Microsoft's Halo 3 Sparks 100% Jump In Xbox 360 Sales

What a difference a biologically enhanced super-soldier makes. Microsoft reported Thursday that sales of its Xbox 360 video game console jumped 100% in its fiscal first quarter, thanks to the debut of Halo 3.

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Orange Box 360 update released! (Again!)

The second Orange Box 360 update released by Valve - this time the focus is primarily on Team Fortress 2. What, exactly, have they changed?- Reduced network bandwidth usage in multiplayer.- Improved overall game performance.- Arranged search results to favor preferred host conditions.more in article

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Xbox 360 Finally Gets a Decent Arcade Stick

Playing fighting games on a controller is bad enough to begin with, but the Xbox 360 controller's lousy d-pad has been giving hardcore fans of the genre headaches since the console released. It's terrible. Thankfully, Arcade-in-a-box has heard the screams of frustration, and has come up with an answer.

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Greatest Halo 3 Grenade Toss Yet!

A one-in-a-million toss. Heard the one about the two gunslingers in a shootout whose bullets collide and fall to the ground? This is similar, but with a much more exciting ending! The enemy spartan tosses a grenade just as I launch my own spike grenade... the rest you have to see to believe.

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First actual pictures of Xbox 360 Arcade bundle leaked, with packing list

Here is the first product shot of the Xbox 360 Arcade package, along with confirmation of what the system will include.

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BioShock vs. Halo 3

It's not easy to choose between two obvious Game of the Year candidates, but in reality, not everyone can afford to buy every game out there. So we pose the question: If you had to choose, would you buy BioShock or Halo 3? We break each game down into eight categories to see who emerges victorious.

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Microsoft Showing Support for our Fighting Men and Women

Microsoft announced Tuesday that they are in the process of shipping out Xbox 360 consoles along with copies of Halo 3 and Madden NFL 07 to USO centers around the world so that our soldiers can have...

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NBA Star Gilbert Arenas caught cheating in Halo 3

Arenas had his XBL profile looked up through bungie.net and was caught boosting. He joins a game with other XBL accounts and then quits them to boost XP.

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4TB on Desktop Drives by 2009, Hitachi Says

This is related to gaming if your a PC gamer. This is just cool! Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to announce Monday it has developed technology that will quadruple the storage capacity of desktop hard drives within the next two years, while laptop storage could reach 1TB.

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US Faces $100 Billion Fine from WTO for Banning Online Gambling

This is off the video games topic, but it is gaming. All I can say about this story is BURN! A Brussels think-tank has accused the US government of reneging on commitments made to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over internet gaming.

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Review of the greatness that is Halo 3

Well it took me a bit longer than most hardcore Halo fans, but Sunday I finished the campaign. I still have to do Heroic/Legendary and I am doing that in Co-op mode. The campaign was a little short maybe, but at the same time I thought it was well done. The story was very solid I thought especially after Halo 2. The graphics are terrific in my opinion and little things like visuals blurring when you accelerate in a vehicle makes the game even better. I loved the way the story ended and make sure you watch all the way through the ending of the game after the credits.

Well now to the multi-player. I am only a Sgt. but I love multi-player as I did in Halo 2. The armor permutations are a awesome add-on to the multi-player experience. I only have a couple like the Mark V helmet, the complete E.V.A set, complete C.Q.B set, and the O.D.S.T helmet. Forge and the theater are the other new editions to multi-player. Forge is pretty neat and I have did a variant on the new version of Zanzibar. The theater is really great and works for campaign/multi-player alike.

To sum it up this game is great! I am a Halo fan so I am sure that I am seeing with rose colored glasses some, but it is a solid game. We can only hope Halo Wars will be as fun.