When he’s not yelling “hibachi” and dropping three-balls, Gilbert Arenas spends a lot of time playing Halo – and boosting his Xbox LIVE stats using a glitch.
Using multiple XBL accounts, he and a friend will start a social game of Halo 3. After they enter, Gil and his friend eliminate the dummy players and use the remaining rounds to boost their own experience points.
When quizzed by D.C Sports Bog writer Dan Steinberg, Arenas owned up to the whole sordid ordeal, saying:
I mean, who is it hurting? It’s two dummy players playing against each other. It’s not messing with anybody. I have my friend, it’ll be him and his fake friend, me and my fake friend, we’ll take turns losing back and forth. There’s nobody involved. I can see if we were playing against other people, [but] it’s not ranked games, it’s social games. So that’s the messed-up part. You can win things off of social, when you shouldn’t [be allowed] to. All you have to do is do what we’re doing. I guarantee everybody’s doing it. I mean, how would they know anyway?
Gilbert is a member of Final Boss, the Major League Gaming Halo team that has won innumerable championships. I’m pretty sure he’s just an honorary member, though, and won’t be seeing action on the MLG circuit any time soon.
