Celebrate the Xbox 10th Anniversary With a Free Avatar Prop

New celebratory duds are also on sale.

Hey, did you know that today marks the tenth anniversary of the Xbox? That’s right—Halo is officially “retro”. Think about that for a second. When you’re done, you can check out the special anniversary gear that’s been added to the Avatar Marketplace in celebration.

Free to all users for a limited time (until Saturday) is a special surprise box filled with confetti and fireworks. There is also plenty of formal wear and party favors available for the normal Avatar clothing prices. The items aren’t in the normal Marketplace, and have to be accessed from the “Spotlight” section of the 360 dashboard.

If Avatar items aren’t your thing, you can celebrate with Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, an HD remake of the original adventure of Master Chief. We love our HD remakes here at PixlBit, and we also have a lot to say about the Xbox anniversary. Look forward to our special feature soon!

Michael117

11/16/2011 at 10:57 AM

Sadly enough it already feels retro and eventually even though I'm only 22, kids these days are going to look at me as "old man Mike the weird guy that still plays Halo". I've been a huge Halo fan since 2001 and I feel like it became retro after 2007 not only because the trilogy wrapped up that year with Halo 3 but also because of the mass exodus of Halo multi-player people heading over to the young Modern Warfare series that was just getting its foot in the door that year. I'm passionate about the series in ways I could never be for many other shooters though so my loyalty has already been won a long time ago. The Halo universe, games, novels, etc are like my Star Wars. I'm getting Halo: Cryptum soon and I'm geeking out about getting to read it finally, and get me prepped for Halo 4 next year.

Jules I decided to wait a little while for the HD remake of CE and instead yesterday I ordered Fable 3 new on Amazon for a grand total of $6 lol! I love Fable and I've been waiting for my chance to get 3 for a long time, and I'm sure it's safe to say I'll be getting my monies worth right? How can I go wrong with $6? The reason it was so cheap is because when I pre-ordered War in the North I got a $20 credit and so that took a huge chunk out of the cost for Fable 3 when I decided to get it.

Nick DiMola Director

11/16/2011 at 11:06 AM

Hey Mike, be sure to check out our Fable III review. It's a pretty fantastic game, but there are a couple things you might want to know about before you get to the end of the game - especially if you are an achievement hound.

I could never get into Halo personally, but I feel like it wasn't really made for me. By the time Halo came out, I had already played a whole slew of better PC shooters, like Half Life, and Halo just felt like a step back. Capture the Flag rocked in a LAN setting though, as college clearly demonstrated to me. Custom vehicle matches in Blood Gulch were good fun too.

11/16/2011 at 11:57 AM

Thanks Nick! I went and checked out the review and it was a great read. I've heard there's some crazy and weird things that happen at the end of the game and there's a need to save up lots of gold. If there's one thing I was great at in Fable 2 it was saving cash. By the time I was halfway through Fable 2 I already had all the real estate and had raked in several million in gold. So much so that every time I booted the game I would have to donate a few million to the temple just to get rid of it and attempt to be mildly rich instead of insanely rich.

I only got into Halo multi-player back when Halo 2 came out. I played much less multi-player with Halo 3, and virtually none with Reach. I fell in love with the series because of the campaigns and universe. The story events and narrative in the games were great at times, convoluted and ridiculous at others, but the universe really shines through in the novels and does the complexity of the lore justice.

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