This week’s weekly round up is brought to you by the letters Z, M & W. The Z stands for Zombies and of course, the M & W stands for Modern Warfare.

Infinity Ward announced, after making a squillion-bazillion dollars overnight with ‘Modern Warfare 2’ that they were going to produce a spin off game based around Sergeant Simon “Ghost” Riley.  Ghost already has his own comic book series, and seeing that he is nothing like Casper the friendly ghost, it might make for an interesting game.

Of course, with all that money to spend, and a new franchise to get off the ground, Activision (IW’s parent company) are rumoured to be putting together another team of developers to produce said game.  So does this mean we’ll be seeing three new ‘Call of Duty’ games every two years, with two of them being moaned about by the IW fanboys, and only one of them going on to break gaming records…?

Leaving ‘Modern Warfare’ for a moment, zombie sequel ‘Left 4 Dead 2’ already has the rumour mills in over drive with a teaser site for the Midnight Riders suggesting that they might be the focus of the games first DCL content.

Taking a brief break from zombies,  EA released another video of their forthcoming first person shooter, ‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2’. In this video we get to see how to demolish a house with a few handy charges.  Riding in vehicles, environmental destruction, it’s like ‘Modern Warfare’ only…. Um…. Er… different.

Back to the zombies, and it’s time for ‘Left 4 Dead 2’ to start getting made fun of – especially when your AI team mates think the best way to rescue you is to jump off the balcony to their death – as this video shows – leading to the end of the game.

In other news, Microsoft is now claiming that hey haven’t banned 1 million users from using their modded Xboxes on Live.  No, apparently it was only 999,999 users…

If you’re one of the 2 or 3 users who havn’t modded their Xboxes, and you need some help with your zombie killing skillz, then check out our brief ‘Left 4 Dead 2’ Multiplayer Tips & Achievements – no it won’t give you any secret powers to combat trash talking American 5 year olds, but it might help you progress a little further along…

And finally, we couldn’t finish with out some more ‘Modern Warfare 2’ news!  Some smelly computer hacker has uncovered a Global Thermonuclear War Mode in IW’s record breaking shooter.  In this mode, you get to lie on the ground protecting a nuclear bomb for the entire game – whilst everyone else runs around having fun - before detonating it and killing yourself and Everone else.  Yes, that sounds like fun.