So... Call of Duty.  It's a modestly popular franchise, to say the least.  Been in the news a bit lately, too, hasn't it?  Well, despite the trouble, the world goes on, and more Call of Duty games are on the way.  The next game will be Call of Duty 7, and that's pretty much all we know at this point, other than it's being developed by Treyarch.  The marketing juggernaut will get into high gear tomorrow, and we'll have much more information about the new game then.  Will the game be set in Vietnam, as has been speculated?  I suppose we'll know soon enough.

We've got four early access codes for the Halo Reach beta, which will get you in TODAY. That's right, you'll have an entire weekend to get a leg up on the competition in Halo Reach. Read on to find out how to enter. Shaved head not required.

Keep your infrared-nightvision combination goggles on and your undetectable UHF radio earbuds tuned in! Ubisoft's Michel Verheijdt told online publication Control (Dutch) that two new Tom Clancy titles were under way.

While the 60 second version of Birth of a Spartan was fit for TV, the extended cut is a bit longer and bit more, uh...needle-y. 

Alan Wake has what industry folks like to call, "a long development cycle."  Announced at E3 2005, Microsoft and developer Remedy had ambitious plans not only for the game graphically, but narratively.  Story wise it's been compared to Twin Peaks, LOST, and a Stephen King novel.  Graphics, the game was originally billed to show off DirectX 10 and Windows Vista, now five years later the game isn't even touching PCs.

Considering the whole Infinity Ward thing going on now, this comes as a bit of a shocker.  Bungie, creators of the Halo franchise, have signed an exclusive publishing agreement with Activision, publishers of the Call of Duty franchise, for all future properties they create that are not Halo.  The press release states this includes "multiple platforms."

The official website for Blacklight: Tango Down just went live, and with it has come a boatload of new information and media.  While we learned quite a bit about the co-op mode of the game, called Black Ops, from our interview with producer Andy Kipling, there were some holes left to fill in the puzzle.

So very lonely

A little over a week and a half ago, Co-Optimus and Bungie had another one of our Halo Waypoint Co-Op nights.  The focus of this particular event was to collect the skulls and audio logs from Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST, respectively.  Having not yet gathered all of the audio logs in my single player game, I figured that this was the perfect time to do so, and I was not alone.  Nick and community member Bakken Hood were also pursuing these back-story fragments that were scattered all about New Mombasa, and were prepared with a map that showed the locations of all the audio logs.  We were unprepared, however, for what awaited us at the end of our search.

Devolver Digital and Croteam have announced that Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is out now on the PC and available to download via Steam.  

We're just a couple weeks away from Black Box's latest entry in the Skate franchise, Skate 3, and while we've seen a fair amount of the team-based multiplayer aspects of the game, both in our impressions and from the recently released demo, we haven't seen too much of the co-op aspects in action.  Fortunately, a new video from EA gives us a taste of what some of that co-op looks like, and what you and your friends can do together when you team up in the freeskate mode.  In addtion to the new video, there's another bit of news to share.  Interested in asking the developers some questions about the game?  Read on to find out how.  

There have been rumors floating around that Splinter Cell Conviction is coming to the PS3. Apparently these rumors are groundless - at least for the time being. Ubisoft posted the following message on their Twitter: