Modern Warfare 3's first round of DLC released to Elite subscribers

Call of Duty Elite subscribers got their first shot of playable MW3 content today, with the release of Elite Drops 1 and 2 for Xbox 360. The new content, which'll be available for purchase by non-Elitists come March, comprises two new multiplayer maps. Liberation recreates New York's Central Park with the addition of gun batteries and snipe-ready long-range vistas, while Piazza is a Favela-style network of blind corners and claustrophobic alleyways in a heavily-occupied Italian seaside village.

The two initial Drops begin Activision's pledge to supply Elite subscribers with a nine-month-long stream of MW3 content. The content will also spread to other platforms “at a later time,” promises Activision. Have a look at some screenshots of the title below; Elite members will also be invited to partake in “community screenshot events” to highlight the new maps.

Elsewhere in people-pretending-to-blow-each-others'-faces-off-online news, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has already been deposed as the world's greatest Modern Warfare 3 player. The file-locker czar's score of 9.05M points (with a kill/death ratio of 2:10) was surpassed by a player tagged Arazos, whose 9.09M points (K/DR 2:87) narrowly eclipse the score of the otherwise-occupied Dotcom. But then, Arazos doesn't (as far as we know) own a mansion, an internationally-notorious domain or a private arsenal of real-world artillery, so let's call it even.