There\u2019re a lot of big releases coming up, but the unquestionable headline dominators are Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3, intense rivals from the start. We\u2019ve seen a lot of back and forth between the two, with plenty of blows being traded.<\/p>\n
While the publishers are squabbling however, it seems the community managers are BFFs \u2013 or so they\u2019d like us to think perhaps.<\/p>\n
At Gamescon 2011, Modern Warfare 3\u2019s community manager turned \u201ccreative strategist\u201d Rob Bowling and his Battlefield counterpart Danil Matros sparred in-game at the Battlefield 3 booth for roughly an hour.<\/p>\n
Instead of taking the opportunity to laugh uproariously at Battlefield 3\u2019s inferiorities, Bowling\u2019s been as sweet as saccharin. The two had the following friendly banter on Twitter:<\/p>\n
fourzerotwo<\/strong> Robert Bowling<\/em><\/p>\n GamesCom completed! Spent an hour playing @Battlefield 3 multiplayer with friends from DICE, I loved it! Also, Batman: Arkham City = amazing<\/p>\n zh1nt0<\/strong> Daniel Matros<\/em><\/p>\n @fourzerotwo @battlefield was an awesome session! Got your tags \ud83d\ude09 stay safe Rob! COD is lucky to have you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n fourzerotwo<\/strong> Robert Bowling<\/em><\/p>\n @zh1nt0 I promise you, you will never get my fourzerotwo tags. That is a challenge my friend. Come for them and receive bullets in the face.<\/p>\n zh1nt0<\/strong> Daniel Matros<\/em><\/p>\n @fourzerotwo bring it \ud83d\ude00 and @locust9 , it was a lot of fun<\/p>\n Call me a cynic, but all the friendly rivalry and jabs seem a little bit too manufactured. It\u2019s an \u201cAw, shucks\u201d and a \u201cGee whiskers\u201d away from being totally unbelievable. Still, it\u2019s nice to see everyone getting along anyway, the constant bickering between publishers and fanboys does get tiresome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two community managers are BFF for life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}