Battlefield Heroes the next generation in the Battlefield series has finally released from Beta to the wild. This Free to Play "Cartoon Shooter" has a few elements of the normal Battlefield series of games... Check it out:

• Battlefield Heroes, Free to Play Cartoon Shooter
• Forum post on the topic

America's Army 3 (AA3), the only action game that delivers an authentic and entertaining Army experience by reflecting the training, technology, actions, and career advancement of a Soldier within an exciting free game experience,is now available for pre-load via Steam. AA3 is free and will be released on June 17, 2009. Those playing AA3 through Steam will also get the benefit of Steamworks features such as auto-updating, Steam Achievements, and Steam Cloud.

Links

• America's Army 3.0 website
• Steam news article on AA 3.0
• Forum post on the topic

That's right folks everyone's favorite writer / director / producer / whatever he is this week, has made a fun new FREE production in an attempt to circumvent the "Show Business" folks and form a new type of entertainment media (or legitimize a current one, think Youtube). Anyhow it will only be online FREE until July 20, 2008 so check it out.

Activision today announced that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is the number one title in unit sales worldwide for calendar 2007. The game sold over seven million units worldwide according to statistics garnered from The NPD Group, Chart Track and The GFK Group, respectively. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare also recently topped Halo 3 as the most played Xbox Live title.

"We're very excited about this achievement especially given so many competitive titles this year," said Will Kassoy, senior vice president, global brand management, Activision Publishing. "Consumer and critics agree that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is one of the best games ever created and further establishes Call of Duty as one of the premier brands in the industry. This ground-breaking game and franchise continue to establish new standards by which all other action games will be judged."

All the best in New 2008!

May your hearts will be happy, your bellies full, and your wallets bursting!

And lots of good gaming too :)