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What’s old is new again
Wow. Pretty amazing. 10 years ago MS acquired Bungie and the Bungie fan community was in an uproar. Bungie is over! They’re sellouts! MS doesn’t care about Bungie or its fans. Bungie can’t hope to win against the monolithic entity known as MS! Fast forward several years later, mega-franchise Halo under their belts, maneuvering out…
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What’s old is new again
Wow. Pretty amazing. 10 years ago MS acquired Bungie and the Bungie fan community was in an uproar. Bungie is over! They’re sellouts! MS doesn’t care about Bungie or its fans. Bungie can’t hope to win against the monolithic entity known as MS! Fast forward several years later, mega-franchise Halo under their belts, maneuvering out…
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Halo: Reach
I didn’t know anything about Halo: Reach other than its existence until I saw this. And now I actually care about Halo again.
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Battlefield Bad Company 2. Discuss.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is an upcoming first-person shooter video game in development by EA Digital Illusions CE and to be published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The game is a direct sequel to Battlefield: Bad Company and was announced at one of Electronic Arts’ earnings conferences and was…
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Discontinuation of Xbox LIVE for Original Xbox and Games
MICROSOFT PRESS RELEASE (source: http://gamerscoreblog.com/press/archive/2010/02/05/gh789.aspx) A LETTER FROM MARC WHITTEN: DISCONTINUATION OF XBOX LIVE FOR ORIGINAL XBOX GAMES Dear Xbox LIVE Members, On April 15 we will discontinue the Xbox LIVE service for original Xbox consoles and games, including Xbox v1 games playable on Xbox 360 and Xbox Originals. I want to start by saying…
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Top 10 Xbox Live Indie Games
Today I am going to list my top 10 Xna games. These games are in no specific order. Number 10, Plucky’s 3d adventure 80 msp (1 dollar) Most of the time in the xna section 3d games suck. But this new release is a very good Super Mario clone. It features…
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Walmart: Xbox 360 Arcade + $100 Gift Card = Free CoD: MW2, extra 2 year warranty, extras.
It has been over just 8 months since I got my Xbox 360 Elite back from repair at Microsoft so you know what that means! Hardware failure time! I must be my 6th or 7th hardware failure with my console; I’m experiencing the “Open Tray” error again. But…
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Walmart: Xbox 360 Arcade + $100 Gift Card = Free CoD: MW2, extra 2 year warranty, extras.
It has been over just 8 months since I got my Xbox 360 Elite back from repair at Microsoft so you know what that means! Hardware failure time! I must be my 6th or 7th hardware failure with my console; I’m experiencing the “Open Tray” error again. But…
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Modern Warfare 2. Discuss.
• unlock and personalize your killstreak loadout • AC130 gunning run is one of the killstreak unlocks • some weapons seem futuristic • “heat syncing” missile tracks to AC130 but the plane drops flares to counter • looks like there’s a lot of…
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Community pages no more…
Geocities.com is closing today. Gone. Zilch. Zip. Nada. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/10/geocities-closing.html If you do a google search like this or this or this or this, You’ll find dozens of sites that cropped up starting way back in the 90’s born out of love for Bungie’s games. I hope, though I doubt, that the owners of these sites…
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Community pages no more…
Geocities.com is closing today. Gone. Zilch. Zip. Nada. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/10/geocities-closing.html If you do a google search like this or this or this or this, You’ll find dozens of sites that cropped up starting way back in the 90’s born out of love for Bungie’s games. I hope, though I doubt, that the owners of these sites…
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New Game
The few hundred Bungie employees must be doing something to kill time up there in the Studio. What can it be?…
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New Game
The few hundred Bungie employees must be doing something to kill time up there in the Studio. What can it be?…
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One chance, and one chance only…
So, if you had the opportunity to ask Jason Jones one question, and one question only, what would it be?…
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One chance, and one chance only…
So, if you had the opportunity to ask Jason Jones one question, and one question only, what would it be?…
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Nail in the coffin for Halo Movie?
As reported in Variety and Deadline Hollywood Daily, Larry Shapiro has left his position at CAA. What’s the big deal? Remember when Bungie would mention how they were meeting with CAA and shopping the Halo script around to movie production houses? Larry apparently was a big part of making those kind of meetings happen….
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Nail in the coffin for Halo Movie?
As reported in Variety and Deadline Hollywood Daily, Larry Shapiro has left his position at CAA. What’s the big deal? Remember when Bungie would mention how they were meeting with CAA and shopping the Halo script around to movie production houses? Larry apparently was a big part of making those kind of meetings happen….
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Halo at Video Games Live concert
The evening of March 31, 2007, Louis Wu and I (and my son, Rafi) met at Yale’s Woosley Hall in New Haven, CT for the phenomenon that is Video Games Live. The premise is video game music played by a symphony/choir. We had a great time! It definitely ran the gamut of games – starting…
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Halo at Video Games Live concert
The evening of March 31, 2007, Louis Wu and I (and my son, Rafi) met at Yale’s Woosley Hall in New Haven, CT for the phenomenon that is Video Games Live. The premise is video game music played by a symphony/choir. We had a great time! It definitely ran the gamut of games – starting…