Today started with meetings and ended with a 2.5 hour line to see Call of Duty Elite. Yes, I'm referring to the social service for Call of Duty. While waiting there in line, I was nearly sure it was going to be a waste of my time. But in the end, I actually learned something about the new service.

So far, everything we know about the Elite service is going to be offered for free. That's sans the $8 fee that we've been reading about. I thought we were going to be forced to pay that fee... but no.

I got to play a few other games along the way. Never Dead looks rediculous. Another console pop. Ghost Recon (not the free play version) looks like... well, Ghost Recon. A good game, it just takes time. Close Combat was not fun to play. Atari is killing their range of IPs that they've had since the dawn of time. No wonder they keep going out of business.

I was going to check out BF3, but that was a 6 hour wait. So I plan to try and hit that line early for a shorter version of that.