This is the woman who sabotaged your fantasy of finishing Halo 3 first.

Francesca Reyes

Admit it, you’ve probably dreamed of playing a video game before anyone else does in the whole world. Of finishing the game before anyone has laid their eyes on it. Perhaps it was Halo 3 in your fantasy – Microsoft’s massively-promoted shooter for the Xbox 360. Well, you certainly won’t be a little envious of the woman in the photo above.

That’s Francesca Reyes – the first person in the world to completely, wholly, entirely finish Halo 3 (excluding Bungie/Microsoft staff members, of course). Of course, you must be left wondering as to why God made her the Chosen One. She an editor-in-chief of the Official Xbox Magazine. Well, all I can say is that, if I were given the opportunity she was, I’d be grinning like that too.

She’s going to write a massive 10-page review in OXM, since well, this is one of the most highly-awaited and godamnit, I can’t even begin to emphasize Halo 3’s importance! She has been bombarded with questions and the only thing she’s managed to say is that there is a very large variety of levels in Halo 3’s missions. She’s also revealed that:

  • Halo 3 won’t be “4 hours” long.
  • The campaign’s ending “isn’t Halo 2”.
  • It’s going to be a “very Halo” game.

Man, that’s certainly informative. Just wait for the 10-page review, folks.

[Via Games Radar]

Sony Teaches Reviewers How To Do Their Job

Wow, thanks Sony. It is just what I asked for Santa!

The guy up there is IGN´s own Greg Miller, that in his hands is a Lair Review Guide that Sony sent him and many that, like Greg, reviewed Lair. (coincidentally they all gave the dragon flying game a “bad” score)

This move by Sony is not only desperate and completly riduculous, but it is also kind of offensive to the professionals that are being told what to do like the problem is with them and not with Lair.

Guitar Hero III Online but Not Online?

RedOctane’s President and co-founder Kai Huang said earlier this week, “There won’t be online initially for the Wii, but we are working with Nintendo to see how we can get those features in.”Seemingly with no online play Nintendo gets screwed yet again. Thankfully RedOctane contacted 1up.com and clarified the situation. Apparently there will not be any downloadable songs, at first, but there will be online play starting on the game’s launch.

This is only one example of the many that prove to Nintendo that it needs to create a harddrive for the Wii. 512 megabytes of internal Flash memory isn’t enough to store a good amount of content on.

I WANNA ROCK!

Guitar Hero III

Crackdown 2 coming soon? Nope, sorry.

Crackdown


Earlier this year Real Time Worlds released their flagship title on the Xbox 360. The game’s development was lead by Doug Jones of GTA glory, with the release being supported by the addition of Halo 3 beta on the game. 1.5 million units were sold, the beta was a hit, the game was a hit, fans rejoiced. The Development team had gone on the record as stating that they would make a sequel if it performed well commercially. That was in Feburary. 6 months later the game’s a huge success, the DLC packages that were released on the Xbox live Marketplace sold extremely well, and Real Time Worlds is making us fans cry.

According to Real Time Worlds producer Phil Wilson we won’t be seeing a sequel to the game at all because “Microsoft were a little late in stepping up to the plate to ask for Crackdown 2, and by then we had already started working on bigger, better things.” Oh goodie, set up the ending for a sequel, then shoot down our hopes. What are these bigger and better things you may ask? Well they have two titles in development right now. One is an unknown title tentatively scheduled to be released in 2009. The other is another Doug Jones project called A.P.B., or All Points Bulletin, an MMO were you get to play as either a group of criminals or cops fighting the other group for the PC and 360. It features customizable vehicles and characters, but didn’t Saint’s Row and 25 to life?

While we might not be seeing another Crackdown in the future, we still have Prototype to look forward to later next year.

[Via: Source]

The Heroes are Back!

[Update #2]

FLV playback is now working in the player. Sorry about that! All the clips below are now playable.

[Update]

I’ve uploaded high quality files of the NGH 2 Diaries.

It appears that any file that was FLV is having some playback issues. We’re working on fixing this problem in the player.

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It’s been a long time since I last talked about The Next-Generation of Heroes on StuffWeLike! This series was the first film StuffWeLike.com ever made! That’s how classic this series is.

Back in the summer of August 2003 filming began on a set of films that took almost a year to complete. After that we released a DVD with tons of special features. Then about a year after the DVD filming began for the sequel and eventually wrapped up in spring 2006.

The Next-Generation of Heroes has and for ever will have an impact on my life and since it is 100% tied to StuffWeLike.com, I’ve dedicated an entire show to it. This collection features potentially everything ever made available and many things that were only shown on the DVD!

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As of writing this post, I still have a couple more videos – NGH 2 Diaries – that will be added later tomorrow.

Our Video Player to the MAX!

Class is now in session. First on the list of lessons is how to comment on any video in our video player called The Pipeline. I knew that you wouldn’t want to read how to do this so here’s a 16-second video tutorial. Yes it’s really easy and fun to comment!

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