GamerDeals.net writes:
There's a nice variety of games to select from in the week ahead. Halo Wars will be the biggest release this week and will open the RTS (real time strategy) genre to more players. With the Halo crossover, probably more gamers will experience a home console RTS game than ever before on the Xbox 360. Baseball fans have MLB '09 on the PS3 and PSP as well as Major League Baseball 2K9 for just about every platform. Tom Clancy's HAWX brings some nice air combat gameplay. Make sure to try the downloadable demo if you haven't yet. The demo is available from Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network. Phantasy Star Portable (PSP) debuts on the PlayStation Portable. There's a demo for that too, but Phantasy Star fans will probably be eager to pick up SEGA's RPG anyway. For the Wii, Sonic returns in another one of his storybook games, Sonic and the Black Knight.
Gamerdeals.net writes:
Console Monster writes: "The Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack is now available with limited edition copies of Halo Wars, released today, but what you may not know is that the content has reached the Xbox Live Marketplace. The price of the content is 99,999 Microsoft Points, equivalent to about £82,999.17 (it took a lot of fingers to work out). Once you have the funds, there is the slight problem of not being able to purchase the content as the following error occurs: "This offer is not valid in your region, or it has expired."
Gamerdeals.net writes:
Halo Wars, Ensemble's real-time strategy game set in the Halo universe, releases across South Africa today, exclusively on Xbox 360.
GameStop today announced that it will host midnight launch events for Microsoft's Halo Wars at more than 2,000 stores nationwide. Starting at 10 p.m. on Monday, March 2, 2009, customers can visit their local GameStop and get in line to be the first to get their hands on the newest Halo game.
It's lots of people talking about Halo in general, including everyone's favorite Halo person, Frank O'Connor.
Gamevicio writes:
Strategy Informer is giving away a customized Halo Wars Xbox 360 console. This Xbox 360 console isn't available at retail.
I just returned from my local GameStop store and left after a very interesting conversation with the location manager; apparently 95% of the Killzone 2 midnight launches have been cancelled (called and confirmed in some locations - waiting on response from corporate), surprisingly all the late-night openings for Halo Wars are still going forward as planned.
Gamerdeals.net writes:
OXCGN Exclusive Competition:
GameStop is holding a tournament in Halo Wars throughout 1,000 of its stores in the U.S. this Saturday, February 28, 2009. It's a single-elimination, one-on-one tournament that should start at 2pm (call your local store for the exact time). Each store's winner will walk away with a copy of Halo Wars CE and a T-shirt. 2nd place winners will receive a T-shirt and a long, quiet ride home in mom's minivan.
Gamasutra's regular round-up of worldwide video game releases, "Release This!", takes a look at every game title we know to be shipping to stores this week, in an exclusively compiled list.
Gamerdeals.net writes:
Halo Wars will be launched in the UAE at 0:01 on Friday, 27th February 2009 at Virgin Megastore, Mall of the Emirates, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
GamePlasma writes:
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