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Bungie Branches Off from Microsoft

It’s official: Bungie and Microsoft announced today that they will be going their separate ways (effective October 1st), but will maintain the “development and publishing relationship” of the Halo franchise. Bungie states that it will continue to ‘focus on Microsoft’s platforms” but looks forward to “unleashing” their creative freedom. Basically, Bungie owns Bungie again and

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Guitar Hero 3 Preview: The Game

When Guitar Hero 2 stalwarts cried foul on the game’s flimsy peripheral, Red Octane moved to re-engineer a new guitar that’s shaping up to be one of the best game peripherals with which we’ve ever played. However, gamers also made it clear that Guitar Hero 3 needed to step up with a few gameplay enhancements, most notably in the areas of better balancing and online play. When Neversoft took the wheel for Guitar….

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Guitar Hero 3 Preview: The Hardware

When the first Guitar Hero received critical and social acclaim, Activision naturally green-lighted a sequel and promised a few updates to the winning formula. Guitar Hero 2 once again struck commercial gold, but the most hardcore fans found several elements less than stellar, one of the most glaring being flimsy hardware. With Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock, Red Octane hopes to fix that issue, and after spending several hours….

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