Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 gets a new trailer and is pretty awesome.

I haven't exactly been all over Modern Warfare 3, despite enjoying the last few games. In fact, I've been firmly on the Battlefield 3 side of things. If anything can change that, it's Modern Warfare 3's crazynuts storyline rather than the multiplayer.

See, it seems that the focus has been purely on the setting and the multiplayer recently, and I can't be doing with that. I enjoyed MW2's multiplayer - I do so love it when a guy dominating me gets a helicopter so he can do it HARDER - but the multiplayer wasn't what was gonna draw me into MW3. This storyline trailer could well change how long I wait until I get Modern Warfare 3.

Keep your peepers peeled.

Credit: PCGamer.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Survival gameplay video

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I'm sat here watching a mate play MW2 on a 360, whilst watching MW3 footage on YouTube. Xhibit would be proud.

It pretty much looks like you'd expect it to; it's Modern Warfare - so far, so much the same. It is a nice sounding mode, to be honest but I still won't be buying the game just for it. Not on launch anyway.

Credit: PCGamer.

Pre-order Modern Warfare 3 and get a copy of a game that you probably already own.

If you pre-order Modern Warfare 3 from Steam now, you'll get a free copy of Call of Duty 4. It's usually a great idea to bundle prequels with the next release in the series, but in this case I can't help but feel that it's a little unneeded. Chance are, if you're a Modern Warfare 3 fan, you have been since it went 'modern' with Call of Duty 4. Of course, you can always gift it, or exchange it for TF2 items, but it still feels like a somewhat senseless promotion.

Still, it's always nice to get free stuff with something you're probably going to be buy anyway, as long as that free stuff doesn't impact on the game and give you an unfair advantage.

Seems like no-one told GAME that, and they're offering double XP to anyone who pre-order the game from either GAME or Gamestation in a desperate bid to keep gaming stores alive.

GAME, who basically own the UK retail market for games, is probably aiming this more towards console gamers than PC gamers, who worship at the unholy altar of Steam and anger the one true god of GAME, but it still reeks of desperation in a constantly more and more unfriendly market.

Credit: PCGamer and CVG.

No CoD 'Prestige' edition.

For those of you who like to buy over-priced special editions of games - like me, in that case - you'll be disappointed to learn that the next Call of Duty game, Modern Warfare 3, will not have a 'Prestige' special edition.

Previous games had a 'Prestige' edition of the game, often for silly-large amounts of money. There's no indication of why there's no Prestige, but presumably it doesn't sell as well - as you'd expect for something so expensive - and seeing as the Hardened edition comes with a a year's subscription to the new Call of Duty Elite service.

The much maligned Elite service - touted as a social network for Call of Duty - will be charged on a monthly basis, much like current MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft. Gamers haven't exactly been happy about this service, thinking that subscribers will get an advantage over non-subscribers, but really, isn't that all in the spirit of Call of Duty anyway? The better people get advantages over those who aren't as good? Perhaps that's being bitchy.

Still, I'll probably end up buying it anyway. I doubt I'll sign up for the Elite service though, not with the amount that I play.

Credit: The Escapist.