We’re down to our last week of Shooter Wars…BUT its not over yet.  All-day Saturday & next Monday night its going down.  Come compete in Call of Duty: Black Ops or Halo: Reach and win prizes or even a free rental of the Xbus Games Mobile Game Party.

The winners of Shooter Wars Tournament were going to win a copy of Brink, but since few people want Brink winners get to pick any $60 game.

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As you can see by the above tweet…we’ve taken some questions about Brink. We just wanted to let people know that you don’t have to choose Brink if you win…you can have something else.  How about LA Noire…it comes out that night?

Shout-out to ESPN 5556 for being first to ask a good question.

Here he is when he was chilling on the Xbus:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpqcyY63m3g

Here is the promo video about the Xbus.  And yes…its a bus with 16 Xbox 360′s piled high with all the best games money can buy.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIvZ2wjhTYA

We had so much fun, and people have been asking for it…and to celebrate the release of Brink, we thought we would have another tournament like we did last fall for the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Announcing an ongoing series of tournaments, for those that like shooters…PDXBOX.NET presents Shooter Wars: a fundraiser for the Game It Up Initiative.

Tournament Format:

Shooter Wars features the two main shooters people are playing…and give winners a chance to win a newly released, or soon-to-be-relased shooter out for the Xbox 360.  For SW#1 we will have two tournaments… Call of Duty: Black Ops and Halo: Reach.  Gamers can sign up and participate in one or the other…or even both. Tournament registration fee:  only $5

Shooter Wars is a multi-site tournament taking place in a variety of locations around the greater Portland area.  Each site will host a qualifying event.  Winners of each qualifier will be guaranteed a spot in the championship round to compete against all the other qualifier winners, as well as some notable VIP’s.  Additional spots in the championship round will be offered to select 2nd place finishers of the qualifying rounds.

All games will be FFA/Slayer variants with select input from the participants.  Map selections will also be randomly chosen.

Prizes: Each Grand Champion will win a copy of Brink a free $60 game of their choice, as well as a free party rental from our partner, Xbus Games.

How to enter the Tournament:

Just show up at one or more of the qualifiers.  If you are under the age of 18 you will need to bring a signed minor release form. Registration fees for the tournament is cash only.

Visit XbusGaming.com for more info on the Xbus Games Mobile Gaming Lan Party.

Shooter Wars Qualifiers

Shooter Wars Championship Round will take place May 16.

Championship Rounds: May 16, 2011 directly following Qualifier Event #10

Halo: Reach: approx 9:00 pm

Call of Duty: Black Ops – approx 10:30 pm

Gamestop Tanasbourne
18033 NW Evergreen Parkway, #K
Hillsboro, OR 97006
(503) 533-9541

You free for Halloween?

Then don’t miss this HALO-ween Halo:Reach Tournament.

Tournament details:

7 qualifying rounds with the first round starting at noon Pacific Standard Time.  Up to fifteen contestants will compete each round, with the top 2 advancing.  Each round will consist of as many games as we are able to fit into the round, which lasts approximately an hour and a half.  The gametypes/maps will vary according to player input, but will be focused around Slayer variants.  Points will accumulate throughout the round.  For each game played during that round, points are awarded as follows:  1st place – 3 points, 2nd place – 2 points, 3rd place – 1 point.  At the end of the round, the two contestants with the highest point totals will advance to the Championship round.

Championship Round details:

Once the last qualifier is concluded, the 14 finalists will compete in the championship round.  I anticipate this will start at 10:30 pm.  Again, the gametypes/maps will vary according to player input, but will be focused around Slayer variants.

Prize details:

The winner of the Championship round will win a $60 credit to the Gamestop store of their choice.

Tournament Registration:

1. This free tournament is open to all members of this site.  Sign up here if you have not yet done so.
2. Fill out the registration form below.
3. Invite your friends to join with you by posting on Twitter, Facebook, and the like.
4. Nazrhite will start sending friend requests on Saturday, the day before, so as to get through everyone by Sunday morning.  Be sure to accept the invite…or he can’t send you messages or invite you to play during your round.
5. On Sunday, October 31, 2010 sign into Xbox Live.  You will have a message from Nazrhite letting you know what round you will be playing, as well as any other last minute news.
6. Log into both Xbox Live & Halo Reach 10 minutes before your scheduled start and be ready to game it up.
7. As always, normal rules and conditions apply.

Good luck everyone.

FYI:  We have a educational initiative called the Teen Gamer Corps (TGC).  We have been feverishly working getting our new TGC Headquarters setup.  While we aren’t completely done, its getting pretty sweet.  We decided to run this tournament from the the TGC Headquarters to help break it in.  If you are interested in bringing a young person by to see the new setup…feel free to give us a call at (503) 719-6092.  We’ll be there all day.

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Finished Halo Reach last night. While I can understand some of the haterade people have spouted about the ending…especially in regards to a lack of continuity with the books…it was an excellent game. Multi-player, like always is off the hook. The campaign was an excellent end (beginning?) to the greatest franchise in video game history. Thanks Bungie for all the memories. #whatsnext343

So I logged into Xbox Live today and the ad for Halo Waypoint was there.  I had been working so hard I forgot this was coming out.  I immediately downloaded the app, and launched.  Pretty cool portal, and they did a good job making it easy to activate and get around the various screens.

For those of you wondering about Halo Waypoint…here are some links:

• Official Microsoft Halo Waypoint Website
• GamePro talks about Halo Waypoint and some soon to be released anime content
• G4TV has a good article about how the achievements play out across the various Halo games
• Xbox Live Community Team Blog talks Halo Waypoint
• Google News Search results for Halo Waypoint

Well folks Halo 3: ODST hits tomorrow.  Enjoy your midnight run.  Here’s a review in the meantime.

All Halo 3 gamers…lets get down Friday, April 24th, 7:00.  We will have more details about the gametypes we will be playing.  I’m sure we’ll play some Spartan Hell for sure though…its too fun not to hit this.  Also, I’ve got some Halo 3 swag to give away to some of the nights participants.  Don’t forget to register on this site, as I only give out prizes to registered members.  Its free so MAN UP, and we will see you April 24th.

Just a shout-out to let everyone know.  The Halo 3 Mythic Map pack has been released on Xbox Live featuring three new maps which you can see below.  Click on the map screenshot to get the Halopedia page for more details about that specific map.  We will announce a multiplayer game night soon centered around these maps.  Get ready!!!

Assembly:

Orbital:

Sandbox:

I’m not the only one to think Halo 3 is going to unleash another evolution in community involvement.

MTV – BusinessWeek – Wired – XBoxer – SmoothSpan – Last100

Oh yeah… They just released the numbers on Halo 3 sales for the first 24 hours: $170 Million. Yeah, its a record.

Sorry Spider-Man.