Finish the Fight at Bitmob's Halo 2 Game Night

In an attempt to "provide the greatest benefit to the Xbox LIVE community," Microsoft will pull the plug on XBL support for original Xbox games on the 15th of April.

This discontinuation extends to all backward-compatible games playable on the 360. So bid farewell to Conker: Live and Reloaded, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, and -- most of all -- Halo 2.

While the 15th of next month will undoubtedly be a sad, somber day, Bitmob plans to liven our spirits with a Halo 2 Game Night!

So keep your Battle Rifle close and hope that Dan Hsu, Demian Linn, Brett Bates, and Rich McGrath provide adequate cover fire this Friday. Here's the game plan:

1. Add Dan Hsu to your XBL friends list. His Gamertag is Bitmob Shoe.

2. Log on to Xbox Live at 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST) this Friday and wait for an invitation.

3. Guard that flag, hold that skull, and drive that Warthog like you life depended on it!

Tags: halo 2, Master Chief, Bitmob Game Night

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Lance Darnell

March 02, 2010

I am so there! I am really bad, though. And you may think "Oh, he is not too bad". but yes, I am that bad. I can trash talk really good, however.

Oh my goodness, I can edit comments!!!!!!!!!

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Brett Bates

Hehe, I won't be providing much cover fire -- but I'll be good cannon fodder for the rest of you. I've played even less Halo 2 than Halo 3!

Luke Flora

I'll get in on this. Halo 2 was my first foray online on a console, and I really enjoyed it for a long while. I've been meaning to get a little more play in before the servers shut down, and this would be the perfect excuse.

Ian Lucier

I'm definitely on board assuming I can get my copy of halo 2 back from my friend.

Omri Petitte

Curse my lack of foresight. I traded off my copy of Halo 2 a long time ago.

Bryan Glynn

Man, I wish some of these events occurred on any other day but Friday. My Fridays are always too busy...

Alex Hann

You can bet that me and my BXR will be there!

Brian Shirk

I'll be there unless something unexpected happens. Hoorah!

DJ Hicks

I tried to add BitmobShoe and it said the name doesn't exist. I'll try again Friday. My gamertag is OrdinarySpartan.

Tom Heistuman

This should be awesome. Dan was lamenting about MW2's party making features and saying that even Halo 2 did more so we shouldn't have that many problems this time. I'm excited to be on Brett's team!

Dan "Shoe" Hsu

March 03, 2010

Ah crap, it's Bitmob Shoe (with a space). My bad! I will fix the article.

Oh, and I can't wait to be fumbling with my controls and playing like an idiot. I'm so used to Halo 3 and Modern Warfare 2's controls....

Demian Linn

Late-breaking rule change, everyone has to play with dukes.

Keith Schloemer

...now where in the world did my copy of Halo 2 go...? I fear a random friend has it and there is no chance of me locating it in time.

I'm hoping there is a Halo: Reach game night in the works for when the beta drops in May.

I will play with a duke! Also, all the map packs are still required to play, so everyone should get on early to download all the packs - it takes about 20 minutes.

And please don't kill me.

Lance isn't kidding about those map packs, but it took me far longer than 20 minutes to get them all. Also, I had downloaded them on my 360 before, but due to some update, I had to download them again. Be warned, even if you downloaded them already, you should probably check a while before game time to make sure they're valid.

@Lance: Crap, good call. Downloading tonight.

March 05, 2010

Yeah, those map packs are silly. My Live name is Thy Lancer. I am going to be hitting Halo 2 early for some practice if anyone wants to join in. After all, we are going up against Demian and Shoe! Although I bet Brett is lying and he is really a Halo god.