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September 11th, 2009
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Halo: Reach
June 2nd, 2009
Bungie’s Halo: Reach Debut Teaser was shown at E3 yesterday, here is the vid courtesy of G4:
Halo Wars DLC drops on xbox live….
May 21st, 2009
But who cares? The Halo Wars Strategic Options Add-on Pack is offically available now for 800 microsoft points, but who does Microsoft think is going to buy it? Most players have already burned this game in to the ground & I don’t know anyone who is going to spend the credits on it. The new DLC doesn’t address any of the original flaws of the online interaction and only gives you a few new easter eggs and game scenarios. (see my earlier post) All said, I was stoked about this game & it was solid for the first few hours, but once I realized i couldn’t play the way I wanted to, i let it collect dust under my copy of Dance, Dance Revolution. Save your self the time and credits and just trade in your copy of Halo Wars for a used copy of Halo 2 and call it a day.
Free Left 4 Dead™ Survival Pack
April 24th, 2009
Everybody loves free stuff (I know I do), so go get some. Thanks to the new movie coming out May 29th “Drag Me to Hell“, you can download the Left 4 Dead Survival Pack Free! The new Pack introduces a new multiplayer game mode, entitled “Survival”, plus two complete campaigns for Versus Mode. Go get yours now on Xbox Live or follow the jump to get it now.
Look Out Halo War fans, DLC is coming.
April 21st, 2009
Wow, look at all thoes Elites
Microsoft is getting ready to launch some new Down-loadable Content for Halo Wars. I knew it had to be coming soon, with the lack of overall interest in Halo Wars from die hard Halo fans. Now granted, Halo Wars has just hit the 1 million copies sold mark– so I’m not saying no one likes it– i just don’t know anybody that does. Enough of that– here’s a snapshot of what’s coming:
The new content will be called “Strategic Options” and will contain 4 new achievements totaling 100 gamer points and 3 new multi-player modes (hopefully one that will allow two players to join a campaign from the same console). There is limited info available in regards to the new DLC, but Joystiq.com is reporting that Keep-away will be a CTF variant, Reinforcement will have wave based support, and finally Tug of War. Microsoft has not given up any details on that last one, however the mind reels at the possibilities.
Also, the new achievements are reportedly– “One and Done” for 30 gamer points, Pull Hard, Pull Deep” for 20 gamer points, “Freak on a Streak” for 20 gamer points, and “Living Loving Bug” for 30 gamer points.
As of right now the launch date and price have not been confirmed, thanks to crackrjakk for passing this along via Twitter.
GameFly Trade-In Program
April 20th, 2009
GameFly after a complete overhaul of their website launched a new Trade-In program. The process is very simple. First, log in to your GameFly account. Second, click on the trade-in link. Now, enter the UPC codes for the games you want to trade in. When you are ready, click submit and it will give you the trade-in value for your games. At this point you will be prompted to print the instructions, packing list, & shipping label. That’s it simple. Now, the price you are given is only good for a limited time, so you have to make sure that GameFly receives your game by the deadline they give you. Also, you are responsible for your own shipping, so take that into consideration when you are selling your games– it may be worth more to you to just run down to your local used game store & pawn them there. I just started the Trade-In process on three games I had lying around and will let you all know how it goes.
*****Update 4-24-09*****
I received notice that GameFly accepted all of my games for the value they listed. Hooray! But, when I went to apply that credit to one of the games I have at home to keep it, I found out that the credit is only good toward your membership! Not really sure how I feel about that– granted it will be nice to pay less on my monthly, but I really wanted to use it toward the purchase of a game. I guess next time I will just drive down to my local Used Game Shop.
iHaloStats adds Halo Wars info to Nav bar
March 24th, 2009
If you are unfamiliar with iHaloStats, they produce my favorite web based iPhone application. It provides real time Halo 3 stats including, medals, rank, weapons used, games played, and so much more. Now they have released a cool addition– Basic Halo Wars info. Currently it only shows very general information, including your black boxes and skulls, but they plan to expand it quite a bit more. My guess is that this may be in part to get ready for the Mythic Map Pack release on April 9th, but also to appease the avid Halo Wars fans out there who use their fantastic app. You can get iHaloStats by going to this link on your iPhone.
Apple, Bungie, Technology, gaming, xbox
Rock Band Tip: How to…
March 20th, 2009
Get your own RB Merch @ Rockband.com
So, I was a Guitar Hero Fan back on the PS2– in fact, I was pretty much addicted to it. Because of that, I was slow to jump on the Rock Band band wagon even though Harmonix was involved in both games. This year (a bit late) I bought Rock Band 2, my band “The Squabbling Siblings” kicks ass on the world tour. But this tip is not about kicking ass, its about getting more songs to play with your buddies.
I’m the kind of guy who reads the manual when I get a game, including the fine print. While perusing the minute lettering at the back of the game book I noticed that you can save all the songs from Rock Band onto your hard drive and then play them in Rock Band 2. Not having a copy of #1 and not really wanting one, I went to my local used game store and found a copy, cheap. I brought it home, fired up the 360, downloaded the update (required in order to save the tracks), went to the options link, and selected “download songs to hard drive”. Well, you have to give the Man credit on this one– it prompted me to purchase a one time license in order to download and play the songs. The good thing is that it was only 400 MS points for over 20 songs. With the average RB2 song costing 140 MS points and paying less than $10 for a used copy of the game, it was a really good deal; especially if you never played Rock Band 1.
So, if you are like me and jumped in late to the Rock Band Phenomena, get yourself a used copy of #1 and boost your track list with some fun, challenging songs to rock out to.
Resident Evil 5– Happy Friday the 13th
March 13th, 2009
Friday the 13th. What better day for a release of Capcom’s Resident Evil 5. I have been playing the demo, and this by far is one of my favorite in the franchise to date. The online play is what really has me sold. Competing with Electronic Art’s mega sucessful survival horror extravaganza Left4dead obviously spurred such a good sequal. My only regret is that Gamefly did not ship me a copy today, so instead i will be playing Halo Wars, which GF was kind enough to have to me on the day of release.
BrickSimple
February 20th, 2009
I just wanted to share that I think BrickSimple, the makers of 1337pwn applications for the iPhone and Google’s Android phone is one of the coolest companies around producing Mobile Apps. I don’t know the guys personally, but i follow them on twitter & use their apps everyday. Besides the cool mobile apps they produce, BrickSimple also provide technology consulting and web based software development. So, go check out their site bricksimple.com and by all means use their apps.