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Jack Thompson challenged by Brian Crecente

Trevor — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:09:10 +0000

Jack Thompson twisted the recent NIU tradgedy to promote himself… unfortunately for him though we’re not all gullible idiots. Read this to see why he’s a douche and always will be.

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Ender’s Game Now A Reality

Jordan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:42:22 +0000

A video game based on the Battle Room in Ender’s game is on the way. As a fan of the Ender’s Game series I can really looking forward to this and I hope they don’t mess it up.

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Top 100 Mods of 2007

Jordan — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:03:40 +0000

After 40,000 votes the players choice top indie games and mods are on show and ready to be played

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Over $1800 In Video Cards To Run Crysis On Very High

Jordan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:00:23 +0000

1200W power supply as well.

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New Halo3 Map Pack ‘Heroic’ Released

Jordan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:34:58 +0000

The Heroic map pack contains three new maps, each presenting a totally different play style. Standoff, Rat’s Nest and Foundry– all for 800 MS Points.

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Halo 3 “Heroic Map Pack” available on Dec. 11

Jordan — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:24:15 +0000

December 11th, three maps, 800 MS Points ($10). The maps become free in Spring 2008.

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Halo 3 Heat Maps Now Available For All Levels at Bungie.Net

Jordan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:07:31 +0000

Really cool function to see where (NOT) to go while playing Halo 3. “Is carnage splattering the walls of Valhalla’s hot gates? Should you be adding camping stools into the top of Construct via Forge? Our stats radar is tracking every kill and death in Halo 3. The darker the red, the more frequent the carnage.”

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Xbox 360 to get downloadable original XBOX games

Jordan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:07:24 +0000

Next month, you’ll be able to download original Xbox games to play on your Xbox 360, including Halo.

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Halo Movie Back In Pre-Production

Jordan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:29:44 +0000

Word from Peter Jackson’s representative says that Microsoft is in talks with several potential partners to continue work on the Halo film. Pre-production has already started back up through Weta Digital and Weta Workshop in New Zeland.

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Microsoft Blames Hollywood for Record Sales of Halo 3

Jordan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:19:49 +0000

“We thought we’d get some good sales, but nothing like this,” said Microsoft executive Bob Frederickson. “But with escalating ticket prices and the crappy movies Hollywood has been putting out. People are just hungry for entertainment.”

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Film Execs Blame Halo 3 for Poor Movie Ticket Sales

Jordan — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:13:14 +0000

Movie ticket sales for October are already being recorded as some of the lowest in recent years. And who’s to blame according to the film industry? Why, Master Chief of course. Several film executives and researchers are convinced that many movie-goers stayed home playing the game instead of venturing out to the theater.

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Halo Wars demo to hit Xbox Live in the next few days

Jordan — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:08:03 +0000

“In an exclusive interview via Playtm and Gamespot during Games Conventions in Leipzig 2007, with Harter Ryan, Ensemble ’s executive producer, he revealed that a demo will be hitting Xbox Live within the few days.”

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Halo 3 Lets You Create Your Own Power-ups and More

Jordan — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:14:58 +0000

At the Leipzig Game’s Convention in Germany, Bungie’s Brian Jarrard revealed a whole lot of information about Halo 3.

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Halo 3: Grenades, Needlers, and Other Weapons From the Future Make for Fun

Jordan — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:07:38 +0000

New weapons like the Gravity Hammer will add a chaotic dimension to multiplayer combat, while old favorites like the Sniper Rifle have undergone minor tweaks.

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Fall Dashboard Update List Leaked?

Jordan — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:58:51 +0000

A poster at the Xbox.com forums claims to have posted a leaked list of all the updates that will be featured in this Fall’s Dashboard Update. Included in the update will be 3rd party wireless support, a new XBLA blade, new clan support, new XNA game launcher, Chatpad functionality, and DivX support, as well as many other features.

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Halo 3 Instruction Manual Leaked

Jordan — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:11:42 +0000

Someone got their hands on an instruction manual for Halo 3 and has leaked some of the images from the manual.

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Halo 3: Flamethrower

Jordan — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:37:40 +0000

Details and screen shots on the new flamethrower

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Bungie Introduces Two New Playable Characters for Campaign

Jordan — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:16:14 +0000

This along with the official announcement of 4player online co-op.

