“I’ve never been first in anything.”
Shortly before midnight last night, 350 people stood queuing outside the flagship HMV store on Oxford Street, London.
Why were they there? To buy Call of Duty: Black Ops, an 8/10 game.
Imran Chowdhury was first in line. He doesn’t normally do this kind of thing, but he happened upon a newspaper ad that day for the midnight launch and thought he’d pop along “early in the morning” – 11am – to see what was what.