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Check out the official trailer:

Escalation is available on XBL on May 3rd for 1200 MS Points.

We’ll be hosting a call-in show about Zombie mode. We want YOU to talk about this mode. You can email us any questions or comments about Zombie mode at jointopspodcast(at)gmail.com or call our Television Zombies toll-free voicemail line at 1-888-204-9591. You can also record an mp3 or wav on your computer and email it to us. But you can also call in LIVE! Just sign up on Skype and add a contact request to tvzombies. Then, on Sunday, March 20th, get on skype at 8pm Eastern Standard Time. Send a text message to tvzombies that you want to talk and we will add you to the conference. There may be several people so it’s possible you could have to wait and we may have to keep it short. But this is your opportunity to talk to the cast and be on the podcast!

Write or call us about anything. Now! Or reply if you plan to skype in so we have a rough idea of how many folks we can count on.

I love the Call of Duty games, obviously. But this video parodying them is pretty funny:

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Anoj has started putting together his fantastic Top 10 Series for Call of Duty: Black Ops. Love his first episode:

The below video is a short and simple tutorial that explains how you can put your Black Ops gameplay footage on YouTube. You don’t need a capture card or any extra wires. It doesn’t cost anything. It’s just part of the game!

We’d love to see your best gameplay footage! Share it with the community on our forums. Maybe we’ll even post the best stuff here on the main page of the site.

In this episode of Joint Ops Monthly, we discuss Halo Reach, the latest Call of Duty and Modern Warfare news, read listener mail and say a fond farewell to Boss Nasti. We know it’s a little late, but we have another episode coming very soon. And then … Black Ops!

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Thank you to our awesome fans. We have several episodes recorded and ready to drop soon!

This aired last night during the Jets/Vikings game:

This episode, the Joint Ops team discusses tips and strategies for Terminal and reacts to the full multiplayer reveal for Call of Duty Black Ops. Also the news of the week, listener mail and more!

A weird little piece of machinima that does highlight the absurdity of commando pro stabbing. 115,971 views so far this week.

Page 2!

It’s another video by Anoj. And honestly the stats for this aren’t even fair because it’s posted to two accounts so the video I’m showing has 96,141 views but it has even more if you count the additional 82,839 from the “machinima” account. Wow! Great, entertaining stuff.

Here’s what we learned:

There’s a new way to unlock guns, equipment, attachments and killstreaks. You can still level up by acquiring experience points, but there is also in-game currency, called “CoD Points, or simply CP. You cannot buy CP with real money. CP can be used to buy higher-level weapons that you want. Instead, you gain CP through either Contracts or Wager Matches.

Contracts are an updated version of the Challenges from previous CoD games. Instead of XP, you earn CP. Simple.

Wager matches are a free-for-all CP grab. You ante up CP to enter, but only the top 3 players win CP and everyone else loses what they’ve anted up! There are four wager match modes:

One in the Chamber: You are armed with a knife and a pistol with a single bullet. Every kill earns you a bullet. One hit kills.

Sticks and Stones: You are armed with the crossbow, ballistic knife, and tomahawk. Crossbow and knife kills give you points and a tomahawk kill bankrupts the victim!

Gun Game: Everyone starts with a pistol and each kill levels you up to the next highest weapon (20 in all). The first player to get a kill with each weapon wins. A melee kill to you drops you back one gun level.

Sharpshooter: Everyone starts with the same random weapon. Every 45 seconds, a new gun is given to everyone. Everyone is always forced to use the same weapon.

Treyarch created the following video to showcase their new “wager match” modes:

Treyarch also released their list of Perks:

Perk 1

Lightweight: move faster
Scavenger: pick up ammo from fallen enemies
Ghost: invisible to spy plane and Blackbird (like Cold blooded)
Flak jacket: reduce explosive damage
Hardline: killstreaks require 1 less kill

Perk 2

Hardened: bullets penetrate better (like FMJ)
Scout: hold breath longer
Steady aim: increased hip-fire accuracy
Sleight of hand: faster reloading
Warlord: equip 2 attachments to primary weapon

Perk 3

Marathon: longer sprint
Ninja: silent movement
Second chance: pull out your pistol before dying (like Last stand)
Hacker: detect enemy equipment and explosives (like Sitrep)
Tactical mask: reduce the effect of flash and concussion grenades (like Blast shield)

