Exploring Stuff That Makes Life Great
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:
| Add The Pipeline: Entertainment Within a Box to your page |
| Add The Pipeline: Entertainment Within a Box to your page |
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]
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.
When will Nintendo lower the price on the Wii? If you think it’ll be this holiday season, you’re probably wrong. I’d say Spring ’08/Summer ’08. Here’s why:
Nintendo has yet to steadily replenish its Wii unit supply. Why would Nintendo want to lower the price of a system that’s still sold out? There wouldn’t be any advantage to doing it.
This holiday season Nintendo needs to focus in on the games. It needs to tell gamers that while the Xbox 360 may have Halo 3 and the PS3 has Heavenly Sword – The Wii has Super Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Bros Brawl. Mario has always been a million unit seller series and last generation’s Smash Bros title gave the Gamecube its most wide appealing game. Nintendo cannot afford to draw attention from these two AAA title releases.
Thirdly it’s highly likely that Sony will lower the price of the PS3 either by this holiday season or early next year. In the race of console supremacy, the PS3 is in dead last. Sony needs to throw as many cards as it has to grab gamer’s attentions before the gap between the Wii and Xbox 360 sales gets seriously out of control.
In order to continue to appeal to a wider consumer audience, Nintendo will have to lower the price of the Wii console. Keeping the above factors in mind, Nintendo will most likely wait till next year to take the plunge. Most likely the price drop will only be a $50 price reduction. Hopefully Nintendo will continue to bundle Wii Sports even after the price drop. Wii Sports has been the reason why many casual gamers have been so interested in the Wii with its unique gaming style. To eliminate this free bundled title might actually hurt Nintendo in the short run.