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Bungie has revealed that more than one billion online multiplayer matches of Halo 3 have been played since the game was released. The landmark was passed on Saturday, February 28 and means that the game has outperformed Halo 2, which has currently racked up approximately 768 million matches played – …
Read More »Halo 3: Recon renamed
Bungie has announced that the highly anticipated Halo 3: Recon is to be renamed Halo 3: ODST. In the game players must control an ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Trooper), who is on the hunt for his missing squad in the occupied new Mombasa. Bungie wrote on its blog: This new …
Read More »GameStop profits fall by $5M
GameStop saw its sales jump 5.2 per cent in the three-month period ending November 1st, but profits fell from $52 million to $46.7 million. The world’s largest games retailer also saw comparable store sales decrease by 1.8 per cent, primarily down to the launch of Halo 3 in September 2007, …
Read More »Halo Wars will revolutionise RTS genre, says Microsoft
As the world goes ga-ga over the news of Halo 3: Recon , Microsoft’s UK marketing boss has told MCV that strategy spin-off Halo Wars will revolutionise” the RTS genre. Head of gaming and entertainment at Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division Stephen McGill told MCV: Any release in the Halo …
Read More »GTA IV £24.99 at Gamestation
Gamestation has kicked off its 24/7 online sale with a multitude of impressive offers. New deals are set to be unveiled every hour, and already include a pre-owned Xbox 360 Pro console for 129.99. MCV has learnt that other deals to come will include Haze for 19.99 and Halo 3 …
Read More »Microsoft’s GTA marketing push as big as Halo 3
Microsoft’s marketing machine is ready to kick into top gear with a multimedia campaign across the web, TV and and print publications in an attempt to make Xbox 360 the console of choice for GTA fans. With episodic downloadable content exclusive to 360, head of gaming and entertainment at Xbox …
Read More »GTA IV to smash Halo 3 sales
A Variety report has suggested that industry analysts and ‘sources close to Take Two’ are expecting the new much-hyped game will eclipse Halo 3’s $300m in first week sales. It could also topple the $404m raked in by the most recent Pirates of the Caribbean movie At World’s End within …
Read More »Halo 3 Legendary map pack revealed
Microsoft is gearing up for the second wave of Halo 3 downloadable content, due for release on April 15th. On sale for 800 Microsoft Points from Xbox Live Marketplace, The Legendary Map Pack will contain three new maps along with extra forge options. These new maps include the mid-sized map …
Read More »Call of Duty 4 topples Halo 3 on Xbox Live
The ever-popular Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has knocked Bungie’s Halo 3 off the top spot in the Xbox Live most played table for the week ending January 21st, according to information posted on Major Nelson’s Microsoft blog . The stats track the number of unique users logged in …
Read More »Map packs on the way for Halo 3
With Halo 3 currently claiming the title of the most played game on Microsoft’s Xbox Live network, there will be plenty of gamers celebrating the news that Bungie is to release two multiplayer map bundles for the world-beating FPS. Microsoft blog Gamerscore reports that the first bundle will arrive for …
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