Image credit: Infinity Ward, Activision.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is getting a small update today that includes the latest iteration of Infinity Ward 's iconic Shipment map. The map arrives just four days after Modern Warfare 4's launch last Friday, 23rd October, which is unusually quickly.

Shipment is the original Call of Duty 'small map'. First introduced in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2007, the map is designed to offer a breakneck pace of combat no other multiplayer map could. Though there have been Shipment-like small maps over the years - chiefly Treyarch's infamous Nuketown in the Black Ops sub-franchise - nothing could quite replicate Shipment's dizzying rhythm of mayhem.

Shipment's arrival in Modern Warfare 4 was expected, of course; the developer even announced the 27th October release date in a blog post prior to launch.…