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?
We’ve had the Xbox 360s out recently, a 4GB version out in August and now a new Halo Reach Limited Edition version of the console in September – a new Xbox every month it seems!
The limited edition is damn sight much better looking than the mess released alongside Halo 3 and comes with Halo Reach, 2 limited edition controllers, DLC armour codes, an episode of the Halo Legends anime and a themed headset. Excitingly, the console also features sound effects from the Halo universe – monks chanting away when you open the disc drive?
The console features the standard features found in the Xbox 360s – 250gb Hard Disc and built in WiFi – and will be available for £249.99 from GAME and GameStation.
Yesterday we were voting for politicians, today reading the results of a vote for the greatest gaming series. Those cheeky chaps at Guinness World Records held a poll between January and August last year and have just released the results. If they took that long to get these results god knows how the hung parliament situation will be resolved. The top 50 are….
This week we serve up the first scary trailer for Dead Space 2, an even more terrifying promotional video for the Iron Man 2 game adaptation and a live action trailer for the highly anticipated Halo Reach.
Now that’s a thing of beauty aint it? Microsoft may be parting company with Halo creators Bungie after this release, and game details are still sketchy, but these new screenshots that leaked out today show that if this is the last hurrah for the series, it’ll be amazing to watch!
