As a community, SIP was invited by the staff of HaloUNITY to participate in the 117 Challenge. The challenge was to get 117 unique names in replies to this news post in 100 hours and 17 minutes. As a reward, $1 would be donated to the community for every unique name to a maximum of $117.
I am pleased to announce that SIP has successfully completed the 117 Challenge.
Happy Friday! I can’t believe Summer is already here! I’m going to be vacationing. A lot. Don’t worry though, you’ll still see me lurking in the forums and posting updates.
Before you read on, HaloUnity has given us a task. We have to round up 117 people to comment on this page. SIP gets $1 per person so this is a really good way of making money for the site and proving ourselves to the other communities You can read more about it in the Announcements section below.
Anyways, the house has been full of family relatives whom I haven’t seen in 4 years. I better go upstairs and talk to them, see you next week for more gaming news!
The Grand Theft Auto V Special and Collector’s Editions are now available for pre-orders. All pre-orders for the game also receive access to the exclusive in-game Atomic blimp.
wrcfan stopped by to post the freshly-uploaded live-action trailer for Destiny, directed by John Favreau.
Destiny is being developed by Bungie and published by Activision. Destiny has been confirmed to be shipping for the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 platforms. Actual gameplay will be shown at the PlayStation press conference at E3 on June 10, 2013.
Darkened Night let us know today that Electronic Arts has announced a new Need for Speed game, entitled “Need for Speed: Rivals”. The game is being developed by EA Ghosts in partnership with Criterion.
This week’s Halo Bulletin by bs angel features interviews with the lucky community members who went to 343 Industries last week to try out the weapon tuning, a fix for this week’s matchmaking update, and screenshots featuring the disintegration effect of certain Forerunner weapons. Also mentioned was Steven Spielberg being named as the executive producer for the new Halo live-action television series – but since the project is in the very early stages, further details are not available and will not be for some time.
Yesterday’s Xbox One world premiere was also the announcement of a new Xbox exclusive IP called “Quantum Break”. Developed by Remedy Entertainment and produced by Microsoft Studios, the game promises to integrate gameplay with a scripted television series.
As part of today’s Xbox One world premiere, 343 Industries’ Bonnie Ross and Microsoft’s Nancy Tellem announced a new Halo live-action TV series, with Steven Spielberg as the executive producer.
The trailer featuring Splinter Cell: Blacklist’s co-op is out now.
With today’s announcement of the Xbox One, Activision revealed Call of Duty: Ghosts at the press event and released a new trailer of the game running on the Xbox One.
A Behind the Scenes trailer for Ghosts was also released.
Call of Duty: Ghosts will be released November 5th, 2013. Feel free to discuss more about Ghosts in our discussion board.