Amazon is trying to make war fun today (October 13, 2010) with a Gold Box event celebrating some of the best war games and shooters. If you keep visiting, you’ll see new war video games and shooters popping up for limited time sales on the site. Even Amazon’s Deal of the Day is a war game – the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. For a limited time, they’re only $36.99, instead of $59.99.

In fact, the whole affair is looking to be quite Call of Duty-centric. The first limited deal was the Greatest Hits edition of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for the PS3 and the second was the Platinum Hits edition of Call of Duty: World at War for the Xbox 360. We’ll have to watch and see if this trend continues throughout the day…

Anyone who’s been playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 online has probably seen the hackers. People have found ways to tweak the game to suit their means, like increasing how much experience could be gained to help people level up quicker. Some people even found a way to get infinite care packages to keep their stats up. My personal favorite exploit was a diabolical one that would penalize people who killed other people, sending them all the way back down to the first level. But those days are at an end.

Infinity Ward announced today via the Infinity Ward Forum that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2‘s latest patch, 1.08, will take care of all those troublesome and unfair exploits. No more XP hacks, no more infinite care packages…