Starting at 12 noon (PST) on Friday, December 5, Limited Collector’s Edition owners of Call of Duty: World at War on PC and 360 will be able to earn double experience points when playing multiplayer.

Access to the Double XP “Officer’s Club” playlists will require Xbox 360 Limited Collector’s Edition owners to have successfully activated their copies of Call of Duty: World at War. Owners will see the “Officer’s Club” show up in the player match playlists screen. For PC Limited Collector’s Edition owners, they can simply join any server during the Double XP week and be rewarded with twice the experience.

The Double XP week will end on 11:59 a.m PST. on Friday, December 12. For all the gory details and an FAQ, check out the official Call of Duty Headquarters here.

World of Warcraft players certainly don’t mind that 7-Eleven has been dabbling in the field of selling videogames. Thanks to the apparent disregard for street dates, WoW players were able to secure early copies (albeit not early access) of Wrath of the Lich King. The retail chain has announced that its recent sales of games like WoW, Halo, and Madden isn’t a temporary holiday cash-in — they’re planning on permanently adding videogames to their inventory (via Joystiq).

“This is not just a holiday promotion for us,” explained 7-Eleven category manager for gaming and electronics, “but a brand new product line-up that will be available year-round. We may not be a total entertainment destination … yet, but we’re hoping to expand our selection beyond the high-dollar, hot-selling games to include options for all budgets, like value-priced video games as well as DVD movies. For consumers wanting convenient one-stop shopping for at-home entertainment along with groceries and gas or who just want to avoid big-store shopping inconveniences, their local 7-Eleven store is open and ready.”

In addition to Wrath of the Lich King, 7-Eleven is planning on selling the Guitar Hero World Tour band kit, Fallout 3, Quantum of Solace, Gears of War 2, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009, and Call of Duty: World at War. They’ll also begin selling subscription cards for around 20 games and services ranging from Xbox Live to City of Heroes to Runescape.

Picking up a game at 7-Eleven seems to be more of a convenience rather than an alternative, at least at this point. Unless you’ve got one closer to home than any other retailer, will gamers really opt to go there instead of GameStop, Best Buy, or Walmart? But if they decided to throw in a free Slurpee with the purchase of any full-priced game, that might just give them the edge that makes it the premiere destination for picking up big-name games. It would for me, at least.

Call of Duty: World at War was just released for the PC on Wednesday, but already Treyarch has released a new toolset wich will allow modders and mappers everything they needed to create mods and levels for Singleplayer and Multiplayer modes in the game.

So, all you modders out there, get to downloading the 1.1GB file here from FileFront or by hitting the badge below.

Aside from it’s unique brand of humor, you have to admire South Park for at least one thing: their timeliness. Where most movies and TV shows would have made up some Doom-looking game that no one would actually play (*cough* Simpsons *cough*), this show keeps up-to-date with the current video gaming world. Last night’s episode for example had the boys playing Call of Duty: World At War, a game that’s been out for just over a week — and just over two days on PC. This being a game that focuses a lot on Americans fighting the Japanese in World War II, you can probably imagine what Cartmen’s thoughts on the whole thing are.

Call of Duty: World at War has been out for a week on the PS3 and Xbox 360, while PC gamers have sat patiently by waiting for their turn to give the latest installment in the series a spin. Well that wait is finally over, as the game has now been released for the PC and can even be downloaded directly through Steam for $49.99. This new chapter in the franchise was developed by Treyarch, who became somewhat notorious for their work on the sub-par Call of Duty 3. Thankfully though, they seem to have corrected their past mistakes with this one and done what they should’ve done in the first place: copy Infinity Ward as much as possible.

It looks as though U.K. fans are just as crazy about the Call of Duty franchise as those in the U.S. because according to the All Formats charts from Chart Track, the week one sales of Call of Duty: World at War are higher than sales for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare when it debuted. Outselling CoD4 by more than 2 to 1, World at War is expected to be the most popular game during the Holiday Shopping Extravaganza across the pond.

If you look at the rest of the chart, you will notice that games published by Activision Blizzard dominate the chart by having 25 percent of all sales for the one publisher. Of course, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is on the chart as well, taking spot number two while Guitar Hero: World Tour coming in at number six (full kits for this game were just released recently released).

Last week’s number one best-selling game was Epic’s Xbox 360 exclusive Gears of War 2, which dropped 64 percent and down to position number four.

