Bungie were very proud to announce this week that on Saturday evening, Halo 3 dished up it’s one billionth online game. That’s really insane if you think about it, and while checking the statistics that Bungie had posted up I found a few more disturbing ones as well. The total amount of time that players have spent playing Halo 3 …

The great thing about Halo 3, it’s recording features and indeed the fact that so many people actually play it, is that the more time passes by, the more funny Halo video pop up on the internet. While you may have seen a few of these videos in the past, UnrealityMag has put together a fantastic compilation of 15 of …

Some shocking news is coming in from the States where yet another perfectly normal innocent child has been turned into a violent killer by the despicable deadly videogame, Halo. As the story goes, Daniel Petric’s parents had decided that the had been playing too much Halo 3 on his Ekcsbox 360 and had decided to lock the game up in …

You have to love the SDF, they have mastered the amazing ability of disposing of all logic and purely existing on fanboyism alone. Most All of what they write is complete nonsense but it can be entertaining nonsense like the video above. I have to agree with them here though, I just don’t get the fascination with Halo that the …

Major Nelson has also revealed the latest Xbox Live Statistics for the last week and you can see that the dodgy matchmaking ability of Gears of War 2 is starting to take it’s toll on the game. Gears 2 is down to 4th on the list and will continue to drop unless Epic wakes up to the fact that people …

Anyone looking forward to Halo Wars, the new Xbox 360 RTS set in the Halo universe will be happy to know that we finally have a confirmed date for the games release. Microsoft have confirmed that Halo Wars will be hitting European shelves ( so it should be ours as well) on the 27th of February 2009, meaning that the …

Just yesterday, we posted a head to head between Gears of War 2 and Halo 3 from IGN that asked the question of which one of the two huge Xbox 360 exclusives was the absolute must-have for the system. For anyone who missed it and doesn't feel like going back to watch the video, Halo 3 won. Many will argue that Gears of War 2 is the better game but the latest statistics from Xbox Live are saying quite the opposite. While the full list is posted after the jump, let me lay things out for you. Firstly, this list shows what people have been playing while connected to Live, not how many people were playing the games multiplayer modes on Xbox Live so make a note of that. The results, especially after this recent gaming season, are astounding. Ok , so here is the list: Halo 3 Gear of War 2 CoD: World at War GTA IV Fable II Left 4 Dead Madden NFL 09 Fallout 3 FIFA 09 Now here is the amazing thing, even though we have just been through arguably the best gaming release season of all time, the hugely popular multiplayer modes found in both Gears of War 2 and even Call of Duty: World at War could not take the number 1 spot from the (already over a year old) phenomenon that is Halo 3. That means that even though there was a large number of people playing Call of Duty and Gears of War's single player campaign as well as multiplayer modes (including the incredibly addictive Gears of War 2 semi co-op experience, Horde), Halo 3 still took the top spot with what can now only be people who are still playing the multiplayer. While South Africans never really caught on to Halo 3 like the Americans did, we have to appreciate that Bungie must have done something very right to still have the top spot over all this time. Call of Duty 4 is sitting just below Call of Duty: World at War, meaning that while there are still a lot of players who prefer last years offering, World at War is still making quite an impact on the world, regardless of the fact that Treyarch were at the helm. Just seeing this is almost making me want to go back and play some more Halo 3 multiplayer just to try and see if I can see what all the fuss is about. Honorable mentions come in with Left 4 Dead which is proving to be a massively fun multiplayer experience as well as GTA IV considering it's age and even Fallout 3 considering that it doesn't have any multiplayer. I want to make a mention of Fable II as well although I think that if it's co-op multiplayer had been better, it might have made more of an impact.

When you think about the Xbox 360, two major exclusive titles always spring to mind, Gears of War and Halo 3. So what if you have just bought a console or have a friend who has just bought a console and you just cannot decided which one of the two is the must-have game that should grace the system. IGN have put together a great head to head video, pitting Gears of War 2 against Halo 3 in duel to the death. Which one is the definitive Xbox 360 title and the one that shouldn't be missed. With regards to multiplayer, from a local perspective I will say one thing. It is that here in South Africa, we need to stick together to play lag-free games. So out here it really is all about finding out what all your friends are playing and then getting that. It doesn't help if Gears is better or Halo is better because if you have no one to play with then it is no fun at all. You won't believe who won this comparison and by how much. Check it out.