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		<title>Halo 3 Mod</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Halo 3 mod is usually considered to be any software modification that alters the game play in the super popular video game for the Xbox 360, Halo 3. But the term also includes many other modifications, such as physical changes made to the Xbox 360 console to show the world that you are a hard-core Halo fanatic.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Halo 3 mod is usually thought of as any software modification that changes the game play in the very popular video game for the Xbox 360, Halo 3. But the term also encompasses many other modifications, such as physical changes made to the Xbox 360 console to show the world that you are a hard-core Halo fanatic.</p>
<p>However, before someone can create a Halo 3 mod, they need the proper tools, along with some technical expertise. These tools generally include a couple of pieces of software that allow people to de-construct, edit, and reconstruct Halo 3 files. It would also involve some hardware to allow the Xbox 360 hard drive to be read into a PC and the files to be restored to that hard drive.</p>
<p>This is necessary because the Xbox 360 is not a unit on which files can be modified. Previously, the hardware developers, in this case Microsoft, would make the tools available to people who paid the licensing fee. But over time, especially with Halo 3 mods, the community has developed several tools and techniques to accomplish what needs to be done for modification.</p>
<p>A Halo 3 mod also encompasses, as written earlier, physical changes to the Xbox 360 console. Some people, for example, remove the case and actually carve the words &#8216;Halo 3&#8242; into it. They might also accompany this by painting the console red, blue or green to match the colour of the armour of the characters in the game.</p>
<p>However, it&#8217;s a pretty extreme way to announce to the world &#8211; I like Halo 3 &#8211; because it could result in actual damage that renders the Xbox 360 unplayable. People often display their customized Xbox 360s on photo-sharing sites such as Flickr and when they go toattend live LAN events.</p>
<p>One of the things that people who are interested in the world of the Halo 3 mod try to focus on is that these should not be used for the purpose of cheating. Modifications are fun to get a new twist on Halo 3 play or a new look for certain levels. But if they&#8217;re used to make the game unfair in favour of one person or team, they ruin the overall game for everyone.</p>
<p>One website where a person can find many a Halo 3 mod is H3mod.com. The site calls itself the &#8216;future of Halo modding&#8217;. It seems to me like a good place to start if you really want to learn about a certain Halo 3 mod.</p>
<p>If you like Halo 3 and are interested in reading more about it, why not visit <a href="http://halo3.the-real-way.com/Halo-3-Mod.html">Halo 3 Mod</a> on our web site called <a href="http://halo3.the-real-way.com">Halo 3 Insider Secrets</a> Grab a totally unique version of this article from the Uber <a href="http://www.uberarticles.com/home.php?id=1138781&amp;p=35016">Article Directory</a></p>
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		<title>Screenshots from Halo 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a video game series is as wildly popular as the Halo series, which includes Halo 3, of course, then it's bound to result in there being many screenshots takes. This article concentrates on some of the weird and wonderful Halo 3 screenshots.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When a video game series is as wildly popular as the Halo series, which includes Halo 3, of course, then it&#8217;s bound to result in there being many screenshots available. This article concentrates on some of the weird and wild Halo 3 screenshots.</p>
<p>Before mentioning the Halo 3 screenshots specifically, let&#8217;s take a look at the numbers that generate all of this media. Over 9 million copies of Halo 3 have been sold so far. That means that if each person who bought the game plays for only 10 hours, there are more than 90 million hours of game time from which to select screen shots. A lot can happen in 90 million hours, and with all the picture-uploading websites available to people, a lot of it has been uploaded.</p>
<p>One of the issues in Halo 3 that has often been documented in Halo 3 screenshots is what Master Chief looks like or more specifically, what his face is like. If you use Google to look up the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots, you&#8217;ll find a screenshot of Master Chief lying dead on the ground, clearly not revealing a face inside his helmet. This explains why we never see his face, say many people, because he does not really have one.</p>
<p>Another one of the Halo 3 screenshots appearing in the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots is the one of a Marine getting hammered on a floodgate. Someone commented that it looked a little bit like Han Solo when he was frozen in Carbonite. And do you know what? &#8211; they&#8217;re absolutely correct.</p>
<p>The designers of Halo 3 wanted to make it a lot simpler for players to grab Halo 3 screenshots and to share them on the Internet. In order to achieve this, they created a &#8216;Saved Films&#8217; feature in the video game. This feature permits people to slow down the action, or even to freeze it, change the camera position and even move the camera around to get exactly the screenshot they want to have. Generally speaking, the &#8216;Save Films&#8217; feature records all the action that takes place in the game, so it can later be converted into videos are screenshots.</p>
<p>Another feature that has a little bit to do with Halo 3 screenshots in the &#8216;Save Films&#8217; feature, is the watching of previously saved films. You see, the saves are not just images or video, they&#8217;re real game data. This means two things: 1] the file size is pretty small and 2] the entire game can be watched from different angles on the Xbox 360.</p>
<p>This means to say that a player could replay a game again and again, seeing new things in new places every time they watch it. That&#8217;s a great deal better than simple Halo 3 screenshots.</p>
<p>If you like Halo 3 and are interested in learning more about it, why not visit <a href="http://halo3.the-real-way.com/Halo-3-Screenshots.html">Halo 3 Screenshots</a> on our web site called <a href="http://halo3.the-real-way.com">Halo 3 Insider Secrets</a> Grab a totally unique version of this article from the Uber <a href="http://www.uberarticles.com/home.php?id=3139192&amp;p=35016">Article Directory</a></p>
