The Great Halo 3 Review "Sitch"

So, my personal anticipation of the release of Halo 3 is about to hit breaking point. I literally cannot get any more excited about this game without breaking down in tears and sobbing like a baby for hours at the mere thought of playing it.

The question is. How am I going to get it? Right now I'm having a “sitch” with Halo 3 as I'm not entirely how sure how I'm going to get my hands on the game. You think I'd have planned this, don't you? So, here are my options:

1)The Review Code: Ok, so Microsoft haven't let me down in the past on this front and I got Halo 2 a few days before release which gave me enough time to write a review up but as usual their always busy PR types are being silent on the matter and it's driving me up the wall. Literally every morning now I get up as the postman knocks on the door and doesn't deliver Halo 3 to me but instead some other video game shaped parcels.

2)Tesco at Midnight: Working for a major retailer has some perks. I'll probably be able to hold and read the instruction manual of Halo 3 sometime this week but they still won't sell me it because they won't break street dates. The only option is to head back to work at midnight next Tuesday and pick it up then (with a lovely staff discount).

3)The Alamo: Gameplay pre-order, this is probably the most reliable but, for some reason, the one I expect to deliver least.

The big question is, is there any actual point BXB reviewing the game? Getting a review up on day of release wouldn't be much of a coup on the grounds that everyone will be too busy playing the game to give a damn. Plus, the big sites will have their reviews up very soon and hence everyone will have read the reviews.

Of course we'll write a review of the game, it'd be silly not to, but I'm going to take my time about it.

Is that the Postie?

Exciting Stuff Ahead!

As if Halo 3 wasn't enough to get you excited, BXB will be bringing our users some of our coolest opportunities yet in the next few days!

Firstly, we'll be making Call of Duty 4 Beta codes available on the site and we hope that you all sign up from BXB to show your support for this great site.

We're also going to be giving away 12 months worth of games from Codemasters when our Community Awards return with a bang this month!

More details will be posted on BXB in the next day or so.

BXB: We rock!

Flirting with my Future...

So, a few weeks ago I applied for a community focused role for a major publisher.

My cover letter and CV were sent over as usual and the other day I was invited for an interview. Shortly after I was told that my salary expectations were too high and that having the interview was a waste of time.

I'd asked for 30k and the job was paying 19k.

I have to ask myself, surely, 19k in the south of the UK means I can afford to rent a cardboard box at best!?

And that there ended my flirtation with my future as a community guy for a major publisher.

Oh, well.

A Wierd Weekend...

I've had a wierd weekend. Some of the stuff that's happened to me in the last 48 hours has been really quite confusing.

I'm really not too sure what to make of it all and I don't think going into any detail on here will help. I think that best thing is probably to just go to bed now and kind of leave it all behind.

My facebook account says I'm confused 13% of the time. It's been more like 130% of the time recently.

How do they make crisps taste like flame grilled burgers?

Traffic Figures for August 2007

Well, it just goes to show how putting the effort into going to Leipzig can pay off. August has been our second busiest month of 2007 thanks to the content we're uploading (and still uploading) from Leipzig.

Here's the Media Alert/Press Release/Media Release/Press Alert:

Britxbox.co.uk, Leicester, UK, 02 September 2007 – One of the UK's leading Xbox Community sites, www.britxbox.co.uk, today announced that traffic figures for the month of August 2007 increased in comparison to the previous month and has been one of the best performing months of the year.

Between August 1st and August 31st, Britxbox.co.uk recorded a total of 61,569 unique visits and 494,331 page views. That's an average of 1986 unique visits per day. That's an increase of 16 per cent compared to July.

Ashley Allen, Director of Britxbox.co.uk said: “Despite August being a traditionally quiet time for the games industry, we've recorded our second busiest month of the year with only May and it's Halo 3 Beta bettering August.

“Surprisingly, 8 per cent of these visitors came from the United States of America which sees a marked increase in the global audience of Britxbox.”

Michael Rossell, Editor and Events Manager for Britxbox.co.uk added: “A third of this traffic is a direct result of our coverage of the Leipzig Games Convention this year with video diaries, previews and news all being published from the event by four members of the Britxbox editorial team.

“27 per cent of the hits during Leipzig were new visits and our most popular piece of Leipzig content so far was our Virtua Fighter 5 Preview by Mark Lawson.”

Notes to Editors:

For more information on Britxbox.co.uk contact Editor and Events Manager on mike@britxbox.co.uk.

About Britxbox

www.britxbox.co.uk launched in 2002 and has since grown to be the largest and most active Xbox Community in the UK with an average 58,000 unique hits a month, 5674 registered forum users and over a million posts. A leader in the area of offline events, Britxbox hosted the first ever UK Xbox Exclusive LAN Event in 2003 and broke the Gaming LAN mould with their 2005 'Join the Ghosts' event in association Ubisoft. Britxbox.co.uk continues to be the home of the most vibrant community and has plans to re-launch the site with an even greater community focus in the near future.

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