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Halo 4
Halo 4 is one of the most highly anticipated games to be released this year on the Xbox 360. Halo 4 will be the eight installment in the Halo franchise. However, Halo 4 will be the first game in the new trilogy of Halo games which is dubbed, "the Reclaimer Trilogy". This game is going to be released November 6, 2012 on the Xbox 360. This date was officially announced on June 4, 2011 at E3. However this year at E3, we got a better look at what to expect from Halo 4..........

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Along with Halo 4, comes a trademark protagonist, one that has been affiliated with the series since day one of Halo. That's right Master Chief will be returning in Halo 4, this iconic character will be the protagonist in Halo 4 for the first time since Halo 3. The game will begin 4 years after Halo 3's finale, in which Master Chief and Cortana were lost in space on the frigate Forward Unto Dawn. The two characters will find themselves near a Forerunner planet, known as, Requiem. Cortana, which Halo fans will know is an AI, will undergo changes in Halo 4, we do not yet know what these changes are, but what we do know is that because she lived passed what is considered to be her "natural lifespan" and because of her exposure to Halo, she will become rampant which normally in AIs leads to their "death".

Many new things are being introduced to the Halo franchise, with the release of Halo 4. A first for the Halo franchise, the player will now be able to customize your loadout allowing the player to choose a primary and secondary weapon, along with the choice of grenade. Also brand new is the Armour Ability,allowing the player to pick from many things, ranging from an X-ray visor that can detect enemies through walls, the return of Halo: Reach's horizontal rocket thrust and decoy hologram, and a hardlight shield that protects the front from small arms fire. As well as weapons, two passive abilities can also be set to tweak or amplify skills or abilities, very similar to Call of Duty's Perks. Tactical Packages can allow you to carry two primary weapons, collect grenades from fallen enemies, speed up the recovery of shields or your Armour Ability reload. Support Upgrades, meanwhile, can be created for your ammo capability, the sensitivity and range of motion, provide unlimited sprint or add a motion sensor while you're scoped. Next, equivalent to Call of Duty's killstreaks Halo 4 will have Ordinance Drops which means each individual player will have a gauge that's filled when points are accumulated from kills, flag drops and so on, which eventually results in an Ordinance Drop. Using the D-pad, players can then select a support item, power weapon or ability pick-up that will instantly appear on the map. The gauge will scale as you play, meaning it takes longer to unlock further Drops the better you perform in a match.

Halo 4 is innovating in ways it has never done before, but it is still keeping the same Halo feel from what I can tell, even though 343 Studios will now be creating the game. I for one, am very excited for the release of Halo 4.
 

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This video was uploaded on Youtube only 7 hours ago, and there is many things in this video that I am unsure of the meaning. In this article we will dive in to this trailer, and figure out, what does it all mean? (I recommend that watch the video first, as I will be directing you to certain points in the video, and it will assist you in the understanding this breakdown if you watch it all first.)

At 0:09 we see a man, wearing a uniform, at from what I can see, it could possible be a Navy uniform(I got this from the bit of the logo you can see on his right arm.) It also says his last name is Briggs, as you can see on the front of his uniform. Also, on his uniform in the shoulder area, you can see 4 stars, which also means that he is a General-the highest ranking officer.

Next, at 0:11 we are taken to a youtube profile page, by the name of Cordis Die. When I searched this channel, one reoccurring video kept coming up.......

http://www.youtube.com/user/cordiisd...e=results_main

"Come my friends.......... 'Tis not to late to seek a newer world." What does this mean? Your guess is as good as mine, but I am sure new information will surface soon enough. But there is more information about Cordis Die. At 0:19 We see a magazine article which asks the question, "Could a 60 year old narco-terrorist really be the leader of of Cordis Die?" And, if you read tabloid magazines, usually when they ask a question like this, the answer is yes, so I am assuming he is the leader. And it also says, Cordis Die Messiah for the 99%, which means that he is the savior for most of us................but not all.

But then, at 0:20 in the trailer the General says, "They'll wake up tomorrow and realize that their hero has wiped them out!!". This statement says a lot to me. First saying using the words they'll and them, tells me that he is talking to someone, as he is referring to a group of people, the 99% I infer. I believe he is talking to someone in that 1 percent, but that is just my belief.

After a bit of gameplay, it goes back to The Vault, which is where they are holding Frank Woods, the retired Sergeant. Next, at 0:56 I believe something very serious happens, something crucial to Cordis Die, and ultimately to Black Ops 2. Frank Woods is handed a locket, of some sort, but I believe its more then that. While looking at the Cordis Die channel on Youtube, I found a comment that says, "The keys are in good hands my friends." I believe, the keys referred to in this comment, are the locket that is handed to Frank Woods at 0:56. If this is correct, that means that Frank Woods is apart of the group Cordis Die.

This trailer did nothing but create questions, but it answered one, the graphics look pretty legit.
 

