Halo Reach: A Strange Link To South Africa, Durban and Apartheid
This week I noticed a comment on our site from a reader (for the life of me I can’t find it anywhere now) that mentioned that one of the lead characters in Halo Reach, Commander Carter, is in fact a...
View ArticleIn Other News – September 6, 2010
Geoff is sick and incredibly high on the medication that the doctor has given him, so if you get any random messages from him about totally unrelated garble today, feel free to ignore it if you like,...
View ArticleIn Other News – September 8, 2010
If this isn’t some of the best Samus cosplay I have ever seen, then I don’t know what is. Good news for Gran Turismo fans, if you were scared by the rough looking damage video and pics that were posted...
View ArticleHalo Reach Extended “Deliver Hope†Live Action Trailer Deserves Your...
Last week we posted up the phenomenal looking live action promo short for Halo Reach called ‘Deliver Hope”. This week we have been treated to an extended version, that runs just on about two and a half...
View ArticleWhy Halo is going to Reach more!
Halo: Reach comes out tomorrow and fan boys and girls alike are salivating at the thought of the 14th. Never before has a Halo game received such a marketing push from ads, trailers, developer...
View ArticleHalo: Reach is going to sell more than COD: Black Ops
Executives do a lot of gushing about their newest products. Sometimes, they get extra gushy at launch events and say things that they probably shouldn’t have. Exhibit A: Stephen McGill, who is the head...
View ArticleHalo: Reach Review Round Up
So the international Reach embargo has been lifted and the scores are flooding in. Unfortunately being down south we don’t seem to have been included in this early review batch which is annoying but...
View ArticleBungie Learns From Halo 3, Optimizes Halo Reach Install
Remember when the ability to install 360 games was a new thing? It was touted to increase performance for your games, and reduce the stress on your DVD drive. Halo 3 decided to buck the trend and...
View ArticleJetpack Spartans invade Trafalgar Square
Halo: Reach comes out today! I’m excited. Are you excited? If all goes well there should be a courier man dropping off my copy sometime today. In the meantime I’ll have to quell my explosive...
View ArticleHalo Waypoint Gets A Reach Release-Day Update
Halo Waypoint, the Xbox Live hub that is all thing’s Halo has received some updates to coincide with the release of Halo Reach. Some of the changes to Waypoint include being able to read latest...
View ArticleCheaters already invading Halo Reach – Bungie need to act fast to stamp this out
Bungie has warned that it has already started spotting cheats on Halo Reach and that it will not hesitate to punish the offenders in numerous possible ways. In all honesty it sounds like they are...
View ArticleBuying Halo Reach: South Africa's Retail Gaming Industry Is In Trouble
Yesterday saw the release of Microsoft’s biggest title of 2010 by far, which as you all know, was the latest entry of their flagship series, Halo Reach. What is Halo Reach to the gaming industry? It’s...
View ArticleHalo Reach’s Co-op doesn’t work on the new 4GB Xbox 360 S
Users of the matte new 4gb Xbox 360 S are reporting that that Halo Reach, undoubtedly the biggest game of the year for Xbox 360 owners, is booing them out of co-op games. The reason, apparently, is...
View ArticleHalo Reach Has Auto-Mute Function: Technology These Days!
“Hey Fa**ot, I totally f****ed your g*y mom last night while I was PWZORRORIZNG your ugly face with my my sniper rifle and tea-bagging your girlfriend with my huge ba**s. Sound familiar? Well if you’ve...
View ArticleHalo Reach Made $200,000,000.00 On Launch Day
[Update: I muddled up the figures between copies sold and money generated – I mentioned that the game generated sales of around $120,000,000.00 from pre-orders alone, but the information given now...
View ArticleMaster Chief is in Halo Reach
Halo Reach, as you’re probably well aware, is not the story of Master Chief Petty Officer John-117. no, it’s a prequel, detailing the human war against the alien covenant. That doesn’t mean that...
