Some people love Call of Duty. Some hate it. Some are totally indifferent. And then, some enjoy dressing up as Call of Duty characters.

Here's a bit—but not all—of the internet's best COD cosplay. The outfits range from the earlier Call of Duty games to the more recent ones, like World at War, Modern Warfare 2, and the first Black Ops.

And yes, there are zombies.

So have a look at the above gallery, and try to suss out who pulled off the best Call of Duty. And check out Kotaku's review of Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

Click the image's lower corner to expand to full size.

[Arinen]
[Domjiji]
[Katherine-Drake]
[luckysevenstars]
[MattDennie]
[missyunie]
[mrbob0822]
[ReijiKageyama]
[RunPiggyRun]
[Sasu-Jess]
[thechevaliere]
[Triturate]
[wfbarton]
[zahnpasta]

Multi-national releases are a difficult process. Not only are there linguistic and cultural barriers to overcome, but very often content or simple monetary reasons can keep a game from entering one country or another. Even so, some games are desired despite their limited availability no matter where you are. That being said, here are the top ten Xbox 360 games in Japan that were never released in Japan* (Comments are from the owner of the game store, Game Station, which sells imports in Japan).

10: Mortal Kombat Vs DC Universe
"The first Mortal Kombat for the next-gen consoles. Highly sought by Mortal Kombat fans and fans of DC heroes like Superman and Spider-Man." (editor's note: Spider-Man is neither a DC property, nor even present in Mortal Kombat VS DC Universe)

9: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
"Most games based off of anime or movies are generally lackluster, however, this title turned out to be surprisingly good. Much like the Toy Story 3 game, which came it at number 11, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a fairly popular movie-based game."

8: Splatterhouse
"An entirely new game in the series. The ability to unlock and play the previous 3 games is an added bonus."

7: Mortal Kombat
"The second next-gen Mortal Kombat. Unlike Mortal Kombat Vs DC Universe, which, much to the chagrin of many hard-core fans, was rated Teen due to the addition of the DC heroes, the new Mortal Kombat was rated Mature, with its staple graphic killing scenes."

6: Aliens Vs Predator
"Pretty much all Alien-based games sell well. It's best to play this game after watching all the Alien movies, Predator movies, and Alien Vs Predator movies!" (editor's note: It's really not.)

5: Silent Hill: Homecoming
"The Japanese version was cancelled just before release, so this game sells well even now. Recently, people have been buying Homecoming together with the newly released Downpour and the HD collection of the originals."

4: Dead Space 2
"The sequel to Dead Space. It looks like "game sequels never outsell the original." Still, people who enjoyed the original should enjoy this one as well."

3: Prototype
"Even people who don't regularly play foreign games often come to our store asking, "Do you have this game called, ‘Prototype?'" Mostly likely it's word of mouth from friends that's making this game popular enough for people to buy it without knowing what it's about."

2: Call of Duty: World At War
"This was the only game in the Call of Duty series that didn't get a Japanese release. Whether it's because it was released the year Activision pulled out of Japan, or because the enemies in the game are the Japanese, either way, it's a must-have for fans of the Call of Duty series." (editor's note: My bets are on the latter…)

1: Dead Space
"Dead Space is so famous that even people who don't play imported games know about it. The announcement that it wouldn't be sold in Germany or Japan was probably the best sales advertisement ever."

*All data gathered from Game Station and Game Station Online sales from August, 2007 to April, 2012.

外国人ゲームショップ店長のつぶやき"日本版未発売Xbox 360海外ゲーム売上ランキング"【よりぬきXbox 360 6月号】 [ファミ通.com]

Actor Gary Oldman has a long and lengthy resume with varied roles. But the one that concerns us today, and Conan O'Brien, is his work as Viktor Reznov from Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Black Ops.

In this Conan clip, Oldman voices some Reznov and talks about doing "battle chatter", or shouting commands over music and explosions to players.

I don't know which is cooler: Oldman doing Reznov or Oldman doing Reznov in a purple bow tie.

Gary Oldman: Call of Duty Black Ops Screamovers [TeamCoco.com]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's record-breaking, first-day sales are impressive, but almost more impressive is the life these Call of Duty games seem to have online.

This morning I hopped online to see how the past four year's worth of Call of Duty games were doing online. Yes, people still do play the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. I did the same thing at the beginning of the year, to see how the games were doing. Let's compare.

Each of these games show the current number of online players when you log in to find a match on the Xbox 360. I happen to only have all of these games on this platform, so I wasn't able to check out the PC or PS3. Here's what I found:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 had 776,152 people logged in shortly before 11 a.m. eastern on Veterans Day, a work day for many. Last year's Treyarch-developed game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, had 196,648 players logged in. The previous Infinity Ward-developed game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 still had 62,541 people playing it. Remember, that's a 2-year-old game and it's a weekday. Call of Duty: World at War, a game set during World War II, still had 5,800 people playing it. Finally, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the game that helped propel the series into the stratosphere, was being played by 3,309 people four years after the game was released. Not bad.

Back in January of this year I had the same idea of looking at how many people were still playing this dated Call of Duty titles. One evening on Jan. 30, I logged into all four Call of Duty games, from the original Modern Warfare to the then most recent Black Ops to see how many were playing. Comparing those numbers from almost a year ago to today's, I'm a little surprised how little they have changed.

