Author: rapture

Battlefield 1943 was released on July 4th as a digital download for the Xbox 360 and PS3. The 4-map 24-player ggme costs 1200 points ($15) on the Xbox LIVE Arcade and weighs in at about 600 MB. It is set in the Pacific Theater on WW2 (US versus Japan) on maps with plenty of land,…

The Army’s project office for America’s Army has been located on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama for several years. There the Army manages the America’s Army software. They had onsite developers making trainers, simulators, and government applications built upon the America’s Army source code as well as contracted development of the video game at outside…

For $150 you will be able to buy the Prestige Edition of Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2. In addition to the game, it comes with “fully-functional, wearable, adjustable Night Vision Googles with individually numbered and engraved Collector’s Stand. Custom-designed and painted goggles allow sight in absolute darkness up to 50 feet in black &…

Promo for tonight’s episode: For those of that don’t know, Midnight was featured during the filming of this 30-minute episode. The Penn and Tell film crew flew to Huntsville to spend a couple of days with Midnight late last year. During that time he held a CoD4 LAN party and the film crew filmed the…

Included in Halo 3: ODST will be a multiplayer map pack for Halo 3 which will include a remake of the popular Halo 2 map ‘Midship’. The map pack will include three maps called Heretic (the Midship remake), Citadel (small, symmetrical, indoor Forerunner facility), and Longshore (large shipping complex). Heretic: Citadel: Longshore:

For the past several months, I’ve rediscovered Halo 3 multiplayer with Disavowed and Deathslayer. It’s probably been some of the best Xbox LIVE gaming I’ve experienced. Deathslayer got the idea to plan a day to meet regularly to play. We’ve tried it out for the past few Tuesdays and that’s going to be our night.…

and you say something funny… IT STICKS! and I

Joyride will be a FREE video game released on the XBOX Live Arcade by Microsoft. What’s the catch?  Your Avatar customization and micro-transactions inside the game. While the game will be free, Microsoft is betting on the fact that you’ll want to customize your experience.  And I think they’re making a great bet. After all,…

A pistol resembling the one from Halo 1 will be, according to Bungie, the primary weapon of choice in Halo 3: ODST.  Humans will be popping off headshots.  However, Bungie has also said that the Halo 1 pistol  was “ridiculous” indicating that it will some what be toned down. You’re a human.  You’ll run slower…

I uncovered a ton of old pics and uploaded them to the THX Facebook page. If you are reading this, you were probably tagged multiple times and you are part of the resistance. Have a look if you aren’t too nervous.

Major XBOX gaming news was announced by Microsoft today at their E3 briefing. Project Netal adds new motion tracking accessories more powerful than Wii and allows you to play games without any controllers A new Halo game, Halo Reach, was announced Halo 3: ODST gets a release date and more Left 4 Dead 2 comes…

Find a few good servers and stay there Our Halo PC dedicated server is online and running. We are getting smooth 66ms pings which will be great for gaming online. The server is called “hushedcasket.com” in the game browser. You can join by entering “hpc.hushedcasket.com” as the IP of the server. Tips on playing: On…

A game journalist from Spike TV TwitPic’d this image from an upcoming E3 promo trailer. This may be at least part of the cast of the upcoming Halo 3 ODST game.