Wednesday, after much anticipation, @Zaam released his first iPhone app. This first app is based off of one of his web apps that lets you choose different armor and color combinations for your Halo 3 character, be it Spartan or Elite. You can find a link to download the app from Zaam’s new site, and check out his future releases there as well.
The app is very fun to just try and see how different armor types would look with one or another. Plus it gives you all of the color choices from the actual Halo 3 game. So, if you’re thinking of trying out a new combination of armors and colors you can now do it without wasting time turning on your 360 and loading up the game.
We have three codes to giveaway. One will be given away on here, one at Mobility Digest, and the third will be randomly awarded to a Twitter user (see below).
Here are the rules:
- Contest ends on Friday, February 5.
- You can enter via all 3 methods (mentioned above).
- On Twitter, you can enter once each day until the end date.
- How to enter on the websites: all you have to do is post a comment with a reason of why you want the app, or with a comment about why you visit the sites.
- To enter on Twitter just retweet this message:
Win the new “Halo3 Model” iPhone app from @Zaam! RT and follow @Xbox360Digest to win! http://tr.im/Halo3ModelContest #Zaam
Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s) 
1 Call of Duty: WaW
2 Halo 3
3 Call of Duty 4
4 Gears of War 2
5 Madden NFL 10 (Download the demo)
6 GTA IV
7 Batman: Arkham Asylum (Download the demo)
8 FIFA 09
9 Left 4 Dead
10 Trials HD (Download the demo)
Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)
1 Trials HD
2 Shadow Complex
3 Defense Grid: The Awakening
4 Battlefield 1943
5 NBA 2K10 Draft Combine
6 Castle Crashers
7 Marvel vs. Capcom 2
8 Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
9 Splosion Man
10 Hasbro Family Game Night **
The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased.
**Combined sales of all Hasbro Family Game Night titles
Original Xbox Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 2
2 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
3 Counter-Strike
4 Fable
5 Splinter Cell Chaos
6 Conker: Live Reloaded
7 Star Wars: Battlefront
8 Doom 3
9 SW: KOTOR
10 SW: Republic Commando
Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased)
1 I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
2 Avatar Drop
3 Headshot
4 Track Architect
5 Avatar Golf
6 Who Did I Date Last Night
7 Miner Dig Deep
8 The Drinking Game
9 Physics Sandbox
10 ezmuze+ Hamst3r edition
These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade and Community Games, full versions purchased during the week.
Up this week, we’ve got one of the newest arcade titles, Worms 2: Armageddon. Released on July 1st, it is rated E10+ by the ESRB and is available in the Xbox Live Arcade for 800 MS Points.
Product Overview:
Ten years after Worms™ Armageddon and the turn-based style of destruction and mayhem continues! Worms™ 2: Armageddon comes with the great cartoony style that we all know and love. Also packed with four player online and offline multiplayer, voice support, a boatload of new weapons (including the return of some iconic weapons from the past), all-new high-definition landscape themes, new play modes, hats, skins, speech-banks, loads of other customization and to top it all off, a highly-involving single player experience with tutorials, deathmatches, races, fort games, and puzzles. It’s a package as high on fun as it is destruction!
Keep reading for the rest of the review!
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The new DLC pack will be called Historic Battles and will be released on July 21st for 800 MS points. Historic Battles will feature four new maps and four new achievements.
Here is a preview of the new maps:
- Barrens (1v1 Map): Difficult terrain channels units into killing zones. The side that controls the Forerunner artifacts will have the advantage.
- Blood River (1v1 Map): Secure base locations on nearby cliffs overlook this naturally red-tinged river. The soldiers that fought over its two narrow crossings gave the river its name, which has since taken on a greater meaning.
- Glacial Ravine (3v3 Map): A snow-topped mountain range forms a natural barrier that cuts this region in half. Control of the two energy walls at the narrow central pass often determines the outcome of the battle, though clever use of the Sentinel Factories may play a role as well.
- Memorial Basin (2v2 Map): The high ground in the middle offers good cover for infantry, while the generally open terrain transforms organized battle plans into bloodbaths.
The four new achievements are worth a total of 100 points:
- Tour Coming Through: Hot drop 50 squads to your Covenant Leader in a single game on Memorial Basin (30 points)
- Never Leave a Man Behind: Finish a game with 5000 net resources contributed to your teammates on Barrens (15 points)
- Drain Cleaner: Kill 20 enemy squads with a continuous Covenant Leader Power on Memorial Basin (30 points)
- Killjoy: Disrupt 5 active Leader Powers in a single game on Blood River (25 points)
Straight from MajorNelson’s blog again, here are the last week’s top 10 lists.
Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 3
2 Call of Duty: WaW
3 Call of Duty 4
4 Gears of War 2
5 Battlefield 1943
6 GTA IV
7 FIFA 09
8 Left 4 Dead
9 UFC 2009 Undisputed
10 Fallout 3
Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)
1 Battlefield 1943
2 N+
3 Worms 2: Armageddon
4 Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers
5 Castle Crashers
6 UNO
7 HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT **
8 Sonic The Hedgehog 3
9 THE KING OF FIGHTERS’98 ULTIMATE MATCH
10 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Classic Arcade
The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased.
