For three days at least. To celebrate the release of Halo 3, Best Buy is offering anybody with an Xbox 360 and a broadband connection full XBL Gold level service from the 25th to the 27th of September. That’s enough time to get a full year’s worth of malignant, late-stage adolescent trash-talk in one go.
This is just one part of a massive, coordinated campaign for Halo 3’s release, for which there are reportedly more than 1 million pre-orders already in place. To put that in perspective, 2K Games bragged that they had shipped 1.5 million copies of Bioshock, total. This is a million just in pre-orders, with the guarantee of untold occeans of Halo to move at retail locations everywhere. I can’t even take a crap without Master Chief staring at me enigmatically from behind his damn glowing helmet visor, wordlessly judging me. Usually I just get up and leave in shame.
[via GamesIndustry.biz]
