Microsoft announced today that Ensemble’s Halo wars has sold one million units worldwide. This makes Halo Wars the best-selling real-time strategy game on any current-generation console. For stats, there have been 2.6 million multiplayer matches, and over 118 years of time have been spent by players in matches on Xbox Live.

Microsoft’s latest foray into the Halo universe has surpassed the million copy sold mark, making Halo Wars the best-selling console real-time strategy game of the current generation.

Source: Kotaku

SK Gaming has bid farewell to Korean Warcraft 3 Orc player Dong Hwan “ViOlet” Kim. ViOlet’s contract was said to have ended in February. The reason ViOlet’s contract was not renewed is the fact that June ‘Lyn‘ Park and Jin Wook ‘MichaeL‘ Roh are the better players with Warcraft3’s current situation.

Min Sik “reis” Ko had this to say about ViOlet;

We had a great time in China at the last wc3l finals and I shared a room with him and we got to know each other better. He is a really nice guy with a lot of potential. He joined us not that long ago and he improved a lot within those days. We wish him the best of luck in the future. 

 SK Gaming Warcraft3 roster:

June ‘Lyn‘ Park
Jin Wook ‘MichaeL‘ Roh
Daniel ‘miou‘ Holthuis

Source: SK Gaming

The Warcraft 3 veteran Dae Hui “FoV” Cho has made headlines again this time signing with the German organization Mousesports. The reason for the addition of FoV is to take the weight of the shoulders of Dennis ‘HasuObs‘ Schneider, Wei ‘Fly100%‘ Liang Lu and Huang ‘TH000‘ Xiang.

FoV had this to say about his new team and teammates.

Finally I found a promising team and I’m happy to play with Fly, HasuObs & TH000. They are my favourite players for ages now and also very very good friends of mine. So I’m definitely looking forward to play in Mousesports.

Longtime Seattle game developer Zombie Studios has landed a major deal that will transform the company over the next year. Announced today, an upcoming futuristic military game “Blacklight” is being made into a feature film and comic-book series by Fox Atomic.

Blacklight is, as you’d expect from Zombie, a first-person shooter. Specifically, a “tactical FPS” set 25 years in the future, which sees you sand your team of army types tracking down your former commander in the make-believe city of Balik, Kajikistan.

Source: Kotaku

Games have been linked to yet another school shooting. Tim Kretschmer, 17, of Alberville Secondary School in Winnenden spent the night before his assault playing FarCry2. Kretschmer walked into his school armed with a Beretta pistol and continued to kill fifteen people before turning the gun on himself. The whole situation was said to be brought on by a girl rejecting Kretschmer at a party. Kretschmer was also noted by people as quiet and polite.

The German Chancellor said that she was looking into what could be done to limit the use of violent video games but would not release any more information.

The lesson is that we must be attentive to all young people — that’s true for parents and educators. We must do all to prevent children from having access to weapons and from them having to face too much violence.

Kretschmer also played Counter-Strike, another game featuring gunplay, and TacticalOps, a special forces action game, both of which have a 16 certificate in Britain.