To celebrate the launch of Halo:Reach, Microsoft are planning a special ‘blue carpet’ event where a team of celebrities will be taking on six top players to see who are the best at Halo. However, the celebrities need a bit of a helping hand and over 800 people entered the “Searching for a leader” promotion to become team captain, training and looking after Rio Ferdinand, Mr Hudson, Jameela Jamil, Ben Cohen and Jason Bradbury. Good luck with that. The winner was 17 year old Lewis Chapman, who is really excited as after winning he said “I’m really excited that Xbox has given me this opportunity – Halo is my biggest passion and this is a dream come true. I would like to say to my new team members, ‘Get practicing! You might be celebrities, but you better be good on the night!’ I will do everything that I can, as their leader to beat the opposing team.”
Halo:Reach is out on September 14th only on Xbox 360, expect a lot of sick days once it’s released. Anyone ever played a celebrity online?
Thank you for all your entries, but the Going Postal competition is now closed. The entries are being collected together and the winners will be contacted on Wednesday and announced on Thursday. Thanks for entering and good luck.
Amazon have finally launched the Kindle in the UK, and although it is officially out today you will be lucky to get your mitts on it as phenomenal demand has seen the device sell out till mid September. The postie dropped off one yesterday, so read one to find out what the first 24 hours of Kindle life is like.
This week we lead with action shooter Gun Loco, before heading into the Danger Zone with Top Gun 2 for the iPhone and learning how to be a goalkeeper in FIFA 11.
Mafia 2 is out tomorrow so why not celebrate by having a haircut. 2K Games have set up the Mafia II Pop-up Barber Shop Tour, where you can get a free shave, haircut, t-shirt and a meeting with a glamour model. From that you can probably guess who the game is being marketed to. You get your shave and haircut at the shop, then grab a leaflet from Lucie Self which can be redemmed at GAME stores for a free T-Shirt. The dates and locations are:
Basingstoke – Festival Place – 27th August
Birmingham – Bullring Rotunda Square – 28th August
Westfield – Southern Terrace - 29th August
Reading – Oracle Centre - 30th August
Newcastle – Northumberland Street – 1st September
Manchester – Trafford Centre – 2nd September