**Combined sales of all Hasbro Family Game Night titles
Original Xbox Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 2
2 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
3 Counter-Strike
4 Fable
5 Splinter Cell Chaos
6 Conker: Live Reloaded
7 Doom 3
8 Star Wars: Battlefront
9 SW: Republic Commando
10 SW: KOTOR
Top Community Games (Full Versions purchased)
1 Kodu Game Lab
2 RC-AirSim
3 myFishtank
4 A Perfect Massage
5 Urban Art Gallery
6 Shiatsu Massage
7 A Morons Challenge
8 Sketch
9 DrumKit
10 Illusions 360
These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade and Community Games, full versions purchased during the week.
Here’s the first look at the Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition, this is the Limited Collectors pack that contains a MW2 artwork book, a steel casing, a token to download the original Call of Duty for the Pc, and a VERY nice surprise inside. Check the video for more details.
(Source: @fourzerotwo from Twitter)
Guitar Hero today confirmed two dozen rockin’ tracks which will be featured on Guitar Hero® 5’s massive 85-song on-disc set list. From the legendary folk rock sounds of Bob Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower” to the thumping drums of Coldplay’s “In My Place”; indie darling Vampire Weekend’s memorable “A-Punk” to the Beastie Boys’ rock/hip-hop hit “Gratitude,” the game features the widest variety of today’s rock hits and classic tunes from some of the biggest names in music. Numerous bands are also making their music video game debut – Band of Horses, Darkest Hour, Elliott Smith, John Mellencamp, Rose Hill Drive, The Bronx, Tom Petty and Vampire Weekend. Prior to its public release, Wolfmother’s first single off their upcoming album Cosmic Egg, “Back Round,” is now available for free digital download exclusively at gh5.guitarhero.com.
When Guitar Hero 5 ships on September 1, living-room rock stars will be able to rock any way they want, to the expansive set list including to these stellar tracks:
· Band Of Horses – “Cigarettes, Wedding Bands”
· Beastie Boys – “Gratitude”
· Beck – “Gamma Ray”
· Billy Squier – “Lonely Is The Night”
· Blur – “Song 2”
· Bob Dylan – “All Along The Watchtower”
· Children Of Bodom – “Done With Everything, Die For Nothing”
· Coldplay – “In My Place”
· Darkest Hour – “Demon(s)”
· David Bowie – “Fame”
· Deep Purple – “Woman From Tokyo (‘99 Remix)”
· Elliott Smith – “L.A.”
· Iggy Pop – “Lust For Life (Live)”
· Jeff Beck – “Scatterbrain (Live)”
· John Mellencamp – “Hurts So Good”
· Kings Of Leon – “Sex On Fire”
· Queens Of The Stone Age – “Make It Wit Chu”
· Rose Hill Drive – “Sneak Out”
· Santana – “No One To Depend On (Live)”
· The Bronx – “Six Days A Week”
· Thrice – “Deadbolt”
· Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down A Dream”
· Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk”
· Wolfmother – “Back Round”
Summer of Arcade was big last year, and their doing it all over again. This year the Summer of Arcade will feature some of the most highly anticipated titles from this years Electronic Entertainment Expo. So hit the break for the full schedule and be sure to mark these dates on your calender.
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Team17 returns to it’s roots with a stunning remake of Alien Breed.
Team17 are absolutely delighted to formally confirm the return of one of it’s most cherished properties in ALIEN BREED EVOLUTION.
The Unreal3 powered next-gen title, part of Team17’s quality, independent digital line-up is a drop-dead gorgeous “retro-modern” remake of the game that helped Team17 burst onto the Amiga scene 18years ago.
Featuring an action packed, tense single player adventure and an absolute blast of a co-op game, Alien Breed Evolution helps raise the production bar on download-only titles and underlines Team17’s re-energised momentum since deciding to become an independent publisher in the digital distribution era.
Video footage, more shots, details and platform confirmations will be forthcoming later in the summer.
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Happy Bungie Day to all, Have you got your recon? Did you see the new maps? Are you watching your Halo 3 kills on your computer yet?
Recon!
Today is a very special day for all of you Bungie/Halo buffs out there, why? Because if you have every DLC up to date you get the chance to play in the Bungie vs The World playlist and I’m wishing all of our readers good luck with that quest, here are the latest standings in the Bungie vs The World playlist:
Current Carnage
Bungie (Us) – 33
World (You) – 40
Ties – 6
(Let’s see 40 teams of 4 that’s 160 people that have won recon, if they’re giving recon to the 6 teams that tied that total goes up to 184 lucky gamers. I’d like to say congrats to those that are getting the recons.)
But wait, what about those of us stuck at work or that don’t have the reguired DLC can we still get recon? At the time of this writing you’d be about an hour or two late. But for those that visited Bungie.net earlier today you had a chance of winning recon by solving a (hard) puzzle.
After the break New Maps, and Bungie Pro Video!
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Wednesday, after much anticipation, @Zaam released his first iPhone app. This first app is based off of one of his web apps that lets you choose different armor and color combinations for your Halo 3 character, be it Spartan or Elite. You can find a link to download the app from Zaam’s new site, and check out his future releases there as well.
