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Microsoft has released details of the third batch of DLC for Epic's manly man-shooter, Gears of War 3. Called Fenix Rising, it features new maps, new character skins and a new XP system. There are five new maps included in the pack, each of which draws from the history of the series. Academy is set in the military school Marcus was destined to attend, but defied tradition by skipping. Anvil takes place in the destroyed fortress of Anvegad, while Depths is where Marcus' dad, Adam Fenix, was held captive. Meanwhile, Escalation takes place in and around the Fenix household and The Slab is the prison that Dom broke Marcus out of way back in Gears 1. All five of the maps are playable across Versus Multiplayer, Horde and Beast Mode. The skins on offer are spread across COG and Locust designs. The pack offers up Recruit Clayton, Thrashball Cole, Savage Marauder and Savage Kantus character models. Perhaps of most interest to the ultra-hardcore, however, is the new levelling system. This allows players to effectively "Prestige" once they hit level 100. Chose to do this and your experience and rank will be reset and your rank icon colour will change. This is possible up to three times, moving from Bronze to Red, Green and then Gold. Furthermore, each Prestige level (Epic are calling it "Re-up") after Bronze also awards the player an exclusive, custom weapon skin. These are: •Re-Up Plasma – Animated flowing plasma in gold. •Re-Up Omen – Shiny, red Omen. •Re-Up Electric – Animated, golden electric shocks. Out on Jan 17th, the Fenix Rising pack will set you back 800 MSP. Owners of the Season Pass get it for free.

If you've already consigned this year's Christmas offerings to the shelves to gather dust for a bit, then there's a few things here that might interest you, especially if you're up for some dealson board game adaptations and Dance Central DLC. If that doesn't float your boat, then there's All Zombies Must Die! and NFL Blitz to check out, as well as an incredibly late demo for Rise of Nightmares, and a forthcoming add-on for Forza Motorsport 4 with the January Jalopnik Pack. That's out in January, funnily enough. Take a look at what's on offer this week and next week on the Xbox Live Marketplace below: Xbox Live Arcade •All Zombies Must Die! - 29-Dec - 800 MSP •NFL Blitz - 4-Jan - 1200 MSP Game Add-Ons •Forza Motorsport 4 January Jalopnik Pack - 3-Jan - 560 MSP Deal of the Week 27-Dec–2-Jan •Full House Poker - 480 MSP (40% off) •Connect 4×4 - 400 MSP (50% off) •Jenga - 400 MSP (50% off) •Pictureka - 400 MSP (50% off) •Sorry! Slider - 400 MSP (50% off) •Sorry! - 400 MSP (50% off) •Boggle - 400 MSP (50% off) •Battleship - 400 MSP (50% off) •Yahtzee - 400 MSP (50% off) •Connect 4 - 400 MSP (50% off) •Scrabble - 400 MSP (50% off) Dancin’ Dancin’ Dancin’ - 3-Jan-9-Jan •Dance Central Dance Pack 05 - 480 MSP (33% off) •Dance Central DancePack 06 - 960 MSP (33% off) •Dance Central Dance Pack 07 - 960 MSP (33% off) •Dance Central Marathon Pack 02 - 1500 MSP (58% off) •Dance Central Marathon Pack 01 - 1400 MSP (58% off) •Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling - 160 MSP (33% off) •Dance Central Dance Pack 01 - 640 MSP (33% off) •Dance Central Dance Pack 02 - 640 MSP (33% off) •Dance Central Dance Pack 03 - 640 MSP (33% off) •Dance Central Dance Pack 04 - 640 MSP (33% off) Sales & Specials •Electronic Arts Publisher Sale - 3-Jan–9-Jan - Up to 50% off Games on Demand •Transformers: Dark of the Moon 27-Dec •Child of Eden 27-Dec •Wipeout: In the Zone 27-Dec •Resonance of Fate 27-Dec •Super Street Fighter IV 3-Jan •Naughty Bear 3-Jan •Backbreaker Football 3-Jan Demos •Rise of Nightmares 3-Jan Avatar Marketplace •Assassin’s Creed Universe 27-Dec •Fitness 27-Dec •Metal Gear Solid Update 27-Dec •Vampires/Werewolves 27-Dec •Kinect Disneyland Adventures – Update 2 3-Jan •Tattoo Collection 3-Jan

