Activision and Treyarch’s mega-blockbuster first-person shooter, Call of Duty: Black Ops, is launching tonight at midnight around the world.

Perhaps you’ve heard of this game before? Set during the Cold War period with jaunts in the Vietnam War? Superb cinematic presentation and insane action sequences? Extensive and excessive multiplayer features?

Yes, that Call of Duty: Black Ops.

In recognition of the game’s massive appeal, videogame retail giant GameStop is set to provide Black Ops with a fantastic platform for success by hosting the most midnight launch locations for a game ever.

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Following the reported revelation earlier this year that pre-order sales for Treyarch and Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: Black Ops had already surpassed those of 2009’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 during a similar timeframe, videogame retail monolith GameStop has announced that at this point in 2010, this is definitely the case.

According to a press release, GameStop is seeing “record reservations” for Black Ops:

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As younglings grow up into adulthood, we’re taught to avoid certain kinds of objects, places and people in order to prolong our lives and ensure no undue psychological or physical harm is inflicted upon us.

One of the things that I, personally, have learned to avoid is the jack-in-the-box – one of those alarming toy boxes from which a usually hideous, monstrous puppet emerges with satanic speed and locomotion.

You know the kind.

I hate those things.

So it’s with a little hesitation that I bring to you news of the Collector’s Edition versions of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, which not only feature all kinds of special goodies that you would expect, but one of those… things.

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At the end of last month, Ubisoft very curiously (and secretly) announced a PlayStation 3 exclusive multiplayer beta for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, with news of the taster appearing right at the end of a European trailer for the game.

The ‘regular’ US version of the trailer provided no such information, which was weird.

Now, it’s been announced that those of you who pre-order the PS3 version of Brotherhood in the US will need to do so through videogame retail giant GameStop if you wish to participate in the multiplayer beta.

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Blizzard has revealed that the studio’s recently released StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty for the PC and Mac managed to sell over 1.5 million copies during the first 48 hours of its availability, easily making it the best-selling PC game of 2010, and the fastest-selling strategy title of all time.

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Videogame retail behemoth GameStop has announced its agreement to acquire the highly popular free-to-play Flash game portal Kongregate, in an effort to “[strengthen] GameStop’s digital platform and its commitment to become the gaming aggregator of choice.”

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Gamestop, the enormous, all-consuming videogame retailer based in the US, has been told by Nintendo to reserve shelf space for ‘something’ heading to stores later this year, as told by GameStop CEO, Don Dematteo in an interview with CNBC:

“We think there will be a Nintendo key property coming out by the end of the year,” he says. “They haven’t given us any insight, but they have told us to reserve [shelf] space.”

Whatever could it be? Maybe an increased supply of Wii or Wii Fit units?

That would be boring though, so respectable rumours doing the rounds are that the product that would fill the reserved shelf space could be a new Zelda game, which was hinted at by Nintendo in the middle of last year, but of which we’ve heard nary a peep.

E3 will have to come around and shock us all with new announcements…