Pre-Order’s will come with the following extras:

• Master Chief Avatar Armour: Heroes Never Die, and to honour the 10th anniversary of John 117, you will finally be able to transform your Xbox Live Avatar into the iconic hero by outfitting it with Master Chief’s signature MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armour.
• Grunt Funeral Skull: An exclusive, game-modifying skull that changes the rules of the game for an explosively humorous experience, Grunt Funeral sends Halo’s most lowly and lovable enemy out in a blaze of glory. And plasma. And then more glory. Once the skull has been activated, every Grunt’s methane tank will explode like a plasma grenade when killed. Watch out for the Grunt chain reaction!

343 Industries also released a new trailer that details the effects of the “Grunt Funeral Skull” which you can view after the jump.

Final Fantasy Producer, Yoshinori Kitase said in an interview with 360 Achievements that remakes of these PS2 titles would be considered if the demand was high enough. Let’s take a look at that “demand” shall we? Final Fantasy X has sold over 6.32 million units worldwide, X-2 over 5.2 million worldwide, and XII over 5.7 million worldwide. It seems that the demand is there and rabid Final Fantasy fans would snatch up an HD collection in seconds. If sales numbers don’t equal demand, then head on over to GameFAQs, and check out the boards for these three games, they are some of the most active on the site and each one is over five years old.

Square Enix has said that they were embarrassed by their lack of Eastern games at E3 this year, why not jump on the HD train? They have already said numerous times that a remake of Final Fantasy VII or any other PS1 era Final Fantasy would be to time consuming and costly, but putting a nice HD touch up on the PS2 era games shouldn’t tax the Japanese company to much and in my opinion would be a step in the right direction for the once gaming juggernaut.

UFC Personal Trainer-Wii, Xbox 360, PS3
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition-Xbox 360, PS3 (Physical Copy)
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3-Xbox 360, PS3
Storm: Frontline Nation-PC
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D-3DS
Sniper: Ghost Warrior-PS3

This release week is pretty much underwhelming. It is nice to see the 3DS get another game but Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition perplexes me. How many people are going to actually buy a physical copy of this game? I assume most fans have already downloaded the extra content which came out a few weeks ago. I suppose this is a good buy for someone who hasn’t already bought a copy of Super Street Fighter IV, but other than that audience I don’t see it selling like hotcakes. Of course this is Street Fighter so I am most likely completely wrong.

Microsoft is hoping to get the program running by 2012 and use it to give voice recognition to ads. When you see a ad, “Xbox More” will be the option you get to obtain further information about an ad. “Xbox Near Me” give you the ability to track a retailer that sells a particular product near you. Finally, “Xbox Tweet” ads the function to Tweet about the ad you were looking at. I’m sure that will either go unused or call for a lot of unfollows.

So far it’s not known if advertisers are sold on the idea but if it is, you’ll definitely see them next spring. I’ll leave the “Xbox (Insert line here)” jokes to you.

- Xbox 360 limited edition Gears of War 3 system
- 320GB harddrive
- Two Gears of War Xbox 360 wireless controllers
- Gears of War 3 Standard Edition game
- Built-in Wi-Fi connection
- Wired headset
- Download token for Infected Omen Weapon Pack (Lancer, Retro Lancer, Hammerburst, Gnasher, and Sawed-Off Shotgun) and Adam Fenix multiplayer character.

Microsoft will also be selling limited edition Gears of War 3 controllers separate from the bundle for $59.99. Check out the video to see the console in action via Epic Games. To order the console head here.

LulzSec, who have recently attacked Nintendo and even the CIA’s website, has released thousands of emails and passwords a lot of which are Xbox Live related data. While the service itself is not down just as PSN was, any user of Live could have been among  that data. That data was posted to many file sharing services and taken down which prompted for re-uploads with the links posted to their Twitter account. According to the Twitter feed, it is still up on their site and still accessible.

While it’s not a direct attack on the service, even random user information leaks is still cause for alarm.  It should go without saying that everyone should change their information and passwords to be safe.

It’s seems like hacking attacks are coming into style this year and that sucks because we’re all pretty infuriated about  how these hackers have gotten their dirty little paws on our data over and over. Let’s hope that this trend will finally stop soon. As of this post, I’ve seen no official word from Microsoft regarding the data. Please don’t pull a Sony….

Dead Island has been pretty controversial since it was announced. At first people were mad about the depiction of children within the game, but that seemed to give way to the excitement people felt for a new, realistic zombie game.

Here I give my opinion of the game, and I talk to a developer who tells me about a spoiler.

I get an interview with Jesse Houston from Bioware who teases what could be in store for the future of the Mass Effect franchise after 3 launches. He also reveals some interesting facts about the story of Mass Effect 3 so if you’re a fan, make sure you don’t miss it.

On this week’s episode of Hey Listen! Mark dives into the best RPG franchise ever made. Does the music in this installment live up to the greatness of the previous installments? Or does the music suck just as bad as the game?

Click here to watch the full Modern Warfare 3 trailer.