Its worth it, the 11th terminal is quite long, plus you get 100,000cR

I was a ps2 boy and I remember ir broke the wife went out and bought me an xbox as a replacement I was gutted, I didn't want a stinky rubbish Xbox, it came with Halo CE. I've never looked back lol, thank you wife best thing you ever bought

Finish game on legendary first. Then go back through game on easy/normal and do levels you don't have the terminals for. I played through the game on easy for the skulls and terminals Then played through on normal for achievement, did the same on heroic, now going through on legendary I love it that much lol

Full details here http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/4769-secret-terminal-in-halo-waypoint-and-how-to-get-it/page__pid__41511#entry41511

There's nothing wrong with your Reach account, its all fine rank and cR intact

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If you read the press release put out earlier today, you probably saw the huge list of partners coming soon to Xbox 360 and may have missed the paragraph about the Xbox Companion app coming this week, so I wanted to share a few more details about it. Starting this Tuesday, Dec. 6, the free Xbox Companion app for Windows Phone will let you find, learn more about and control content from popular entertainment services on Xbox LIVE. This Xbox Companion app will have some cool new features to use with your Xbox 360 including: Xbox Companion search powered by Bing. Search the unified Xbox catalog for movies, TV shows, music, games and apps using the Windows phone. View a detailed unified results page across all content providers. You can see recently played games and apps and browse the Zune video catalog Using the Xbox Companion app you can learn more details about the movie, TV show, music or game that is playing on your console. You can also get friend activity (friends online, friends with beacons, friends who have recently played), achievements and related items. You’ll also be able to select a search result, and launch a movie, TV show, game or app on the connected console as well as play, pause, fw, rw the playing video or music on the connected Xbox,initiate media purchase and navigate your Xbox console with Windows Phone using the Xbox Companion. The Xbox Companion is a free app that launches on Tuesday, December 6th exclusively on Windows Phone. Courtesy of majornelson

Looks like Master Chief is going to receive a bit of a makeover in time for Halo 4, according to 343 Industry's Frank O'Connor. Speaking to Xbox World magazine (via CVG), the Halo Franchise Development Director said that the Chief's armour will look different the next time we see it. Apparently these changes are "fairly radical modifications" that are "connected to the story." O'Connor also revealed that the story will see Cortana in peril once more, but perhaps not for the reasons you would expect. "Seven years is the lifespan for a smart AI before it enters a state called rampancy," he said. "Cortana was getting close to the end of her natural lifespan at the end of Halo 3 but she has been exposed to far more information than any other AI in existence. She's going to develop some muscle from that process but it also contributes to her rampancy – that much information makes things worse." Halo 4′s is the first in a proposed trilogy of games which O'Connor aims will return a "sense of wonder and mystery" to the Halo series."We're definitely going back to that air of exploration, and putting in some surprises that I think people will like," he said. Halo 4 is set to hit in 2012.

