The latest update introduces a host of new unlockables, loadout slots, game modes and a new weapon, the crossbow. Remember the good old days when game updates were only a couple of gigs? Those were simpler times, to be sure. When the latest game needed to be patched and/or updated and you could still play it that same night? Magical …

Infinity Ward has stated that this is to allow players to catch up with all the bonus content and events that will be added in the next few weeks.

Activision announced that all proceeds earned through purchases of the cosmetic pack, both past and present, will be donated to charities assisting in fighting wildfires in Australia.

As a part of the Mother Russia bundle, players will now be able to purchase a specific watch to communicate the statistic which is unavailable anywhere else in the game.

Over on the multiplayer front Activision is trying something new: Content that’s actually free and meaty enough to chew on. There’s a substantial amount of the stuff coming in the first season of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which begins on December 3.

With all the future DLC coming as free updates, it would make sense to throw Call of Duty Zombies fans a chewed up, soggy old bone.

A stacked package of single-player and multiplayer offerings, Call of Duty Modern Warfare may not hit every mark that it fires but this ballsy reinvention of the franchise is still the blockbuster benchmark that is thrilling, thoughtful and terrific.

Modern Warfare might just be the reset key to the entire franchise, the new template from which a decade’s worth of Call of Duty is based, just like the original Modern Warfare was so many years ago when it rewrote the book on cinematic first-person action and propelled video games into the mainstream spotlight.