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Larry posted the news earlier today about how the Halo 3: ODST “Transport” vehicle will be making the rounds at several Gamestop outlets, starting today. This gives some lucky folks the opportunity to try out some of the game, and possibly even win some prizes, while getting the word out about the new upcoming game [...]

Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack Now Available

April 9, 2009 at 10:30 AM

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Well, it has been a bit more than just “a few days” since we last mentioned the upcoming arrival of Halo 3′s Mythic Map Pack, the one that allows for all of those extra Achievements (with attendant Achievement Points!) and new amounts of of multiplayer hilarity… Fortunately, the Mythic Map Pack is now available, from [...]

Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack

March 1, 2009 at 9:46 AM · 1 comment

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The excitement for Xbox 360 gamers that has been building about the expected Mythic Map Pack for Halo 3 culminated  with an announcement seen on Xbox LIVE that the map pack will be released shortly: first, as a bonus for the people buying Bungie’s Halo Wars Limited Edition on March 3, 2009, and then a [...]

In a curious twist of fate (wherein Halo 3‘s Legendary Map Pack was offered as the launch offer), Bungie’s original Halo game is being offered as this week’s Holiday Deal of the Week on Xbox LIVE. For those of you who already have the original game in its original form, you most likely won’t need [...]

Xbox LIVE’s Holiday Deal of the Week

December 1, 2008 at 9:12 PM · 2 comments

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As reported by Larry (Major Nelson) earlier today, Xbox LIVE will be starting a new promotional program called “Holiday Deal of the Week”. Obviously on a weekly cycle, there will be an offering that is typically sold via the Xbox LIVE Marketplace that will be discounted or otherwise provided with a purchasing incentive. The announcement [...]

While the (non-)news about “Halo 3: Keep It Clean” roared onto the scene early last week and continued throughout, until the Xbox LIVE outage earlier today, the more surreptitiously released Halo 3 Title Update 2 (affectionately acronym’ed as “TU2″ by Bungiers themselves) came online on 9/23/2008… Even I hadn’t realized the relevance of this that [...]

Halo 3: Keep It Clean

September 26, 2008 at 1:00 AM · 1 comment

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The Setup For several months, there have been rumors that, in addition to Halo Wars, there would be another Halo game, in the same vein as the blockbuster Halo 3. Was it all wishful thinking on the parts of the unwashed Halo gunners out there? Or was it a carefully orchestrated PR campaign by the [...]

Happy Birthday to Halo 3

September 25, 2008 at 11:00 PM · 1 comment

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Er– What? Happy birthday to a game?!? Sure, why not? The Bungie Blockbuster’s Birthday Last year on this day, Bungie’s major blockbuster FPS was released to much anticipation, with the start of the long gamer lines in front of stores and the subsequent absenteeism at many companies across the U.S. and the world. This year, [...]

Bungie Day

July 7, 2008 at 12:01 AM · 1 comment

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Get ready, fire up your Xbox 360, and log into your Xbox LIVE Gold account! It’s Bungie Day! So log in, download the freebies, and enjoy Halo 3 multiplayer.

Coming Soon: Bungie Day

July 4, 2008 at 5:55 PM · 3 comments

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Whoa! A bunch o’ holidays so close to each other?!? Actually, Bungie Day was newly minted by the guys at Bungie Software to announce the release of their new Halo 3 map, Cold Storage, as well as some giveaways in the form of free gamer pics and theme. Also, there will be a drop in [...]