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The wife acceptance factor keeps going up. Hexic 2 with multiplayer support will launch on XBOX Live Arcade this month along with Ecco the Dolphin. Other mediocre titles also launch this summer. From the Microsoft press release: Hot August games al…

Great news for Quake III fans (and perhaps keyboard and mouse fans). Coming out out of QuakeCon, iD made the announcement that Quake III Arena is headed to XBOX Live Arcade. Quake III Arena is considered one of the greatest first person shooters of …

Mintz, Tex, and Funkmon have been busy busting out new content over at HALO:Portable. They’ve even encoded videos that will play well with your video iPods, Zunes, and PSPs. website: http://haloportable.com podcast feed: video cast feed: …

Marathon: Durandal is a cult classic first-person shooter (FPS) that continues the tradition of great gameplay while remaining faithful to the spirit of Bungie lore as the predecessor to the Halo franchise. It looks a lot like the old school FPS sho…

The press has recently attended preview sessions at Bungie HQ.  They’ve gotten to play parts of the campaign and magazines have been given renderings and screenshots to publish.  HALO 3 looks mature, spectacular, and deeper than HALO 2….

All THX’ers are invited to attend JuLAN held this Saturday near Huntsville, Alabama.  There are limited spots remaining for this LAN.  If you are interested in attending this LAN you must visit this thread to register and you must be sp…

Yesterday leaked screenshots from the next edition of Electronic Gaming Monthly hit the web. What were people up in arms about? The revelation by Bungie in a June interview that 4-person co-op over XBOX Live will not ship with the final game. It ha…

Competitive video gaming is getting some major exposure on 60 Minutes.  “Fatal1ty” and “lil Poison” are two gamers that are highlighted in the episode.  In the world of competitive video gaming, Johnathan “Fata…

The Microsoft fanboy in me may never forgive me for posting this video. But as a gamer and a lover of immersive first person shooters, I must post this video. I don’t own a PlayStation 3. But trailers like this make me want to o…

In a move that makes total sense, Microsoft is bringing Gears of War to the PC during the holiday season of 2007.  This is going to be a great move for PC gamers.  Gears is a high profile game and it was only released for the XBOX 360 in l…

One reason why Uno had a lot of replay value was because it had XBOX Live Vision support.  Getting into a game of Uno on XBOX Live Arcade was first like being in a video chat room and second like playing a simple card game.Texas Hold ‘Em FINALLY h…

A ton of news smacked us in the face last night as Microsoft held their E3 presentation.  They are hyping this holiday season as the “greatest holiday lineup in video game history.”  It’s hard to quantify “greatest” so I’m sure they’ll achiev…

The fourth and final episode of the Red vs Blue makers’ mini-series called 1-800-MAGIC has come to an end. Below are the four videos in order of release. All videos were shot inside the Shadowrun engine: 1-800-MAGIC. Now I get it. ______…

It looks like Microsoft has moved the HALO 3 viral marketing campaign to online auction sites.  Is this the next move by Microsoft?  A listing by “Flood Containment Control” is selling its used survey tools on various websites across t…

Today is 7/7/7.  Bungie is offering new Gamerpics and a Dashboard theme for free today only.  Bungie is also releasing some new media via their website.  Go there and look for a slick new HALO 3 wallpaper and some 3D screenshots. _______…

“You’ve spoken, and we’ve heard you. Good service and a good customer experience are areas of the business that we care deeply about. And frankly, we’ve not been doing a good enough job.” – Peter Moore, Microsoft VP Entertainment in an open letter to…

Looks like MSBungie has opened the floodgates.  New HALO 3 screenshots are popping up around the intertubes.  They are actually something to be seen.  High resolution images of Spartans in custom armor can be seen in a large portion of …

Two new forum posts at Bungie.net from the Adjutant Reflex account. In a new thread titled “Veins of Ice and Poison”, one post and one reply from the Adjutant Reflex account has been made: (first) |n|n|nROGUE PROCESS ghost.713> X.XX.713> POS/NAV …

For the first time since June 19th, Adjutant Reflex has made a forum post. Over a Bungie.net the following was posted: A pulse Can you feel it? Beating at the heart of the Universe. Skin too thick to be sure. It’s alive though. I’m c…

It is interesting how internet users find our website. Most all of our traffic comes from Google searches. How people end up here is sometimes quite funny. I am afraid that my leet search engine optimization skills have owned your internets. Allow me …