The new Halo 3 Legendary Map pack is out today and includes 3 new maps: Blackout, Avalanche, and Ghost Town. To celebrate the release of the new map pack, Xbox Live is hosting a Play & Win weekend sweepstakes from April 25th - 27th. You will be entered to win to fabulous prizes when you play the new maps during the weekend. To help celebrate the release of the map pack, The Cavegirls will be on April 26th from 6 PM to 8 PM pacific playing on the new maps. To register your gamertag and learn more information, please visit: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/h/halo3/legendaryweekend/

See you all online!

This marks the start of Cortana’s Daughters (CG’s) first official Recreational Challenge to the Loading Reality Core (LRC). It was a fast paced game and loads of fun! LRC came out with a strong start and captured C and B right off the bat, however the CG’s weren’t far behind to take B away from them. As the game progressed A and C swapped hands many times while B was mostly controlled by the CG’s. Lovegoddess and Beatrixkiddo23 both called in Airstrikes this match and Mindless had one heck of a spot at A to constantly kill us with. The CG’s demonstrated AWESOME team work and while LRC put up a good fight, the CG’s won this round 200 to 143.

Unfortunately, the picture that I took of this is so blurry I can not see the individual scores, other than to see the final score, it appears that LRC’s team all individually scored in the 200 range and I have not a clue what the CG’s scored because of the glare. Other than that… heres how the game went. CG’s controlled this game pretty well capturing territories quick and holding them for most of the allotted time. LRC threw lots of Flash grenades our way and Dallavalamp serenaded us with a stunning rendition of “Blinded by the Light”. Primal was brutal with her Martyrdom and the CG’s sense of direction on this map leaves little to be, not to mention LRC was killing us through walls A LOT!!!! However, the CG’s pulled off the win 200 to 70.

OK well… bad news on this one is I can’t even see the score… LOL my picture taking of the TV skills are apparently lacking… its super hard to take a picture of the TV screen so quick!!! That’s one of the downfalls of COD4 that there is no way to go back a check everything. Anyway… the only thing I know for sure is that LRC kicked our butts!!! I don’t really have much to report on the CG’s side but let me tell you a little about the LRC team; First off… Strunky is the C4 CHAMP! That man is C4 crazy!!! Signal was a fragging fool, Mindless was a “Peeping Tom” lurking and shooting us through windows and Miss Primal (cough cough trader cough cough) called in at least one Airstrike and an Arnold (Helicopter). Awesome victory LRC!!!

Man my picture on this one didn’t turn out either!!! From what I see…. It looks like the score might have been 750 to 680 which is just a matter of a 7 kill difference. Strunky was responsible for this game type and I have to say, we all had a blast!! Since COD4 does not have friendly fire on in about 95% of their game times they have this Hardcore option where friendly fire is on and where you literally have NOTHING to go on! No radar (unless earned), no score, no record of your bullets or grenades!! It was a challenge to keep up with everything but that’s what made it so much fun!!! Dallavalamp was our Queen of the UAB (radar) while PrimalFear622 was able to give her team the most support in that area. SignalGhost called in an Airstrike for LRC and Shiner Chick called in an Airstrike for the CG’s, although… I think she killed Dallavalamp in the process HAHA. So Cavegirls win this one, but we just barely squeaked it out!

WOO HOO I got another useable picture!! LRC pretty much lead this entire game, they were all on point and it showed. Again… Strunky was in full force with his C4 and somehow Shiner Chick and Lizzjadie kept getting caught up in the mix!! MindlessFear917 was a shanking fool, not to mention he must have Noob Tubed Dallavalamp at least half of his kills! So after all 5 games, MindlessFear917 has a new nick name “Peeping Tom Noob Tubing Shanker” HA! Anyway, PrimalFear622 was holding things down with the building mounted machine guns and was totally mowing down the CG’s one by one. The CG’s held there own but it was not enough to come out with a win, Loading Reality Core wins another great match. As a side note, I think that Softchew was in like stealth mode the entire time!!! And MindlessFear917 likes to play on the “sand maps”. HAHAHA

Overall I believe that our first Rec Team Challenge as Cortana’s Daughters was a HUGE success!!! We absolutely could not have played against a better group of people who we all know and love!! Loading Reality is an awesome community and their members are fantastic!! Please visit their site at [URL=http://www.loadingreality.com]www.loadingreality.com[/URL].

