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Now that you’ve seen the world premiere of Modern Warfare 2 - join the Infinity Ward community to get involved in every aspect of it’s development by connecting directly into the behind the scenes of the studio. How can you get involved?

Stay Connected & Provide Feedback via Twitter

Follow up to the minute details on what it’s like at Infinity Ward studios as we develop Modern Warfare 2. From what we have going on at E3 to an inside look at closed door meetings at the studio. Get first hand information by following us on Twitter.

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Not only can you listen in, but you can join in and help shape Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer by contributing to the LIVE Twitter feed. Check http://twitter.infinityward.com for the live feed of suggestions. Keep an eye on the top for the latest question and simply tweet your suggestions along with the #MW2 hashtag to join in. Track, vote, and follow everyone’s suggestions on the leaderboards. We’re constantly turning to our community for inspiration and feedback on our games.

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Not only can you find all the official trailers and marketing goods, but we’ll also be posting behind the scenes developer videos, perk videos, and MP gameplay videos as we get further along in development. Have suggestions for what will make a good video or something you want to see on film? Let us know!

Join the Conversation on the forums

Hit up the forums to help analyze the latest trailers or screenshots, provide feedback on how to improve the game, or find out about exclusive Community Events where you can party-up with other gamers as well as members of the Infinity Ward team. In addition to scoring exclusive BADGES.

We’ll organize regular games with our community members, on current and past titles. While mostly meant for a fun way to meet up and talk with our community, it’s always a great competition for exclusive badges. While some badges can be earned by meeting qualifications online in the community, some require skill in-game as well. Like our recent Knives Only FFA’s in Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare.

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Sign-up now for exclusive benefits and first hands look at the development of Modern Warfare 2. As we get closer to the launch of the game we’ll be expanding the community site to include in-game intergration, first look videos, and increased community interaction. Get in early and get involved in the Modern Warfare 2 & Infinity Ward community.

We decided to pull some numbers on Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare this past week, which Slothy (one of our coders) so graciously put into a perspective we can all relate to.

As of Jan. 3rd we hit 10,006,606 unique users who have ever played Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare on Xbox 360 and have connected to Xbox Live at least once after playing.

That number got us curious as to how many of those 10 Million+users finished the F.N.G. mission, or beat Airplane on Veteran (among other things). Well, it turns out

71.1%, or 7,111,508 people have completed F.N.G.

That’s more than the entire population of Hong Kong (which is 7 Million).

68.8%, or 6,886,509 people have completed Cargo Ship.

This is the same number of adults in the US who were morbidly obese in 2005.

46.5%, or 5,654,643 people have beaten the game on any difficulty.

This is more than the current population of Finland!

2.8%, or 283,632 people have completed Airplane on Veteran difficulty.

The population of Stockton, CA is 280,000.

So if you’ve beat Airplane on Veteran difficulty, then congratulations. You’re in a very elite club. Considering less than 3% of players have been able to do it.

Now keep in mind, these are only players on Xbox 360 (who have also connected to Xbox Live at least once). So there are more than this playing Call of Duty 4, we just can’t track them. For PS3, we pulled MP-numbers only, and it looks like theres approximately 4,381,276 unique users playing PSN (not including SP-only players).

It’s getting closer and closer to, quite possibly my favorite holiday of the year, Halloween. While most chumps are putting up the same old tired Halloween decorations they’ve used every year up in the yard of ghosts, tombstones, and a talking skull that sings when you walk by the door step, Luke had different plans. More awesome plans. Plans that involved this awesome Call of Duty 4 carved pumpkin you see above.

Nice work Luke. You can check this out more, as well as grab a stencil to carve your very own COD4 pumpking over at Luke’s blog http://dymndheartkilla.wordpress.com/