Some news has surfaced regarding the highly anticipated game, Halo 3. The Legendary Edition’s case will be Master Cheif’s metal helmet and will contain four discs. The first disc will contain the game, the second a director’s commentary and documentaries, the third will have all the Red vs Blue episodes and the fourth will have all the cutscenes from Halo 1, 2 and 3.
There is also slated to be a bevy of new weapons including the following: Spiker, Spartan Laser (it can destroy a vehicle in a single hit) and Nail Grenade. A new vehicle will also debut in the game, called Mongoose. It will be like an ATV, can carry two people and does not have any weapons. The multi-player will allegedly have a canon that can shoot out people. Wow. This game will rock on so many levels. The release is currently slated for Fall 2007.
This Sunday, Oct. 29th, marks the first day of Wii preorders at the toy giant’s retail stores. $50 is all it takes to secure your pre-order ticket for the Nov. 19th release of the Wii. Rumors are swirling that Sunday is also the day they will begin taking PS3 preorders. It looks like Saturday night is going to be camping day for many gamers looking to snag one of the remaining available consoles before the all important holiday season.
The demo for Railroads! is now available on FilePlanet. It weighs in at a hefty 256MB and luckily for you guys, I am working on setting up a mirror. If you can’t wait and need the demo now, you can get it [url=http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/railroads/]here[/url].
Update: We are now mirroring it [url=http://www.snackbar-games.com/downloads/demos/RailroadsDemo.zip]here[/url].
Boys and girls its your favorite time of the month. For those of you of age, you drink and dress like an idiot, for those not of age you have free reign to pull all sorts of great hoodlum hijinx, isn’t life great!?
Yet it’s also time for the Snackbar Podcast Halloween Edition. Thats right, you know the show where you give your take we give ours and we all laugh and have a great time being one big happy family. Oh and not to mention Pretz and myself disagree on just about everything not related to Uwe Boll.
We want to hear all about your favorite scary games, you know the games that made you jump. Be it survival horror or just down right creepy we want to know your take on the multimedia onslaught on your fears. So chime in, give your take, and argue among yourselves (its great radio).
Since I know that Sony is the “big bad corporation” and it might be an unpopular thing to hear, I felt it was only right to provide the other side of the story regarding Lik-Sang’s announcement this morning that they were closing up shop and Sony was to blame. GI.biz is carrying [url=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=20564]a story[/url] that Sony responded to the announcement this morning that points the finger at them as the reason for the closing of the popular gaming import site.
A few details that are of interest are the fact that the company being sued is actually Pacific Game Technology, which also does business as Lik-Sang. The case against Pacific Game Technology was for infringing on intellectual property rights. The most interesting part is:
[quote]Lik-Sang did not contest this case (i.e. they did not turn up and therefore incurred no legal costs). We have been awarded substantial costs against Lik-Sang which have not been paid[/quote]
So if Lik-Sang didn’t incur legal fees and never bothered to pay the awarded settlement to Sony, how exactly did this directly lead to them closing up shop? I’m going to have to flip flop on this issue and say that Lik-Sang is drumming up sympathy on a false pretense.
While I don’t really agree with the initial case I think it was silly for PGT to simply not show up and present a legal defense especially if they felt they were doing nothing wrong. That action coupled with directly blaming Sony for their problems despite the fact that they haven’t paid out a penny over this lawsuit just seems way too fishy for me. I’ll let you decide for yourself, but the fact remains that that Lik-Sang is no more.
Source: [url=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=20564]GI.biz[/url]
