Halo 3 shipped on Monday at midnight, and there were launch parties at Microsoft campuses around the country. These are pictures from the Mountain View, California location.
This is the registration line. Yes, that’s Robert Scoble standing in line like any schmo.
Scobleizer with his five cameras.
He thinks his Canon 5D is better than my Nikon D40x.
Unloading inventory for the Microsoft employee store.
Jas Sandhu, the Microsoft evangelist that invited me and Team Truemors.
Microsoft’s living room of the future.
Guitar Hero players.
The food spread.
Including exotic hamburgers.
Special edition Mountain Dew.
Blake Commagere, the author of the Facebook app called Zombies. Two guys in a garage with 4.5 million downloads.
Eric Wu of Emotioneric. Another great app that I can’t figure out.
I don’t know who she is, but she wins style points.
Action in the main gaming room. There were tables set up with three flat-screen monitors, three xBox 360s, and twelve controllers.
There was a single-elimination tournament. D2 = Team Truemors.
Our team in action.
The other team in action. Notice the frantic motion compared to the collective cool of Team Truemors.
A little adjudication about the final round. That’s Jason Mauer, league commissioner.
The second-place team. A fine bunch of fellows but second-place finishers nonetheless.
Yeah, baby, the winning team. Limited edition Halo 3 was the prize.
Winner #1 of an xBox 360.
Winner #2 of an xBox 360.
Winner #3 of an xBox 360.
And the big loser of the night: Anthony Nemitz of eBay. He could have won an xBox 360 when his name was called, but he was downstairs drinking beer.
You should have called me:)
Why would I do that? I wanted to win one.
Sorry to say, Guy, but Scoble is right about the camera. Viva la Canon! (Now, if you’d somehow gotten your hands on a D3… then we’ll talk. ;))
So the real question is: How’s the game?
I would say, Anthony Nemitz is the big winner! He took the opportunity to catch the taste of a good cold bear in real life (also achance to talk to real girls :-)). Much better than playing virtual games!
Nice photos! Mine are up here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/tags/halo3svc/
Actually, here’s the set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/sets/72157602146026606/show/
awesome pics, I must say I agree, your D40x beats Scobles canon :-)
You mispelled “scobelizer”.
Thanks for coming to the party. Congratulations to Team Truemors, the cool and collected champs :) You sure you’re not going to get them on the MLG circuit?
Guy… you called it again… better camera than scoble… championship kids, and Anthony Nemitz the big loser. You should have got a pic of his broken iPhone case though. oh and did i mention, better blog than scoble.
Gizmodo posted a pretty funny video about the next release here.
http://www.gizmodo.com/search/future%20halo
That was huge in Irvine we were only 100 people
Haha. Thats great. So who was the winning team from?
We all know I should have won the tournament! All the CTF bull killed my talent. I would love to rematch anytime, of any day, on any map, on any game type. We will win. At least I hope so… But they definitely did beat us that one game.
These are great pics…looks like a blast.
If I were a single woman I would ask you if you know Winner #3 and if I could possibly acquire digits? What the heck — he’s cute enough — DO you have the digits?
Great webinar yesterday on the Art of Evangelism. It’s a true testament to your old age, erm “experience” that you stayed up late at the Halo3 release, and still had the werewithal to conduct a thoroughly enjoyable webcast!
Sorry about the Yahoo! bozosity, but you’re only human, no?
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I agree with Alex. A fourth teammate that we knew would have netted us a victory, but alas, we were to be foiled. But I can’t complain that much seeing as how I got a free faceplate with Halo 3…
Good pictures though. But there weren’t enough heroic poses. Ah well.
Totally would have loved being there! Great pictures.
I, personally, am loving Halo3 and sometimes even let my teen or husband play. But not often. MINE! I stood in line. I get dibs. (Isn’t that how it works?)
Cool Photos !
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Scoble looks like Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Halo3, Silverlight, Search
Hi. Sorry its been awhile. Two weeks of technical conferences plus 2 weeks vacation equals a month to
Guy, while I love your blog, your older posts are showing up in my RSS reader as “new” — for example, this one is showing up as current for Oct 13. I don’t know why; are you reposting them or updating them or something?
In any case, I’m not sure how to stop it ;)
–titus