View ArticleIn Other News – September 20, 2010
What is it, International HD comparison week? Today we have a couple with Halo 3 and Reach going head to head (spoiler: Reach wins) as well as Forza 3 and GT5 going against each other in both...
View ArticleXbox 360 250 GB Reach Bundle Now Available In South Africa – Standard Version...
One of the biggest questions flying around in the local gaming community since E3 earlier this year, has been related to when we are going to be able to get our grubby paws on the new 250 GB version of...
View ArticleHalo Reach Campaign matchmaking coming any day now
Halo Reach has been selling like gangbusters across the planet and at the same time has been receiving fantastic reviews world wide. I personally am refusing to pick up a copy until the campaign...
View ArticleHalo Reach Review – A Noble Effort For Noble Team
The Halo franchise has always gone hand in hand with Microsoft’s Xbox brand. The first in the series boosted the Xbox from a new contender to a must-have, while the second Halo helped Microsoft launch...
View ArticleMicrosoft Wants More Halo
Bungie’s been delivering new Halo experiences at a pretty slow, but steady pace. In the 5 years that the Xbox 360 has been around, they’ve released two bona-fide Halo games; Halo 3 and Halo Reach (With...
View ArticleSecret Racing mini-game in Halo: Reach
Man, I love easter eggs. And no, not those creme-filled ovoid shaped things enveloped in delicious milk chocolate. I’m talking about silly little things filmmakers, game developers et al hide in to...
View ArticleUK F1 2010 Launch Sells More Than Halo Reach And Dead Rising 2 Combined – How?
Yesterday our review of Codemasters’ new Formula One title F1 2010 went live and we thought it was pretty darn great. It seems like we weren’t the only ones though, as the charts for last weeks UK...
View ArticleHalo Reach Mythbusters: Episode 2 – Did you know that worked?
The blokes from defendthehouse.com have just released their second Halo Reach Mythbusters video, and the results are intriguing to say the least. Will landing on an enemy from on top of the spire save...
View Article15 000 Halo: Reach players given swift kick to the nuts
Why? Well, because they’re dirty cheaters and totally deserve sweet retribution from Bungie. A couple of days ago it was reported that Halo: Reach players had found an exploit that allowed them to...
View ArticleZero Punctuation: Halo Reach
Don’t panic it’s not Thursday I just never got around to posting this yesterday as I was dealing with the fall out from the CliffyB attack. This week’s Zero Punctuation takes on Halo Reach and...
View ArticleHalo Reach On Kinect Will Offer Physical Tea-Bagging!
Ever wanted to know what Kinect gaming would look like with an awesome Hardcore shooter like Halo Reach? Thanks to these LaughPong spoof ads, you can now marvel at the greatness that is Halo Reach...
View ArticleFirst Halo Reach DLC coming on the 30th of November.. that’s to soon
The game has only been out for just over a month and apparently the first DLC is already done and dated. The first map pack for Halo Reach will be arriving on the 30th of November for 800 points and...
View ArticleSome more INSANE Halo: Reach stats for you to boggle your mind with
Hold onto your butts, because I’m not kidding when I say these stats are “insaneâ€. They make Britney Spears look like a member of MENSA . Seriously. Halo: Reach (Bungie’s last “HOO-RAH!†in...
View ArticleTop selling games of the year so far (NPD numbers)
We’ve had some massive titles released this year so far with the likes of Red Dead Redemption, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Halo Reach and God of War 3 all hitting retail shelves...
View ArticleWatch Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J and Chuck Use Dirty Tactics In The Ultimate Halo...
Ever wanted to watch a video about Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J and Chuck (Zachary Levi) playing some epic Halo Reach against each other? What makes this video epic is that Snoop and LL clearly seem to have...
View ArticleHalo Reach Noble Map Pack Gets Trailer And Details
Halo Reach will be getting its first map pack, title the Noble Map Pack on November 30th and will be adding three new maps to the current list. The map pack will be available via the Xbox Live...
View ArticleWin The Halo Reach limited Edition with Lazygamer and Microsoft!
