Halo 3 Beta delayed

I feel sorry for the poor SOBs that called in sick for work or faked a tummy ache so their mom would call in for them. The Halo 3 beta is delayed by just a little bit.

Rule of thumb with these things: They never go according to plan or launch on time. You would be better off taking the friday off, instead of the day of the launch. Goobers.

I bet newbcakes had his mom make Smiles and call the Canadian School for him,

SSB Countdown Site

I can do without the hype inducing countdown site. The pay off is so anti-climactic.

*YAWN* 7 days until the launch of the SSB site.

You can read about it here.

Microshaft explains Shadowrun's $10 mark up on the 360

Shadowrun will retail for 49.99 on Windows Vista and 59.99 on the Xbox 360. Someone Newsweek asked why. This is the answer from joystiq.

Nay, this wordsmith saw a canvas on which he could be poetic! "[These] price points are our standard pricing for each platform ... This pricing structure is not uncommon in the multiplayer-only first-person shooter genre, as numerous titles have seen success at this price point and gaming model."

I would rather call him a Poopsmith.

Halo 3 Achievement

xbox 360 fanboy found this:

Seaman 2: Stranger than Seaman?

You decide.

All I can say is WTF.

Pictures on Madden blog site

Fantasy draft and Edit player are in Next Gen Madden 08.

Aegis wing Free XBL arcade game weds

This may be overshadowed by the halo 3 beta launch weds, but I am sure newbcakes, ruud, d17 and peeforia and raiha and I will play some of this.


• Amazing environmental art
• Full symphonic soundtrack
• Up to four-player simultaneous cooperative multiplayer gameplay, either locally on the same Xbox 360 console or over Xbox LIVE*
• Ability to attach your ship to your wingmen's spacecraft to gain the "turret" ability and increase the firepower of the Super Weapons
• Four Super Weapons: the Hades Beam (wreaks total destruction), the Gorgon Burst (wipes out incoming fire and disables enemy spacecraft with an electromagnetic pulse), the Arcus Missile (a heat-seeking missile) and the Lambda Shield (deflects incoming fire back at enemies)
• Six epic missions and several memorable boss encounters to fight through