You may not have realised, but earlier this week Microsoft released a little-known Xbox 360 game called Halo 3. Well, obviously it had lovely packaging or something because apparently they took $170 million in sales in the US on the first day alone; that pushes it ahead of rival media such as the Spiderman 3 film and wretched wizard tome Harry Potter and the blah blah of blah.
Master Chief is in your stock markets killing all your dudes! I really can’t believe that Halo as a force has moved to a point where they let a guy dressed up as Master Chief ring the closing bell for the stock market today.
It really is amazing how far a properly laid marketing plan can go. Bungie, Microsoft, and the numerous Halo fan boys, you can rest now, you have done it, you have taken over the free world.
First, a couple things, Halo 3 comes out tonight, so we all realize you will be playing that game hardcore for at least a couple days, but please don’t forget to come back here and check us out, we will miss you. Second, who buys Xbox 360 games from Dell?
Well apparently if you do, and your package gets shipped via DHL, you just might receive your game early. Like this gentleman, who probably has a house full of Halo/Bungie groupies sitting at his house waiting on their turn to play right now?
A reader from Gizmodo got the pleasure of toying around with a real life AT4 Anti-Armor Bazooka. It’s made by SAAB and I would assume its hard as hell for a civilian in the US to get their hands on one, but hey, some guys have all the luck.
The gentleman described his experience firing the weapon as being “the loudest thing you can imagine” he went on to list other weapons he had fired that are considered quite loud as well to further re-enforce his point of how loud this was. He also said that the air around him heated by what seemed like 50 degrees, that’s pretty amazing.
Lego artist Nathan Sawaya is a genius, nearly a god, I encourage you to check out BrickArtist.com, anyways his medium, Legos. Not paint, or clay, Legos.
This time he made a Lego sculpture of Master Chief from the infamous Halo video game. Not only did he make a sculpture of this gaming icon out of Legos, but he did it in time lapse all without instructions or a guide or anything, just laid out a bunch of bricks and started going at it.
If you’d been scared off trying Halo 3 (either from a tweaked, hacked and generally molested copy, or by buying it from UK retailer Argos who started selling copies a week prior to its actual release) because of the threat that Microsoft would block your Xbox Live account, please feel free to breath again. Despite dire warnings to the contrary, in actual fact Microsoft have no intention of blocking anybody.
Check out the official statement after the cut.
Perhaps I’m a naive slab of non-gaming gristle, but this Xbox 360 Halo 3 Special Edition just looks like an unpleasantly bile-like slab of console. Still, I’m sure there are people out there happy to spend $399 on dubiously detailed Microsoft hardware; what’s surprising is that, according to Unboxing.com, it doesn’t actually seem to come with a copy of the game itself.
This costume has it all, there is a display model gun, basically there is only one half of it, there is a highly detailed helmet that you can see out the visor through, and the rest of the costume is there too. The entire list of pieces is as follows: gun, helmet, chest/back piece, shoulders, forearms, hand plates, Belt/Cod Piece/2 Belt pouches, Thighs, Shins, Ankles, Toe Plates, and Boots.
They guy selling it says this isn’t one of the generic vacuum formed ones, its made of a hard Urethane plastic. He even goes as far as to say you could probably hammer a nail in with one of the forearm pieces.
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