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The Coolest Xbox 360 Console I’ve Ever Seen [PIC]
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is celebrating the one million mark for consoles sold in Australia and New Zealand. In order to celebrate the achieve, they have designed a custom Halo Xbox console. The console features a Halo character shooting the console. It was designed by Richard Taylor and the Weta Workshop. The console is currently being auctioned on eBay to raise funding for the David Peachy Foundation. Microsoft will also match up to $10,000 for the winning bidder. Currently there are about 29 bids and it is up to AU $750. [UberGizmo]
Categories Halo, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Xbox 360
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Microsoft Plans To Link Console, Web, And Mobile Services For Next Halo Experience
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) listed a job offer on CareerBuilder that revealed their plans for the next Halo game. The new Halo will link the Xbox console with the web and mobile distribution. Unfortunately the new Halo game is not Halo 3: ODST which is to be released this September. It will be part of the next Halo experience after that. The position is Software Development Engineer working out of Redmond, but the environment is like a startup.
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Xbox Nerds Desirai Labrada and John Henry Have A Halo-Style Wedding
Desirai Labrada (29) and John Henry (27) have been gaming since they were kids. Desirai remembered how exciting and colorful Super Mario Brothers, the 8-bit version was when she was 5-years old. Desirai used to wake up an hour early for school so that she could play Super Mario. Since Halo: Combat Evolved came with the original Xbox, Desirai became addicted to that game. Since Halo was four player, she always had friends come over and play it.
“I met John totally by chance — he’d let a roommate play on his gamer tag while he was away, and when he came back, there were friends on his list that he didn’t recognize so he sent out messages to them asking where he’d met them. One of them was me, and my gamertag caught his interest,” stated Desirai. “He asked if we could play some time and we ended up playing on a day-to-day basis. He lived in Florida and I was in New York.”
That was in December 2004 and then they started spending a lot of time on the phone in February. They started dating in mid-March and then met in person in April. For college, Desirai wanted to attend Full Sail University in Florida to study digital media and John helped her out. Desirai had to move back to New York after graduation for family reasons, but couldn’t take being so far away from John. Both of them did not want to give up on each other.
John proposed in a restaurant and they both knew that they wanted a Halo-styled wedding since that is how they met. There would be subtle Halo touches in the wedding. The orchestra would play the Halo theme song and tables would be named after Halo maps. The Master Chief performed the ceremony and John wore a Halo tie.
“After the reception we had a bride-versus-groom Halo tournament in place of the first dance. To keep with the theme, I wanted to find a creative way to give away the bouquet and garter. So the guys and girls fought each other in a slayer match for them. I liked the idea of people having to earn the garter or bouquet instead of just reaching up and catching it. Who won? John did…by two kills.”
[via GreenPixels, Photo via RF Photography]
Categories Desirai Labrada, Halo, John Henry, Microsoft Corporation
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