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Destiny Launch Party at Microsoft Stores

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Microsoft will be having a midnight release party at all Microsoft stores around the country for Destiny. It’s release date is September 9th, 2014 so if you want in, you better be there at the strike of midnight. There will supposedly be drinks, food, game play and giveaways (“and more”).

Apparently from August 26th (tomorrow) through September 5th, there will also be challenges, tournaments and some other activities for the release of Madden NFL 15. On September 6th, each store will have Madden NFL gift bags for the first 25 customers who buy it, and there will be a big party.

Who cares about that though right? It’s all about Destiny! I know it is for me as I have grown tired of Call of Duty myself. I tried playing just the other night as my cousin was over and he wanted to blow some “****” up, but I quickly found myself irritable..and that’s no fun. Too much drama and ignorance online.

Destiny looks like it will be a lot of fun. A nice mix between Halo and…Mass Effect maybe?

So who’s anxious? I know I needed something to be anxious about to make up for this summer (this summer has been both a blessing, and a faceplant)…thank you Bungie.

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Modern Warfare 2 – Random Post

I wanted to point out that Modern Warfare 2 is a great game for the Xbox 360 (and I am sure PS3 as well). What I don’t understand though is Activision wanting so hard to destroy its name.

They fire the top people behind Infinity Ward. Why? Because they guys asked for their promised cut of the profits that Activision wasn’t delivering. They also insisted that the direction Activision wants to take the product into..was wrong (Activision wants to squeeze the title for all the money it’s worth..vs bringing us games of rich quality). Some of the top MW2 designers followed the fired Infinity Ward leaders by resigning some time after.

Then they charge $15 for a map-pack expansion that only gives you 5 maps. No extra guns, missions or anything special….just maps. To make it worse, most of the suck. They are camp central, or allow it to be too easy for one team to spawn-trap the other…both scenarios that kill a game’s fun factor. At a price of $15, that makes this map-pack the most expensive on Xbox Live (I don’t know about PS3). The fact that it sucks…just makes it ever more then rotten.

So I say “SAY NO TO ACTIVISION” and start boycotting their games if you can. Hopefully the creators of Infinity Ward that were terminated, will get back up and start a new company. This way they can once again bring us games of high quality and in the customer’s interest (and not to nickel and dime you like Acitivision wants).

If you have the game already though, keep playing it because it is fun. Just remember that Halo Reach is about a week or so away so all this will become yesterday’s news anyways, as long as Halo Reach delivers what it promises.