On October 21, 2007, one of DHL’s trains going from McAllen, Texas, to Long Beach, California derailed and as a consequence 21,600 Xbox 360 consoles got “destroyed” in the accident. Those consoles were going to be shipped to Flextronics Industrial Co. in Honk Kong, China who were the intended recipient. A year later Microsoft has decided to sue DHL for $2 Million dollars due to “impact damage, wetting, pilfering and shortage” that the consoles suffered during the accident. Not only that, but DHL has refused to compensate Microsoft for the lost even thought they “negligently breached its duties as a common carrier, handler, bailee, warehouseman, agent, or in other capabilities.” the court says. DHL has not yet commented about the suit. No wonder why many people complain about broken 360′s.

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Well right now I can’t say it’s been confirmed, but based on the fact that box art has been released for Halo 3: Recon, I think the game may not be a downloadable expansion at all for the popular FPS. Is it going to be a stand alone title, or is this just being released for those who don’t have access to the internet? I guess we’ll just have to keep listening for more details.

The big f!@#ing atom bomb news was dropped today that Microsoft made millions of Halo addicts take a collective s!@# announced a new title in the Halo franchise, Halo 3 Recon, during their TGS 2008 press conference. The only details that were provided is that the title will be a prequel to Halo 3 and the player will be in the perspective of an ODST recon soldier. No other details have been announced other than that will be coming out in Fall 2009.

-Chris Weng

Source: Major Nelson

Over at N4G a website that is written all in German has apparently leaked the list of playable games from Microsoft during the Tokyo Game Show.  One of the most surprising additions to the list was Star Ocean 4 which is known for being a Playstation Exclusive. It man not be a big shock to you, but I found it somewhat odd. Hit the jump for the full list of games.

Playable:
* Star Ocean 4 The Last Hope (Square Enix)
* Last Remnant (Square Enix)
* Banjo to Kazooie no Daibouken: Garage Daisakusen (Microsoft)
* FIFA 09 (Electronic Arts)
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Now there’s one thing I cannot deny. The guys who do the Zombie maps for World at War are awesome. They’re challenging, they’re fun, and if you grab some buddies it’s almost as good as say….another zombie kill fest.

The 3 maps will be called “Battery” “Revolution” and “Breach” with the Zombie Map Pack being called “Der Riese”

Personally my favorite zombie map was map pack 2 but I guess we’ll have to wait and see if this 3rd map pack can hold it’s own. It’s lookin pretty good to me at this point so keep an out the August when they’re released and enjoy some Zombie killin.