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The OUYA..... An interesting name if nothing else. What is the OUYA you ask? Well, to be frank, the OUYA is A 99$, completely hackable Android-based console, with a touchscreen controller, along with a regular controller designed like the Xbox 360/PS3 controllers.

The OUYA, although only 99$ has some great hardware put into it.
Tegra 3 quad-core processor
1GB RAM
8GB of internal flash storage
HDMI connection to the TV, with support for up to 1080p HD
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth LE 4.0
Ethernet port
One USB 2.0
Wireless controller sporting two analog sticks, d-pad, eight action buttons, a system button, and 3"[citation needed] touchpad
Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich"
The operating system will be Android 4.0 ICS

Which for 99$, is not a bad deal at all.

When is this beast of a console set to be released? March 2013.
 

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Black Ops 2 Multiplayer Trailer.

Hello everybody, as you might know the Black Ops 2 Multiplayer Trailer was released today, and in this article I will be giving my breakdown off the trailer. I recommend you watch the trailer first, as it will be easier to understand my breakdown.

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So the trailer starts off by showing us what I believe to be one of the Multi-player maps. This map looks like an airfield, with some wind turbines, just randomly placed. If you look at the :10 second mark, you can see the weapon being used which is the M8A1 and underneath the gun, I believe is the attachment, which I cannot tell what it is. Then we see his secondary, which to me looks like the USP .45 or KAP 40 which we also saw in the Black Ops 2 reveal trailer. Then underneath that, we see a knife, which leads me to believe that there will be some other options for quick reaction kills. Then, to the right of that, we can see 3 perks, which I can only guess at the name. If you look under the three perks, you will see the semtex, and under that the "shock charge" which is named at 2:03 in the video. If you look in the bottom right hand corner, still at the :10 second mark, you can see killstreaks, but you can also see where it says "burst" which makes me believe that they will have it set up, like in Battlefield 3, where you can choose single shot, 3 round burst, or full auto. Then on to the killstreaks, I believe we are looking at a Precision Airstrike, a Quadrotor, and possible a Chopper Gunner. Moving on to :21, we see the weapon, the POW-57 MMS, again with some of the same killstreaks. Moving on to :24 if you look underneath the radar, you can see where it says "Lightning Strike Inbound" which is obviously another killstreak. The looking at :25 we can see that the prone dive will be making a return.

Moving on to :32 you can see another class loadout, the primary an LSA1 with a hybrid optic scope, and a secondary pistol with a silencer. And as for the killstreaks, your guess is as good as mine. At :40 in the video, you see him place a device that essentially stuns his enemies, as for the name of this, your guess is as good as mine.

Then at :43 we see a Chicom COB or a Type 95, with a scope and grip. And as a secondary he is carrying some sort of launcher. And again, the killstreaks are a mystery to me. At :48 he destroys the "Dragonfire" or as it has previously been called, the Quadrotor.

Moving on to :50 we see a killstreak being used which could be some sort of turret, or a light machine that is on a tank. I am not certain, but it is tearing up. We are then shown that it is a Quadrotor, at :53.

At :56 we see a lock-on launcher, which is called Fhj-18 AA, destroying a killstreak. I am guessing this is similar to all the other lock on launchers from previous COD's.

At :59 we see another gun, the AN-94 which looks like an AK-47 with a Red Dot scope attached. The soldier is behind two soldiers with Riot Shields, these soldiers could also be Juggarnauts, I am not certain. When the soldier zooms in at 1:00 we see that the enemy team is shown by diamonds around there body. This makes me believe that this scope could be a killstreak, since it gives such an obvious advantage. Then at 1:05 we see a soldier placing his riot shield on the ground, and using it as cover, which looks very sweet in my opinion. Then at 1:09 we see a chopper flying in, which looks almost like a futuristic AH-6 Overwatch from MW3.

At 1:12 we see a huge tank just destroying everything. I for one can not wait to use that.

At 1:15 we see a soldier going OnlyUseMeSecondary, going ninja mode and assassinating his enemy. Then at 1:18 I see something very interesting happen, in the spot where it shows what gun he is using, it switches when he pulls out his knife. This tells me that you must first hit a button to pull out your knife, then hit a button to actually use it. This is interesting as it will pretty much remove panic knifing from the game, which makes me verrrry excited.

And then at 1:24 we see the return of the tomahawk. A very fun lethal equipment to use in Black Ops.

At 1:27 we see the Sniper Rifle, USR 50, which is customized to the players liking. For the killstreaks, the only one I recognize is the second killstreak which looks to be a stealth bomber. Then at 1:29 the soldier switches to the "Ballista" another weapon in Black Ops 2, which looks like a sniper of some sort, as gets a one shoot kill with it.

The at 1:38 we see the shotgun M1216, which is an automatic shotgun. And at 1:40 we see the C4. The lovely C4. And for killstreaks I see a tank, and some choppers.

And finally at 1:46 we see Suicide Bombers.

Too conclude, there are a ton of new guns. And killstreaks. But anyway, this looks like a pretty good game, hopefully it is good.
 

