Sunday, August 26, 2007

The Mole: Get a grape squishee and Halo 3


A perfect marriage - Filed under the "Say what?" folder is the chance for gamers to buy Halo 3 at 7-Eleven. That's right, the home of $5 gallons of milk and 8-week old hot dogs is now allowing you to reserve the biggest game of the holiday season. How this relationship came about I have no clue, but I still can't figure out how Drew Carey keeps making money either so maybe its just one of those things I'll never understand.
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Jukebox Hero - At a EA's recent GC press conference, more songs from this fall's highly anticipated Guitar Hero slayer Rock Band were announced. I challenge you to NOT get Sabotage stuck in your head. Go ahead, try it.
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Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Deep Purple - Highway Star
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Faith No More - Epic
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Radiohead - Creep
Beastie Boys - Sabatoge
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
OK Go - Here We Go Again
Nine Inch Nails – Hand That Feeds You
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Raking in the dough - July was a huge month for the gaming industry. According to NPD, the gaming industry sold $925.5 million dollars worth of consoles and games for the month, an increase of 37% from last year. Below is a list of the best selling games for July.
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1) NCAA Football 08 - Xbox 360 - Electronic Arts - 397,000
2) Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks The 80s - PS2 - Activision - 339,000
3) Wii Play (with Wii Remote) - Wii - Nintendo - 278,000
4) NCAA Football 08 - PS2 - Electronic Arts - 236,000
5) Wii Mario Party 8 - Wii - Nintendo - 177,000
6) NCAA Football 08 - PS3 - Electronic Arts - 156,000
7) Pokémon Diamond Version - DS - Nintendo- 144,000
8) Transformers: The Game - PS2 - Activision - 143,000
9) Guitar Hero II (with guitar) - PS2 - Activision - 138,000
10) Guitar Hero II (with guitar) - Xbox 360 - Activision - 108,000
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Random Crap - EA Vancouver's Joe Booth announced that FIFA 08 will allow for 11-on-11 online play...Click here for some interesting info on Metal Gear Solid 4...Manhunt 2, given the kiss of death Adult Only (AO) rating by the ESRB will be released October 31 after Take-Two makes modifications to make it an M (Mature) rated game. It will be released for the Wii, PS2 and PSP...Initially scheduled for a September release, Project Gotham Racing 4 has been bumped back to October 2...
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2 comments:

FrostyMelon said...

...after playing CoD4 beta, I've got to say that I am looking more forward to it than Halo 3. The latest incarnation of the Call of Duty series blows the rest away, and IMO - will be best shooter of the year.

Ub3rn00b said...

I was like the 3rd person to sign up for the beta and I didn't get a token to get it. Not sure what happened. I read someone on another site say that everyone that signed up for the beta would get a token eventually. I never did. Bummer.