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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 3 Comments »
Blimey. You can't keep a lame dog down, or whatever it is. Gears of War was the third most played game on Xbox Live last week, according to the Major. ... Read more..Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
According to the Major, the Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack is now up on Xbox Live and costs 800 MS Points. The pack contains three maps, as you can see ... Read more..Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Shooter, Trade, Xbox 360 | 15 Comments »
Speaking at MI6 in San Francisco Chris Lee, a global group product manager for Microsoft, has explained how making Master Chief a hero in the eyes of the American people ... Read more..Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360 | 12 Comments »
It's Thursday afternoon. Coffee's not working any more. All you can think of is pie and lesbians. Instead, though, you can watch a Halo 3 trailer of the three maps ... Read more..Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 2 Comments »
The Major says so, and you have to believe the Major. Explore the darkness and danger of The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack – Blackout, Avalanche and Ghost Town. Wander ... Read more..Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 1 Comment »
We just want Halo to beat it so we can write a different headline. Chart is for week ending March 17. Call of Duty 4 Halo 3 Guitar Hero III Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six ... Read more..Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | No Comments »
According to this, the final Halo 3 map to be included in the Legendary pack is called Blackout, a remake of the Halo 2 favourite, Lockout. Blackout joins the previously announced ... Read more..Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Here. The Pack will be released on April 15 for 800 MS Points and will include three maps: Ghost Town, the newly-announced Avalanche and a yet-to-be-shown level. Hit the link for ... Read more..Sunday, March 16th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Says so on Bungie's site. The already-revealed Ghost Town will be joined by a pair of other maps in Legendary, the first of which will actually be formally unveiled Tuesday– there’s ... Read more..Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 5 Comments »
Stats are for the week beginning March 3 and based on unique users. Looks as though Bungie's well and truly dethroned as the king of Live. A sad, sad day. ... Read more..Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Stuff, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
We ignored the start of this because it was just a bit daft, but Bungie got involved and now it's a geek fairytale. You've probably seen it: Halo fanboy had ... Read more..Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | No Comments »
This isn't going to change any time soon, is it? Call of Duty 4 was at the top of the Xbox Live most played chart again this week, beating both ... Read more..Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 3 Comments »
Here. It's an interview with Bungie environment artist Mike Zak about the "new map and Bungie's multiplayer map creation process in general", the new map in question being Ghost Town. ... Read more..Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | No Comments »
According to this, Microsoft is to hold an official Halo 3 tournament in Europe from March 18-30. The tournament is being sponsored by Samsung and offers prizes including Halo 3 ... Read more..Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | No Comments »
For the week ending February 17, Call of Duty 4 was yet again to most played game on Live. We're surprised Bungie hasn't fallen on its plasma sword. Here's the ... Read more..Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Development, GDC 2008, Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | No Comments »
Bungie's planning an epic amount of sessions on Halo 3 development at next week's GDC, including lectures on AI, lighting, running the game without a hard drive, environment design and ... Read more..Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | No Comments »
"Master" Chief? We don't think so. The Major's posted the leaderboard for the most played games on Live for the week ending February 9, and it really does look as ... Read more..Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Awards, MMO, Microsoft, PC, Shooter, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
According to this, the Visual Effects Society has honoured Halo 3 with its "Real Time Visuals in a Video Game" award, and WoW: Burning Crusade with its "Pre-Rendered Visuals in ... Read more..Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Asia, Microsoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 1 Comment »
Microsoft's offering a new Xbox 360 pack for Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, to include a 20Gb console, two wireless controllers, a month's Live sub and Halo 3. The bundle's ... Read more..Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 5 Comments »
Major Nelson's just confirmed that Call of Duty 4 was the most played game on Xbox Live for the week ending January 28. Halo 3, unsurprisingly, came in at second ... Read more..Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | No Comments »
The Halo 3 multiplayer map Purple Reign isn't going to make the spring DLC package, and will instead be replaced with Moonlight Sonata. This came from Frank O'Connor's weekly update. ... Read more..Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Xbox Live | No Comments »
Everyone can breathe again. Halo 3 is yet again the most played game on Xbox Live, after being knocked off the top spot by CoD4 in the Christmas rush. For ... Read more..
