This Weeks Releases

Releases this week:

The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo DS)
- This is a great game and recieved a 9.0/ 10 review check it out here.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Computer)
-online!

Project Gotham Racing 4 (Xbox 360)
- the fourth in the series

NBA LIVE 08 (Xbox 360)(Wii)(PS2)(PS3)(PSP)
- the latest probably mediocre NBA game from EA

NBA 2K8 (Xbox 360)(PS3)(PS2)

Spider man Friend or Foe, Crash of the Titans, MLB power Pros,

Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow (PSP)
-a popular game on PSP

Hour of Victory, FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage, The Chosen-Well of Souls.

Japanese System Sales: Chaos Edition

Look at this, the PSP is on top!!! The first time ever. Possible Reasons are below.


- PSP: 277,794 182,307 (190.92%)
- DS Lite: 70,523 9,451 (11.82%)
- Wii: 24,992 1,189 (4.54%)
- PS2: 11,373 1,755 (13.37%)
- PS3: 10,732 2,369 (18.08%)
- Xbox 360: 1,687 444 (35.72%)
- Game Boy Micro: 243 471 (65.97%)
- GBA SP: 106 16 (13.11%)
- Gamecube: 68 29 (29.90%)
- GBA: 33 33 (N/A)
- DS Phat: 15 -- 0 (0.00%)

Reasons: The new PSP was released this week as well as a new Final Fantasy for the PSP, Japanese people love Final Fantasy. Almost everyone in Japan already has a DS, and Wii. Nintendo said that they are redirecting Wii's from Japan to North America. If the sales don't tone down for the PSP by next week, then we could be looking at a new leader among consoles.

Halo 3 Sells 2.5 Mil on First day!

Let's face it Halo 3 has been overhyped. On Lauch day there was mass chaos anywhere where the game was sold. Millions of cases were sold all across the world and some gamers left their homes for the first time in months. Today GameDaily estimated that on Launch day, Halo sold 2.48 million units. While that is impressive, whats more impressive is that the game also manages to rake in $170 million on that same day. Halo 3 was the largest entertainment release in Human History.

Halo 3 sells $170 million on Day 1

We all know how popular Halo 3 is, and how many people have been wanting it. Estimates said that Halo 3 would sell $150 million on the first day, it did that. But it went over the mark breaking records, it sold $170 million on the first day. Thats better than Spider Man 3. The Halo hype continues to build. Those who weren't sure if they wanted Halo 3 will probably get it, their Friends are probably hyping it up. In related news, September 25th had the top users on Xbox Live, no surprise.

Halo 3 Madness

People have been talking about it a lot lately, the release of Halo. We are going to talk about the madness descending in New York. Thousands of crazy gamers stalked down to their local Best Buy's and GameStops in New York. People on the street were amazed at all the people just trying to get Halo 3. When the games were all gone, gamers were confused, "IS it gone already?" no because right around the corner came a Halo branded Hummer. It was full of Halo 3, the crowds of gamers erupted in happiness. Halo 3 is making a big impact on the world.

NEWS: Halo Legendary Edition Disc May Be Sratched

If you are buying the Halo 3 Legendary addition, be aware! Your disk may be scratched, so to be sure that it isn't check your box in the store. The cause is that in some of the boxes, the tab that holds the CD's in place dosn't hold them properly. The CD's toss around and get scratched. It appears that the standard and legendary edition don't have this problem.

Halo 3 Reviewed by GameSpot

Here's Gamespot's Glorious review of Halo 3. They gave it a 9.5 like IGN also did! What is suprising is that it was reviewed by anti Halo man Jeff Gurstman.


Find out why you really do need to finish the good fight!

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The Good

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• Satisfying storyline that simultaneously provides closure while making you wonder what will happen next
• Four-player online co-op is a lot of fun
• Forge mode map editor lets you do some extremely crazy and unexpected things
• Web integration makes sharing new maps and custom modes easy.

The Bad

• Rewinding saved films doesn't work quite like you'd expect it to
• AI-controlled Marines can't drive to save their lives (or yours)
• Inevitable flood of prepubescent online players sure to hamper your enjoyment of the online modes.

Halo 3 Reviewed by IGN

Praise the lord, today we get the exciting news! Halo 3 has been reviewed!!!
Halo 3 has been reviewed by IGN! They think it's good.

Rating: 9.5

Full Review:

My father once told me, "Never start a fight you don't intend to finish." Master Chief's pappy must have said something similar to him long before John-117 became a Spartan, because in Halo 3, the iconic action hero does indeed finish the fight. There is no cliffhanger ending that will have you screaming at your television, no doubting that this is Chief's tale and everyone else is along for the ride, and no question that it is a worthy conclusion to the most successful trilogy in videogame history. But just like that girl you dated in college, Halo 3 has some issues. Don't' worry; the good far outweighs the bad. This is Halo 3, and it is indeed the game you've been waiting for the past three years.

When last we left Master Chief, he was headed towards Earth, determined to stop the Prophet of Truth and his cadre of Brutes from destroying the universe in a blaze of zealotry. Cortana had been captured by the Gravemind, a disgusting creature intimately tied to the Flood. The Arbiter and his Elites, once bitter enemies of humankind had made an uneasy truce in order to conquer a greater evil. Frankly, things didn't look so hot for Earth and its inhabitants. For three years fans have been waiting to find out what comes next. Most won't be disappointed, as the story eschews some of the ambiguity of Halo 2 and tells a more straightforward narrative. Events play out like a sci-fi action blockbuster.

Lost, though, is the intriguing side-story of the Arbiter and his Elites. The focus is clearly (and perhaps deservedly) on Master Chief. That means in the single-player campaign you will be Chief and Chief only. The Arbiter is just a dude with a weird mandible and a cool sword. While keeping players locked in as Master Chief is a wise decision on Bungie's part, it's a shame that the Arbiter's story fades so far into the background. That's not to say I want to spend half the adventure following the Arbiter and leaving Chief to twiddle his thumbs, but it would have been nice to see such a prominent storyline from Halo 2 have more weight in the cinematic telling of Halo 3.

Clearly Bungie was listening to the criticisms of Halo 2. Not only is Chief in the driver's seat once more, but the environments are varied enough that each level feels distinct. Though you will still need to backtrack in a few areas, it's not as tedious as in previous iterations. The levels in Halo 3 lend to spectacular pacing that weaves from close-quarters, intense battles with Chief and a few soldiers, to more epic arenas. It does feel as if the marine presence is lighter than it should be, but there's enough chaos in the field to at least make it appear as if Master Chief is part of something grander.

You can rip a turret from its mounting and take it with you.

Most of the nine levels are hunky-dory, but the penultimate chapter is so bad, just thinking about it puts a rotten taste in my mouth. It's the kind of level where, if playing through Halo 3 again, I might just stop once I reached it and not bother finishing the skirmish, much less the fight.

It should be noted that the difficulty level is a bit out of whack, though done purposefully. Bungie has to service an enormous casual crowd who (let's face it) suck at games. There are millions who will play Halo 3 and only Halo 3 this year. All they want is to finish the fight and take a nap on the couch. But at the same time, there are an equal number of hardcore gamers who have become immensely skilled at Halo over the past six years. For these folks, the single-player version of Heroic and Legendary difficulties has been ratcheted up just a tad. Many will immediately jump into Normal difficulty, and never see the more aggressive AI that calls in reinforcements and makes better use of its weapons and equipment. Frankly, Normal on Halo 3 is too easy for the average gamer and that lack of challenge may actually bore some.

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