Hey there, broke Halo fans! If you’ve been looking at your Xbox Live friends, longingly wanting to join in on the multiplayer madness, but just haven’t been able to get a copy of the game – we may be...
View ArticlePachter Reckons Bitter Journalists Wont Let Black Ops Beat Modern Warfare 2
Soothsayer extraordinaire, Michael Pachter believes that Treyarchs’s soon to be released Call of Duty : Black Ops won’t fare as well with the gaming press as Infinity Ward’s latest – believing that the...
View ArticleWatch The Inception Trailer Remade In Halo Reach – Scene for Scene
Ever since it’s release there have been many parody trailers for Inception, but this one has got to be one of the best I’ve seen so far. The video is directed by James Potts and posted under the...
View ArticleHalo Reach competition Winner Announced
Last week, we ran a competition to win a sexy limited edition of Halo Reach. Like a women with questionable morals, entry was easy. all you had to do was caption a silly Halo Reach screenshot. We...
View ArticlePSP biggest disappointment of the year, Halo: Reach biggest surprise (Gamestop)
Eurogamer has been chatting to the Senior Vice President of merchandising and marketing for Gamestop, Bob McKenzie about the year that has been. According to Bob, the biggest disappointment this year...
View ArticleIncredible Halo Reach Rube Goldberg Machine
Some people have way, way too much time. This is evidenced to perfection in the following video. You’ll get to see the fruits of Halo Forge engineer “ACarnage 51’s†month of labour. A ridiculously...
View ArticleHalo Reach Noble Map Pack Is Trying To Tempt You Back From The Dark Side
The Noble Map Pack for Halo Reach is now available to download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. If you didn’t already know what it is, the Halo Reach Noble Map Pack adds three brand new maps to the...
View ArticleThese were the top Xbox Live Games of 2010
Xbox’s Major Nelson has released lists of the most popular games on Xbox Live – boxed retail, XBLA and Indie titles. Their place in the charts is calculated using some sort of odd numerical alchemy...
View ArticleMicrosoft : Baby, you ain’t seen nothing yet
Microsoft allays gamer fears over its limp showcase by alluding to an E3 extravaganza.
View ArticleXbox 360 disc format getting updated; are multi-disc games a thing of the past?
Microsoft plans to update the Xbox 360's disc format. Is it for increased storage, or improved security?
View ArticleIt’s a game, don’t take it so seriously
It’s Monday morning and if you are anything like me you really don’t feel like working today or being very productive at all, and I salute you for that. So to aid in your task of avoiding all...
View ArticleThis Red vs Blue Episode Contains The Best Fight Scene I've Ever Witnessed
Get ready to see one of the coolest fight scenes in existence… and it all takes place inside a Halo machinima series.
View ArticleXbox September Games For Gold revealed
The last few offerings from the house over on Microsoft hill have been rather solid. Here’s what’s arriving in September for free in the Games With Gold program.
View ArticleBraid, Halo: Reach and other Xbox 360 games are coming to Xbox One
The original wave of compatible Xbox 360 games was alright, featuring a few classics such as Call of Duty: Black Ops and Fallout 3. Naturally, folks want more, and they’ll be getting just that with the...
View ArticleHalo’s Master Chief Collection is coming to PC (on Steam!), adds Halo Reach
Halo, as a series, is often lauded as the game that revolutionised console first person shooters. Beyond the very first game though, it’s not been available on PC, which is where most FPS games...
View ArticleThe Witcher 3, RAGE 2 and Remnant: From the Ashes are now available on Xbox...
There may be a to of great games coming to Xbox Game Pass in 2020, but right now? The library just refreshed itself with a bunch of other great titles…and some entirely okay ones. Here’s the full...
View ArticleHalo Reach on PC off to a spectacular start, will allow for modding
Yesterday saw the release of the long-anticipated Halo: Reach (as part of the Master Chief Collection) on PC. Though Halo is traditionally a console-bound FPS, PC gamers have been looking forward to...
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