Halo 3 MP public beta due spring 2007

Public beta test of anticipated shooter's online multiplayer to launch next year; new Halo 2 maps, new TV spot also en route.

As part of its most recent weekly update, Bungie Software announced that "will be some pretty BIG surprises and maybe announcements," on November 16, the fifth anniversary of the release of Halo. The news caused followers of the flagship Xbox, PC, and soon Xbox 360 franchise to go wild, prompting predictions of everything from a ship-date announcement to a demo going up on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Guess what? As it turns out, everyone was wrong. Early this morning, Bungie's parent company Microsoft announced that next spring, it will stage an open beta test for the multiplayer aspects of Halo 3.

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New Halo 2 maps to be Xbox 360 only

A sly way of converting the remaining Halo 2 Xbox faithful to Xbox 360, perhaps?

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End all arguments: PS3 vs 360

Pull up a chair, some beverages, even a pillow as we look at DPAD's most comphrehensive article EVER. Michael "Optimus" Perry goes beyond the range of an average review and breaks the PS3 and 360 down piece by piece, giving us a never before seen analysis of arguably the most heated debates in our recent console memory. PS3 or 360?

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Defender To Be Released On Xbox Live This Wednesday

Xbox Live Arcade title ‘Defender’ is just finishing up in the certification department. Why am I telling you this? Because it means that we won’t hit our traditional Wednesday 0800 am GMT release time, but the the team is working as hard as they can to get it into your hands as soon as possible on Wednesday.

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Impressive screen shots for "Alan Wake", upcoming game for Xbox 360 & Vista

The sunset pictures are the most impressive, but the others look great too.

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