If you’re ready to phone in this year’s Halloween costume, Costumes Inc. and Rubie’s Costume Company got your back. This Master Chief “Collector’s Costume” will be the talk of whatever shindig you find yourself at over the next week. “You paid how much for this thing?” they’ll ask. “It was marked down from $850!” you’ll [...]

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Electronic Arts’ recently released survival horror game Dead Space is, after Boom Blox, Spore, and Army of Two, the fourth game the publisher released this year that was built on an entirely new IP — and there’s still Mirror’s Edge on the way in November. For a company that has become inexorably linked to licensed [...]

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Filed under: X3F Features

Typically, if you don’t show up, you don’t get a vote. Thus, you will notice something interesting about one of our WRUP entries this week. Someone is gone, unable to write his own comments, so we’ve taken the liberty of filling them in. We’ll let you figure out which is which. As [...]

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Filed under: News, Halo 3
If you’re a Halo 3 gamer or an achievement lover then it’s time to sign into Xbox Live and fire up teh Haloz. Why? Because it’s time for another Halo 3 Double EXP Weekend that’ll aid in your quest for 25 Gamerscore.
The new 3v3v3v3 Halo 3 double EXP matchmaking playlist “3 [...]

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If you’re ready to phone in this year’s Halloween costume, Costumes Inc. and Rubie’s Costume Company got your back. This Master Chief “Collector’s Costume” will be the talk of whatever shindig you find yourself at over the next week. “You paid how much for this thing?” they’ll ask. “It was marked down from $850!” you’ll [...]

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Microsoft reported a whopping $15 billion in revenue for the the company’s first quarter — which ends September 30th, if you’re keeping track — a record for the company in that particular time period. The software giant attributes at least some of that positive operating income to the company’s Xbox 360 platform, noting “healthy sales” [...]

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Microsoft reported a whopping $15 billion in revenue for the the company’s first quarter — which ends September 30th, if you’re keeping track — a record for the company in that particular time period. The software giant attributes at least some of that positive operating income to the company’s Xbox 360 platform, noting “healthy sales” [...]

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Microsoft reported a whopping $15 billion in revenue for the the company’s first quarter — which ends September 30th, if you’re keeping track — a record for the company in that particular time period. The software giant attributes at least some of that positive operating income to the company’s Xbox 360 platform, noting “healthy sales” [...]

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Microsoft reported a whopping $15 billion in revenue for the the company’s first quarter — which ends September 30th, if you’re keeping track — a record for the company in that particular time period. The software giant attributes at least some of that positive operating income to the company’s Xbox 360 platform, noting “healthy sales” [...]

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Sometimes game hype works. Sometimes it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t work, it really can jump-start a backlash. Edge Online along with two PR gurus puts out ten ways to overhype a game. Let’s dive in:
1. *Not Actual Footage (see MotorStorm, Final Fantasy titles, Killzone 2) 2. Going Nasty (see Hooligans: Storm Over Europe, Bully, [...]

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Once again, Halo fansite Halo.Bungie.org has spotted an extremely limited piece of Halo merchandise being auctioned for charity. This time around the item is an unopened Orange Hayabusa-styled Spartan soldier signed by various Bungie Studios employees.
As of writing, the current bid is $79.00, but, with two full days left until the auction ends, it [...]

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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters

Let this be a reminder: Bungie is no longer Microsoft’s plaything. In an interview with GameIndustry.biz, Community Director Brian Jarrard indicated that once Halo 3 Recon is out the door late next year, the team working on it will move into territory unknown. “But I think when [...]

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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters

Let this be a reminder: Bungie is no longer Microsoft’s plaything. In an interview with GameIndustry.biz, Community Director Brian Jarrard indicated that once Halo 3 Recon is out the door late next year, the team working on it will move into territory unknown. “But I think when [...]

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Sometimes game hype works. Sometimes it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t work, it really can jump-start a backlash. Edge Online along with two PR gurus puts out ten ways to overhype a game. Let’s dive in:
1. *Not Actual Footage (see MotorStorm, Final Fantasy titles, Killzone 2) 2. Going Nasty (see Hooligans: Storm Over Europe, Bully, [...]

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Bungie, creators of the extremely popular Halo franchise, is working on a new game that is not set in the Halo world. Since it is a new intellectual property (IP), their new game isn’t necessarily limited to the Xbox 360.
Although Bungie isn’t making any announcements or statements about going multiplatform yet, they are certainly open [...]

