Halo 3

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, Microsoft Xbox 360 Rare has announced that the THQ-published Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise for the DS will be proliferating retail shelves with dirty puns on September 2 in North America and September 5 in UK and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) alongside t...

By Ross Miller SPONSORED BY: Age of Empires III - Real-Time Strategy Game Control a European power on a quest to colonize and conquer the New World. AOE3 introduces new gameplay elements, as well as new civilizations, units, and technologies. http://www.ageofempires3.com/

By Ross Miller Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3 The Joystiq Team is pretty evenly divided on our initial reaction a life-sized LittleBigPlanet Sack Boy. Some of us would run away, some of us would force a hug on the LittleBigGuy. We all thought it was funny that the big zipper in front is not how you g...

By Kevin Kelly Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, First Person Shooters, Online, Video Bungie could have strutted all the way back to home base with the "2nd Annual Halo 3 award for Interactive Innovation" without saying a word, but the developer was graceful enough to record an extrem...

By Randy Nelson Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters. From a list of runners-up that included the likes of Grand Theft Auto IV, Portal, Super Mario Galaxy, and Wii Fit, UK games magazine Edge has awarded Halo 3 its 2008 "Edge ...

Halo 3 scoops Edge Award for Interactive Innovation - CVG Online

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By Joystiq Staff Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360Not a whole lot going down in Xbox 360 land this week. Oh sure, there are rumors of price cuts, but nothing really solid to latch onto. Except Braid. In short, Braid is an absolutely brilliant game. You should go buy it. Seriously. We'll wait. It is short, sweet and won...

By Ross Miller If you noticed in the details to Fable 2's Collector's Edition, there was an "Otherworldly Bonus" for in-game content. Packaged with the announcement were screenshots, including one conspicuously labeled "Fable2_MasterChief.jpg." Yep, that's not just a coincidence, you're looking...

By Ross Miller Round 1: Peggle Round 5: Jenga Final Round: *** TOP SECRET *** The 20 Omeganauts have already been chosen (congratulations to any Joystiq readers who made the cut!); first prize this year is a trip for two to the Tokyo Game Show with all expenses paid and $5,000 in "walking around money."

By Ludwig Kietzmann We have a lot to learn from their success too, they did some very innovative things to keep people going and their experience-rewards system was something that we paid a lot of attention to." Is that any way to talk about your main Xbox Live competitor? Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Bungie...

By Christopher Grant So there was talk about Stuart Beattie - you may know him better as that guy adapting Gears of War for the big screen - giving the stalled Halo movie some much needed TLC in the form of a new script based on Eric Nylund's novel Halo: Fall of Reach. The original source of that rumor now claims to hav...

By Christopher Grant We had a chance to speak with newly appointed general manager of Microsoft Game Studios Phil Spencer earlier this afternoon but there's good news and bad news. The bad news: We spoke with him just a couple hours before Bungie announced that the very same Microsoft Game Studios "changed" pl...

By Richard Mitchell We'd like to pretend that the number one thing that happened this week wasn't the 69th episode of the Xbox 360 Fancast, but we just can't. It's really the biggest thing to happen since we hit episode 050. Yes, we're puerile infants. We're comfortable with that. Oh, and we had plenty of features t...

By Richard Mitchell Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360It's not every day that the ninja from the Ask a Ninja podcast shows up on your Xbox 360. Imagine our very pleasant surprise then, when he popped up on Xbox Live Marketplace a few days ago promoting Ninja Gaiden II (which he calls a "flippin' awesome g...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 This probably best sums up our weekend plans. Here's hoping the Xbox 360 above doesn't suffer from any technical issues. (Via Flickr) Check out the highlights for today: Rumors & Speculation Rumorang: Xbox 360 Blu-ray console shipping Q3

By Richard Mitchell It's time for the X3F Week in Review, kiddies. This week we've got yet another new batch of our recurring features. We suggest taking a look at the latest Community Content in particular, which features a Halo 3 map that has day and night cycles. Mix that with Ghost Town and the Infection game ty...

