Missed out on a Black Ops 2 Collector's Edition? Well, lucky for you, the good folk at Activision Australia have given us five Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Care Packages  to give away! These monstrous editions are sold out everywhere, so this is the chance to nab one while you can.

To be in with a chance of winning, you need to follow us on IGN Australia's Facebook page, IGN Australia's Twitter account, or indeed both.

Three of our lucky Twitter followers can walk away with an Xbox 360 Care Package edition. To be in the running, all you have to do is tweet the following from your Twitter account by 5pm today:

@IGN_AU Please give me an Xbox 360 Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Care Package! #Rumbos #BlackOps2 #IGNAU

We'll pick three Twitter winners today at random at 5pm (15/11/12)

Alternatively, we'll be running a caption competition to win one of two PlayStation 3 Care Packages on our Facebook page from today. Head over there, post your wittiest caption, and we'll pick two winners at 10am Monday, November 19th.

Entrants must live in Australia and be over the age of 15.

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More than one million copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops II were sold at GameStop midnight launches. According to GameStop president Tony Bartel, “GameStop sold more than 1 million units worldwide during our midnight launch period,” which means Black Ops II “is shaping up to be our biggest game launch of all time.”

The number isn’t necessarily surprising since Bartel previously confirmed that Black Ops II had the highest pre-orders in history at GameStop. We’ll likely hear much more about Call of Duty sales in the coming weeks, including a more specific amount of units sold.

For reference, last year’s Modern Warfare 3 sold 6.5 million copies during its first 24 hours on sale.

Source: Bloomberg

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The crazy popular series, Call of Duty, continues on November 13th with Black Ops 2. With a new branching campaign, retooled multiplayer, and at least three to four robots, Black Ops 2 should make quite a splash.

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The multiplayer matchmaking system in Call of Duty: Black Ops II will work using latency and ping, Treyarch has confirmed.

In a series of tweets, game design director David Vondehaar explained that the upcoming entry in the Call of Duty series wouldn't rely on region-based matchmaking, as was the case in previous games.

In response to being asked whether the locale-preference in matchmaking would again appear in Black Ops II, the following exchange took place:

In theory, this should result in fewer instances of host migration and drop outs, which have frustrated Call of Duty players in previous instalments. This isn't the only good news we've had for Call of Duty multiplayer fans recently; earlier this month Treyarch announced that the Call of Duty Elite service would be free to Black Ops II players.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II is due to release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on November 13, and on the Wii U on its respective launch dates.

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