Etch this momentous day into your memories, my friends, for millions of adults across the country paid $60 to be repeatedly called "shithead" by 12-year-olds at this very moment.
Video Blips:
Stat-tracking service Call of Duty Elite struggles under the torrents of players attempting registration during today's launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Beachhead Studios head Chacko Sonny said the number of requests exceed "even our most optimistic expectations" and promised an expedient fix for Elite's bottlenecked performance. I can wait; I'm already getting my fill of critical notifications of my friends unlocking the umpteenth scope for their rifle in Battlefield 3's Battlelog.
The PC version of Batman: Arkham City won't swoop down from the rafters until November 22. Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive pushed back the release by one week for unexplained reasons. At least PC gamers will still play a game-of-the-year contender before, you know, the year actually ends.
Ubisoft Chief Executive Officer Yves Guillemot confirms a new Assassin's Creed game next year. Guillemot didn't elaborate during Ubisoft's earnings call for the first half of 2012 other than labeling the title as a "full-fledged major release." Guillemot then presumably continued his streak of obviousness by describing the phone's volume as "audible" in addition to his chair feeling "comfortable." [GameSpot]
THQ Vice President Danny Bilson knows Saints Row 4 will be "wilder" than the upcoming Saints Row: The Third. "I already know what SR4 is about, and it's wilder than this one," he said in an interview with G4. "It's a good example of how you take what you have and say, 'What can happen next?'" If THQ and developer Volition manage to concoct something more zany than throwing cans of trapped farts at pedestrians while on fire and pelvic thrusting at the nearest old lady dressed like a pimp, consider me sold.
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