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Filed under: Retro, Meta (about Joystiq)

We return to the roots of Joystiq’s WRUP series, celebrating one of the best examples of a “missing link” between handheld and home consoles. Nintendo’s Virtual Boy wasn’t exactly sure which one it was supposed to be; 13 years later, we’re still not sure, either. Fun fact: Nintendo only shipped [...]

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Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

Under most circumstances, this month’s NPD sales figures would be quite impressive, with total sales of $1.27 billion. However, last September’s $1.35 billion had one looming trump card — namely, Halo 3’s launch. Year-to-date hardware sales were $497.98 [...]

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Filed under: Retro, Meta (about Joystiq)

We return to the roots of Joystiq’s WRUP series, celebrating one of the best examples of a “missing link” between handheld and home consoles. Nintendo’s Virtual Boy wasn’t exactly sure which one it was supposed to be; 13 years later, we’re still not sure, either. Fun fact: Nintendo only shipped [...]

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Looks like we can expect a Force Unleashed II, now that U.S. consumers have snapped up well over 1.1 million copies of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. The LucasArts title topped the NPD Group’s September sales charts, with the Xbox 360 version performing best to the tune of 610,000 copies sold. And it did it [...]

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Like last month and the month before and the month before, Nintendo has dominated U.S. hardware sales with the Wii and Nintendo DS. The two combined sold over 1.2 million units to consumers in the month of September, far more than Sony and Microsoft’s platforms combined. Just like last month. And the month before that.
Things [...]

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Looks like we can expect a Force Unleashed II, now that U.S. consumers have snapped up well over 1.1 million copies of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. The LucasArts title topped the NPD Group’s September sales charts, with the Xbox 360 version performing best to the tune of 610,000 copies sold. And it did it [...]

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Like last month and the month before and the month before, Nintendo has dominated U.S. hardware sales with the Wii and Nintendo DS. The two combined sold over 1.2 million units to consumers in the month of September, far more than Sony and Microsoft’s platforms combined. Just like last month. And the month before that.
Things [...]

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Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

Under most circumstances, this month’s NPD sales figures would be quite impressive, with total sales of $1.27 billion. However, last September’s $1.35 billion had one looming trump card — namely, Halo 3’s launch. Year-to-date hardware sales were $497.98 [...]

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Tons and tons of news came out of this year’s TGS over the weekend. From the announcement of Halo 3: Recon to Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion coming to Xbox 360, Kotaku covered it all, and at the expense of sleep, no less. It’s all right here after the jump! So what do you, the commenter, [...]

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Tons and tons of news came out of this year’s TGS over the weekend. From the announcement of Halo 3: Recon to Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion coming to Xbox 360, Kotaku covered it all, and at the expense of sleep, no less. It’s all right here after the jump! So what do you, the commenter, [...]

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The battle for supremacy begins - NOW. Genius Products, LLC and B1 Games today announced that the first-ever board game based on Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie’s best-selling Halo property - Halo Interactive Strategy Game - has shipped to retail outlets nationwide. Bringing the Halo universe to a broader audience through numerous family-friendly features, the [...]

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In the battle over technological dominance, audio is one area that’s usually ignored — Alexander Brandon set out to fix that, and interviewed Gene Semel (audio director of SCEA) and Brian Schmidt (head of the Xbox audio team). It’s a pretty interesting interview, and while it’s unclear who comes out on top (not sure [...]

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Noted game critic, aspiring developer and rapper Soulja Boy says there are four Xbox 360 titles on which he cannot be beat — any circumstances. Halo 3; Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare; Gears of War and Grand Theft Auto IV. (He’s also a pure bastard at Viva Pinata, I assure you.) And at the [...]

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Strategy games haven’t been explored much on the Xbox Live Arcade or PlayStation Network, so this week’s release of Age of Booty already has something going for it. This real time strategy game puts you in control of pirate ships with one noble goal in mind: To plunder villages.
Age of Booty clearly has a [...]

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The Halo 3 Recon trailer from TGS08 heads up That Aussie Game Site’s news day, as well as a release date for the new Xbox Dashboard, Call of Duty: World at War multiplayer videos and a brand new Street Fighter IV trailer. They’ve also got a new Resident Evil 5 trailer, details on SEGA Australia’s [...]

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