The “Cole Train” is officially the best thing about Gears of War. Sure Gears has amazing gameplay, impressive graphics, and addicting multiplayer. But nothing matches the sheer amazingness that is the “Cole Train” rap. Lester Speight just does a great job voicing the character, and he has some pretty good lines. Anyway, here is Lester Speight in the Office Linebacker commercial everyone knows him from:
Category: Games
God I remember this thing. It truly was horrible. Probably one of the worst gaming inventions ever. At least he didn’t try to play the Ninja Turtles Game with that thing. Lets hope the Wiimote turns out a lot better.
Maddox? That’s right; the latest rant from the internet’s favorite irate pirate is targeted at Sony. Each of his rants regularly pulls in over a million hits and he has a best selling book on the market. So when Maddox talks, people listen. He complains about their DRM (the root kit fiasco), exploding batteries, Lik Sang’s demise, and the PSP. He even goes so far as to put things in perspective, demonstrating how anyone who receives a paycheck this year is making more money than Sony’s PlayStation division. He then compares the PS3 (not by name) to the Wii and 360 using politically incorrect dating terms. You can read his latest rant here.
Well, I am not a halo fanatic, but this recent info got me pretty excited. Earlier today, Microsoft announced that there will be an open beta test for the multiplayer component of Halo 3 sometime in the spring of 2007. As far as I know, this is the first time a console game has had an open public beta. This should give fans an early chance to play the game as well as Bungie a chance to work out the bugs and balance issues before the game is finished.
Microsoft also announced that there are new Halo 2 maps coming next spring. Though these maps will only be available to Xbox 360 owners, which is probably just an attempt to get some Halo fans to buy the console earlier rather then when Halo 3 ships.
If that’s not enough, a while ago Bungie announced that there will be “some pretty BIG surprises and maybe announcements” on November 16, the fifth anniversary of the release of Halo. I personally think that it’s going to be a new trailer, short video or something along those lines but that’s not really based on anything. Or perhaps we will find out what that X button is for. Some people were stupidly guessing that it was going to be a demo, which we now know is officially false.
In case you don’t know, Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving when all of the big stores have sales in order to try to suck people into them to kick-start the holiday shopping season.
Best Buy is having an $18.99 sale featuring:
- Amped 3
- Condemned
- NBA Live ’06
- Rockstar Games Presents: Table Tennis
- The Outfit (apparently you can score this one for only $9.99 if you buy it in-store before noon)
Circuit City offers a different set at $16.99:
- Full Auto
- Gun
- Perfect Dark Zero
- Quake 4
- Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland
Good luck surviving the trip to the store though.