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The right man for the job
ZZoMBiE13 didn’t think the stunt double gag was done after his last installment of Another Halo Comic Strip. (Heh.)(Louis Wu 18:38:56 UTC)
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Mike Zak Interview in Game Developer Mag
RotaJota reports that there’s an interview with Bungie’s Mike Zak in the May 2008 issue of Game Developer Magazine. It’s possible that this will show up on Gamasutra at some point, but for now, if you want to read it, you’ll need to find the dead tree edition. RJ says it’s a great read.(Louis Wu 18:29:59 UTC)
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Team Snipers For Double XP
The Double Experience Weekend has kicked off a little early – Team Snipers is now live, and will be until Monday morning (early). Are you a sniper?(Louis Wu 18:25:14 UTC)
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Team Snipers Double EXP Weekend Begins Today!
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Break out yer long rifles, Wild Bills and Annie Oakleys, we’re about to have ourselves an old fasioned shootout.
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Believe takes Best of Show at One Show
Another advertising award for the Halo: Believe campaign – The 2008 One Show offered ‘Best of Show’ to the campaign, saying that it“catapulted Halo 3 from an ordinary video game into a worldwide cultural phenomenon due to its ability to build an emotional rapport with the audience. The innovative stream of interactive TV, Web and cinema advertisements was an inspired approach that successfully attracted an audience beyond the typical gamer.”
The official site doesn’t have winners listed yet (the festival doesn’t end until tomorrow), but Exchange4Media has reported the results.(Louis Wu 17:19:06 UTC)
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Prelude to Brotherhood: Teaser Two
Dream053 has released a second audio teaser for his upcoming machinima project; you won’t be able to get the plot from this, but it should definitely leave you wanting more…(Louis Wu 17:10:44 UTC)
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4v4 double-elimination Halo 3 tourny at HoC
KRoNIC let us know that Halownage.com is hosting an 8-team double-elimination 4v4 Halo 3 tourney on May 23 and 24; very few slots, so get over and sign up! (Louis Wu 16:25:42 UTC)
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The Truth Behind The Oddball
Merc noticed a Halo-related comic over at TGSA – it’s from last month, but it’s new for me. A little disturbing, maybe…(Louis Wu 15:36:13 UTC)
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But if you close one eye…
Grand Theft Auto IV beat all sorts of sales records – first day, first week, units, dollars, whatever. I don’t think anyone was surprised by this; the franchise has sold a staggering 66 million copies in previous iterations, and this version is, by all accounts, the best yet. However, N4G has found a way to put Halo back on top – they decided to look at just first-week 360 sales. And in that single metric, Halo beats out GTA4, 3.75m to 3.3m. Me, I’m happy that the video game market has gotten so huge in recent years; more gamers is a good thing for the industry, no matter WHAT they’re playing.(Louis Wu 15:32:07 UTC)
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$500M week for GTA IV. HALO 3 did $300M . XBOX 360 version outsells PS3 version.
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Grand Theft Auto IV has sold $500M worth of games in its first week of release. For comparison, GTA IV sold more copies in one day (3,600,000) than HALO 3 sold in its first week (3,300,000). That figures to a $500M first week for GTA IV compared to HALO 3’s $300M.
The numbers are staggering for the dual platform GTA IV which was released in a PS3 and XBOX 360 format.
We know 6,000,000 copies of GTA IV were sold in the first week. VG Charts estimates that the XBOX 360 version sold 3.3M units versus 2.6M copies for the PS3 version. Those are pretty close figures considering that the XBOX 360 has sold 6M more consoles than the PS3. Evidentially and not surprisingly, PS3 owners are loyal to the GTA series.
And is Microsoft regretting not expanding the HALO universe to other platforms?
Perhaps the development costs of making a version of HALO 3 for the PS3 wasn’t feasible. Okay.
But what about say Halo 2 on the PS2? There are an estimated 50M PS2 consoles out there right now compared to just 17M original XBOX consoles.
Obviously, there was a massive install base. After they see GTA’s numbers, is Microsoft regretting making HALO exclusive to the XBOX family?
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You want to WHAT?
Hawty McBloggy has come up with another batch of Halo pick-up lines – this one’s lewder than the last. I’m thinking you’re asking for a smack if you try using these…(Louis Wu 20:41:07 UTC)
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The Gaussness Trailer
lou stopped by with a trailer for The Gaussness, a Halo 2 tribute to the Gauss Hog. It’s been a long time in the making – read his post for details.(Louis Wu 15:45:00 UTC)
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Beat the Yeti May 5
HeavenlyYeti reports that the most recent Beat the Yeti challenge went well – Team Yeti beat Team FetalKittens in a nailbiter. Read the details at NinjaCritic.(Louis Wu 15:43:41 UTC)
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First Meetings
TTL Demag0gue stopped by to let everyone know that Reclaimer #45 is now online – the first meeting between Reclaimer and Ferial. He’s also trying to gauge interest in a PDF version of his comic – if you’d like to see that, stop by this thread and leave a comment.(Louis Wu 11:30:38 UTC)
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Laughs for Cash Awards Ceremony
The GamingTV Laughs for Cash Awards Ceremony was held last night, live… but if you missed it, you can download it (or stream it) today from the GTV website. Congrats to the winners, who took home a total of $200 in cash and 1600 MS points. Thanks to trigger119 for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 11:30:20 UTC)
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OSX Dashboard HBO WIdget Updated
Terminator182 let us know that version 2.21 of his HBO RSS News Widget, for Mac OSX’s Dashboard, has been available since late March. (We haven’t mentioned it since March 8.) Just installed the update – nice changes! Go read the details.(Louis Wu 11:28:54 UTC)
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Panorama Contest at CI
HaLo2FrEeEk let us know that Clan Infectionist is holding a panorama contest – winner gets frontpage mention on their website and a custom forum title. You’ve got until May 18.(Louis Wu 11:28:35 UTC)
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