As the Fall Xbox Live Dashboard Update is almost upon us, Microsoft has listed the wealth of TV content coming our way from tomorrow onwards, with an array of services being added from day one, and a whole lot more to come later in the month and in 2012. Initially, you'll only have access to a handful of television services, with the likes of Hulu Plus in the US and LOVEFiLM in the UK, whereas the rest of the month sees a load more being added, while 2012 sees the introduction of BBC services in the UK, HBO in the US and a whole lot more besides. So from tomorrow, your Xbox 360 will be a jack-of-all-trades, with streaming movies, music and television all part of the Xbox Live service. Oh, and it plays games too remember. Dec. 6: •EPIX. United States •ESPN on Xbox LIVE (ESPN). United States •Hulu. Japan •Hulu Plus. United States •LOVEFiLM. United Kingdom •Netflix. Canada, United States •Premium Play by (MediaSet). Italy •Sky Go (SkyDE). Austria, Germany •Telefónica España – Movistar Imagenio. Spain •TODAY (MSNBC). United States Later in December: •4 On Demand (C4). United Kingdom •ABC iView (Australian Broadcasting Corp.). Australia •AlloCiné. France (AlloCiné), Germany (Filmstarts), Spain (Sensacine), United Kingdom (Screenrush) •Astral Media’s Disney XD (Astral Media). Canada •blinkbox (blinkbox). United Kingdom •Crackle (Sony Pictures). Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States •Dailymotion. Available in 32 countries globally •Demand 5 (Five). United Kingdom •DIGI+ (CANAL+). Spain •GolTV (Mediapro). Spain •iHeartRadio (Clear Channel). United States •Mediathek/ZDF (ZDF). Germany •MSN. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom •MSNBC.com. United States •MUZU.TV. Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK •ninemsn. Australia •Real Sports (Maple Leaf Sports). Canada •Rogers On Demand Online (Rogers Media). Canada •SBS ON DEMAND. Australia •TMZ (Warner Bros.). Canada, United States •TVE (RTVE.es). Spain •UFC on Xbox LIVE (UFC). Canada, United States •Verizon FiOS TV. United States •VEVO. Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States •Vudu (Wal-Mart). United States •YouTube. Available in 24 countries globally Early 2012: •Antena 3 (Antena 3 de Televisión). Spain •BBC (BBC). United Kingdom •CinemaNow (Best Buy). United States •HBO GO (HBO). United States •MLB.TV (MLB Advanced Media). Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States •Telenovelas/Sports (Televisa). Brazil, Chile, Colombia, France, Italy, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom •Xfinity On Demand (Comcast). United States

This needs to be in the Halo Combat Evolved / Anniversary section.

Thought I wold post this up, yes Master Chief has different armour, and below explains why. This is a major spoiler so if you want to wait then dont click the spoiler button. Master Chief was on the spaceship for just about 1 year, with nothing to do, here is the reason why he has new armour.

Halotracker are having a great holiday charity event! It will take place on Saturday, December 17th, from 7pm GMT onwards. They'll be hosting three events: two races and a special edition Legendary Brawl. The winner of each race event will receive an 800 MS points code, and the winner of the Legendary Brawl event will win a custom Xbox 360 controller, courtesy of A4V Controllers. To enter, pay a $2 donation and post your gamertag and username in the sign-up thread. All proceeds will go to the Great Ormond Street Hospital, a UK-based charity that helps less fortunate children battling various illnesses. Sign up now! HaloTracker Christmas Charity Event

Super Jackpot Weekend is back for Big Team Battle action. This weekend you will have a chance to earn a 15,000 cR jackpot just for competing in the Anniversary Big Team Battle playlist. So grab some friends, hop online, and engage in some (big team) battle.

As Agent said above, how about guides for maps, how to control them do's and don'ts Maybe even weapon types where/when is best to use each type of weapon.

Good work Brony I have never played Minecraft, but the thread seems clear and precise.

Hmmm signatures all changed everybody? I'll be looking..........

Yep sorry you do need to find all terminals in Halo CEA first. Then you get access to extra cR and the exclusive terminal 11

holy sh!t Vit, i thought I would never see this day, I hope, no I pray you do return.

actually thinking about it, try it, ive uploaded the pictures so in theory you dont need to find all the terminals. load up waypoint, press start, then press x

LMAO, well 5000 posts is now the rank of Frankie, 4000 posts is Dr Catherine Halsey. I

4000 posts - The Biggles

Terminal 11 is freaking amazing!!!