What just happened? Video games
Halo 3′s got new maps, teen arrested for smack talk on Xbox Live, in the business of making money, Blizzard working on new MMO, w00t?
More places to laser your friends
Bungie released new maps for Halo 3 this week, Standoff, Foundry and Rat’s Nest. They cost $10, which is a good chunk of money for a game that everyone, and I mean everyone, paid at least $60 for in September.
That said, I bought’em anyway. I really like Standoff and Foundry. Rat’s Nest is a map that’s going to be an acquired taste. Do I recommend them for everyone? No. They’ll be free in the spring and matchmaking is still available to gamers who don’t have the new downloads. If you want something different, or want to enjoy the entire scope of Bungie’s vision, get the new shooting grounds.
Smack talk with (ugly) teeth
Some 19-year-old at Frostburg State University told people online he was going to shoot up his Maryland school. Word found it to the proper authorities and the idiot is being charged. He’s facing up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine.
Good job, hopefully this news will filter into the thick-skulled idiots on Xbox Live that they’re not as anonymous as they think they are.
Knowing the turds on Live, they’ll start doing more stuff like this.
$$$
The latest games and console sales numbers were recently released by the NPD Group and the numbers are staggering. If anyone needs proof about how this hobby is exploding, look no further.
In November, 1.5 million Nintendo DS’ were sold. 981,000 Wiis; 770,000 Xbox 360s, 496,000 PS2s and 466,000 PS3s also flew off shelves. Also, 1.57 million copies of Call of Duty 4 for the Xbox 360 were sold along with 1.12 million copies of Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii.
If nothing else, it looks like it’s going to be a fun gaming Christmas for a lot of folks.
Blizzard’s bomb
The makers of the super-addictive World of Warcraft are apparently working on a new Massively Multiplayer Online game.
I would assume WoW and it’s army of followers will still be getting some love on PC, but this announcement is huge for everyone else. Apparently the company is bringing its mastery to next-gen consoles. Now that I might be able to get into.
U.S. Word of the Year
Even the title U.S. Word of the Year sounds like something made up by some suit somewhere who doesn’t surf any farther than to the page with his stock quotes on it.
w00t, a 1337 (leet) speak term spelled with two zeroes instead of ‘o’s, was recently recognized as the word of the year. The funny part: Gamers, who coined the word in the first place, now use the word in irony. And, as usual, it’s always enjoyable when the media tries to speak intelligently about gaming and it’s culture.
If the story isn’t about video game violence, and most of the time when it is, they just can’t pull it off.
What do you think about this week in video games? Leave a comment below.
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