In physical professional sports, a technical error is rarely a concern. A game may be stopped due to a faulty scoreboard and a team may lose some momentum, but the game would not have to be replayed. According to official Major League Gaming rules however, the match must be restarted if a technicality occurs, and given [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 10, 2010
While we’ll get into the logic of this promotion in a bit, Valve’s Left 4 Dead 2 will be free to play on Xbox Live, even if you are a non-paying Silver member. Starting Friday, January 15th at noon through Monday, January 18th, also at noon, you can hop in and start blasting zombies. Just [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 13, 2009
Spike’s Video Game Awards may still be of dubious credibility, but at the very least, it’s like a mini-E3 with the amount of trailer reveals. The big showing was undoubtedly Halo Reach, the final Bungie Halo title, and nicely teased in Halo 3: ODST, where a memorial can be found to the battle. Skull-faced and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
Is the Haloverse spreading itself too thin? One might not think so when you look at sales figures for the most recent Halo installment, Halo 3: ODST. According to Microsoft’s COO of interactive entertainment, Dennis Durkin, Halo 3: ODST has sold over 3 million copies to date since its release on September 22, 2009. This sounds great, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 15, 2009
Many games are using heat maps are guides to show players where the most activity occurs on a specific map. The red sections of the overhead map indicate where the most kills occur on a Halo 3 level, while lighter shades indicate fewer death for instance. UbiSoft has found an additional use for these maps: advertising. [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 20, 2009
While probably not as cool as the Halo 3 camo-colored Xbox 360 that launched alongside that game, Europeans are getting a nice bundle alongside ODST. Inside this package you’ll get Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST, and the multi-player beta to Halo Reach… whatever that will be. The 360 itself is a standard Elite, with the 120GB [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 17, 2009
Halo creators have added what they call a Firefight mode to there upcoming release Halo 3: ODST. If you are unfamiliar with this fact, and don’t know what that mode will entail, it is basically going to be a Horde mode from Gears of War 2. While this should most certainly be a successful mode, many [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 16, 2009
How do you know when someone is a bad loser? Well, let’s see. Hmmm, maybe they cuss a lot when they are losing, throw their controller, quite early, complain that you or the “computer” is cheating, oh and let’s not forget they decide to file a lawsuit against you. Yeah, that’s right, that last one [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 6, 2009
Surprising… everyone, Microsoft has apparently decided to lift the requirement that all games must run in 720p and be anti-aliased. Black Rock Studios developer David Jeffrries (part of the team behind the awesome Pure) states that an update to its TCR (Technical Certification Requirement) form. It formerly stated that all games must run at 1280×720 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 3, 2009
So, you probably already know you’ll be getting two discs inside Halo ODST. The first is of course the new Halo title ODST. However, it contains no versus multi-player, just co-op. The second disc will contain Halo 3’s hugely popular multi-player… all of it… and then some. Since we’re lazy and don’t want to type [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 24, 2009
What are some things we know about Halo 3? 1. The game is fantastic! 2. It launched with 3.8 million copies in it’s first week (a record which still stands) 3. It has an average critic score of 9.6 4. When Hollywood finally makes a movie out of it, it will makes large piles of money whether the movie [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
Remember when Halo 3 launched? Pepsi decided to jump on the marketing bandwagon and released Game Fuel, a nasty tasting concoction that Halo fans probably bought anyway. Realizing there’s an entirely different set of gamers out there who would probably buy that same nasty tasting concoction, Pepsi re-bottled it as World of Warcraft Mountain Dew. Unlike [...]
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