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Halo 3’s release date is teetering closer and closer! There is no doubt that September 25th will be a day to be remembered for us gamers!
Continuing in the line of extravagant advertisements for Halo 3, we have the latest (and perhaps the last?) ad from the “Believe” campaign of ads. This one also takes place in the weird humanity museum and we see two war veterans talk about the weapons they used. Both seem eccentrically uneasy, though. One of them almost has a tear in his eye as he mentions (the sacrifice of?) ‘Chief.
Stay tuned, Xbox 360 owners! It’s just the day after tomorrow now!
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.
[Update]
Ok maybe not 30 minutes- I had to re-encode the video. Expect it soon!!!
[Update #2]
Here it is folks!
Now, normally the guys who play games before their release dates are labelled “weirdos” and most people respectfully wait for the full version of the game to come out. It appears that with Halo 3, the situation is quite the opposite – play Halo 3 after September 25th and be ready to be labelled “weirdo”!
As would be expected of any big-budget production, Halo 3 has been leaked to the massive world of BitTorrent in a 6.14 GB torrent. You may now stop writing death threats against those who got Halo 3 before the release date and go do something equally illegal now.
Oh, and don’t forget to seed, you greedy bastard.
[Via gamesindustry.biz]
The Becknell family from Loveland, CO was leading a normal day when suddenly their 3 year old Labrador Retriever started vomiting blood. A visit to the friendly vet showed that there was a freaking remote inside the dog’s belly. But the Becknells made the mistake of thinking it was just another ordinary remote. Turns out that there was also a Wiimote. That might also explain the many bugs the family faced when they turned on their regular copy of Wii Sports, and how the dog was able to mentally win every tennis match.
The dog had chewed the old family remote “into little pieces and that wasn’t the mass in the X-ray.” Eventually, the Wiimote surfaced. As you can expect, the parents got angry, the vet got money, the dog breathed a sigh of relief (and despairs at having lost his cheat) and the kid got blamed. The poor kid has lost two weeks’ worth allowance to pay for a new remote.
When contacted, the dog denied any connection with Sony. Sony representatives threw rocks at us when we tried to contact them. I think there’s no corporate politics involved here.
[Via Fun Tech Talk]
With a video game launch as large as Halo 3, you have to have scandal, controversy and broken street dates. We’ve seen Halo 3’s release date broken across the world, and rumour goes that aliens stole a copy as well. Another rumour said that Microsoft will ban people’s accounts if they play before the release date.
Pro-G said earlier that a Microsoft rep told them that Microsoft will ban accounts if they find such a thing happening. Pro-G said later that another Microsoft rep (who probably lost a deathmatch some time ago) told them that Microsoft will only ban Microsoft employees’ accounts. Whew.
And now Pro-G tells us that Microsoft has made an official statement on the matter, after considerable deliberation and beer-drinking.
We can confirm that Microsoft is not taking any action (such as banning Xbox Live accounts) against gamers who are playing Halo 3 before the official street date. Any rumours or speculation to the contrary are false.
So what is the lesson to be learnt here? Do not trust rumours, Microsoft representatives and release dates.