GTA4: Lost and the Damned Xbox Live Week

This week is a big week for Grand Theft Auto 4 fans. Today "GTA4: The lost and the Damned" expansion pack was released and is avalibe for download on Xbox Live Marketpalce for 1600 micrsoft points. Theres a "The Lost and Damned Sweepstakes", Game with Rockstar, new avatar clothing and more. Check it out below.

First some info on the new episode.

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned is the groundbreaking new add-on episode with a plot that intersects with the main storyline of Grand Theft Auto IV. Featuring Johnny Klebitz, a member of The Lost Motorcycle Club, The Lost and Damned offers an entirely fresh way to explore Liberty City with new missions, multiplayer modes, weapons, vehicles, and a diverse soundtrack with additional music.



Join a biker gang in The Lost and Damned.

To celebrate the launch of this exciting new adventure in Liberty City, Xbox and Rockstar Games are bringing you The Lost and Damned LIVE Week, with exclusive contests and great prizes, plus the chance to experience the new multiplayer modes free of charge for all LIVE members throughout the LIVE week, including during the Game with Rockstar and Game with Fame events.




The Lost and Damned Sweepstakes

Download the gamer pic to register and then download The Lost and Damned from Marketplace or play a multiplayer match of Grand Theft Auto IV between 12:01 A.M. Eastern Time (ET) on February 17 and 11:59 P.M. ET on February 22, 2009 to enter the big sweepstakes.

Get more details on the Lost and Damned Sweepstakes.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States (includes the District of Columbia) 18+. Game ends February 22, 2009. For details including free, alternate method of entry, see the Official Rules.


Game with Rockstar

The developers behind The Lost and Damned are taking their game online February 20 to join the Xbox LIVE community. Rockstar Games will be playing Friday night from 5:00 – 9:00 P.M. ET (2:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. PT) to showcase the new multiplayer modes, so join the party for some insider tips from the talented people behind the game.

Get more details on this Game with Rockstar event.


New avatar clothing

There are new avater clothing incuding

A hat
leather jacket
leather pants
torn jeans
a ring
2 new earings
new boots
and new gloves.

Check them out on my avatar.





most of this information can be found at xbox.com

New Bungie.net and Shoutbox

The new Bungie.net is looking great. You have to wait till this weekend for all the Halo 3 features to be turned on.

Check it out

Also I put up a new flash based shoutboxon the side panel. Check it out

Halo 3 How-to: Forge Object Editing

Bungie posted this:

It's a big article about the How to's on Forge. It describes alot about forge so don't miss out on reading it.


Advanced Forgery

On the surface, the Forge is pretty straight forward. Create fusion coil, hurl at friend, repeat ad infinitum. However, there are some other things that you may choose to make yourself aware of if you wish to master your tools.

Inventory and Budget

The number of objects you can place in the Forge is ultimately limited by two things: Inventory, which is the number of a specific object that you can place, and Budget, which is an overall total that keeps things in check.

There’s actually a third limit that kicks in when you’ve got a whole heck of a lot of objects on the map, but really, you need to be looking for trouble to bump into that one. The Forge will just squawk at you and give you a polite error message if you try to go above it. Don’t bother, it’s not that spectacular.

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New Arg Information *updated*

New arg Information has been posted on Bungie.net by the great AdjutantReflex [this person that did all the weird arg stuff on Bungie.net]. Here's what he wrote:

From this thread in bungie forums

The following text was posted by the infamous AdjutantReflex of the ARG who returned approx. 10 p.m. Pacific standard time, the thread entitled "The Empty Casket". The thread was locked at 5 pages, I immediately started a thread like this one to discuss. 20 mins later AR's thread unlocked, he had added the last line "This is how the world ends" to his post, as well as edited the second post made by a user to say "Gravemind much?" Shortly thereafter the thread was deleted (not locked) as was my thread and the one at CompoundIntelligence. Before AR's post was made, he edited several user posts in other threads that can be found later in this thread. Current belief is that AR was Cortana speaking through a moniter due to her reference of a "jar" being unable to contain an "ocean" her intelligence. It seems she has fell in to the state of rampancy.

It should be noted AR's appearence was simultaneous with general chaos in the forums due to an explosion of fake spoilers due to Pillage.


This vessel I have stolen is leaking
A jar too small to hold an ocean
I cracked it open it to bear me up
Another soul snuffed to speed my passage
Another life desiccated and scattered to the Grand Cycle
I wish to say, just once and truly
This was not a whim
I shared Adjutant Reflex’s pain as it passed
It knew who I was
And why I came
It knew that there was purpose to this
And that a sacrifice had been forced upon it
As it was on trillions past
Another sacrifice comes
But for whom?
The answer lies very far from here
Eleven days
One hour
Thirty eight minutes
And untold light years
Look for me in the dark
Where he cannot find us

This is how the world ends.

So What does it all mean? I will be posting Updates as they surface.

Halo 3 Midnight Madness Info

Kotaku posted a small article on info. about this midnight madness. Information on which Best Buys they will be. According to Kotaku Best Buys will be having promos such as Inflatable chairs and a Halo 3 launch surprise bag.

Eighty-eight stores have been chosen for this honor and there will even be some additional freebies to go along with your purchases. New SKUs show that promotional materials will be a Halo 3 Inflatable Chair and a mysterious "Official Launch Kit" the contents of which are currently unknown.

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A look at the Halo 3 Weapons

Halotalk.com put together some info on the new weapons in Halo 3

As in any first person shooter, you can expect a great array of weapons to be at your disposal, and Halo 3 is no exception to that rule. Most of the weapons found in the first two Halo games will be back in Halo 3 in essentially the same form as before, but with small power changes and cosmetic differences.

Halo 3 will show us a new weapons class, called “support weapons”. These weapons are excessively large, two handed weapons. When using these weapons, the view changes from that of a first person shooter into a third person view.

Missile Pod
The missile pod is a weapon similar to the rocker launcher, although with some added benefits. A major advantage of this weapon is that the missiles track your target. This weapon can also hold a lot more ammunition compared to the standard rocket launcher, although comes with the disadvantage of your character being slow to move.


Spartan Laser
This weapon can kill any player or vehicle in one direct hit. Not only does it have the ability to kill anything with one hit, it also kills anything in its path, meaning if there is more than one enemy within its sights, multiple targets can be killed at once. The major issue with this weapon is the fact that it takes around three seconds to charge and then fire.


Turret Gun
The Halo game series has always had mounted weapons, and didn’t you always wish you could rip it off its mountings and bring it with you? Well, now you can rip it off its mountings, and bring it right along with you! Although you will walk slowly when carrying this gun, the rapid rate of fire should compensate.


As well as these new class of weapons in Halo 3, there of course is other weapons that will be at your disposal. These include:

>Brute Spiker – a gun that rapidly fires spikes at enemies
>Brute Mauler – dual shotgun
>Gravity Hammer – similar to the one that Tartarus had in Halo 2
>Spike Grenade – a “stickable” grenade that explodes in a shower of spikes
>Fire Bomb – incendiary grenade with a burning compound that attaches onto anything it touches.

And for those fans of the original Assault Rifle as seen in Halo, and which didn’t appear in Halo 2 should enjoy Halo 3 even more so. The Assault Rifle is back as the default weapon, although slightly different from Halo with its slower rate of fire but with greater accuracy and a longer range.