We’d normally point you to looking after the break, but this week…we’re not too sure. There’s a lot of likely craptitude coming out on the PC. We counted fourty three in the “Unrated” pile. 43!
Don’t be too scared, though. There’s some fun to be had with Sonic Chronicles, Mega Man 9 (for those of you without a Wii or PS3), Battlefield Heroes (for free!), and ex-Bungie devs’ Age of Booty this week. What will you guys be playing?
The full list of games dropping this week after the break… Continue reading »
Set to expire around 10:06 AM EDT, Bungie.net will reveal their latest game.
For the past couple of days, it seems that the folks over at Bungie.net have been teasing us all with this countdown. At one point, they removed it. So I happened to type in Bungie.net on my PC and, what do I see? The Countdown is back up and running. And better yet, I’m early to the dance. It’s set to ‘launch’ at 10:06 AM EDT. Continue reading »
For those of you who popped Halo 3 into your 360 today, you might have noticed some changes. Namely, the game’s second title update. It has upgraded you’re copy to a few changes we’ve talked about in the past (achievements) and other Halo 3 tinkering.
Bungie has givens us the full rundown on their site’s blog. Most interesting from the bunch are the “Vidmaster” achievements which will NOT give you achievement points, but Bungie hints that unlocking them should be a worthy investment of your time. Might they finally grant regular folk the flaming Hayabusa helmet (seen above) that only developers — and “special” people — have been privy to?
Since we already know Bungie is NOT working on Halo 4, I guess they need to stretch Halo 3 for everything it’s worth. The “Hired Gun” at Microsoft Game Studios will be developing Halo 4 and it should come out sometime in 2010 at the Xbox 720 launch. While browsing various blogs on the net, I came across an obviously edited condom photo that was definitely worth posting. The wrapper says “Finish the F**k” which could really have multiple meanings depending on your opinion of the series. The image was posted on Girl Gamers, but they didn’t mention where they found it.
Bungie’s third Halo game has been regulated to second place in the Xbox 360 online space for a while now by a certain future-proof’ed Call of Duty, but it sure loves its fans.
In a move that Microsoft will likely see as a missed economic opportunity, the remake of the Chill Out map from the Halo 1 days, Cold Storage, will be available for FREE on July 7, according to Bungie.net.
Luke Smith also talks a bit about an interesting throwback wrench being thrown into Halo 3’s online game play on Bungie Day:
“Beginning on July 7, there will be a 48-hour long seven-player FFA playlist in Halo 3’s Matchmaking where you can turn the calendar back to 2001 and control l Rockets, Invis and Snipe.”
You’d think rank boosting would have finally slowed down, but it’s still a common thing taking place on Halo 3. There are even people making money out there helping others boost their profile to the top of the ranks. I’m not sure why Bungie and Microsoft do not consider rank boosting a cheating offense. Boosting completely throws off the natural balance of things and is not fair to the players who actually earn their merits.
For some reason, I thought the Gilbert Arenas cheating incident would have sparked Microsoft and Bungie to take more steps against boosting, but apparently it’s just something that’s too much trouble for them to get involved with. I’d like to know what everyone else thinks about boosting and cheating in games. Do you think Microsoft and Bungie need to take more steps and ban these bums that are ruining the games for everyone else?
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