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There’s a rather interesting article over on Gamasutra today which points out the inescapable fact that for all its record setting at launch, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will likely never catch Call of Duty: Black Ops in lifetime sales. With only a few months until Black Ops 2, Modern Warfare 3 is still 2.7M copies behind the original game, a gap it will likely not close as both continue to sell copies.

Portal 2 has been crowned the ultimate game of the year at the Golden Joystick video game awards. It beat competition for the top prize from the likes of LA Noire, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Gran Turismo 5. With more than two million votes cast across 14 categories, organisers claim it is the biggest video games award ceremony in the world.

Activision says 5.6 million copies of the highly-anticipated action game were sold. By comparison, last year's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 -- the previous "biggest entertainment launch in history" -- pulled in $310 million on launch day and sold 4.7 million copies.

As if the gun-toting action in Call of Duty: Black Ops wasn t expected to feel real enough in high definition, Activision Blizzard Inc. announced Tuesday that the latest entry in its successful first-person-shooter video game franchise would be released in 3-D.