A world record has been set. Yes, a world record by Modern Warfare 2 for the best launch day if it can be seen in terms of U.S. dollars.

Guinness World Records announced recently that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 grossed $401.6 million on the day of its launched last year on November 10. It even shattered the $310 million revenue record of Grand Theft Auto IV’s which was launched in 2008.

The third highest in entertainment of all time is Halo 3. On its first day it tallied $170 million.

Gaz Deaves, Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition Editor said in a statement that the “Video game releases such as the Call of Duty series have outperformed the launches of major Hollywood blockbusters for several years and the day-one sales for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 proved once again that video games have become cultural events in their own right.”

Well, it is to be noted that games launch at about $60 per unit where as movies are cheaper than it. Moreover, games easily take the top spot than a film.

Activision’s first-quarter results may beat all the expectations. The key products for this unexpected result are “World of Warcraft” and “Call of Duty” franchises.

Activision blizzard has benefited from the grand success of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ after its release last year in November. Accordign to the company, the online update of the game boosted its sales too much in the first quarter.

Activision is recognised as the largest standalone game publisher in the gaming industry and its success graph has risen northward above much of the turmoil in the market. The full credit goes to the blockbuster titles.

Well, analysts have a different say. Some of them noted that the its roster of games for 2010 appears tepid. According to Chief Executive Bobby Kotick, even though it was the fast start for the company in 2010, but the consumer economy remains shaky. This is due to its majority of games are not expected to launch until much later this year.

Not only this, the shares of the company have slipped about 1.3 percent to $11.75 in afternoon Nasdaq trading on last Thursday. Before this, the shares rose about 7 percent this year.

Though Modern Warfare 2 was the most successul launch in the history of role playing games, but the developer failed to hold tight its team of designers.

The latest report comes that the two lead designers of Infinity Ward tabled their resignations.

Last month the founders of Infinity Ward, Vince Zampella and Jason West, sued their parent company Blizzard-Activision. They were earlier fired by the company for breach of contract.

After the sacking of Vince and Jason, Infinity Ward has bled about 11 staff members in protest. Most of the employees were the important part of the company.

More interesting is that the staff members continued quitting the organization even after Activision promised to distribute bonuses to those who remain employed.

The drama further speaks different story. The two founding fathers of Infinity Ward are on the way working hard on next venture, aptly named “Respawn Entertainment”.

The twist continues. Electronic Arts, the rival of Activision, recently announced of an official deal to be the sole distributor for Respawn Entertainment.

It is well known that the Crysis 2 will be having state-of-the-art visual razzmatazz. We also know that fans are also looking to have a good story in it.

It was recently announced by Crytek that Richard Morgan has been hired to write the story of the new series. Morgan is an award-winning author of science fiction novels such as Broken Angels and Altered Carbon.

On the occasion he said, “Video games are one of the only things in my life I would qualify as a complete addiction… The medium has every bit the potential for exciting and emotionally charged storytelling as literature and film, and I’m excited to explore this format on my first project in partnership with a world class developer like Crytek.”

Richard Morgan, however, thinks that video games have vast storytelling potential. While talking to the media, he had a few critiques for the writers behind MW2. He said, “I thought Modern Warfare 2 was an immense disappointment. It was a massive step down from CoD4.”

He added further, “What I thought when I played it was, ‘Jesus guys, what have you been doing? You’ve not ramped anything up. The story is worse and the game doesn’t really hang together, it’s just a bunch of mission levels.”

In the first week of the availability of Stimulus Package DLC, 3.5 million of it has been sold stated Infinity Ward.

The Stimulus Package DLC is priced at $15 USD. Along with it one will also get 3 multiplayer charts, including updating of two of the original maps.

The developer added that in the first 24 hours of its accessibility the DLC was downloaded a million times.

Publisher Activision stated that this sales had set records for the Xbox 360.

Players of MW2 have made an investment of at least 1.75 billion hours of shared game time through Xbox Live from the time since the game was launched last year in November.

It is also learned through news reports that from now the gamers can explore the computer edition’s multiplayer section this weekend without spending anything.

From April 8 the free game moment is starting.

A new and fresh offer arrives the market for the buyers of Modern Warfare 2. Microsoft Corp. now offers a free pair of virtual Infrared Goggles with each purchase of MW2 in the Xbox Live division of the Xbox 360. The offer began this week.

Henseforth all the users of Xbox Live can download this Infrared Goggle DLC item without any extra cost. This item will be adding to Xbox Live Avatar a pair of Infrared Goggles.

This week, Activision Blizzard also released MW2 Stimulus Package DLC. This package contains five multiplayer maps that includes Bailout, a multi-level apartment complex; Storm, an open industrial park littered with heavy machinery; and Salvage, a snowy junkyard fortified by stacked debris and crushed cars.

War-torn urban environment Crash and the Overgrown that features a massive dry creek bed also returns from Modern Wafare.

According to global sales statistics, Modern Warfare 2 has sold 15 million copies, which was released last year on November 10.

This month Microsoft started the sale of the Xbox 360 250GB Hard Drive at $129.99.