Our next challenge is Sunday March 30, 2008 against the guys of AoR Veracity, it will be a Halo 3 challenge so we can count on reliable pictures for this one.

Congratulations to Dallavalamp for being April's Cavegirl of the month. She was selected for her organizing of ladies nights, suggestions, and leadership within the clan. We are very proud to have her a part of The Cavegirls and hope she brings even more positiveness to the clan. With that said, we wanted to get to know our Lava a little better, so we asked her some questions. We encourage you to ask her questions yourself in the comments or forums. Congratulations again, and now on to the questions!

Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do?
I was born in Massachusetts and moved to Texas when I was 7 where I grew up in Corpus Christi – the city by the bay. Yes, that’s the city’s motto. Went to University of Texas (Hook “em Horns!) and graduated with a degree in Advertising. Did the advertising thing for a bit and didn’t like it very much. Decided to go into sales at Apple in 1996. I’ve been here ever since – with a variety of jobs from sales person answering incoming calls to a manager to a project manager (which I am now). Good thing too cuz I met my hubby here. We celebrate our 7 year anniversary on April 7th.

How did you find out about the Cavegirls?
I played in a random match with Girlwolfie on Ascension playing Capture the Flag . She told me about the group and then I met up with Cayote and some other girls. Thanks Sarah!

How long have you been with the Cavegirls?
A little over a year

How did you get started into gaming?
I’ve been gaming since I was about 12 or 13. I used to go to arcades to pass the time and got really good at Moon Patrol and Ms. Pac-man. In high school, my two best girlfriends and I (shout out to Mereduff and Hopey) played Super Mario Bros pretty much every weekend. Once in college, Hope and I would go to the arcade right by campus to relieve stress and spent about 6 hours at a time playing Streetfighter 2. I was E. Honda. Why I don’t know – that dude was NOT nimble, but he had the hiya karate chop. Then, after college, I would play various things on the Playstation, Playstation 2, XBOX, Nintendo and then finally the 360.

Why do you like playing games?
Strategy, Competition, Social aspect, stress reliever, distraction

What are some of your favorite games, and what are you currently playing?
Nintendo Games – Super Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong Country
Playstation - Kingdom Hearts, Champions of Norrath, Gauntlet, Dark Alliance
Xbox – Halo, Halo 2
Xbox 360 – Halo 3, Gears of War, Mass Effect
Game I always wanted to play but didn’t have a GameCube – Eternal Darkness

What has been your favorite Cavegirl event or moment so far?
Meeting the various Cavegirls online and at PAX. It’s been awesome

When not gaming, what do you enjoy doing? Do you have other hobbies?
I read a lot, I love to write (I actually wrote a TV series pilot one year cuz I was bored) and Photography. Check out my stuff yo: rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://web.mac.com/djlopu

Favorite music?
Dance (Techno), Hip Hop, Rock - I will pretty much listen to anything. Hubby has a side business as a DJ, so we own a lot of music.

Tell us something weird or unusual about yourself. Do have a special talent?
Something weird. I think I’m just kind of weird in general. Hmmm, I think my photography is my special talent. Other than that, maybe my weirdness is my randomness.

What is your greatest Halo 3 accomplishment so far?
Just the other day in a Ranked Big Team game, I jumped over an incoming Warthog, stuck the windshield, it blew up and right after I leap frogged the about-to-explode Warthog. I have the film saved, I just need to save that clip. But I would say in total, it’s generally my grenade abilities. I would prefer to use a sticky or spike grenade as my primary weapon. I can launch them pretty far. If you look in my file share, you will see a great series of 3 screenshots. I launch a grenade on The Pit, running out of the invis corridor. I hit the players foot who was hiding under the sniper/turret spawn. That was awesome!

I like this one – it looks like I’m being chased by a giant fireball. That is all the questions we have! Now it's your turn to ask the questions.