Author: rapture

Still Alive has won many awards including best end credits song and funniest song.  It was this kind of creativity that made Portal one of the best games of 2007. You can now get the song for Rock Band for free.  Still Alive is now available on the XBOX Live Marketplace. Portal ending credits (minor…

Lockout is being remade for Halo 3.  It will be called Blackout and released as part of the Legendary Map Pack for Halo 3.  The map geometry is very similar to that of Lockout.  In an interview with Bungie they spoke about the new map.   Summary: this map is set during the night time in…

Let’s face it.  Coagulation was kind of close to being the remake of Blood Gulch.  And we know HALO 3’s Valhalla wasn’t quite Coagulation or Blood Gulch. A new map is being released by Bungie for Halo 3.  It’s called Avalanche it is a near-remake of Sidewinder.  “It has the same familiar U-shape, multiple ways…

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 hit store shelves today. If you bought the game at Best Buy you got a sticker on the outside of your case that contained a code to unlock an exclusive Best Buy gun. The code can be used by anyone regardless of if you bought the game at Best Buy or…

Midnight is the “Gamer Spotlight” on the “Inside XBOX” blade on your XBOX 360 console.  Way to go Midnight.

According to a presolicitation notice from the US General Services Administration, the US military is buying 300 PlayStation 3’s for some kind of unspecified research.  According to the notice: The Air Force Research Laboratory is conducting a technology assessment of certain cell processors. The processors in the Sony PlayStation 3 are the only brand on…

The building blocks of our childhood meet the build blocks of console shooters. This image capture comes from the April edition of EGM (which means it’s an April Fool’s joke). Which begs the question:  what the heck is Bungie working on right now? We haven’t heard anything in a while – not even a clue.

Today it was announced that Gears of War 2 is coming out in November. The original Gears of War was a fun game, but had it’s problems. What do you expect to be added, changed, or removed from Gears of War 2? Open thread.

The XBOX press conference at the Game Developer’s Conference just ended. Microsoft already has a press release ready. The highlights: • Gears of War 2!! Coming this November. Continues the story of Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad. Developed by Epic Games exclusively for the XBOX 360. • Fable 2: In addition to the dynamic co-op…

Blam! According to my friend’s list, 34 of 50 gamers reported that their XBOX 360’s have failed since purchase.  That’s 68% for those of you scoring at home.  That’s much higher than the 16% reported last week and 30% reported by retailers in mid-2007. I posed the question to the 90 gamers on my friends…

Jasman has quietly rolled out Halo-themed Laser-Tag guns in the form of a Plasma Rifle Laser-Tag and Plasma Pistol Laser-Tag (links to Hushed Casket’s Amazon store).  The devices are near life size and have the characteristics of the in-game weapons like overheating, rate of fire, sounds.  These guns aren’t cheap. They’ll cost you about $80. …

I’m sending in my XBOX 360 Elite back to Microsoft for it to be repaired. My optical drive has gone out. My consoles acts as if it has no disc in the disc drive. How prominent is this problem? Microsoft has a knowledge base article that deals with the error — so I’m not the…

Become a “fan” of the Hushed Casket on facebook.com by visiting our fan page. The “fan” page is basically a profile for The Hushed Casket which allows us to add facebook applications to our group. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Huntsville-AL/The-Hushed-Casket/23211895393

So, I bust open my email to see that Charlie Oscar Delta has mailed me again.  (Gah, they sure do send some email.  I’ve even opted out several times.)  What does Infinity Ward have to say about Call of Duty 4? “CoD4:MW soars to the number one spot!  We were overjoyed with the recent news…

Midnight’s blog has been around the web a back.  Recently one of his blog posts was selected to be published in a book.  A portion of his blog post was recently read on National Public Radio with the book’s author, Sarah Boxer.   When asked about exceptional blogs, she said that Midnight’s blog is “especially good”…

We reported yesterday that Microsoft’s XBOX division turned its first profit – ever.  Today we get word that Microsoft actually sold fewer consoles in October, November, and December of 2007 than in the same months in 2006. Microsoft shipped 4.3 million Xbox 360 systems in the three months ended Dec. 31, compared with 4.4 million…

Major Nelson released the Xbox LIVE activity numbers for the week of 1/14.  More unique users played Call of Duty 4 than Halo 3 last week.  (JDOGG?).   Hrmm.  I wonder if gamers spent more time in Halo 3 than in Call of Duty 4. I got back into CoD4 and H3 in the last week. …

“Since January 17th, the games “Counter-Strike” and “Everquest” have been banned from sale in Brazil. The order comes into effect following an October 2007 Brazilian federal court decision, which ruled the games encourage “the subversion of public order” and are an “attack against the democratic state.” LAN Centers have been forced to remove the games…

N’Gai at Level Up has an amazing interview with Bungie writer Joe Staten. In it was this gem: “Over time I think everybody around the table agreed that the Master Chief is best left as the most important supporting cast member.” Supporting cast member? This revelation has certainly changed my expectations for the movie (not…