Electronic Arts Inc. announced today that the legendary war-based first-person shooter titled Medal of Honor is going to launch on the 15th of October, 2010 throughout Europe.

The shipping date will be announced today through an emotionally charged trailer called “Leave a Message”. The trailer will show a United Stated Army Ranger platoon heading into combat on a helicopter. The chaos and uncertainty of the mission is belied by the reassuring voice of one of the Rangers as he reaches out to his family back home.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Surpasses One Billion USD in Worldwide Retail Sales

The Game Continues to Set Retail Sell Records

Activision Blizzard Inc. announced today that Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues to make retails sales crossing the One Billion USD mark worldwide, since its launch in November.

In the first five days of the game’s launch, it sold an estimated 550 million USD worldwide, surpassing five-day worldwide gross figures for such movies as Avatar, Harry Potter and others, according to the internal Activision estimates and box office mojo.

F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) is a modern horror first person shooter developed by Monolith Productions. Published by Vivendi Universal, the game was released in October 2005 for Windows, and was ported for the Sony PlayStation 3 in April 2007 and Xbox 360 in October 2006 by Day 1 Studios. There are two expansion packs for F.E.A.R. released by Timegate Studios, F.E.A.R. – Extraction Point in October 2006 and F.E.A.R. – Perseus Mandate in November 2007. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is the direct sequel of the game and was released in February 2009 by Monolith Productions.

F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) uses a proprietary engine developed by Monolith Productions, which later on formed a separate company named LithTech INC. to deal with the development of the engine.

An all-new Medal of Honor is coming in 2010, and for the first time in the 10 years it’s going to walk away from the World War II scene. Medal of Honor will take place in a war-torn Afghanistan in the modern days.

Electronic Arts Inc. revealed today that they will release an all-new Medal of Honor in the summer of 2010. The game will introduce the Tier One Operator, which is a unseen force controlled by the National Command Authority, who takes on missions no one else can handle. That’s why the development team has been working with some Tier 1 Operators from the U.S. Special Operations Community since the beginning to create a greater modern war experience.

Half-Life: Blue Shift is developed by Gearbox Software and it’s an expansion pack for Valve’s science fiction first-person shooter video game – Half-Life. Published by Sierra Entertainment, the game was released on the 12th of June, 2001 and was the second expansion pack released for Half-Life.

Half-Life: Blue Shift uses Valve’s GoldSrc engine, which is a heavily modified Quake engine. The game was first announced in the Q2 of 2000 to be released as a Dreamcast port of the original version, but was later canceled, and the final product was brought to the PC.

Half-Life: Opposing Force is developed by Gearbox Software as an expansion pack for Valve Software’s science fiction first-person shooter video game Half-Life. Published by Sierra Studio, the game was released on the 1th of November 1999 and was the first expansion pack ever to be released for Half-Life.

Opposing Force was first announced in April 1999. Gearbox Software was selected to develop this expansion pack in order for Valve to concentrate on their other projects. Half-Life: Opposing Force uses Valve’s GoldSrc engine, which is a heavily modified Quake engine.

Half-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation and it’s the predecessor to the successful Half-Life 2. Published by Sierra Studios, the game was first released in November 1998 for PC and in November 2001 for the Playstation 2 ported by Gearbox Software. Half-Life uses a heavily modified Quake Engine version, which was named “GoldSrc” or “Goldsource”, and was able to render in two application programming interfaces, which are Direct3D and OpenGL. The successor of the GoldSrc engine is the Source engine ran by Half-Life 2. Half-Life won over fifty “Game of the Year” awards since its release, and sold over twenty million copies.

Half-Life 2 is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation and it’s the sequel to the successful Half-Life. The game was released in November 2004 after five years of development, but it could’ve been released one year earlier. It was delayed because of a leak into the internet of the game’s source code.

Half-Life 2 is available for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems and was ported to the Xbox, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in the Orange Box Compilation Package. The game won over forty “Game of the Year” awards for the year 2004.

Crysis is a first-person shooter video game with science-fiction elements and is developed by Crytek. Published by Electronic Arts, the game was released in November 2007 for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems and it’s the first installment of a trilogy.

Following different perspectives from Crysis, Crysis Warhead was released in September 2008 as a sequel, and also a Multiplayer Expansion pack called Crysis Wars was released in a Compilation Package in May 2009.

Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Infinity Ward for Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii game consoles and MAC OS X and Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. Published by Activision, the game was released in November 2007 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, September 2008 for Mac OS X and November 2009 for the Nintendo Wii.

The game is followed by its sequel – Call Of Duty – Modern Warfare 2 and is the fourth installment of the Call of Duty Franchise.