‘Modern Warfare 2′ and half of the word membership. This video shows just a glitch — since you can access a Live subscription renewal from within the MW2 game interface, it appears some data got jammed between two parts of Live. It’s not a secret portal to some nefarious plot to charge people for COD multiplayer — and there are no plans to do that.”

Robert Bowling, the community manager of Infinity Ward, also crushed the rumor. He wrote in his blog post, “To be clear: There is not, and will never be, additional fees required to subscribe and play Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer.”

Are you getting bored of playing C.O.D.Modern Warfare 2 online. Is it? You are about to get a reprieve.

The second map pack named the Resurgence Pack is now available on the PlayStation 3 and also on the Windows PCs from July 7 onwards.

The Resurgence map pack is price tagged at $14.99.

The Resurgence Pack features 5 maps. Three of the maps are new and the remaining two is simply a remake maps from the original Modern Warfare.

The five map packs are as given below:

Fuel - Basically an oil refinery site and it is even the largest site in MW2.

Trailer Park - Similar to Fuel map, but located through a variety of motor homes and picnic tables.

Carnival - It’s basically on abandoned fairgrounds and the rides and attractions are left to rust in it.

Strike - Features Mideast setting and it contains some reasonably frantic urban combat.

Vacant - Set in an abandoned Russian office complex and the popularity of Vacant peaked in the original Modern Warfare.

Prior to release, Modern Warfare 2 was pre-ordered over 150 units per minute. This stat is claimed by many online retailers.

The latest news about Call of Duty: Black Ops is also of same type. According to Treyarch, Activision’s CoD: Black Ops is beating MW2 in regards of pre-orders.

An analyst from Pacific Crest Securities, Evan Wilson, confirmed the news in terms of pre-order Call of Duty: Black Ops is beating MW2.

Earlier it was estimated that Black Ops sales may reach 10 million, but now the estimates goes a bit high to 12 million units. This is what analyst predicts.

Wilson also says that it is better if CoD: Black Ops does well in pre-orders because it won’t do much after its release in sales. He has a reason behind it. He says it is due to “Competition, weaker marketing, and the Infinity Ward situation.”

Well, one thing is sure Wilson mentions that Black Ops would surely beat the largest entertainment launch in the history of gaming industry.

Let’s wait and watch till November 9th.

No more to wait. The new maps of Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC will be finally ready for gamers to play. It contains three new maps and two renovated one from the original MW.

Originally the Resurgence Pack was released on June 3 on the Xbox 360. The release was part of an deal between Activision and Microsoft and so Xbox users got the map pack a month ahead.

The three original maps are Carnival, Trailer Park and Fuel. The modified versions are Strike and Vacant.

Carnival is a set in an abandoned amusement park. One will find in it many buildings, high points and also multiple pathways. The Trailer Park map is in more confined area. The map thrives on close quarters ambush points. Fuel map pack is in fact the largest map in the game. This map is located in an oil refinery in the desert.

On the PlayStation, recently released, the Resurgence Pack will cost $14.99.

This October comes the challenge of Modern Warfare and Battlefield: Bad Company. Medal of Honor of Electronic Arts is being released on October 12 and it will challenge both the games for the top spot in the FPS genre.

Last week at E3 gaming event the stills and multi-player footage were released. The footage bound to bring comparison with the MW2 and BBC2.

The styles of the game is similar to the MW2 and BBC2, but MoH appears to concentrate on points and not focus on kills as MW2 does.

Below is the footage of Medal of Honor:

The makers of Modern Warfare 2 goes more closer to all the fans of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Now gamers can call on their dedicated phone number and give feedback, ask questions or can only leave a rant.

Robert Bowling, creative strategist of Infinity Ward, wrote on Twitter recently: “You can now call or text (402) 500-0119 to give feedback, ask questions, or just leave a rant thanks to Google Voice”

However, it was not clear from the Tweet how the questions will be answered or processed.

Well, the initiative of Infinity Ward will certainly tend to stir up on comments threads and it is lately a significant one.

This initiative will also help the studio in rebuilding public relation further and prove their mettle in the next game.

Infinity Ward confirms that the Resurgence Pack download for Modern Warfare 2 will hit the PlayStation 3 and PC on July 6th.

Robert Bowling, the community manager of the studio revealed the date of release of the Resurgence Pack through Twitter.

In the pack there are five maps and three of it are absolutely brand new, but the other two are in fact revamped maps that were used in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

The map packs have already been debuted earlier this month on Xbox Live.

However, Robert Bowling through his Twitter feed did not disclose about the cost of the Resurgence Pack for PS3 and PC.

On Xbox Live it was price tagged as $15.

Modern Warfare 2 sales crossed 20 million copies worldwide confirmed Activision. Bobby Kotick, chief executive of Activision, told to analysts in a pre-Electronic Entertainment Expo that the forthcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops of Treyarch may get higher sales than what Modern Warfare 2 achieved before its released date, even so early.

Call of Duty: Black Ops is getting released on November 9 this year.

Kotick added further that the CoD series became more successful gradually with each title. He also added that the preorders of Black Ops are already tracking higher than the MW2’s advance sales at the same time.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released on November 10 last year.

Activision has targeted a good and strong move in the pre-owned game market. The company believes that it is worth about $1500 million a year.

The company is finding more sense in working with the current retailers instead of opening its own used game business.