Major League Gaming is giving away 25 Invitations for Halo Wars

Major League Gaming got 25 invitations from Microsoft that give early access to the Halo Wars demo, and is holding a drawing to see who gets 'em. Winners can play it a week early. This is pretty cool.

The demo goes out Feb. 5; these codes will get you in on Jan. 29. MLG's asking entrants to just post in a thread on one of their forums and the winners will be chosen at random. Of course, that requires you to register an account there, so you can see where MLG is going with this.

Still, if you're that pumped about Halo Wars, head on over to MLG and post your FIRST!s — although they only allow one post per person, so don't go in there responding to everyone and thinking that improves your chances.

[via Kotaku]

Halo 3 has Unlimited Playing Hours

The success of Microsoft's Halo 3 and Xbox was indeed historical! It was the year 2007 yet as time goes by, the success of Halo 3 has not declined. Why?

The answer lies to the reply value of the game. Because of the online gameplay and awesome cinematics, the replay value of Halo 3 is unlimited.

In fact, when I'm bored I still play the Halo game in the PC. What about you guys?

Halo Master Chief Replicas are Awesome!

Check out some of the replicas of Master Chief from Halo, their freaking awesome. I'd love to get me some of these to match everything up for my Xbox 360. Not only are the toys collectibles but they're damn awesome!



Just look at that Master Chief replica. I'd love to get me one of those and display it in my living room. XD Pic credit from Kotaku and US Toy Fair.

Is Owning an Xbox Safe?

One of the issues facing today's teen-agers is obesity. Doctors stress that more teen-agers need to exercise more, or at least get their hearts pumping. They note that even a few minutes of cardio-vascular exercise can lead to a number of advantages for them, such as muscle tone, less plaque in the blood, and, of course, less body fat. In order to encourage this, I suggest more Xbox gaming.

Contrary to the rather staid image of a boy with a controller in hand concentrating on the television screen, a group of boys is a far different creature. Pummeling each other's virtual counterparts, they occasionally hit the real-life thing as well. Talking trash faster than they can skate down a stairwell railing, while at the same time communicating with each other to put them in the position so that their team can accomplish their mission.

A group of teen-age boys are not the members of the gang, but a force of nature. They easily expend enough calories to match the same boys on a basketball court. That level of energy expenditure can be a scary, but also works out for the boys health as well. After a good hour or so of gaming, they are out of breath, sweaty, and definitely ready for the showers.

There are other advantages to game-play as well. They are learning how to communicate with others on several levels at once, insulting their friends, insulting people that aren't there, and still finding ways to accomplish their virtual mission. Teamwork is assumed, as is finding the role that they fill better than anyone else. A boy finds out a lot about himself when under any fire, virtual or real.

It can be fun for spectators as well, as four boys running high on adrenalin are on an emotional high as well as physical. Because of that, they feel whatever they feel much more intensely than normal, and can fall faster than a rock, and fly faster than a rocket. There is nothing more fun than watching a group of boys taking names in the safety of their own home. There is nothing more natural or more nostalgic than looking at the four boys holding the controllers and remembering when that was you with a piece of plastic in your hands at the corner store with your friends.

Any game can provide benefits in terms of physical and mental health. There is the charge of adrenalin that gets the heart pumping, causing the blood to speed through the body. It can be interesting to watch the group of boys bond, and in ways that will cement them together in ways that merely going to the same school can't. And it's healthy behavior for boys of that age. Now, when they're doing that a decade later...well, at least they're not out committing crimes.

Enjoy Your Games with the Xbox 360 Console

Xbox 360 is the second video game console which is produced by Microsoft and was developed in cooperation with IBM, ATI and Sis. Xbox 360 console is also called as premium or pro which is installed with a line service and allows the users to compete online and to download content such as TV shows, arcade games, trailers and even movies.

The Xbox 360 console shows the user’s game card, Xbox live messages and friends list. It also supports videos in wmv-formats and in high definition format; it also has an audio playback with the help of which the users can play back their own music while playing games or using the dashboard and it also enables the users to play their music along with an interactive visual synthesiser. This next generation of Xbox live also allows the users to make voice and video chats along with your personal or music settings. It also provides you an amazing digital entertainment all swamped with the latest gaming action.

It also includes a detachable 20 GB Hard Disk Drive which enables you to store all your downloaded music, pictures and videos. It also provides compatibility with the original Xbox games so that you can store all your gaming data. This Xbox console also has an installed hard drive which by default comes with the game demos, live pergola game and video clips.

It also enables the users to display pictures and perform slide shows of your favourite collection of photos along with various amendment effects. It also allows you to play your favourite music, photos and videos from standard USB mass storage devices. All the emulated games are rendered in 720p, 1080i or 1080p HD resolution with anti-aliasing enabled rather than the Xbox standard of 480p.

Xbox 360 console is fully loaded with the latest gaming action and it delivers the ultimate entertainment experience right out of the box. This console offers the highly popular Xbox Live as well as the new services such as Xbox Gamer Guide, Xbox Live Marketplace and Digital Entertainment and much more. The Xbox 360 is definitely a major step in gaming and home entertainment as you can enjoy all the latest games and your favourite music along with all the multimedia features. So, if you are a serious gamer and are looking for the ultimate console then the Xbox 360 console ends your search right here.