Pharrell Williams to host UK Halo 3 launch

Halo 3 is gonna be huge! :D

81 discs per second !! wowz

pharrel williams is more a producer than a rapper he worked with a lot of good rappers like snoop dre and diddy

I have no idea who Pharrel Williams is, but the part of the story that surprised me is that they're producing 81 copies per second.

Awsome i got an email earlier today that i have won tickets for this event through the competition on xbox.com i hope i get some swag :-)

Pharrel Williams, who's that?

gillri "pharrel is great because he gets respect from the rock community as well and blurring the barriers between rap and rock" Biggest load of crap I've read today. As for the actual "event" i couldn't give a toss about this guy, give us the game and leave us be.....

i actually cant go on with out this game i need it lol

I'm tempted to pop down and check this out now.

if you really knew what hodrat really means you would call your self one gilri. Anyway good news for the uk

what you talkhg about grimbee? hip hop is everywhere on Uk streets, all my friends were all into rap when i was a hoodrat, and UK hip hop is getting bigger (as much as i hate it) pharrel is great because he gets respect from the rock community as well and blurring the barriers between rap and rock

81 copies per second,Damn!!!!!!

wow

What the hell does Pharrell have in common with the UK? At least give them a UK celebrity!

:shock: 81 copies per second?!

"Pharrell Williams to host UK Halo 3 launch". I heard that name in a SnoopDogg song (am i right?). But in the Uk - thats really all we know him for. I mean - If they had "Tim Westwood" be the host, that would make sense, because Tim means more to rap in the UK than Pharell does to rap in the UK. Tim Westwood hosting a USA halo 3 launch? Chances are that people who are into rap in the USA don't know who the heck Tim Westwood is! Pharrell may of done alot for the scene in the USA, but seriously his work is not well recognised over here. Because basically over here we only get the tip of the iceberg of rap. We see these "iconic" figures, but they don't do much to the culture out here. Westwood brought rap in different forms over here via radio. His work probably went un-noticed in the USA. But if it wasn't for Westwood, we wouldn't of had Ali G. No Ali G, no Borat... it goes on. Tim means more to the rap culture in the UK, whether they like him or not, because rap is not a UK industry. And it was introduced to us in different forms, and by different artists. Dido combining with eminem - that broke rap into the uk, big style. And the streets made rap a recognised UK format to appreciate. We have "bling" and things like that, but not quite for the same reasons as Americans do. Its like having Shy FX fronting the halo 3 launch in the usa (another example). Nobody in the USA can appreciate Shy like we can in the UK. Rap - in the UK basically means eminem, swearing, bass, 50 cent, the streets... and thats about it. We don't have a rap culture out here where we have our own streets dominated by rap-cultured gangs or whatever. Rap music is part of America's history and you could say that rock and roll is a UK history. Pharell must being paid a LOT of cash to do this event. Maybe Pharrell is trying to use Halo 3 as a means to penetrate the UK market and make him an iconic figure of the rap industry. We see rap music in a different light as Americans do. Just the same as Americans see "techno" in a different light than what we do. Its all about giving Pharrell the light that Halo 3 gives off - not about getting a UK-relevant celebrity. If it was, we would just have someone like Shane Richie or Keith Chegwin... lol Either way - this game is going to sell loads. But its a bit cheap using the games launch as a means to promote your own face :(

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Yeah, the moment he loses he'll produces a gun or something. I remember playing someone in Brixton arcade some 3-4 years ago or something like that. When i beat him the first time he was having a go at the sticks/controls and asking me for a second game... beating him he produced a knife (around 8-10 inch size) and became abusive. He was looking to fight (for real) then demanded i played again, this time i let him win while making it look as though i actually given it my utmost. I made an excuse about running out of 50ps and left ... the title was Streetfighter Alpha 3. Plenty retards around the world its a big place.

"I've never heard of this guy, he can't be that famous." hes a freakin huge music producer. mostly rap, he makes huge hits.hes the one who looks like a skater. hes not a good rapper in my opinion though aside from a few verses. his style is diffrent and he cant decide if hes a 80's singer or a rapper.

i phone up GAME in my area and there NOT having an Midnight opening which is a shame.

this was actually a pretty good time to have kanye west or 50 cent to be a part of this...50s new cd sucks ass though just like his second one lol seriously though does having rappers or rockers or and famous person really host a launch sell more games?

