Last time, we found our hero mildly perturbed at the villain Funky Fresh after a round in Gears of War.  Will our hero flip out and become Amish, or will he overcome this menace with the help of his favorite Halo endorsed soft drink?    

I wanted to write my first post be about something monumental.  So I thought to myself, "Why not make it about a new flavor of Mountain Dew" I mean those just don't come around every month.  Okay, maybe about one per year, but still.  I mean just how often do I get to review the [...]

Some stores are beginning to sell the official Halo 3 soft drink (read: quick cash in) Game Fuel. Did you notice how much caffeine was in the drink? It’s more than regular Mountain Dew! A 12 oz. can of Mountain Dew usually contains 55mg of caffeine, which is more than the 34mg found in a [...]

Bungie is raking in the dough by shilling of Halo 3 t-shirts, figures, Mountain Dew and now a pair of laser tag guns modeled after weapons in the Halo series. You can purchase a Plasma pistol (left) for $70 or the Plasma rifle (right) for $120. Obviously these guns are way more expensive than your [...]

After seeing flyers hinting at a $50 price drop, Microsoft sent an e-mail to Siliconera HQ confirming that the Xbox 360 Pro pack will retail for $349.99 starting on August 8 (Wed.). This date is a few days before the flyers advertised and it is right on the heels of the new 80GB Playstation 3. [...]

Microsoft has a clever idea to capitalize on the Halo hype in Japan. Two weeks before Halo 3 arrives they are going to release the Halo: History Pack a bundle of Halo 1, Halo 2, a backwards compatibility update disc and a chart that shows how the buttons are configured for the Xbox 360 controller. [...]

The single player campaign wasn’t the only thing about Halo 3 that was shown off in the behind closed doors meeting I was in earlier. I was also able to check out for the 1st time the feature they were calling “Saved Films”. This is going to be a godsend to the huge multiplayer fans [...]

Last week at E3 I had a casual chat with Brian Gerard and Frank O’Connor from Bungie. We started talking about Halo 3 and they are proud that it’s on Famitsu’s top 20 list. The Famitsu guys loved how the turrets can have a third person view. Soon the chat deviated from Halo 3’s increased [...]

Single player and a sweet in-game movie viewer. Two vastly different aspects of the Halo 3 demo but both very interesting as far as game elements. First up the single player campaign.   I made it pretty clear during the Halo 3 beta that I was never huge on the multiplayer aspect of Halo 3. [...]

Up until now we've only see a pre-rendered trailer for the upcoming Halo Wars, a real-time strategy game set in the Halo universe. But finally at this E3 I got to check out some live demo game play. So after all the waiting how did it look?   You can relax, not only does the [...]

Two days after it comes out in North America, Japan gets Halo 3 on September 27. Europe gets a day before Japan on September 26, which means in a period of three days most of the world will get to “finish the fight”.   While first person shooters aren’t nearly as popular in Japan as [...]

  I loved Halo (bought it at launch), and immensely enjoyed Halo 2 (though I was confused by the "ending"). But it was the single player campaigns of these games that roped me in, not the online multiplayer. I'm utterly average in death match style multiplayer. If there are 10 people playing, most of the [...]

Xbox Flash sent out a mass e-mail with this message linking back to the official Halo 3 site. “Look for the signs, the keepers of the flame. They will lead you to war, and perhaps, to victory.” Microsoft is known for making alternate reality games and this could be a clue in an ilovebees-like promotion [...]

Some people presume that Japan doesn’t like Western games, but that isn’t necessarily the case. Grand Theft Auto sold fairly well and Ratchet & Clank has always been a hit even though the box art has cartoony characters. Similar to how there is a growing niche market for strategy RPGs in North America, a first [...]

I actually feel like I’m in a good place to give an honest opinion about the Halo 3 beta. See I like Halo, but I don’t LOVE it. So you’re not going to be getting any fanboy type reactions here. Can a game with some much riding on it possibly live up to the expectations [...]

While Crackdown was supposedly an easy ticket into the Halo 3 beta, technical difficulties prevented people who had a copy of Crackdown from accessing the beta when it went live. There is a software update for Crackdown in the downloads section that fixes the problem and to make up for the delay the Halo 3 [...]