If you heard me on a recent Podtacular podcast then you know what I’m talking about. If not, then you’re in for a real surprise and treat. I’m not going to let it out again though….So if you want to know what the article is going to be, you’ll just have to check back!
This is an EXCLUSIVE to HaloFanForLife.com. (So if you see it on any other sites out there, please let me know.) I did all the work for this, so it would be appreciated if it wasn’t stolen by others to promote their sites…
-Sal
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-Sal Salerno
Owner/Blogger
HaloFanForLife.com
Former boss of XBOX, Don Mattrick, left Microsoft shortly after E3 bringing people to believe that his departure was related to the bad press coming from both the XBOX One reveal and the poor showing at E3.
NOT SO.
In fact he planned to jump ship to Zynga for sometime to become their new CEO. It started back in 2010 when he tried to buy Zynga to boost XBOX’x line with social games. It didn’t work out, but he did become friends with Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, for who he replaced TODAY. Talks about moving to Zynga presumeably happened in March.
With pay and perks, Mattrick could earn as much as $19 million in his first year.
Hmm, so NOW can we put to rest that Mattrick didn’t give a SH!# about the XBOX One? No wonder he made ridiculous statements about sticking to the 360 if you don’t have internet connection. Honestly, if I were Microsoft, I’d slap him with a multi-million dollar suit. It was plainly obvious to me a simple gamer that Mattrick could have cared less the damage he was doing to Microsoft, knowing he was leaving.
-Sal
I didn’t get a chance to show much of the show floor so here’s a pic I saw on twitter (forgive me that I don’t have the source of the photo for proper credit.)
Here are the “Guardians” of RTX.
Bravo messing around with Master Chief.
What looks like a delicious RTX cake!
and NOW finally…the RTX Wrap party.
Until next year, great job Rooster Teeth!
-Sal
Want to win yourself this sweet exclusive from Razor?
Good luck and if you win, please shoot me some photos of the cool swag and I’ll post ’em up here.
-Sal
According to this article: http://worthplaying.com/article/2013/7/6/news/89850/ there will be a THIRD armor mod. This one called is called Resistor.
Resistor allows Spartans to maintain their full mobility and dexterity while taking incoming fire.
Xbox’x Marjor Nelson (Larry Hyrb) interviews 343 employees, Graeme Jennings, Sr. Producer and Max Szlagor Sr. Designer as they talk about the Halo 4 Champions Bundle coming August 20.
Within is this interview there is talk about 2 armor mods. If you recall, I’ve been saying for a LONG time that there were supposed to be a total of 10 armor mods at launch. There were only 8. These make up for those not included at launch. It’s not yet known if the CSR level cap will be increased to 150 due to these new armor mods. (I hope so.) Still CSR 150 sounds/looks better than 130.
The two armor mods are Survivor and Recharge.
• Survivor allows you to be ejected from a vehicle if it’s being destroyed.
• Recharge allows your shields to recharge even FASTER. This can be stacked. Only yours, not your teammates though.
Take a listen here to the full interview: https://soundcloud.com/xbox/mnr-483-details-about-the-halo. The armor mod talk starts about 9:30. This is part of a Title Update also on August 20. This no doubt will allow for the new armors to show up in all the previous maps, as well as the weapons skins.
Also a quick note, Ricochet was stated to be available to play on multiple maps. This due to the title update. This is about 11:45 in the interview above.
Whew, it just keeps getting BETTER! August 20 can’t get here fast enough!
-Sal