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Alexander “The Man” Seropian (or should it be “The Chimp” from now on?) throws poop at GameSpot today about Wideload’s upcoming party game for the Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3. Is there going to be political satire? Yes, says Seropian. The Bush:Chimp comparisons are obviously unavoidable, but am I the only one who thinks…

Version 1.6 of Myth II, for which a public beta was available last summer, has now finally been officially released for Mac OS, Mac OS X, and Windows. It’s available in the Myth II Updates section of the recently-launched The Tain, an archive for Myth-related files. From ProjectMagma.net: Myth II version 1.6, adds native MacOS…

XyonsWrath has an interesting suggestion for all those players like me who spend their time in Halo 2 running around like chickens with their heads cut off, waiting for the next player to come along and kill them while trying to ineffectually pepper targets with SMG fire. That suggestion is: pick a nice spot and…

I’m way too uncool to even know what that means, but that’s how Frankie described Halo 3 in an interview with Eurogamer. On a more intelligible note, he also said: Well, we haven’t lost a single [new] weapon thus far, but we’ve improved a few. Our test process is simple. Play it, play it some…

Hail to the Chimp has now been officially announced as a humorous beat ’em up to be released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 spring next year; more information is available from the game’s official site (flash required). It will be published by new outfit Gamecock, founded by alumni from Take Two– the same…

The Austin-American Statesman has an story on its site today that’s mostly about Austin area game developers; However, it also includes an image that purports to be from Hail To The Chimp, an upcoming console party game from Wideload Games, developers of Stubbs the Zombie and home to at least seven Bungie alumni. Word has…

Despite the chance of getting into the Halo 3 beta if you dusted off your copy of Halo 2 for three hours on Xbox Live this past week, the top game on the service continues to be Gears of War, which somehow manages to get more unique users every week out of the ten million…

Xbox 360 Fanboy has put up a scan of the invite card you get when you purchase one of the specially-marked boxes of Crackdown that give you access to the upcoming Halo 3 public multiplayer data. It contains the answers to many of the questions that those hoping to get into the beta have been…

Registration will open February 12 for the 5×5 Proelium Standards Myth vTFL tournament, part of the events scheduled this year to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bungie’s Mac and PC RTS game, Myth: The Fallen Lords. Thanks to Zandervix at Myth.Bungie.Org for the news.

Members of the PMS and Cavegirls clans came out to challenge the Bungie guys (and friends) in the latest humpday and came away winners, 6 to 5. The Bungie guys complain they were undermanned, but surely they knew that going in? Details at Bungie.net in KfeckingP’s post.

It’s not quite what you think. Wired News interviews Epic’s Mark Rein about the Unreal Engine 3 technology. While usually it’s CliffyB letting his mouth run away with him a little bit, here it’s Rein, who is positively bubbling over the fact that Gears of War cost only ten million dollars to make. So, while…

Over at IGN, Erik Brudvik pines for truly “mind-blowing” content from Halo 3 and opines that no news is not good news: The hype for Halo 3 is already at absurd levels. The ball is in Microsoft and Bungie’s court and it’s their marketing battle to lose now. A misstep with the beta could be…

Kotaku is reporting that a playable demo of the second installment in Sony’s Halo-killer-wannabe Killzone franchise will be available before Bungie hits Xbox Live with its extensive Halo 3 Multiplayer Public Beta. Kotaku heard it from über Halo fan Luke Smith at 1UP, and I heard it from P_40E in #hbo.

Zombie Studio’s Mark Long chooses his “games for a desert island” in a piece at Gamasutra today. Not surprisingly, for its cooperative play mode, Halo gets the nod: Halo 1, that is: Is there anything better in the world than playing Halo co-op? No there is not; you don’t even need to think about that…

With the three days to get in your three hours of Halo 2 on Xbox Live play on an Xbox 360 in already passed, and web registration– apparently– about to open, Halo 2 players are poised over their keyboards to attempt to become one of the 13,333 lucky entrants into Phase Two of the selection…