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PHARELL!!! Neptune in the house... i wonder if he'll go with Chad... That's gonna be tight!! Unfortunately i've got an exam the day after the game comes out in Europe so i'll wait till the 27th to get it!!! Geez the shops are gonna be closed here in Switzerland... they dnt do fun stuff like this... :(

"Neosword I've never heard of this guy, he can't be that famous." If you dont listen to rap then you probably wont know who he is. Hes in the Neptunes and I think N.E.R.D.

This is not madness This Halo 3!

I must admit Halo 3 is the top of my list at the moment but with production at that rate (look at rdo's post below) they will probably be finished producing the copies in one day and then just need to ship them. It will sell well but 7 million at launch day would be madness.

MGS4 and Killzone 2 will never amount to the glory that is Halo 3. Too bad PS3 fans -- you lose.

Pharrell is part of the Neptunes and N.E.R.D.

Halo 3 hype has reached the stage where I can finally say it... IT'S MADNESS!!!!!!!!!

im not in the uk so i don't care

6 days and 4 hours till my life is taken away. i must finish the game before school starts

1.25 million pre-orders...wow!!That's alot.Not to mention 81 Halo 3 copies being produces per. second.Dang.All that matters to me is that THE FIGHT IS FINISHED in 7 DAYS AND Xbox Live Halo 3 carnage is brought to life.

This is quite interesting. I would never had suspected Pharell of all people to be hosting such an event. Nonetheless, he's a great producer and it's probably going to help Halo 3 (like it needs any help at this point). :lol:

1.25 million?! those pre-orders are stepping up!

I'm guesing they've made more copies of halo than the amount of xbox 360 produced. and they've porbobly spent more money on halo hype than repair broken 360's. I'm so glad microsft has their prioraties right

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I've never heard of this guy, he can't be that famous.

thats 4860 a minuet, 291,600 an hour, 6,998,400 a day, 48,988,800 a week. pretty sure there will be plenty. making them at that rate must indicate they have very high expictations for christmas sales, maybe doubling the install base.

wicked freaken awesome

Everybody should pre-order then cancel the day before release just to give microsoft a good kick.

Pharrell that's pretty cool :D

same here lisa kicksass

HALO 3 owns and im getting it after school on opening day lol :)

Man you guys should get out more... head to a club or something if you never heard of Pharrell Williams.

I already have my 360 headset toned down song it doesn't pick up high frequency's can't wait for this game. Seriously though I hope the squeakers that played halo 2 have now grown up and have balls

Yes lol Pandramaster! Fly in Master Chief For The Release! And yes it might get quite a bit of press coverage.

Don't know who Pharrell Williams is and haven't ever heard any of his songs so that's no big deal to me. 81 copies per second is pretty awesome though. At that rate, they could crank out the 1.25 million pre-orders in less than four and a half hours. By launch at midnight they could crank out almost 45 million copies. Insane. I've already pre-ordered, but I still wish there were some launch events within driving distance of where I live. Oh, and to the person who wondered how they could do it that fast, they just take an average by burning several hundred copies simultaneously and then dividing by the time it took to burn them all. And I'm sure their burning process is much more sophisticated and faster than your PC will ever be. :)

i don´t think halo is that good, microsoft it´s realy overreacting with this, but i have to admit what an amazing campaign, halo is even in the pizza men!!!. Still XBOX better than ps3

Wow, that's mightily impressive. Except I don't plan on going to London for the launch of one game. I'm not much of Pharrell Williams fan neither. If however, they bring the Master Chief and fly him in, then that would be extremely cool. I bet the BBC will cover this event because of the sheer escalation of the whole situation. It's excessive and slightly bizarre come to think of it. I want the game purely for the story, I want to know how it ends. Multi player is all fine and dandy, but I need a good story to get me to stay with it.

HOLY CRAP 81 DISCS PER SECOND!!!!!