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Halo 3 leaked on Ebay!

Halo 3, which is quite possibly the most talked about game this year, is bound to drag controversy with it wherever it goes. The latest shindig appears to be an eBay Auction of Halo 3’s Australian version!

The seller managed to get his hands on two brilliant copies of Halo 3 and sold it for a whopping 149 Australian Dollars (Approximately 123 US Dollars). Apparently, Microsoft’s security has failed again. When IGN contacted Redmond, Microsoft’s pre-recorded answer was “no comment” to all questions, even when they were asked if Microsoft’s planning on buying all of Australia.

Well, the game comes out on September 25th for all us usual folks. Just… 14… more… days…

BioShock sequel confirmed!

Alright, c’mon. How can a game that has silenced so many critics not have a sequel? BioShock is being loudly touted as one of the greatest shooters ever, and to not make a sequel for it is just against gaming laws.

Take-Two Interactive’s Chief Executive Officer Ben Feder reportedly said when presenting his company’s financial report:

Our creative teams are delivering a strong and increasingly diverse product portfolio, including our successful new BioShock franchise.

BioShock “2” hasn’t been listed on Take-Two’s 2008 Fiscal Year line-up, which can either mean that it’s going to be released in 2009 or (worse,) later, or that it’ll be on next year’s November 2008 line-up. Certainly exciting!

[Via Gameplayer]

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

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]