Modern Warfare 2 helped push Activision's Call of Duty franchise through the $3 billion revenues mark, the publisher announced recently (thanks GI). The six titles in the series sold over 55 million units, with the latest installment earning $550 million in its first five days on sale.

The estimates come from NPD and GfK Chart-Track. Activision Blizzard CEO Robert Kotick labels this as one of the "greatest entertainment franchises of all time."

"If you consider the number of hours our audiences are engaged in playing Call of Duty games, it is likely to be one of the most viewed of all entertainment experiences in modern history," he added.

Terrific. Now we can all sleep easy, knowing that the CoD franchise sold squillions and squillions.

Ubisoft releases a new developer diary for Avatar: The Game:

2lions and I were out drinking last night. Not the insane drinking-yourself-to-death-for-no-reason-at-all kind of outing, but more of the casual having-a-sip-of-good-housewine-and-looking-at-tight-skirts kind of venture. Twas okay in a relaxing post-Black Friday sort of way.

Now, I'll trying and dig up some news in the traditional ActionTrip sort of way.

Cya lads and ladies (make that 'lads and zoe').

Morning folks. Hope you're all making the most out of this Thanksgiving thing, because the is news is as dead as can be. Anyway, I have several reviews coming up, including Machinarium, King's Bounty: Armored Princess, Divinity 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and a few more. Also, like I mentioned in yesterday's news, we'll be posting a feature on Mass Effect 2 (BioWare invited us to take part in a ME 2 conference call and we learned a lot of cool stuff). They are also planning (as you probably know already) a new reveal next week. I'm not certain, but I think it's related to the game's new playable vehicle.