First Player Reaches Max Spartan Rank

Take your hat off to RU Deuce, a player that has managed to reach Spartan Rank 130, max out all specializations and hit the credit cap nearly every day in just a month after the game's release.

RU Deuce was lucky enough to get the game a whole week before release day on November 6^th, so he already had a very large head start, but still, maxing out on a competitive FPS in such a short period of time is both impressive and shocking.

Looking back to Halo Reach, this wouldn't have been possible as a lot more time and effort had to be put into the ranking system, and it took around a year before the first player maxed out on Bungie's

Oddworld Returns

If you go back about 15 years in time, you'll be taken to a place where the concept of gaming was still quite new, and every new game was original in its own right. The PlayStation One was filled with games that widely differed between each other, and even with the limited hardware capabilities, some games had beautiful stories and a lengthy amount of gameplay available to enjoy.

Abe's Odyssey was one of those classics; the story was dark, but humorous, and the puzzles were extremely difficult to overcome, yet somewhat relaxing. Since then Oddworld have made other games, but none will ever compare to the beauty of Abe's Odyssey. And after EA acquired publishing rights of Oddworld's gaming,

343 Sends Specialization Codes

Just like they promised, 343 Industries has sent out codes that unlock all specializations in-game to players that played Halo 4 on or before November 20^th. The codes were sent out via email and sent to the emails associated with each player's gamertag.

Once unlocked, the specializations still require you to reach Spartan Rank 50 before you can use them though, and if you didn't play before November 20^th, or you are situated in Europe, the Middle East or Africa and didn't preorder, you won't have access to the extra specializations.

At first, 343 had a few issues sending out the emails, but Jessica Shea, community

Rockstar Pre-order

Pre-order bonuses have been around for a long time now and usually consist of a small incentive to give fans and other potential customers a reason to play the game on day one. Recently, many pre-order bonuses have been extra digital content available within games, such as extra cosmetic items or perks to be used whilst playing.

Rockstar are giving players a little more though; they will be shipping a t-shirt worth $20 to anyone who pre-orders from their online store, Rockstar warehouse.

The offer is only available for those in North America, which is slightly unfortunate for the rest of the globe. However, if you are living in North America and haven't

Metal Gear Solid 4 25th Anniversary

Konami has recently announced an anniversary edition for Metal Gear Solid 4, celebrating the 25^th birthday of the Metal Gear series, dating back to the original Metal Gear game for the MSX PC console which was released in 1987.

The 25^th Anniversary edition follows on from the HD collection released last year, where Konami have redefined games solely for the series' loyal fans. However, those who were new to the series after purchasing the HD remastered games on an Xbox 360 console for the first time may be disappointed to hear that unlike the HD collection, the 25^th Anniversary Edition Metal Gear Solid 4 game

New Mass Effect 3 DLC Released

Bioware is still churning out the DLC, and this time Omega - a new DLC featuring singleplayer content - has been released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Although there has been a fair amount of multiplayer content, extra singleplayer missions have rarely been added, so if you are more interested in the stories within the Mass Effect universe over the social aspects of multiplayer gameplay, the new Omega DLC will be a good addition to the game for you.

Omega adds new characters and allies and takes Commander Shephard's relationship with Aria T'Loak a little further as they team up to plot revenge on Aria's own domain,

Bungie's New Game: Destiny

Earlier this week a leaked document from Bungie Headquarters showed the background and concept art of their upcoming game.

The basic story deals with a futuristic human race that, after colonizing the stars has been fought back by an alien race to Earth. The only thing left is one city that is being protected by a giant alien space ship, from a different alien, hovering above that city.

"A massive, mysterious alien ship hangs overhead like a second moon. No one knows where it came from or what it's here for, but only that it's our protector," One of the passages in the concept art said.

Call of Duty Reigns Supreme

Halo 4 may have been released one week before Black Ops 2 but it remained in second place this Black Friday week in the amount of players online according to Major Nelson.

In that same top five bracket was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in fourth place trailing behind Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition.

The original Call of Duty: Black Ops sits at sixth place while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 reigns at ninth place.

If you've been a fan of the wacky FPS for a while now, then you've probably heard talk about a new HD remake collection of all the previous games, and now Crytek, the new developers of Timesplitters, have heard talk too, and they want to know how many people are interested in a new remake for the classic first person shooter.

Free Radical were the original developers of the Timesplitters series, but back in 2009 Crytek bought them out after the world had decided that they prefer more realistic games like Call of Duty or Battlefield 3, to the inane cartoony gameplay from the Timesplitters series.

However, CEO of Crytek, Cevat Yerli, has made a small statement about a possible future HD collection, but it's very much down to the player's input. Cevat has said, "There's a very hardcore market that is very verbal about it. I would love to see this, and if the fan base approves a further petition. They're trying to call 300,000 voices; I think it's at two or three thousand right

For most of you, max Prestige isn't something you will be reaching for a good few months, but for one gamer, he has set a goal to be the first to reach prestige in Black Ops 2. Ernest Le became the first player in the world to max prestige in Modern Warfare 3, and he's back at it again with Black Ops 2.

Ernest, who's teamed up with GoldGlove, TmarTn and Jericho, will be playing and live streaming Black Ops 2 twenty four hours a day. The stream can be found at Twitch.tv and has so far received over 5 million unique viewers.

For most, achieving a goal like this would have to take more than just a passion for playing video games, but a huge amount of dedication and trying to reach max prestige before anyone else will be difficult. Thousands of others are reaching for max prestige as well, with some players also playing on a 24/7 game stream.

You're probably thinking that playing Black Ops 2 every single day practically non-stop is a little strange, but Ernest Le's Twitch