Tomorrow it would seem that Xbox 360 is going to be changing over to a new server tomorrow. Which means Maintenance time. 11/17 Xbox live will be taken down for 45 minutes perhaps...but some of us feel it might be a repeat of last year.

Xbox Live has scheduled a 24 hour maintenance for Sept 30.

 Bungie had been hinting on a new project for some months now, and the rather brunt pull from Microsoft from E3 had added fuel to the fire. At 7:07 am PST a short teaser was released and the wait was over...so to speak. We're still in the thick of questions and more are being added to it. What are these huge buildings, why are these ships falling toward it, and just what does this...Keep it Clean...thing mean?

 Several people are already saying that it might be a Halo 3 expansion since they meantioned it, some people think that its an campaign expansion (Which would be so freaking sweet.) Others are thinking that it might be a prequal to Halo in general. Whatever it is I'm sure Bungie will deal out the most awesome game of the year hands down.

UPDATE: This is actually a Campaign Expansion for Halo 3. If you read the text on Xbox Live Marketplace it says the following "High Action and deep mystery await players in this new Halo 3 Campaign Experience. Prepare to drop!"

As the one year anniversary mark fastly approaches for the king of all games, Halo 3, levels of suspicion among various Bungie fans have skyrocketed in the past 24 hours. Earlier today, a few members from the Bungie forums noticed the above popup notification while booting up Halo 3. Now, the above WASN'T supposed to be shown until tomorrow, but Halo fans (once again) got lucky, and went flying to Bungie.net in search of the teaser trailer. Upon visiting the Bungie homepage, the infamous Superintendent appears again, bearing a new countdown, which is set to expire at 7:07AM PST, on September 25th 2008. Although there is no confirmation on what will happen when the clock hits zero, most watchers can only assume that a new title will be revealed.

Source: Halo3Planet.com

Hostile Tactics Gaming Network CounterStrike 2008 Finals!

Starting off this year's HTGN CounterStrike 1.6 5v5 finals is team dirtyMoves in the Central/Open division.Team dirtyMoves will be going up against the KeystoneLite Warriors, on the map de_dust2. Official match time is 10PM EST / 9PM CST. Come and see us at dirtyMoves.net for more info!

At first look this game reminds me a whole lot of a kiddi-fied version of James Bond mixed with a bit of Magyver. You pick up different objects and use them to create a vehicles to suit your purposes throughout the game.

The plot to the story involves defeating the evil witch

Gruntilda (aka Grunty), who has set up a showdown with the games main characters. Claiming to have created a game world where the showdown takes place. Banjo must defeat each challenge given to him by Grunty. While Grunty tries to stop him by every way she can think of which will probably involve some...evil methods.

The game is more of a possible 'if you can imagine it you can create it. There are over 100 parts you can use to create the vehicle you which to build. Yet its okay if you don't want to build cause there are the objects there that are already built for you.

It'll be able to be used in single player or multiplayer.

Release Date for November 14, 2008

There isn't much information has been released. Although we do know that anything created for the Ps3 and Xbox 360 is going to have good graphics.

Yes, you heard me right. Mercenaries 2 is promoting their new game by giving away free gas in LA at a mobil station. Employees dressed up like the Mercenaries from the video game and giving away tons of galleons of gas to unknown people, some of which I'm sure know nothing about the video game... but hey, they do now, because they filled up at Mobil in LA. Lucky them!

The gas station is located on Beverly Blvd.

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Well, we've got a box (from the same team that doodled the Halo 2 and Halo 3 art, no less). That's a start. Unfortunately, we're no closer to nailing down a release date for Halo Wars. The "first half of 2009" is where the date stands.

While marveling over the pub game Fortunes Tower I was informed of a glitch...a get rich quick glitch. I couldn't refuse. Who doesn't wanna get rich quick?

Cheat:  While playing any type of game of Fortune's Tower, place a bet for the lowest amount available (not necessary, but increases you winnings considerably if you do), and as the game deals the gate card, tap LB. The game will make a small noise and your bet will be increased to the maximum amount... without taking that money from your collection! What makes this interesting is that, despite having only taken your minimum bet, it will give you the multiplier for the maximum. For example, in 60-600, I place a 60 gold bet, then perform the glitch and get 15 for the row im on... Instead of getting 60 gold back, I get 600, a 540 gold profit. This allow's players to amass near-limitless amounts of money before the release of Fable II. It is unclear how this will effect the player's character in the full game.

Enjoy the Cheat...before they find out ;)

THE GAMING INDUSTRY IS changing in this generation and there's a bunch of possible reasons.

It may have to do with the higher cost of development, different systems' market share, peripherals or different control requirements, but none of that really matters. The reasons are irrelevant, the point remains the same: we are seeing less and less third-party exclusives (that is, games that are only on one console and which are developed by someone other than Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo themselves) in the world.

The recent announcement that Final Fantasy XIII is coming to Xbox 360 brought this change into focus. All they needed now was a Metal Gear Solid 4 announcement and we could start poking a stick at the corpse of third-party exclusives. Let's face the facts, even if Metal Gear Solid 4 came on 10 discs on the 360, people would still buy it. Knowing Hideo Kojima, he'd probably add a joke about it somewhere in the game to make it all alright.

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