To give you an idea what our British brethren are playing, here are the top selling games for week ending November 15:

1. Call of Duty: World at War
2. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
3. Football Manager 2009
4. Gears of War 2
5. FIFA 09
6. Guitar Hero: World Tour
7. Professor Layton and the Curious Village
8. Mario Kart Wii
9. Pro Evolution Soccer 2009
10. WWE Smackdown Vs RAW 2009

Thanks: GamesIndustry.biz

For those of you who have run out to your local retail store this morning to purchase the just released Call of Duty: World at War on the PC, Treyarch has issued a 317Mb patch fixing some of the minor issues you will encounter with the SLI support, multiple buddy invites, and weapon balancing amongst others.

The patch notes are relatively short so we have listed the entire list for you here:

• Mods are now enabled in Co-op, Single Player, and Multiplayer
• Improvements for SLI support
• G_Spawn: no free entities crash has been fixed
• Server no longer runs out of script variables
• License key is no longer required to run a Dedicated Server
• A Dedicated Server can now be started from the Command Line via Remote Desktop Connection
• Various fixes in Server Browser
• Players will no longer see multiple friend invites from the same friends
• When a player calls in a recon plane in a Hardcore match, the HUD will properly appear
• Clan Tags will now display in game where appropriate
• Map holes fixed
• Spawn improvements and weapon balancing
• Remote desktop now works with dedicated server

With the installation of Patch v1.1, from now on when you log into your game you will be automatically notified when a new patch is available–therefore you will no longer have to search the net or the official game site for one. To get Patch v1.1, you can visit FileFront here, or hit the badge below.

As of today, Call of Duty: World at War is also available for the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and Nintendo DS.

Last Wednesday, Activision and Treyarch announced details on how to sign up for the World War II shooter, Call of Duty: World at War Multiplayer Beta for the PC, and today is the day you can get in on all the fragging fun.

Now up on FileFront, the Call of Duty: World at War Beta installer is ready to be loaded on your PC; however, before you get to downloading make sure you are aware of the all the ins and outs of what it encompasses. We posted these details last week, but here they are again just in case you missed them:

• The beta gives you and service providers the option of hosting your own servers; however, dedicated servers will be Windows only for the duration of the beta. “GSP’s will be able to sell beta servers and put up as many dedicated servers as they’d like. All of this will function as if it were a regular multiplayer game”.

• Registered user will receive a special key that will allow them to create a profile name and play the beta. This offer also includes people who sign up after the beta has already started.

• Your globally unique user name will be very important, because for the first time ever the PC version will be incorporating invites and your friends list so that the squad mechanics will work just like the console versions. Clan tags can also be added as a prefix.

• Just like with the Xbox 360 version of the Beta, all accounts, experience and friends lists will be deleted after the beta is concluded.

Now, the only thing left to do is sign up, and you can do that by visiting the official website and enlist with the Call of Duty Headquarters. If you happen to have preordered the PC version from GameStop, you already have a beta key so sign up and and then head on over to FileFront where yo can get the installer by hitting this link or the badge below.

As always, after you have played around with it a bit, be sure and let us know what you thought of you experience in the comments section below.

Although Activision and Treyarch have yet to announce a specific date for PC version of the Call of Duty: World at War multiplayer Beta – they have given up some details on just how you can get in on all the action.

It’s pretty easy actually. If you have pre-ordered the game from GameStop you will automatically get a Beta key, where as if you have yet to pre-order World at War all you have to is go online to the official website and enlist with the Call of Duty Headquarters.

Josh Olin, the online community manager for Treyarch has posted all the intel on the site, but what it all boils down to is this:

• Since the World at War Beta gives you and service providers the option of hosting your own servers; however, dedicated servers will be Windows only for the duration of the beta. Also, according to the site “GSP’s will be able to sell Beta servers and put up as many dedicated servers as they’d like and . All of this will function as if it were a regular Multiplayer game”.
• Everyone who is a registered user will receive a special key that will allow them to create a profile name and play the beta. This offer also includes people who sign up after the beta has already started.
• Your globally unique user name will be very important because for the first time ever the PC version will be incorporating invites and your friends list so that the squad mechanics will work just like the console versions. Clan tags can also be added as a prefix.
• Just like with the Xbox 360 version of the Beta, all accounts, experience and friends lists will be deleted after the Beta is concluded.

Josh has promised that his next update will include details on when the Beta will be going live, how you can download it and where you can get your keys. So if you want in on the fun, you better register soon. 1UP will also be keeping and eye out for any new announcements as they are made available so you should check back with us often and be sure to mark your calenders because the game will storm retail on November 11 for the PC, PS2, PS3, 360, Wii and DS.