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After only one day of being available in retail stores, Microsoft has come out to announce that Halo 3 has sold over $170 million worth of copies. This is bigger than any previous entertainment launch – even box office smashes like Spider-Man 3! In addition to that more than 1 million Xbox Live users have played Halo 3.
To me Bizarre Creations is one of the best arcade racing game developers in the world. They’ve made everything from Metropolis Street Racer, on the Dreamcast, to the more recent Project Gotham Racing series. Each of their games has always been about improving over the previous title. However all of that could be about to change with the announcement today that Activision has now bought Bizarre Studios. Activision is known for milking franchises (a la Tony Hawk) and potentially now with PGR as well as Geometry Wars!
This is not a good thing folks. Anyone looking forward to the Geometry Wars for the DS and Wii, be forwornd that these two titles aren’t being developed by Bizarre Creations. Both games are being made by the terrible development studio called Kuju Entertainment.
If this is going to be the future of Bizarre, one where games are milked to the extreme, then I for one will not buy them. It’s very well possible that Bizarre could take Activision racing series and improve upon them, or continue to make their own original titles. Either way I hope that this previously independent studio can stay on top of its game and give fans what they deserve.
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The Halo 3 launch video podcast is now online!
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We’re editing the new podcast of the Halo 3 launch at Universal Citywalk. Stay tuned for further updates later today. I hope that it can be released sometime in the late afternoon period, but I’m tired so I might take a nap instead.
This episode actually features something brand-new to the podcast. I won’t say what it is, but if you’ve seen any of our previous podcasts you’ll definitely notice the difference.
Also I’d like to take this time to thank everyone that submitted photos and videos to the Halo 3 Coverage show!
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After being kicked out of the my college’s library during a fire drill, I’m back! As I was saying – if you have pictures or videos of your Halo 3 launch experience send them over to Halo@splashcast.net
Check back for more updates coming later in the day about the new podcast episode.
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Expect the new episode within the next hour.
We want you to participate in the video game launch event of the decade! If you’re attending a midnight launch for Halo 3, we want you to take pictures and/or video and send them straight to us! Email them or send them via Mobile to Halo@splashcast.net.
Let us know how your experience goes, where ever you are! You’re coverage will be added onto the show below:
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Yes I’m encoding Midway’s Stranglehold for the Xbox 360 video review as I type. It should be up in 30 minutes or so.
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Ok maybe not 30 minutes- I had to re-encode the video. Expect it soon!!!
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Here it is folks!
StuffWeLike’s Video page has now evolved into an easy to navigate video section. Rather than searching through the Channel Guide for that one hard to find show, there’s a new navigation system to the right of the player that breaks down The Pipeline into several categories. Choose your category and then the show that you want to watch.
It’s much more straight forward to use than ever before!