By Richard Mitchell Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360 Again, a week packed with too many posts. We've got new editions of all the usual content, including a new episode in our achievement hunting series Points>Life. We've also got a heartfelt new episode of the Xbox 360 Fancast, in which our blogge...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Adventure Create some awesome Okami-inspired art, put it on DeviantArt and Capcom might reward you with a Nintendo Wii. Contest rules here. We mention this because, quite frankly, we'd love to see the work you make. Check out the highlights for today: uery

By Ross Miller Halo 3 marketing designed to not make Master Chief a 'reckless American cowboy' Ben Heck assembles the PlayStation 3 Laptop Lego Indy to have more than 60 playable characters X3F gets all up inside Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack Mafia II whacking Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC

By Ross Miller Revamped PlayStation Store goes live April 15 Ugh: Metal Gear Solid 4 Limited Edition exclusively at GameStop Mass Effect PC won't 'Bring Down the Sky' at launch Homestar Runner's April 1 video hinted at Wii title Nintendo tops 2007's Develop 100 list

By Richard Mitchell Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360 Another busy week for Xbox 360 Fanboy has flown by, and thus we must do our best to condense it into this tiny post. As usual, we have a new Fancast and new episodes of X3F TV and all the news coverage you've come to expect (more than we can fit here, hones...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360 As pointed out by Joystiq expatriate Kevin Kelly, the above picture (text box excluded) was reportedly featured in a recent Yahoo! article on Xbox Live cheating. It seems a bit, erm, antiquated. That, or Yahoo! has some inside scoop on a new X...

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters Wow, this new trailer for the Halo 3 Legendary map pack sure has us feeling nostalgic, and it's not just because two of the three maps are remakes! The trailer reminds us of the mid-autumn media frenzy that was the Halo 3 launch, with al...

By Richard Mitchell This week at X3F, listen to the strangest Rock Band guitar replacement story on the Xbox 360 Fancast, download a sweet new race map for Halo 3, and nab your shot at winning Turok. Oh, and we've got the usual dose of news for your immediate (albeit belated) consumption. Enjoy.

By Ross Miller Cheaters branded on Xbox Live, Gamerscores reset Darwinia rated by ESRB for Xbox 360 Darwinia+ confirmed for Xbox Live this Fall Raiden Fighters Aces demo on Japanese Xbox Live Alleged GTA IV multiplayer screens show dudes, guns, vehicles ... explosions

By Ross Miller Retrospective: Three years with the PSP Tabulator: Guitar Hero / Rock Band guitar compatibility News US Trade Commission investigates Blu-ray patent Rock Band Wii 'Special Edition' on June 22, $170 Rock Band Wii drum kit pictured, nagging questions answered

By Richard Mitchell It's getting harder and harder to compile a week's worth of news into a single post. In fact, it's really pretty much impossible (or at the very least impractical). Honestly, you should just be reading the whole site religiously. That's our advice. Just look at what we've had this week: giveaw...

By Ludwig Kietzmann IGN (79/100): "As a single player experience, Army of Two is a fine game -- one that manages to provide a fun, engaging time despite its length, AI issues and elements that don't seem fully implemented. However, it's really co-op play and multiplayer where the game stands out, and these two...

By Michael Zenke Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, First Person Shooters, GDCThe audio track of GDC is an under-appreciated gem of the conference. Though many of the sessions are highly technical in nature -- discussing the use of software tools and compositional elem...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Even during our hectic GDC schedules, we're able to sense the vibrations caused by new Halo 3 information gently plucking on the strands of the interweb. Bungie has revealed "Ghost Town," a dilapidated African battleground included in the upcoming Legendary Map Pack. An "asymmetric map...

By Ross Miller N+ coming to Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday Drone Tactics to bug DS owners April 8 Microsoft on HD DVD: No announcements right now Melee fix coming to Halo 3 this week Magic: The Gathering-based games coming to PC, Mac, Xbox Live Gaming graphics cards drive advances in medical imaging

By Ross Miller Joyswag: Win a Cobalt Black DS with Advance Wars or Prof. Layton X3F Week in Review: February 8, 2008 - February 14, 2008 Rumors & Speculation Rumor: cracked Rock Band DLC reveals future songs Analyst: Next-next-gen coming in 2010 Xboy: Ziff-Davis survey hints at Microsoft handheld

By Richard Mitchell Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360Wowzers. X3F continues its rise to internet dominance this week with way more content than we could possibly compile here. With the addition of two new writers, we've got posts out the yin-yang. Seriously, it's ridiculous. A new Fancast, new Ask X3F...