Here's a quick run down:

Black Ops: 757,237
Modern Warfare 2: 174,059
World at War: 15,079
Modern Warfare: 15,361

What's it all mean? Well judging by these numbers, it looks like the series has a strong fanbase that like to stick around.

Nacht der Untoten. Verruckt. Shi No Numa. Der Riese. These names strike terror in the hearts of anyone that dared venture into the undead playgrounds of Call of Duty: World at War. The zombie story started there. It ends on the Moon.

Due out on August 23 for the Xbox 360, the Rezurrection donwloadable content pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops combines remastered versions of those four classic zombie packs with a new one called Moon, for obvious reasons. Forget about heading to a remote island to escape the undead hordes; they're spaceborn now, and there's no escape. Expect high-tech weapons, bizarre new weapons, and one hell of a challenge.

The five maps are packaged with an enhanced Zombies Soundtrack featuring three never-before-purchasable tracks and a special Xbox 360 Moon theme, all for the low, low price of 1,200 Microsoft points.

What's that you say? You've already gotten those four maps with the Hardened or Prestige editions of Black Ops? Well fine then, you get Rezurrection for free.

I'm sure the PC and PlayStation 3 players will get a similar deal whenever the content comes their way.

In next week's episode of the AMC hit Breaking Bad, Jesse convinces two of his pals to dip into a little cocaine, spawning an insightful conversation about Left 4 Dead, Resident Evil 4, and Call of Duty: World at War.

They're not just zombies, they're Nazi zombies! Seriously, if this is the sort of conversation you get into when you use cocaine, I never have to use cocaine. This is pretty much me whenever I visit a video game store, though I sweat a little bit more than a junkie.

Thanks king_e_dawg for passing this along!

Logan Fulton and his pals have put together this short homage to Call of Duty's zombie mode, playing out a round of the game as a live-action fan film that's not afraid to go overboard with the yellow glowing eyes.

It's not made for laughs, this is simply a straight-up recreation of the game mode, down to the on-screen prompts and weapon pop-ups.

Call of Duty's Zombie mode...in real life [GoNintendo]

Well, well, well, what do we have here? Some price drops on a few of our favorite PS3 games is what.

Sony Computer Entertainment America added seven more games to their price-reduced Greatest Hits library today. And among the list is one of last year's best games: Demon's Souls. Not surprising news, but still fantastic.

Here's the full breakdown:

MAG (Sony Computer Entertainment)
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (Sony Computer Entertainment)
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift (Sony Computer Entertainment)
Demon's Souls (Atlus)
Call of Duty: World at War (Activision)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
TEKKEN 6 (NAMCO BANDAI Games)

Sony says that games that they deem "greatest hits" are the titles that have "surpassed an impressive sales threshold and represent the highest caliber of quality software available on the PS3 system." We don't really care about all of that. What we care about is that these games will now only run you $29.99.

Noa Torigoe, star of adult films like Max Orgasm and Ultimate Gold, really loves video games. I guess you could call her "hardcore"? But she doesn't just love Japanese video games, she loves Western video games.

"The console that I play the most is the Xbox 360," Noa told Kotaku Japan. "Recently, I've been playing Mass Effect and Fallout."

Noa checked Dead Rising 2 at this year's Tokyo Game Show with Kotaku Japan. Sure, it's not a Western game, but it was made by Western developers. When asked what she liked about the game, she said, "I like how if you slice the zombies from overhead, they split in half." Continuing, she added that she said she was impressed with the difference in cutting the zombies diagonally and horizontally.

"I love games that show the tiniest details," Noa added.

In the past, Noa has done things like name-dropped Fable creator Peter Molyneux and talked about the differences between Fable I and Fable II. She imported the English-language version of Call of Duty: World at War and had reached Level 50 in World at War multiplayer two weeks after the game's original release.

"I think because more and more Western games are getting Japanese releases," she blogged in 2009, "it seems like we're in an age where the game world is shared."

[ #tgs2010 ]「鳥越 乃亜」ねえさんとTGSでデートしてきた、うひょ～　[Kotaku Japan] [Pic]

Prosecutors say a New Jersey man managed to convince four 13- and 14-year-olds to send him pictures of their genitals by saying it was a membership condition of the clan he was starting in Call of Duty: World at War.

Jonathan Prime (no relation), a 20-year-old from New Jersey, faces four felony counts of "communication with a minor for immoral purposes." Prosecutors also say he has a previous conviction on a child porn charge related to this case in his home state. His current charges were brought in Seattle, where one of his victims is located.

This creep's in jail on $25,000 bond, but clearly, we need to make a "Kids, it's not OK if someone asks you for a picture of your junk" PSA. Because at least four of them either didn't see the harm in it or were somehow manipulated into complying. Authorities say Prime met the kids online while playing CoD:WaW, evidently "groomed" them, was rejected by some but got pictures from others, and eventually got one to call him up and have phone sex.

Best part? "Confronted by investigators, Prime claimed he believed the boys to be 14 or 15." Because that would make this OK?

Oh, and as Radz points out in the comments - Call of Duty: World at War is an M-rated game. So it's just a complete breakdown of child protections here.

Charge: Man Used 'Call of Duty' to Pick up King County Boys [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]