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Splinter cell first came out 11 years ago and has been considered a classic by some in the modern era of video gaming. Now the franchise takes it's next leap onto the big screen. Actor Tom Hardy will take the lead role of one of the most well known secret agents in the modern gaming world, Sam Fisher. The Movie will soon be underway and things are look promising as Ubisoft are currently hold talks with some movie studio's CVG has more details on this upcoming project. Eric Singer will write the screenplay for the adaptation, whose previous work includes The International. Ubisoft is currently in talks with several studios including Warner Bros. and Paramount. The news follows confirmation that Michael Fassbender will feature in an adaptation of another of the publisher's major properties, Assassin's Creed. Speaking to Variety, Ubisoft Motion Pictures CEO Jean-Juliet Baronnet sang the praises of Hardy. "His involvement in the 'Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell' movie is exciting news for movie and video game fans alike. "Meanwhile, Eric Singer is one of the most talented writers of the moment, and ... we're confident he'll bring a fresh approach and create a thrilling story." A new gameplay video for Ubisoft's newest Splinter Cell installment was released yesterday. View full article

This years Video game awards begins Friday December 7th where a list of certain video games will be nominated to be the game of the year. Some of you may find it surprising at some of the titles that are up for nomination, or the titles that aren't up for nomination. Here is the list of the nominees. Assassin's Creed III Dishonored Journey Mass Effect 3 The Walking Dead: The Game Head over to spike.com to vote. http://www.spike.com...ame-of-the-year While you're there you can also vote for the best social game, best shooter, game studio of the year and many more. So if your game is not on the list for game of the year you can still help it achieve it's glory within it's genre. View full article

As Xbox live celebrates it's 10 year anniversary microsoft has said that they will reward customers with an Xbox 360 who have been with the service for 10 years. Heres a little more infomation on this giveaway provided by gameinformer The details aren't clear quite yet, but long-time Xbox Live members, those who have been on the service for 10 years, are getting a surprise from Microsoft. Microsoft's Larry Hryb confirmed a report from Kotaku this morning saying "some" Xbox Live members are getting a commemorative console to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Xbox Live. Hryb said he'll be able to share more details about this later in the week. Additional photos of consoles showing up on people's doorsteps can be seen here. View full article

Congrats Tyrael you were a great member of staff and great at the news group.

Xbox Live is 10 years old today, it all started on this day in 2002 when gamers all around the world were able to connect to each other and play together. Live gaming has changed the way we play video games forever and has spawned a new style and generation of entertainment. Post below the first game ever you played online if you can remember. In the meantime here is a video by IGN taking us through 10 years of different games that created an amazing online experience for Xbox Live. View full article

What!? I'm really sad to hear this, I enjoyed having you with me in the news group I hope you can make it back again.

It has been announced that Halo 4 has made $220 million within it's first 24 hours of release which makes it the most profitable Halo launch ever. usatoday.com explains the situation. Despite a five-year absence, Master Chief is still packing plenty of firepower. Microsoft announced its long-awaited first-person shooter Halo 4 raked in $220 million worldwide in the first 24 hours of release, which makes it the biggest Halo launch ever. The game is on track to earn $300 million in its opening week. The company says more than 4 million players have tried Halo 4, which follows hero Master Chief as he confronts a new alien threat to the universe. To date, players have logged more than 5 billion hours playing games across the Halo franchise. The series has been a massive hit for Microsoft and its Xbox video game consoles. With the arrival of Halo 4, the franchise has pulled in $3.38 billion, an impressive feat considering it's only available for one platform. The announcement arrives as another blockbuster video game -- Call of Duty: Black Ops II -- prepares to hit stores this Tuesday. Last year's release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 pulled in $400 million in the first 24 hours. View full article

Halo 2's story was very in depth, the covenant were given a voice in the game for the first time. We were able to see in side their quarters and how they dealt with their affairs. We got to know their reasons and purposes towards the halo array. Then how things began to disrupt and then their massive army split up. Halo 2 was very much in depth, halo 3 wasnt as deep but still held a very good story. To give my opinion on halo 4, its was bland and uninteresting, the ancient evil, the didact did nothing, said nothing. We finally met the forerunners and nothing big happened. The didact showed up then..died supposedly. They didnt give any development towards the didact and the librarian as charcters, nothing was properly explained as why the didact did what he did and what it was all about. It was all over in a flash. This is just my opinion on it, i am not just mindly bashing it, but its a very unmemorable campaign.

