On the PC Side, MOD TOOLS! - While the console side has been keeping me busy the most recently the PC side of things has a lot of cools stuff happening as well. The biggest is probably the fact that we're closing in on the final version of the Mod Tools which means we'll soon be releasing them to the community as a whole. We've been having a Mod Tools beta over the last month (delayed by Holidays) with a few members of the PC community which were helping us test and optimize the tools based on their feedback. This past week we sent out the first release candidate to the small group of community testers which we hope will be the final version. If it is then we can expect to release the tools to the Modding / Mapping community as a whole very soon and start seeing some really cool Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PC Mods being released.

They Wonder Why People Don't Make PC Games Any More - On another PC related note, we pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing Multiplayer (which was fantastic). What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online).Not sure if I can share the exact numbers or percentage of PC players with you, but I'll check and see; if I can I'll update with them. As the amount of people who pirate PC games is astounding. It blows me away at the amount of people willing to steal games (or anything) simply because it's not physical or it's on the safety of the internet to do.

Closing Thoughts and Conclusions - It's been a stressful week but thankfully an extremely productively one. We're moving forward on all fronts and we're still working hard on improving Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare well after launch. Did some take-home testing of the new feature patch that's coming out and the grenade kill-cam never ceases to be awesome. Especially when you watch it fly through the air, through some tiny window, and land right at your feet. It's still got a bit of testing to go through before it'll finish certification, but it's looking good. Still working on getting the EU Connectivity Patch out, next week should be a big one for that according to Production.