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Halo 3 “Museum” Ad

Microsoft has launched a rather interesting commercial for Halo 3. You can view the ad here. I suggest you do so before you read any further since I’m going to talk about the ad in detail. I don’t want to give you any pre-conceived notions going in. … good? Alright. So, this ad is obviously [...]


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The Baddest Names In Faming

They’ve got Halo 3! And Guitar Hero 3! and… Halo 3! Dundas Square. Ugh. Link.


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Microsoft Posts Machinima Rules

Clickable Culture pointed me this morning to the freshly-posted Xbox Game Content Usage Rules. An interesting read. I have to give points to Microsoft for translating this from the original legalese – which I suppose they sort of had to do – and some of it is quite reasonable. Other bits are more problematic for [...]


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Vertical Slice: Clown Shaped Cloud Edition

Sony’s teaser image for, presumably, a new Twisted Metal game. Always with the evil clowns. But does it contain Jaffe? Peter Moore has left Microsoft. To move back to N. Cali with his family. He’s essentially swapping jobs with a guy at EA Sports. Interesting timing. Probably means nothing. Does this mean he has to [...]


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95% of Halo 3 stats are tracked obsessively

By way of GameSetWatch, I come to this little entry from Chris Dahlen, a staff writer at the A.V. Club of The Onion. He likes the Halo 3 beta just fine, but what he really likes is the obsessive statistics tracking that Microsoft has implemented. Check out a sample page. That’s for one match. I [...]


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