I am proud to present the article below, written by Karmus, our runner up in our in our Call of Duty 4 article writing contest. Please share this article with your fellow Call of Duty 4 players and let us know what you think in the comments section.
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I would readily classify myself as a gamer. I’ve been playing long enough to have my own magic blowing technique to get those pesky NES cartridges to work on the first try. I’ve sunk an untold amount of hours into “pwning nubs” on de_dust2, while having a laugh (and a few drinks) over Ventrilo. I’ve even ventured into the depths of Molten Core to take my shot at some epic loot. Rarely has there been a game that I could even remotely classify as perfect, but despite the inherent flaws, its that unconditional love that makes me a true gamer. What upsets me, however, is when a game can be perfect, it has the potential, but for whatever reason it falls short because of what I can only assume to be laziness. Call of Duty 4 just so happens to be one of these games. Read more

This isn’t related to Call of Duty 4 Strategy in any way, but it’s still important. Recently there was quite a bit of internet buzz regarding Microsoft’s decision to force two users with the word gay in their name to change their Xbox Live Gamertags. The two names in question were “thegayergamer” and “Gaywood” (The players legal surname), more specific details here and here. Neither of these names were derogatory or offensive or uses with any malicious intent, just containing the word gay raised red flags.

This does place Microsoft in a difficult position. In many social circles, including the gaming community, people use the word gay not to mean happy or homosexual, but to mean bad or unfair. Read more