Some gaming links for this Friday evening:

Worldwide Call of Duty: Black Ops Day – Nov 9th on Facebook. 13565 listed as attending already
- Halo Reach: First week stats – 70 million games played, 5,901 man-years spent in online Reach games, 165 Billion Credits earned
- Protip: Don’t release your game the same week as Pokemon in Japan – Halo Reach sales utterly dwarfed by Pokemon in Japan
- Halo: Reach Secrets and Easter Eggs – Avatar unlocks, Master Chief cameo and more
- 75% off Serious Sam HD games this weekend – Steam offer, newly released Gold Edition can be picked up for $10
- Report: There Is A New Wii-Remote – Upcoming Wii title FlingSmash’s boxart seems to be bundled with a new Wii Remote
- Molyneux: Kinect is a bigger ‘step forward’ than the Wii – He’s a no-buttons fanboy
- Sony Blocks Fake Controllers, Warns Of Explosions – New firmware release
- StarCraft II editor Q&A – Useful tips though not a guide for beginner users
- Kotick: Bungie Had No Alternative to Activision – Gives a sense of the scale of Bungie’s next project
- APB concept artist forms a new studio
- Microsoft: Who needs Blu-Ray? – It’s going to be ‘passed by as a format’, says entertainment and marketing chief
- Modern day Prince of Persia was scrapped by Ubisoft – “Think a bit Day After Tomorrow, but replace the snow with sand and everything. It was really wicked. But it got cancelled, and then we did all the Far Crys.”
Previous link round ups can be foundĀ here.