Frank O'connor said we dont need to read the books to understand Halo 4. We know what the main covenant was all about, but there should have been a little more told about the storm and why some elites are still in. Master chief becoming the chosen one was too over the top and seems ridiculous, being humanity's best warrior then being the chosen one to be the hero of the forerunners and everything else was just far too much.

This is what a member posted about his views on the story, I agree with everything he said. It is a negative view so i'm sorry for begin negative. The Storm Covenant: I knew the Storm Covenant was meant to be a minor foe in the grand scheme of things within the story, but I was still a bit underwhelmed by their presence. They were fleshed out in Halo: The Thursday War, but in the game they were just there to be enemies. I had hope with the Prologue Terminal and its introduction of Jul 'Mdama, but even that led nowhere. His presence in the game was non-existent however. It would've been great to see Jul as a true adversary to Master Chief in the games working alongside the Didact, maybe even act like Truth did in Halo 3 with his religious ramblings about the Great Journey. Spartan Ops has also reduced them to squatters on Requiem who work alongside the Promethean Knights. Hopefully the rest of Spartan Ops will shed light on what else they have to do on Requiem, but as far as them being a faction goes, their story may end just as soon as it began. The Didact: As far as the Didact's role as the antagonist in Halo 4 went, it was a bit underwhelming. He just wasn't a really good or believable villain in my eyes. Yes, he has a myriad and sordid history that is shown in pieces within the campaign. It was interesting to see the politics of the Human-Forerunner War, but the Didact seemed overwhelmingly unreasonable in his hatred of humanity. Most of his points about humanity being evil was disproved in both the novels and the Terminals themselves. With his history in the books regarding losing his children in the war and seeing his civilization crumble, I had hoped for a sympathetic and tragic villain, but he only came off as ***** to put it bluntly. That and we never are told WHICH Didact it was, I felt that would've put a better perspective on his attitude. The Terminals and Reference: Speaking of the Terminals, I liked how they shed light on the Forerunner side of things, but they were really schizophrenic in their timelines. I never got a real sense of when they occurred or how they fit within the lore's timeline. I think a few more references to Cryptum and Primordium would've made things better. Honestly, I think 343i just tried to fit in too many references to the novels without a solid foundation to do so. To get the info there, you would've needed to read the books, something they said people would not need to do. Master Chief:Make no mistake, this is not about Chief's character development. This is the first Halo game where he actually felt HUMAN to me, not some machine who said catchy one-liners. No, my issue is with what 343i essentially made him: a Space Jesus. What I mean by that is that Chief seems to have become a "Chosen One" type of character. The Librarian said that she planted seeds specifically for the creation of somebody like John to arise. It makes Chief truly important, but I feel it cheapens the other characters in the game and lore. It is like a giant middle finger to everybody else, "Sorry, Chief is the only one who matters, ha!". I'm fine with Chief being a central part of Halo, but not as THE character of Halo who will have the biggest impact. Sorry folks, but that one is just a more personal complaint of mine. Missed Opportunities: To wrap things up, I felt 343i missed some important story points they could've mentioned. What was the relevance of the ship that landed on Installation 04? Where were the references to characters like Chakas and Riser from the Forerunner Saga? Why were the Precursors not mentioned? Just a couple of things.

A recent article from kotaku.com reveals that Bungie's next game will be like Halo which is planned to come out fall 2013. The game will be released for XBOX Play Station and possibly for PC as well. A particular quote from the article states the game will be like Halo. "He also gathers that the general consensus from others is that Destiny is "still quite like Halo" and "there is a lot of work still to be done". And he concludes with a confirmation of an old rumour that the project previous condemned "Tiger" is now referred to as "Destiny" " Click the link for the full article http://www.kotaku.co...kers-at-bungie/ View full article

I hated it, although the ending was very moving and sad, but everything before that was a let down. Sorry for the negativity.

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All the focus and hype about the ancient evil awakening, how it was gonna be our greatest threat yet. Sleeping of 100's of millenia then rises up. All that for one cutscene and then falling of the bridge at the end, the didact was in the game no more than 5 minutes. And everything before that was just going from point A-B pushing switches. I dont mean to sound like a basher thats one thing i never do, i'm just deeply disappointed.

Halo 4's story was absolutley terrible.

This isn't 343's website this is a fan site just incase you thought that. But as for the ranking system i think i heard it is still skill based in a way.