Four Is Company, Five's A Crowd
The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) has announced that their Halo 2 Xbox tournament is changing format from 5x5 to 4x4, due to "overwhelming support" for that format. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
Rampancy
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Rampancy Podcast
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| Sony Acquires Bungie (mp3) | 02.02.22 |
| Let's Play Mass Effect 3 #27 Final... | 06.02.17 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 27: Craig Ha... | 05.08.13 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 25: Destiny... | 03.05.13 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 24: Halo Ann... | 04.21.12 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 23: Halo Ann... | 06.26.11 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 21: The Wint... | 04.18.11 |
Bungie Makes An Impact
SketchFactor has posted the summary of the latest Humpday Challenge-- after a short hiatus following their humiliation against typical Japanese Halo players, Bungie rewrote the rules (they now pick one of the gametypes and actually practice as a team beforehand) and rebounded with a solid victory over Art Vand3lay, flechette, goatrope, Ducain, Sorahn, and Jphan7om of High Impact Halo. Ducain posted the story at HIH and Phan7om posted in the HBO forum (thanks Louis Wu).
Let's Not Talk About Sex, Baby-- Let's Kill Covies
Lance Ulanoff wants to know Who's Afraid of Mature Games. What I want to know is, who's afraid of sex? Why is killing aliens good and killing prostitutes bad? Why is the f-word worse than killing aliens? Why is killing aliens better than killing humans? This and other inconsistencies probed in Who's Afraid Of Sex, the latest of Narc's Retorts.
Begin Life Again, In The Colonies
Our latest poll asks whether or not you're paying attention to the (apparent) Xbox 2 (or Xbox 360 or Xbox Next) Alternative Reality Game at ourcolony.net.
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What do you think? Is this of interest? Yes, no, and why or why not?
Thirty Pieces Of Silver
Halo 3 garners a mention in today's Penny Arcade cartoon, as a pawn in the ongoing chess match between Microsoft and Sony over the next-generation console launches.
Xbox 2 To Be Introduced On MTV
In case you've been hiding under a rock for the past few days, it appears that Microsoft has scheduled the Xbox 2 introduction-- to be MC'd by Elijah "Frodo Lives" Woods and accompanied musically by The Killers-- for May 12 on Music Television. Xbox365 (and many others, including HBO) has the story.
Other items:
- A possible Project Gotham 3 screenshot has surfaced at ourcolony.net, the site that may, or may not, be a Beast/I Love Bees style Alternative Reality Game created to promote the Xbox 2.
VGL Asks Players To Vote On Tourney Games
VGL is letting players vote for what games they want to play in tournaments. More information on VGL's tourneys, as well as instructions on how to vote, can be found at the VGL news page. Thanks Jeff Gross.
Porting From Xbox To Xenon In Six Weeks?
SPOnG has a story speculating that the on-again, off-again adventure game Kameo will be released finally on the Xbox 2 rather than the Xbox. More surprisingly, it claims that it was ported to the new console by Rare only six weeks after they received their first Xenon development kits, and that they could have done it even faster.
(Could this give credence to rumors of Halo 2.5 for Xbox 2 as a launch title? Only the Shadow knows --Ed.)
Combining Fun And Funny In Stubbs A Real Challenge
1Up put up a four-page feature on Stubbs the Zombie on April 1st, and this real story got lost among all the jokes; we spotted the link today on HBO courtesy of Louis Wu's linkage. The focus is on the challenge of mixing humor and fun gameplay.
Microsoft Drops More Halo 3 Hints
Eurogamer has a story quoting Shane Kim at Microsoft Game Studios that the Xbox's most popular franchises, including Halo, Fable amd Project Gotham Racing, will be making their way onto the next console:
"Without giving away all the surprises we have in store, gamers that love franchises like Halo, Fable, and Project Gotham Racing can safely assume we will continue to invest in them as we move into the next generation."
The article goes on to speculate that sequels to Halo 2 and Fable would not likely be launch titles given that those studios just completed their last games in late 2004.
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