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UPDATE: Call of Duty 4 Beta - First Wave Lotto Launched
Well, it’s finally happened. After days of speculation over when exactly Infinity Ward will be making an announcement on the Call of Duty 4 beta, they do so today, only to have a repeat of the E3 Microsoft presser on their hands - 10 minutes after the information goes up, the Call of Duty 4 website gives up the ghost under the heavy influx of trigger happy Xbox 360 gamers.
Being the awesome guys that we are, we save you the trip to their website and having to wait an eternity for the page to load at a spellblindingly fast speed of 389 bps. Here, then, are all released details of the beta, straight from the horse’s mouth. For those not patient enough to go through the whole thing below, here’s the gist of how you get your ass into the beta. Hit the jump for a whole lotta details.
UPDATE: If you are here looking for more information on the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Multiplayer Beta on the Xbox 360, visit this page for the latest information, including information on signing up for the beta and other related details.
Speaking to the masses at the Microsoft E3 Conference held some time back, Project Lead Jason West from Infinity Ward and Microsoft’s Peter Moore have confirmed over an extended demo that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare will have an “exclusive multiplayer beta” for the Xbox 360 later this year.
The official website of the game, http://www.charlieoscardelta.com which was temporarily swamped as the news broke, is now open, but has scant information on the upcoming beta. And here I was thinking we’ll be able to pre-sign-up or something like that. Can’t wait for the beta to open up, as long it is not tied into the purchase of another game, a la Halo 3 and Crackdown. We will have more information as it becomes available. Until then, keep watching the HD trailer over and over again!
A public beta forum is up here for registered members of the site, along with a bunch of previously released videos. Hit the jump for the official word straight from the horse’s mouth.
We’re being drafted yet again! Hot on the heels of news that a new Call of Duty 4 announcement coming this weekend, Activision and Infinity have announced today that the fourth installment in the Call of Duty franchise will be titled (surprise, surprise) Modern Warfare and will move beyond the World War storyline to modern times.
There has been no other announcement from the developers other than the fact that more on the game will be unveiled on ESPN during Saturday’s NFL Draft. After leaked information from months ago that said developer Infinity ward, who was busy working on CoD4 while Treyarch busted their butts on Call of Duty 3, would be following in Battlefield 2142’s footsteps and releasing a game based on, umm, modern warfare. While it’s not known for certain whether the battles in CoD4 will take place in current times or sometime in the future, IGN says that they had confirmed way back in February that the development team was “scoping the game out primarily for the Xbox 360 and the PS3″. Way to go, you bastards. First you stiff hardcore Call of Duty lovers worldwide with a console-exclusive third installment and you still have the nerve to do it again for the fourth game as well? While I still love and enjoy CoD3 on my Xbox 360, the fact remains that I want to see a return to the sheer intensity that made the original Call of Duty for the PC one of the greatest games ever. Better get it out for the PC as well, or else….
via [IGN]