Author: rapture

Whoa, cool. Marvel is making a comic book based on HALO. See the first cover: COVER BY: ALEX MALEEV WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS PENCILS: ALEX MALEEV INKS: ALEX MALEEV COLORED BY: ALEX MALEEV LETTERED BY: CHRIS ELIOPOULOS THE STORY: The Eisner Award-winning team of superscribe Brian Michael Bendis and artist extraordinaire Alex Maleev unleash an…

The Halo 2 ‘Blastacular Map Pack’ is now available for download over Xbox Live. This pack is US $4.00, and it contains two maps: Tombstone and Desolation. Since this is original Xbox content, it’s worth pointing out the following: You can not purchase these maps with MS points because all original Xbox games have no…

(and Bungie has many more special effects, weapons, and interactive objects waiting for us to discover in the game. Saving the best for last?) Reading a news post by Wu got me thinking. What is happening to HALO? Is it changing into a game that is too big for our gaming preferences? Do you welcome…

HALO 2 with Hang 'Em High and Derelict100% (1 vote)Gears of War with the Annex gametype and bug fixes0% (0 votes)Total votes: 1

BUNGIEMICROSOFT have announced the date for the HALO 3 beta. Invitees, Rule of Three winners, and Crackdowners will be able to play the H3 beta starting on May 16th on 7AM CST. The beta will last only 3 weeks. It will end on June 6. Three weeks for the beta? Disappointed? Maps shipping with the…

Earlier today Gamespot ran an article on this new adapter coming to the XBOX 360 controller. Engadget ran with the story. During that time, the Gamespot article has been pulled. The images from the article: Would this thing be useful? Are these pictures real? __________________________ rapzilla blog | Shadowrun | HALO 2 Vista | cooked…

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Epic’s Mark Rein announced on their forums that GoW is getting patch with some promising gameplay enhancements. There’s a new gametype called Annex and some bug fixes. He promises more details next week. The patch is currently going through certification. From his post on the forums: The next title update for Gears of War is…

The Hushed Casket is hosting a Shadowrun blog and news site at http://shadowrun.hushedcasket.com. The site is full of the latest Shadowrun information with reports as they are released or, well, invited by the writers. Since the site is powered by beta testers, it should have in depth coverage of the game. Thanks to EnragedGnome for…

XBOX.com has the first trailer for GTAIV. XBOX.com also listed the release date at October 16, 2007 on the GTAIV game page. (download .zip archive of trailer from xbox.com) I have to say that the in-game graphics looks very good, especially for there to be so many moving avatars and characters on screen. I’ll give…

XBOX.com now has a page for the XBOX 360 Elite. Video of the Elite in action was released last night at on10.net. From the press release at XBOX.com. MICROSOFT PRESS RELEASE Redmond, Washington—Microsoft Corp. today announced the upcoming availability of Xbox 360â„¢ Elite, a new model of the video game and entertainment system that includes…

Microsoft will make two major announcements tonight (Tuesday) and Wednesday night at 11PM CST. These announcements are supposed to be the biggest announcements since CES. The announcements will be in the form of video at on10.net a Microsoft nerdie hangout. The announcements may or may not be related to gaming or the XBOX platform. However,…

Bungie.net has finally gotten a much needed makeover. No longer does the site tax your browser with javascripts and slow loading animations and graphics. The new site looks hot! Give it a look at bungie.net or check the attachment below. AttachmentSize bnet-small.jpg62.87 KB bnet-large.jpg204.37 KB

The next XBOX 360 is due out in April will be called “Elite”. It will be all black (including accessories) have a 120GB hard drive, and an HDMI video output. It won’t have an HD-DVD drive. It should cost about $480. The black version will be a limited edition. The Elite will be found in…

HALO 2 for Windows Vista will be launched on May 8th. This is according to tons of new reports that were released early this morning. The Games for Windows – Live service will also be launched at that time in the US. Kotaku Shacknews 1up Planet XBOX 360 Team XBOX Gamespot USA Today I’ve begun…

This past week at GDC, Cliffy B hinted at a sequel to GoW. They’ve always dodged questions about more GoW’s in the past. What’s interesting is some of the things that didn’t make it into GoW. Read below from this article at Gamespot. SAN FRANCISCO–It was a big week for Cliff “Cliffy B” Bleszinski. The…

Gamespot is reporting that when you buy Live, you are buying the service for XBOX and Games for Windows. In other words, it won’t cause PC gamers any extra money to play Live enabled games on their PC _if_ they are already subscribed to XBOX Live. They WILL have to pay out money to become…

Just when our 20GB hard drives are near full of game demos, HD movies and TV shows, music, and gamesaves, Microsoft goes out an makes a 512MB memory unit for the XBOX 360. It costs $50, comes with Geometry Wars pre-loaded, and will plug into one of the memory unit slots on the front of…

Gears of War has sold 4 million copies making it the most sold XBOX title behind HALO 1 and 2. GoW is the best selling game for the XBOX 360. I can’t help but think that this game would have sold even more copies had it shipped with objective-based gametypes and had a few glitches…