You know that a video goes viral once it hits YouTube Trends. The Call of Duty: Real Life version also known as the Future First Person Shooter video hit YouTube Trends this morning. This video has over 600,000 views. Check it out above.

Activision has announced that they have a new “biggest entertainment launch in history” record through the sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Activision estimates that they made $360 million on the opening day of the game sales in the U.K. and North America. About 5.6 million copies of the game were sold on the first day.

Vince Zampella and Jason West are two of the most important names in the gaming industry. Both of them were ousted from Activision, the company that developed Call of Duty.

Zampella and Jason West are the creators of Modern Warfare and decided to start a new gaming studio company called Respawn Entertainment. Respawn already has a partnership with Electronic Arts now too.

There has been a legal battle over the last month between Activision and Zampella/West. Both Zampella and West sued Activision over unpaid royalties for Modern Warfare 2 and Activision decided to sue them back. Activision accused the men of scheming to “hijack Activision’s assets for their own personal gain.”

Kotaku reached out to Activision to find out their opinion on Respawn’s partnership with EA. Activision responded by saying:
“This agreement comes as no surprise to Activision given the myriad of improper activities detailed in the cross-complaint filed on Friday against Jason West and Vince Zampella. We look forward to continuing to work with Infinity Ward’s deep bench of proven talent on exciting new projects.” [Kotaku]

Call of Duty, published by Activision, is a first person shooter game that is similar to Unreal Tournament and Quake.  In the fifth installment of the war game, Call of Duty: World at War, the player is involved in World War II.

Since Call of Duty is rated T, it is recommended only for teenagers and above ages should play it.  Hugh Spencer,  a concerned parent took a rather unorthodox approach when choosing to allow his son to play Call of Duty.  He had his son Evan research the Geneva Conventions and vow not to violate it when playing this game.

“I asked Evan to google the Geneva Convention. Then he had to read it and then we had to discuss it. This we did. So the deal is that Evan has to fight according to the rules of the Geneva Convention. If his team-mates violate the Convention then play stops and Call of Duty goes away for a while,” stated Hugh.

What is your opinion about Hugh’s approach here?  Leave a comment.

[via BoingBoing]