By Ross Miller Culture & Community Rock Band guitar gets real string mod David Jaffe to present keynote at GDC Game Career Seminar Forget Xbox Live, Halo 3 laser tag now available Controversy: UK immigrant detainees play Wii while waiting News recycling: Brain Age doesn't like your accent

By Richard Mitchell Wow, we thought last week was a big week for X3F. One week later and we've put out our first enhanced Fancast and our first video podcast (which we're calling X3F TV, clever right?). We've also got yet another edition of Ask X3F in which we reveal our podcasting secrets and discuss the apparent...

By Richard Mitchell It was a pretty big week at Xbox 360 Fanboy. This week week we've got our 52nd Fancast (one whole year!), a Bionic Commando Rearmed interview, Devil May Cry 4 demo impressions, a free copy of Soldier of Fortune: Payback, and the biggest edition of Ask X3F yet. The week was, as Donald Trump would...

By Justin McElroy Well, this is a surprise. Though it seemed like an unstoppable juggernaut of multiplayer dominance, it appears that Halo 3 has been ousted from the top of the Xbox Live activity chart by Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4. The rest of the top 5 for last week was rounded out by Guitar Hero III, Gears o...

By Richard Mitchell Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360 Community Stuff: Whatever happened to N+? News: Pics of Halo 3 series 2 McFarlane figures unleashed Optimus Chief?Bungie's homegrown Forge tips Vegas 2: rewards system spans campaign and multiplayerHalo 3 Spartan Laser suicide for the ages

By Ross Miller US Army hosts first ever Halo 3 Xbox Live tournament Microsoft: Xbox 360 back compat 'winding down' GameStop sales increased 35% over last holiday They are amused, UK breaks game sales records TGS 2008 dated Oct. 9-12 Curt Schilling leaving baseball for game development

By Richard Mitchell Xbox 360 Fancast 049 -- Full Names Only Oh, there's Halo 3!Ask X3F: edition the second Bunnies like Xbox Live ArcadeReally real and wearable Halo 3 Recon helmet Predicted to sell at least 3.5 million copies in 3 monthsFirst Halo Wars multiplayer screens surface

By Ross Miller The press release reconfirmed for Series 2 the Drone, Spartans, Brute Stalker and a Master Chief variant. The Arbiter figurine is expected to sneak its way into retail in June along with possibly eight more entities from the Halo universe. The first series of Halo figures from McFarlane To...

By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Nintendo DS, Features, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 Pac-Man Championship Edition (XBLA) Crackdown (Xbox 360) MLB 07: The Show (PSP) Picross (DS) Shoutouts to Super Stardust HD (PSN), Puzzle Quest (PSP) and Jeanne d'Arc (PSP).

By James Ransom-Wiley The shared sentiment around Joystiq HQ is that an island getaway is just what we need to get better acquainted with Halo 3. We're familiar with the shooting of the aliens, but aside from this most basic objective (executed with superiority, by the way), Halo 3 remains a potential funbox wai...

By Griffin McElroy Skyllus vBi, member of the professional gaming group Team vBi, just can't seem to catch a break. After being recognized by Bungie for making a very popular Halo 3 video, Skyllus was rewarded with the incredibly rare in-game "Recon Armor", which only Bungie employees and a select few Halo c...

By Richard Mitchell Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360Well, the holidays are nearing an end and it's time for people to get back into that daily grind once more. Allow us to help you settle in by providing you with the Xbox 360 tidbits you may have missed over the last few days. Of course, you should read the...

By Richard Mitchell Xbox 360 Fancast 047 -- Revenge of the Mongoose News: Oblvion for $20? Not badForged Halo 3 marble maze is inspiring Is there anything Halo 3 can't do?Preview the characters of Grand Theft Auto IV Put some names to those facesIt's a Halo Thing: it's Halo, animated and hilarious

By Ross Miller Culture & Community FSU student receives misdemeanor charges after making threats on Xbox Live A very Jenga-esque Crysis physics demonstration WoW Insider interviews Ed Fries on avatar figurines Rock Band bar night in Manhattan tonight Looking back at the PlayStation 2 in 2007

By Alexander Sliwinski The Associated Press put out a pretty good year-end list about games and named BioShock its game of the year. Sure, the AP almost invalidates the entire year-end round-up by mistakenly listing BioShock as available for PlayStation 3; however, because the wire service didn't simply phon...