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Halo 3 Third and Forth Missions Unveiled to Media

Jordan — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:28:59 +0000

Bungie has released Campaign information for both levels three and four.

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Crackdown 2: Tell the developer what you’d like to see in their next game!

Jordan — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:00:26 +0000

Here’s your opportunity to let Real Time Worlds, the developer behind the Xbox 360 smash hit Crackdown, what you would like to see in the sequel. Who knows, it might just make it in!

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Four Player Co-op in Halo 3 Confirmed by Microsoft VP Jeff Bell

Jordan — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:50:16 +0000

In an interview with Major Nelson/Larry Hryb that was just posted on Xbox.com, Microsoft Vice President of Global Marketing, Jeff Bell, was being interviewed about his thoughts on the Xbox 360. It’s a great interview, and right at the end of it, he is talking about how co-op with his son was the reason he loved Halo and Halo 2, he then says…

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Joystiq’s video analysis of the Halo 3, E3 trailer

Jordan — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:25:57 +0000

One seriously hardcore analysis of the brand new Halo 3 trailer. From tiny blips to entire species, much like their Beta leak, Joystiq has broken it down.

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E3 2007: Halo Wars Gameplay Footage

Jordan — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:58:52 +0000

Check out the latest Halo Wars gameplay footage from E3.

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Newest Halo 3 Trailer from Microsoft’s E3 2007 Press Conference!

Jordan — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:28:26 +0000

In glorious HD of course!

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First footage from the Halo Movie in HD

Jordan — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:38:11 +0000

A collaboration between Bungie Studios, director Neill Blomkamp, WETA Workshop and Origami Digital LLC, brings the first digital short depicting humanity’s struggle to save Earth.

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Nearly 200 Exclusive Halo 3 Screens

Jordan — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:03:11 +0000

Some awesome new screencaps for Halo 3.

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New Halo 3 Goodness

Jordan — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:12:48 +0000

IGN released an article revealing more news about Halo 3!

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A look at the new Halo ARG Iris

Jordan — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:55:51 +0000

News has been popping up all over the place about a new Alternate Reality Game surrounding Halo 3.

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Bungie: Graphical Improvements Coming To Halo 3

Jordan — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:48:46 +0000

A lot of people were unimpressed with Halo 3′s graphics. Well, according to Bungie’s Frank O’Connor, those graphics are not complete yet, and the final version of Halo 3 will feature graphical improvements beyond what was seen in the mulitplayer beta.

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Halo 3 New Armour Types – Cobra, Ninja, Intruder and Regulator

Jordan — Tue, 29 May 2007 03:52:40 +0000

More Halo 3 multiplayer customisable options revealed! New armour types for Elite and Spartan player models! Predator, Raptor, Cobra, Ninja and more.

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Jack Thompson Lays His Legal Sights on Halo 3

Jordan — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:56:52 +0000

Extending his fifteen minutes just a little bit longer, Thompson targets Bill Gates and Microsoft over Halo 3

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Halo 3 Campaign – 4 Player Co-op over Live!

Jordan — Sun, 20 May 2007 06:01:46 +0000

4 player co-op over Xbox live revealed for Halo 3 through hidden data in Halo 3 beta. 7th Columnist uncovers yet more top secret information on Bungie’s Halo 3.

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Modders uncover flamethrower in Halo 3, new vechicles, medals, and more

Jordan — Sat, 19 May 2007 03:37:11 +0000

A group of modders have uncovered what could be new content from Halo 3. Apparently, some modders have dug into the Halo 3 beta code and found mention of several new weapons, vehicles, and new names for medals (Double Kill, etc).

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Halo 3 Preorders Reach Over Four-Million in North America

Jordan — Sat, 12 May 2007 14:49:06 +0000

Halo 3 is breaking records—before it is even out.

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New Downloadable Content for Crackdown on Xbox 360

Jordan — Thu, 10 May 2007 23:07:16 +0000

Loads and loads of both Free and premium content will be released for Crackdown over the next week. This news item on Major Nelson’s site details all the new game modes, features, achievements and weapons.

