Year: 2007

The blog Achievement Junkie points out a video from Dutch gaming site Game 1 (There’s a large version on Game 1’s site) – it’s a montage of the press event in Amsterdam this week, and shows off some pretty fun stuff Microsoft set up for journalists. T…

Windows Now has reviewed the Zune Halo 3 Special Edition – go check out what they thought.(Louis Wu 19:33:21 UTC)

According to this article at 24/7 Wall St., the combination of Halo 3 in September and GTA 4 in October is causing gamers to stop spending money right now; these two games are being blamed for a general downturn in sales of other games. Ouch!(Louis Wu…

A couple of weeks ago, a quote from the then-upcoming EGM article began circulating, and online co-op in Halo 3 was suddenly in doubt. (Before this article had come out, there had been zero information about the mode – and nobody had been talking about…

There are a couple cool new items in the Bungie Store today. The first is a nifty orange Grunt mug and the second is a battle-damaged Halo 3 tee. Thanks to X1Zero for his post in the forums pointing this out.(KP 18:26:38 UTC)

Dave Bergland sent word that the first webisode of the Halo 3 in Albania project is now online. Dave is definitely a pretty hardcore Halo fan – go see how he’s planning to celebrate the release of Halo 3! (It’s also up on YouTube, if you’d rather go st…

Darren Waters has written up a Halo 3 hands-on over at the BBC website, based on a level he played in Amsterdam this week. Here’s hoping the code that’s traveling around is a little old; he was underwhelmed, and noticed some rough edges.(Louis Wu 15:0…

An interesting article over at IGN, discusses the arrival and subsequent taste-testing of the newly branded Mountain Dew Game Fuel. Thanks Grey Wolf for pointing that cherry flavored article out.(Cybrfrk 22:12:37 UTC)

If you’re headed to the Australian TechEd 2007 conference in Queensland, Australia this weekend, you’ve got a shot at one of fifty extremely limited-edition Halo 3 hoodies to be given away there; pictures available at the istartedsomething blog. Mmm…..

This one’s pretty odd – The Halo 3 Albania Project is a video documentary of an effort to bring Halo 3 to Albania… or more specifically to a Peace Corps volunteer working in Albania. There’s no actual footage up yet, but there are clips from both th…

bs angel has posted a July in Review article on her Hawty McBloggy gamer blog – there are a number of stories we missed. Some are Halo related, some are more generally gamer-related. All are thoughtfully written, and entertaining. Go see what she’s go…

The Dallas Morning News has an article about the marketability of video games… and Halo 2 is playing a large part in that. (Louis Wu 18:35:14 UTC)

Whoops! With all the excitement I completely forgot about the Bungie Podcast that was posted on B.Net yesterday afternoon. Luke, Frank, and Brian talk with each other and with Test Lead Jamie Evans about testing, bugs, four-player coop, a REAL studio…

This was actually posted a couple of days ago on Gamerscoreblog, but we didn’t get around to mentioning it… but there’s still time for you to act. Marathon: Durandal for Xbox Live Arcade goes onsale at 9 am GMT on Wednesday (that’s today, and it’s a…

In honor of today’s release of Marathon: Durandal, Stuntmutt checks in with a very special One One Se7en. Somewhere in the heavens… …they are groaning.(mnemesis 07:03:34 UTC)

1up has a preview of the third mission in Halo 3 over at their site, for those that are interested in that sort of thing. 😉 (Thanks, Fonz) I won’t mention what the title of the third mission is, but for those that are trying to remain spoiler-free…