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		<title>When Was Halo 3 Released?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 15, 2007 the information was published, that Halo 3 would be released on September 25 in North America and the 26th in Europe. Halo 3 was the third in a wildly popular series for the Xbox 360 called 'Halo'. According to the vice president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, Halo 3's release was much more than just a video game release, it was the biggest media event of the year. He might just have been right as well.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On May 15, 2007 the news was published, that Halo 3 would be released on September 25 in North America and the 26th in Europe. Halo 3 marked the third in a wildly popular series for the Xbox 360 called &#8216;Halo&#8217;. According to the vice president of Microsoft&#8217;s interactive entertainment business, Halo 3&#8217;s release was much more than only a video game release, it was the biggest media event of the year. He might just have been right as well.</p>
<p>The full history of Halo 3 actually has to begin with the publication of the first game in the series &#8216;Halo: Combat Evolved&#8217;. In November, 2001, when Halo was first published, game consoles were something of a nonsense as one-person shoot-em-up games. Sure, some games existed, but there weren&#8217;t the popular following that the PC games in the genre had.</p>
<p>That was all changed in Halo, in which players could battle aliens on foot and in vehicles, in order to complete objectives, while trying to unravel the secret of the Halo. Halo pioneered limiting the number of weapons a player could carry to two, which in turn, meant forcing the player to make strategic decisions in order to complete his missions.</p>
<p>Enthusiasts waited for the publication of Halo 3 with baited breath. They awaited the continuation of the one-person, shoot-em-up combat format that had been prevalent in the two previous parts of Halo. Microsoft calls it the &#8216;Golden Triangle of Halo&#8217;, which consists of gun-type weapons, grenades and others. In actuality, this was nothing new to one-person, shoot-em-up games, as it had existed since the very first Doom and even the predecessor to that game, &#8220;Wolfenstein&#8221;.</p>
<p>So, with all of that previous history, people were full of anticipation about the Halo 3 release date. How popular and welcome was the game? Well, before its release, 3.1 million copies were sold in advance orders and retailers were sure that that was not enough.</p>
<p>The game grossed $300 million in the United States in only its first week. Overall, it has sold over nine million copies worldwide and was the best-selling video game in the United States in 2007. Even the critics liked it, putting it the seventh highest on the all-time list of Xbox 360 games.</p>
<p>The Halo 3 release date, like the release date of many wildly popular video games was almost like a national holiday like Christmas or Easter. It beggars the question of just what will happen in the realm of video games in the near future?</p>
<p>If you like Halo 3 and are interested in finding out more about it, why not go over to <a href="http://halo3.the-real-way.com">Halo 3 Info</a> on our web site entitled <a href="http://halo3.the-real-way.com">Halo 3 Insider Secrets</a> Get a totally unique version of this article from our <a href="http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/home.php?id=1138769&amp;p=35016">article submission service</a></p>
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		<title>Razor Scooter Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Razor kick scooter is the current-day counterpart of the type of scooter that has been about for 50 years or more. In actuality, kids have almost certainly been fixing boards to wheels ever since scrap wheels became available. As with those classic scooters, the Razor kick scooter is propelled forward by foot power. That is, you put one foot on the board and push forward, or in other words kick back on the ground with the other.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Razor kick scooter is the current-day counterpart of the type of scooter that has been about for 50 years or more. In actuality, kids have almost certainly been fixing boards to wheels ever since scrap wheels became available. As with those classic scooters, the Razor kick scooter is propelled forward by foot power. That is, you put one foot on the board and push forward, or in other words kick back on the ground with the other.</p>
<p>This method of movement makes this kick scooter an ideal style of transport, exercise and pleasure for kids of all ages. In deed, Razor do not advocate a Razor scooter for the under fives unless supervised by an adult and state in their handbook:</p>
<p>&#8220;Children under age eight (8) should ride with adult supervision at all times. All children and preteens should ride with adult guidance at all times&#8221;.</p>
<p>This seems pretty strict to me and is almost certainly an example of over-prudence because of the litigious culture we live in. Just try suggesting to a twelve-year that you have to use guidance on all of his or her trips!</p>
<p>Having said that the Razor kick scooter comes in approximately seven different models. There is the Kiddie Kick scooter for the under fives. It is constructed of tough plastic and has a third wheel for greater steadiness.</p>
<p>Then there is the &#8216;A&#8217; series of Razor scooters: the A, A2, A3 and AW. These models are more or less equal to a child&#8217;s increase in size, ability and experience, although the highest suggested weight for all three models of Razor scooter is 65 kilos or 143 lbs.</p>
<p>The Razor kick scooter Pro is a leap up in technology and so has more facilities. It can be used for extreme sport and will put up with a rider weighing up to 100 kilos or 220 lbs.</p>
<p>Last, but not least, is the Cruiser Razor scooter. It will carry 79 kilos (175 lbs of weight and has larger wheels as it is meant for leisurely cruising about. The larger wheels mean that you won&#8217;t be aware of any rough ground beneath you while you are on this Razor scooter.</p>
<p>All of these Razor scooters have comparable features. All of these models of the Razor kick scooter are of very tough manufacture and all but the Razor Kiddie Kick scooter are made of high-grade aluminium and are constructed to last.</p>
<p>These Razor scooters have extensible steering rods, which means that they can be pulled up to grow with your child or can be used by kids of diverse sizes. They also share a robust braking system which operates on the rear wheel, making them ultra-safe for operation in the vicinity of pedestrians.</p>
<p>A Razor kick scooter begins at about $40 and so is an inexpensive way for you to make certain that your youngster gets regular exercise, gets out from behind his computer, gets some fresh air and sunlight and learns about good manners while having fun being mobile. Apart from all these benefits, a Razor kick scooter will give your child warm memories to look back on for the rest of his or her life.</p>
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