SK take 4th seed for i36 Halo

With i36 just weeks away, Multiplay has released the list of seedings for the Halo tournament.

Multiplay's i-series is the UK's largest LAN event and next month will see the 36th chapter being written. SK-Gaming will be one of the lead characters, as they were seeded fourth out of the 12 teams.

Unsurprisingly, LowLandLions took first spot. SK-Gaming's team manager, Georg "x2Sneeka" Siewert said "LowLandlions getting first seed, was almost as expected. They won Matchbox360 XL 6 and went second at Gameland in Rome."

Siewert was also pleased with SK's seed but remained pragmatic: "Since we didn't place so well last event, the 4th seed is quite fine for us. We will need to beat all of the other teams anyway, if we're going to win." However, he did add that "we're looking forward to play at our best for this tournament."

The complete seeding looks like this:

1. LowLandLions
2. Team Dignitas
3. The Imperial
4. SK Gaming
5. Infused Gaming
6. N! Faculty
7. Outbreak
8. Status Quo
9. Signature
10. Druidz
11. Stricken
12. Aggression

First prize is £1,200 GBP and free entry to the next i-series event (i37). i36 begins on April 9.

Halo Wars sells a million in just one month

2.6 million multiplayer matches and 1 million copies sold in just over a month for Microsoft's console RTS Halo Wars.

Ensemble Studios’ Halo Wars has sold over a million units worldwide. Microsoft also boasts that statistics show that since the game's release at the end of February more than 2.6 million multiplayer matches have been played—racking up more than 118 years collectively of players time and further continuing to attract over 200,000 players a day.

With these stats in mind it’s easy to see why the company is labelling it "the best-selling RTS game on current generation consoles". Halo Wars fast forwards to the year 2525 which sees the early battles raging between the UNSC and Covenant. As Halo Wars is set 20 years prior to Halo, it allows the player to get to grips with understanding the lead up and tensions between both forces that led to the original Halo storyline.

Robot Entertainment the new studio and partner of Microsoft was one of the new studios that came out of Ensemble Studios closure. With the increasing success of Halo Wars, Microsoft has said that they are “working closely” with Robot Entertainment and that "More Halo Wars content is being prepared, so stay tuned."