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Watch Dogs-The Game of the Today

Watch Dogs is a game created by Ubisoft Montreal, and has not had a verified release date at the moment. Ubisoft Montreal is very ecstatic to release the information of this game as they have "been working on it for over two years", and that they will be working on it even more, as the game will not be released any time this year. As a new game, Ubisoft Montreal is setting the bar high, and this was shown by the trailer that was released at E3................

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Watch Dogs will be set during a modern time, in an alternate reality of Chicago, Illinois which is one of the many cities in this game that contain a supercomputer known as CtOS. The story-line of Watch Dogs will be using the technology available for us today, focusing on the concept of information warfare, to portray the game-play basis: the use of hacking and surveillance to assist the protagonist of the game. The protagonist of this story/game is Aiden Pierce who can use any device tied to the city's central operating system, CtOS(described earlier), to his advantage. As seen in the E3 trailer, Aiden is jamming cellphones, as a distraction as he retrieves information about his target, and manipulating traffic lights to cause a massive car pileup, which he uses to trap his target. This all goes back to the game-play basis: the use of hacking and advanced surveillance to aid whoever has access to it.

Watch Dogs is being built on an entirely new engine, one designed internally at Ubisoft, the game's producer has revealed. "We're building a new IP," producer Dominic Guay released. "We have a very strong engineering team," Guay continued, "and we built the new engine to give the designers new abilities [and] new things that they could do." With this quote, I am certain that this game will be unlike anything we have ever seen, and I for one am very excited to see this game, and all the new innovation it will bring to the gaming community.
 

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I like what I see but I do have a couple suggestions. Try nto to repeat the games name 500 times in an article. For example, the Halo 4 one I think I read "Halo 4" in every other sentence lol. Mention it once maybe twice per paragraph to make it known thats what the article is about but try using other words or phrases which reference to the game. Another thing I noticed is you used the wrong version of a word such as "passed" instead of "past" or an error was made where it should have said "eighth" and instead it said eight.

just minor things, overall keep up the good work.
 

x Bl3h TiiMMeH

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Okay, thanks for the advice. It is always appreciated. I would rather you tell me what I am doing wrong, then you not tell me and me do it forever. Hahaha.
 

Sicafoose

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Hey man sorry it took so long to get to ya. I am the captain of the news area. I would like you to make a game review of "Dishonored". Please do this at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask me. Also if you could add my gamer-tag to live it is Sicafoose, that way i can hit you up on the box.

Good luck.
 

Sicafoose

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Hey man sorry it took so long to get to ya. I am the captain of the news section. if you have any problems or questions hit me up. Also please add my gamer tag Sicafoose.
 

x Bl3h TiiMMeH

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Hey man no worries, just glad that you did get back to me haha. Although I am not on Xbox as much as I used to with school and all, I will add you.
 

XGC ThundaHeart

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Sorry guys, i meant to tell you that i was going on vacation for a little while, but what it matter now. I was gone for almost 2 weeks but now im back to the clan and ready to do my duties in the application process.

Reslient--- if you would still like me to interview xgc Duke xd i'd be more than happy to, but if not just let me know who you would like me to interview next.

Sicafoose- same question... ^^^
 

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Please be aware if your application has no activity for 3+ weeks, it will be deleted. If you are still interested in applying/joining please stay active, thank you!
 

Jupiter

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Please be aware if your application has no activity for 3+ weeks, it will be deleted. If you are still interested in applying/joining please stay active, thank you!
 

Jupiter

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Please be aware if your application has no activity for 3+ weeks, it will be deleted. If you are still interested in applying/joining please stay active, thank you!
 

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[PENDING] DARK GAUL APPLICATION

[PENDING] Dark Gaul Application

1) Dark Gaul is both my forum name and gamertag.

2) I don't really have much experience writing articles, but I have written a few poems to express my feelings and thoughts of serving in a war zone to help people understand what I went through.

3) I would like to work with the News Team but on a Freelance basis


A Soldier's Life

When you're lying alone in your Afghan bivvy
And your life it depends on some MOD civvie
When the body Armour's shared (one set between three)
And the fire fight's not like it is on TV
Then you'll look to your oppo, your gun and your God
As you follow that path all Tommies have trod
When the gimpy has jammed and you're down to one round
And the faith that you'd lost is suddenly found.

Three fifty an hour in your Afghani cage
Not nearly as much as the minimum wage.
Your missus at home in a foul married quarter
With damp on the walls and a roof leaking water
Your kids miss their mate (their hero) their dad
They're missing the childhood that they should have had



I guess the next one would be classed as a short poem....

A Foreign Land

Freedom was the gift that I unselfishly gave
Pain and death was the price that I ultimately paid.

I've fought a war that I don't understand
And when I came back I brought more than a tan.

My love help me...
Why am I not alright
Why am I in a dark place
Lest it be day or night.

With these images of death on my mind
The love you knew before
I can not find.​
 

SYN MsTwiztid

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Thank you for your application! Sicafoose is in charge of the News Team and he will be with you shortly.

Good luck on your application!
 
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