Archive for June, 2007

As everyone is bound to know by now, Halo 3 will come in 3 different flavors: Standard Edition, Limited Edition, and Legendary Edition.  Only limited quantities of the Legendary Edition are going to be released.

If you are a hardcore Halo fan this might be for you!  The limited Legendary Edition is going to ship the game in a collectable Spartan helmet case, and it just so happens that there is one for sale on eBay!

Brand new in box LIMITED EDITION Halo 3 Master Chief Helmet purchased directly from a Microsoft Employee. 100% authentic made by BUNGIE!!

The price is currently at $166.49 at the time of writing this.  Here’s another pic:

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Get ready City of Heroes/Villains fans, Issue 10 – “Invasion” is coming soon!  As always we do not have any kind of release date for this new expansion, but most likely I’d say within a month or two hopefully.

Issue 9 surely didn’t disappoint us with the addition of the invention system and the market, so hopefully 10 won’t either.  Here are some of the features it will include:

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Twin Galaxies, the most “official” record keepers of the videogame realm, recently printed a revised edition of its Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records. The book details 4,000 arcade games with current high scores for each one. Gamer Rocky Howard is convinced many of those records are there simply because no one can be bothered to find the arcade machine to play (emulated game scores are not allowed).

As a result, Rocky’s new life (and it’s gonna take one) goal is to play every game listed to see how “feasible the scores listed are”, then seek out the arcade machines to have his name plastered throughout the book. The experiment began just over a month ago and Rocky is currently on his 14th game. At this rate it will take him over 25 years to work through everything.

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The time has come for Microsoft who now wants to bring more family oriented games to Xbox 360, reports Bloomberg.

With all the success that Nintendo has had with Wii getting more women, family, and children gamers to play their games, Microsoft is now looking to expand its demographic.

Look for Microsoft to possibly lower Xbox 360 prices in the future, getting it down to the market sweet spot of $199.  They will also look at rearranging store displays to not cater to just the hardcore gamer, but also to the younger generation as well.

Hey why not?  If it is working for Nintendo you know Microsoft is going to jump onboard ASAP like they have done with other things … iPod.

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