Finally, the full list of Killstreaks:

3: Spy Plane
3: RC-XD (remote bomb)
4: Counter Spy Plane
4: SAM Turret
5: Care Package
5: Napalm Strike
6: Sentry Gun
6: Mortar Team
7: Attack Helicopter
7: Valkyrie Rockets
8: Blackbird
8: Rolling Thunder
9: Chopper Gunner
11: Attack Dogs
11: Gunship

Questions we have:

Treyarch announced the won’t have an open beta-should this be a concern?
How will leveling up and CP work together?
Can you still destroy killstreak rewards?
Will the CP system help to eliminate boosting/hacking?

Your thoughts?

It’s got 54,978 views so far.

Jeff wrote it, Chris drew it. We’ll try to put pages up between episodes. Just something fun for the site.

And just for the heck of it, how about a bonus video. Machinima put this one up this week and it’s up to 163,958 views and counting – Funny Kills and Moments #1 in a new series:

In the tenth episode of Joint Ops Monthly, we are joined by one of the most successful modders on XBOX Live to get his side of the controversial 10th Prestige Lobby issue, discuss tips and tricks for Carnival, the latest Call of Duty and Modern Warfare 2 news and listener mail.

For anyone wondering about whether or not this is a console version of the game, the UI is definitely from the XBOX 360 version. Here are thirteen screenshots of the footage and what they seem to indicate (it’s Friday the 13th this week, duh!):

See that tripod thing in the center with your team’s logo over it? That’s what Treyarch says is the “Camera Spike.” Since it looks like it was placed before “First Blood,” we can surmise that it’s equipment and not a killstreak reward, but at this point, there’s no confirmation. You place it in a room and get to see footage in your upper left hand radar map when it’s active. You can then pick it up, as long as your enemy hasn’t destroyed it (just like a sentry gun, or a tactical insertion). Oh, and check out your rifle. See that smiley face on it? Does that indicate that you can customize your weaponry in this game? Maybe.

First appearance of a new kill streak reward: the RC bomb car. Nice to get a weapon at 3 instead of just a UAV, eh? And check out the rocket going off in the background! Gorgeous. Does that indicate an objective-based mission? Maybe. But if I had to bet, it’s probably an indicator of something that goes on in the story mode.

That right there is one of your explosive crossbow bolts exploding in your enemy’s face while you notch another. It’s a delayed blast but just one seems to be enough to kill.

Hard to see in the still footage but that knife was just SHOT into that enemy’s back. They’re calling this the ballistic knife and watch what you can do to follow up:

Boom! Double stab to the back of enemy #2. Brutal!

Just an indicator of the fact that you can still call in helicopters as you can see in the radar on the upper left (and the devestation in the server room!)

Look closely at that enemy. See that green light? Unfortunately placed for that guy because that’s a sticky grenade, not unlike the semtex in MW2.

Ah, the RC car in action. If you look right in the middle you can see the trail of a rocket. Apparently that guides your car bomb. You can also see Cyrillic lettering on that red sign so I guess we’re fighting Russians. Makes sense since this is set during the Cold War.

And that, my friends, is a trail of napalm going off. Dangerous stuff. Is it the ultimate kill streak? The BOPs version of a nuke? Couldn’t say, but it’s nasty.

There you go. We’ll have a lot more news on September 1st and you can follow Treyarch’s community manager on Twitter for more info.

And here’s the newest thing Treyarch has added. A recording feature so that you can share your gameplay footage. Take a look at that user interface at the bottom! That’s a lot of cool options.

See the UI at the bottom now? He’s got it on “hold” to pause the footage while he rotates the camera around a pretty sweet kill. Wow!

You can manage your gameplay footage in segments and include transitions. No word yet on where you can share the footage. Will it only be between XBL friends, for instance? Or will they allow you to upload it directly to YouTube? If they do, I can see them including a service fee for such content. Halo 3 charged $20/year for that ability if I recall correctly. Still, expect a lot of exciting footage to end up on YouTube once this game launches.

In the ninth episode of Joint Ops Monthly, we discuss tips and trips for Underpass, the latest Call of Duty and Modern Warfare 2 news, the Modern Warfare 2 Player of the Month and listener mail.