As no doubt many of you MLG fans have heard, Walshy was dropped from the team earlier this week, thus meaning that they only had three members. Final Boss was soon on to Str8 Rippin and stealing Neighbor from them, that’s right Neighbor has left Str8 Rippin to Join Final Boss. Whether Final Boss has had him in mind for a while and have been planning to drop Walshy we just don’t know the official reason that they split up. This now means that Str8 Rippin only have three members in there team, who will be filling this gap? Will it be Walshy? We will just have to wait and see what happens in the next few days.

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Palluxo.com has a (late) review of the Mac version of Stubbs the Zombie. Fair warning: it spoils the entire plot, if you happen to mind that, and doesn’t really describe the gameplay.

“At the moment we do have three distinct projects underway within Bungie – some familiar, some not. Some on a closer horizon, some quite far off.” – Sketchfactor in a news post at Bungie.net.

I have been addicted to the Too Human demo this week, and I wondered what anyone else thought of it. I know the game has had some big hype, especially when it was originally going to handle 4 player co-op and a loot system equivalent to Diablo.

When I played through the 1st time, I was only slightly impressed with the game. The loot was cool, but the controls were a little cumbersome to me. After playing it a few more times and really getting used to the controls, I am really looking forward to the release. The loot doesn’t seem to be too random right now, but that might have to do with it being a demo only.

Is anyone else playing the demo? If so, what do you think?

This week, Lancelot and I review a milestone map in the Halo CE community from perhaps the most popular mod group: CMT Snow Grove. Join us as we take you through this excellent CTF map made by the Custom Map Team.
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Hippieman sent me a message on XBL a couple days ago.. the two downloadable netmap packs for Marathon:Durandal, the XBLA version of Bungie’s classic Mac and PC scifi shooter, the grand-daddy of Halo, are now online in the Xbox Live Marketplace.

You know Captain Spark. The guy who records all those audio snippets from Halo games? Yeah, that’s him. He’s weighed in now with a review of Halo 3’s campaign. He starts by getting two beefs of his chest (the over-aggressive Arbiter and the so-called “Cortana Moments”) before getting to what he likes. Well worth a read, go check it out.

Bungie President Harold Ryan denied claims by Microsoft’s Don Mattrick that he laughed and acquiesced with the publisher’s decision to indefinitely postpone Bungie’s E3 announcement.

In an interview with Eurogamer, Mattrick once again explains their reasons for delaying the event, with no mention whatsoever of why it was made on such late notice– less than a week before the event for their exclusion from the press conference, and less than 24 hours from their separate announcement before that, too, was cancelled.

Mattrick described Bungie as “disappointed” rather than angry and tried to suggest that Ryan laughed and agreed with the decision. After the interview was posted, Ryan remarked to Eurogamer that he neither agreed, nor found it funny:

“Keeping things clean, I certainly didn’t agree with the decision to delay our news until sometime after E3,” Ryan told Eurogamer today.

“Bungie is always concerned first and foremost with our fans. Whenever we are prevented from exceeding their positive expectations it is not a laughing matter.”

Nice to see Ryan sneak “keep it clean” in there. Now if only MS could keep things clean…