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Xbox360 Backwards Compatibility Updated

Jordan — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:28:28 +0000

The list of Xbox games that you can play on the Xbox360 keeps growing and growing. Here is a list of the new games that have been updated. The new games have a new tag next to them. Notice there are several Xbox games that have a next gen equivalent, but are still playable. Full list of new and updated games inside.

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New Halo 2 ‘Blastacular’ Map Pack Live!

Jordan — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:27:04 +0000

The much anticipated new Halo 2 maps, Tombstone and Desolation, have been released today at the price of $4.00 for both maps.

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Bungie Clarify On New Halo 3 Details

Jordan — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:47:26 +0000

Following the recent release of the Halo 3 Vidoc, Bungie have posted their weekly update to clarify on a few details. The ‘X’ button will indeed be used to deploy ‘equipment’ to the map (Bubble Shied/Trip Mine), the ‘equipment’ will be quite rare so as not to unbalance the gameplay. And the graphics will look a lot nicer in the Beta version.

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New Bungie update with Halo 3 beta info!

Jordan — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:59:01 +0000

The update all Halo fans have been waiting for..

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Xbox 360: now with H.264, MPEG-4, PlaysForSure

Jordan — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:45:11 +0000

The new spring update will enable Windows Media Connect or Media Center streaming MPEG-4 up to 8Mbps, H.264 up to 15Mbps, and PlaysForSure WMV videos (and, as we understand it, PlaysForSure audio as well)

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Tray and Play

Jordan — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:26:18 +0000

“Tray and play” is a new install system for games that lets you quickly start playing a game and it will install the game while you play.

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More Halo 3 Weapon and Multiplayer Details

Jordan — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:27:42 +0000

In an interview with Gamepro, Bungie’s Frankie answers questions about Halo 3′s weapons and a few multiplayer inquiries. Among the nuggets of information squeezed from Frankie’s lips are that the Needler has been overhauled (again), the Spiker is the Brute version of the SMG, and that the various types of grenades add another layer of strategy to the game.

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Halo 3 Beta Servers Up

Jordan — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:24:08 +0000

We’ll be running on shiny new servers that will also be running the Halo 3 beta

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Awesome BSG Game, completely open-source, has released its demo

Jordan — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:52:41 +0000

A mod for Freespace2, an awesome game, which took years to complete, Beyond the Red Line follows the Battlestar Pegasus. This free and opensource mod was made possible by the kind developers who released the source and said in the EULA that copies could be made for friends. Please support this community-driven game that is awesome.

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Two New Halo 2 Maps Unleashed

Jordan — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:27:51 +0000

Two new maps, both available on April 17th through the Halo 2 downloader in the game itself, and it’s just $4 for the pair.The maps are Tombstone and Desolation – remakes of Hang ‘Em High and Derelict, respectively.

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Could Halo 3′s Beta be released tomorrow?

Jordan — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:49:15 +0000

Halo 3 Beta possibly going to be released tomorrow after the Xbox Live Maintenance.

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Finalized Halo 3 Box Art Images

Jordan — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:23:26 +0000

“Earlier today, we brought you the first pictures of the Halo 3 Limited Edition as well as new images of the Legendary Edition. Now, Microsoft has officially announced the three editions that have been listed by game retailers for the last couple of months.”

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1up and IGN say Halo 3 in September

Jordan — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:56:20 +0000

In order to kick start the 2007 Holiday season early and to spur Xbox 360 sales, several sources are confirming a September release for Halo 3.

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New Halo Wars picture and lead designer details

Jordan — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:26:41 +0000

“Known more readily as just ‘Hawk’ the Sparrowhawk is a formidable air to ground armor busting support aerodyne. The Hawk is still being assessed by command before full production starts while engineers are still working on an experimental propulsion system that has led to failures in the field making the future of this vehicle uncertain.”

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Peter Moore: Next Xbox in 2011-2012 (EGM)

Jordan — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:59:19 +0000

In an interview with Peter Moore, EGM grilled him about when the next one would come out, and questions about if they’d drop the X360 like a box of rocks like they did with the XB. He stated the production team from the 360 is working on the next Xbox, and their looking into what kind of CPUs will be available on the market in 2011-2012…

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