By Richard Mitchell We're closing in on the end of the year, but that doesn't mean the Xbox 360 is slowing down. This week we've got the latest in Halo 3 (as usual), an exclusive interview with CrunchTime Games head James Goddard, and a hands-on with Xbox Live Arcade's first real dungeon crawler Arkadian Warrio...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo Wii Over 190 character make up this Smash Bros. image - "an image with every single Nintendo franchise in existence in it... and some third party characters to boot," according to AlgusUnderdunk. Check out a higher resolution version here, as well as a list of every chara...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Video, Machinima Need a crash course for Halo 3's new "Heroic" map pack? The Rooster Teeth crew have reprised their Spartan roles for a special Red vs. Blue episode showing off the three new maps due out tomorrow. Those who persevered...

By Ross Miller Rock Band almost gets dude evicted Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update detailed: DivX, XBLA Hits, and more English soccer team loses, player blames video games Halo 3 'Journey's End' doc sneaks onto Xbox Live Marketplace Smith and Midway part following BlackSite's 'f*cked up' development

By Ross Miller Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm Consider this a public service announcement: when looking for a place to keep your drumsticks in between Rock Band sessions, consider using the two plastic hooks that just out of the blue and yellow pads (highlighted); they co...

By Ross Miller CAG's Black Friday video game deals Microsoft aiming for Nintendo's family market Mass Effect soundtrack due November 20 Halo 3 'Heroic Map Pack' available on Dec. 11 Nintendo Wii celebrates 1st birthday Rock Band rejects PS3's Guitar Hero controller

By Griffin McElroy We like us some Call of Duty 4, and based on Major Nelson's top ten Xbox Live titles for this past week, so do a lot of other gamers. The game placed second in the rankings, right below Halo 3, and right above a certain quartet of steroid infused, uber-masculine gunhavers.

By Kyle Orland Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, BusinessDespite dropping back to second place in overall hardware sales for October, Microsoft isn't crying too much over the latest NPD sales report. Why not? Well, a press release issued by the company lists plenty of reasons, including:

By Dan Dormer Time to get those office pools started up, boy and girls! What? No, the Oscars aren't till February 2008, morons. We're talking about the 2007 Spike TV Video Game Awards. Or, to those that know it best, the VGAs. The nominees were announced today and its time to ... wait, wait -- don't run away just y...

"X-Play Best of 2007 Awards" Nominees - Kotaku

Spike VGAs: Nominees Announced - ps3news.com

Spike VGAs: Nominees Announced [Awards] - Kotaku

By Ross Miller Call of Duty 4 devs 'going after' Halo 3 Xbox 360 HD DVD getting Euro price cut Sony raising money for PlayStation division with insurance unit IPO WSJ: Sony prepping plunge into video download service Nintendo trademarks Body Controller, others

By Alexander Sliwinski There will be a PC demo for Epic's Unreal Tournament 3 before the game's release in November, but the PS3 version is just out of luck. Epic VP Mark Rein told Eurogamer that it's like what they told Microsoft when they wanted a Gears of War demo, "You've got a choice - you can have the demo this yea...

By Richard Mitchell We were lucky enough to snag a second look at Bungie's E3 presentation and, lo and behold, we were treated to a new weapon ... sort of. During the saved film portion of the presentation, we saw a Spartan soldier wielding what was clearly a gravity hammer, similar to the one wielded by Tartarus in H...

By Jared Rea Today's winner of the Internet is Xbox 360 Achievements as they have uncovered the full achievements list to the most anticipated game of the year, Halo 3. Their reward, regardless of whether they accept it or not, is our undying gratitude and a spirit crushing bandwith bill arriving on th...

By Justin McElroy If you want to be completely surprised by Halo 3, you should probably stop reading now, because diligent beta code diggers have been turning up all kinds of golden nuggets that may or may not be a part of the final game when it's released this September. Halo fan site 7th Columnist has made a co...

By Jared Rea There are less than 24 hours between you and sweet, delicious, Halo 3 Beta goodness. So how are you expected to compete with jerks like us who have been playing for days on end? By studying up, of course and fortunately, Bungie has made that part easy.

By Jared Rea One thing we like to tell people concerning Halo 3 is that the game itself is much farther along than most people think. In this weeks update, Frankie continues the trend of dissing Halo Deuce and talks at length about the cinematic process of Halo 3. With a dedicated staff of 35 animators spor...