This morning [Nov 5th, 2011], we received an email from a Destructoid fan named Carlo who shared a story about his late friend Michael John Mamaril. Last month, Michael passed away due to cancer at the young age of 22. Both were huge Borderlands fans, so Carlo thought a great way to honor his buddy's memory would be to shoot Gearbox Software an email asking for a short eulogy to be read by the game's smart-mouthed robot mascot Claptrap. Not only did Gearbox comply with the request, it also promised to insert Michael into the upcoming Borderlands 2 as an NPC.
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Leaks of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V, the fifth in the long-running series about stealing cars, have been rife ever since its announcement last week. Ranging from the purported leak of the game's map—which sees Los Santos taking up most of the space—to a post purportedly written by a rogue games journalist with information currently unavailable to the public.
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Activision has announced that the PC version of Call of Duty: Elite won't be ready in time for the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. What's more, the global mega-publisher is unable at this time to lock down a release date for the comprehensive stat-tracking service, or even a ballpark estimate.
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Microsoft may be readying its third-generation Xbox for the holiday 2013 season. Manufacturers involved in the project expect the next generation game console to be unveiled at E3 2013, according to a report from the gaming-focused news site Develop.
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Since 2005, the prospect of a Halo movie has been in eternal limbo. On-again, off-again, it has seemed like the project would never become a reality. Now, out of a foreign press kit for the latest Halo, it looks like the production might just have been confirmed with a 2012 release date.
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Siliconera do a roaring trade in boosted game details, even going so far as to cite a regular source for the stuff. A few weeks back, their inside man had the goss on Syndicate way ahead of schedule; today, it’s Dead Space 3. The game has only been hinted at by EA, but already, it seems, there is a script in the works – and it’s currently sounding a lot like Isaac Clarke meets Silent Hill and The Thing. Those… are all fantastic things.
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