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.

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.

It seems that Activision, each months, is swimming in cash since the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was launched last November.

In the first quarter the revenue of Activision experienced a 33% year-on-year growth $1.3 billion USD. $381 million USD was pocketed by the publisher, which is double of what it experienced during first quarter of last fiscal year.

The credit to such boost in the growth goes to Modern Warfare 2 and World of Warcraft. In Europe and North America the MW2 was the top selling game for the first quarter and the recently launched Stimulus Package DLC sales topped one million downloads in a single day.

Well, there is also the issues of troubled inhouse studio Infinity Ward. While addressing, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, said that any firings were not made “without a great deal of deliberation about the consequences”.

He said that the firing of IW co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella was not a plan to deprive them of the royalties, but in fact it was an effort to “protect the company’s assets and the interest of our shareholders”.

On the first day of Halo: Reach beta, more than one million people signed it, which is not as much as Modern Warfare 2 performed on the first day of its release.

The below list ranks all the unique users playing Xbox 360 games through Live. So, all the single-player games are here counted as the same as of the online multiplayer ones, but one thing necessary to notice that the users are connected to Xbox Live.

Below list is compiled according to the number sales of full versions in a given week.

Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles

1 Modern Warfare 2
2 Halo 3: ODST
3 Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta
4 Halo 3
5 Call of Duty: WaW
6 FIFA 10
7 Battlefield Bad Co. 2
8 GTA IV
9 Call of Duty 4
10 Gears of War 2
11 UFC Undisputed 2010 Demo
12 Splinter Cell Conviction
13 Left 4 Dead 2
14 Skate 3 Demo
15 Forza Motorsport 3
16 NBA 2K10
17 Game Room **
18 Split Second Demo
19 NHL 10
20 Borderlands

We know that this year there will be a launch of new full length Call of Duty: Black Ops videogame. It will be released on November 6, but before that we are going to enjoy the new map pack of the biggest selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 of last 2009.

It seems that Activision is having some more new plans that is linked to the successful franchise.

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick told to the investors after the first quarter results announcement of the company, “There’s a soldier in all of us.” He added that the company is always trying to enter growing gaming markets across the world. He said, “The popular global fantasy of being a soldier is allowing us to enter new geographies, leveraging… expertise… creating content for audiences that to date have only been satisfied by Blizzard games. Soon we’ll announce our plans for both China and Korea.”

He also added this new content is planned for MW2 as well as for the Black Ops.

Kotick added further that until now over 17 million map packs of the entire series have been sold and this is more than what the other franchises even sell in their entire launch history.

Well, MMO titles dominate the Korean and Chinese gaming markets and the World of Warcraft has a strong presence there.

Recently Treyarch released the trailer for their latest Call of Duty: Black Ops, which is scheduled to be launched this year end. Here is the video of it. It is confusing, dramatic and also it is too wonderful.

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.