Author: rapture

This past Sunday, the Hushed Casket (THX) gathered for a private Halo PC LAN party. While we’ve been known to throw a Halo LAN party or two, we’ve never hosted a PC LAN event. Much was learned. (BattleBitch pwned kb/m) You see, Halo PC came out in 2003; two years after its release for the…

At next week’s E3 conference Microsoft will announce that a new Zune-branded service will replace the current XBOX Live Marketplace TV and movie service. This will be the first step to letting XBOX 360 and XBOX Live users access the millions of songs available on the Zune marketplace. Already, XBOX 360 users can access their…

This Sunday from 10 AM until you stop, we’ll be gaming Halo PC at rapture’s house. If you’re reading this and have got THX cred, you are welcome to attend. Confirmed attendees thus far: 01. FoulBreed 02. Midnight 03. Mikeulus 04. Disavowed 05. Goku 06. Mintz 07. rapture 08. BattleBitch 09. DeathSlayer 10. 47after? 11.…

Old school GG’s. Media originally hosted on the Hushed Casket Facebook page.

HSV-area THX’ers: Let’s hold a major THX LAN. A HALO: PC LAN. Say what? A PC LAN? This is madness! Let’s me explain why I think a PC LAN would be possibly a better way to LAN Halo PC. And then let me know how you feel about this. But, you’ll have to check your…

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What are your thoughts on Halo Wars?

Yep. I’m experiencing the “Open Tray” error again. I’m starting to lose count of all the XBOX 360’s that have RRoD or have experienced this “Open Tray” error. This next box that I get may very well be the 8th different serial number I’ve had. Recall that this time last year I surveyed the gamers…

Sandbox Sandbox is one of three new multiplayer maps that will be made available as downloadable content for Halo 3. The take away from the screenshot of the above is that not much is know about the map. This screenshot reveals a lot. I’m looking forward to the map. The other two maps are: Orbital…

download .WMV | map hosted here The Left 4 Dead community has been busy making L4D mods. One of them is a map of the classic Halo: Combat Evolved level Hang ‘Em High. Check out the video above to give the map a look. Certainly brings back memories of Halo 1 LANs and Halo PC…

Battlefield Heroes will be free to all PC gamers under EA’s new Play 4 Free business model. In-game advertisements and micro-payments will allow you to play as much of the game that you like for free. New registration to beta test this game here: http://www.battlefield-heroes.com/ Register if you want to check out the game before…

The Washington Post has a story about researchers at UAH using clutters of PlayStation 3’s to study astrophysics. Why did they use PS3’s? “If we had rented computing time from a supercomputer center it would have cost us about $5,000 to run our simulation one time,” said Dr. Burko from UAH. “For this project we…

Never forget to bring H1 to a LAN again. The original HALO is just 600 points this week on the XBOX Live Marketplace. That equates to $7.50 dollars and is 50% off the original pricing. Go here to purchase. …now if they would just add XBOX Live support into the game.

The HTC Touch Pro is a smartphone that runs Windows Mobile 6.1, has a VGA screen, 3.1Mb camera for capturing images and video, a 5-row slide out QWERTY keyboard, GPS, and WiFi. It’s my new phone and I’ll be using it for at least a year. So far, I’ve been using it about 12 weeks.…

Here’s to what was a great 2008. Enjoy your holidays and Merry Christmas.

Valve has discounted Team Fortress 2 this weekend. TF2 is just $9.99 through Steam. Go here to purchase: http://store.steampowered.com/app/440/ Minimum requirements: 1.7 GHz Processor 512MB RAM DirectX® 8 level Graphics Card Windows® Vista/XP/2000 Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection For all you 360 fanboys – and like most all modern FPS titles – this game supports a…

Games for Windows – Live has a new in-game interface. PC gamers will no longer be insulted with A B X Y buttons sprinkled across the interface. The new interface is much more PC friendly. Click on the images to see larger versions. Unfortunately, there is still no desktop client for GfWL. So, you can…

Zune Pass users can now download 10 tracks per month in a protection-free MP3 format for permanent ownership, in addition the existing “all you can eat” subscription usage. For $15 a month users can download unlimited music and keep listening to it as long as they pay the monthly fee. Stop paying the fee and…