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Think of Halo 3: ODST as a centaur. Or as a gryphon. Or as a mermaid. Or as any other creature that is half an entity and half another. In the case of Halo 3: ODST, it is clearly half Master Chief and half human. Half classic firefights, pitched battles that never let you hold your breath and get the adrenalin pumpin... |
6 November 2009
04:52 GMT |
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The studio that developed Halo gained its independence from Microsoft in 2007 and set off to make its own games, away from the dominant presence of the giant company. The prodigious son didn't return, but made a child of its own and this one wants to leave the nest as well. A few people from Bungie have formed a... |
8 October 2009
05:03 GMT |
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With Halo 3: ODST released and players currently exploring both the New Mombasa-based, single-player title and the new Firefight cooperative-multiplayer experience, the only Halo-themed video game that is announced and set to arrive in the coming years is Halo: Reach, the project on which Bungie is working and that w... |
25 September 2009
15:21 GMT |
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The biggest release of the fall yet has been Halo 3: ODST from Bungie and Microsoft, which has just arrived on store shelves. With its uncertain status as a full retail package that offers a short story mode set as a prequel to Halo 3 just in the Earth city of New Mombasa, a lot of players wondered about how the Bung... |
24 September 2009
08:14 GMT |
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The Halo family gets a new member in the form of the Halo Encyclopedia, the first official reference book that explains in fine detail all the aspects of the Halo Universe. Every aspect is laid out within these pages be them characters, weapons, locations and history, forming a compendium that stretches out to cover ... |
24 September 2009
06:42 GMT |
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Modern Warfare 2 is just around the corner. The shooter, which has been put together by Infinity Ward and is published by Activision, is set to be released on November 10 and it's carrying so much clout that a lot of companies delayed their games so as not to stand in the way of this firepower-packing behemoth. ... |
22 September 2009
05:23 GMT |
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The latest installment in the Halo franchise, the ODST, should be out today and in the hands of fans just as fast. The Halo universe took off with a bang after the success of the first iteration, with the development of the future series and novels inspired from the game universe. Halo 3 had the biggest hype around i... |
22 September 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Halo 3: ODST is without doubt one of the biggest video-game releases of the fall. What began at Bungie as only a small add-on for the best selling Master Chief-featuring title has developed into a full-blown release, offering new content in both the single-player and the multiplayer areas. And, if you play your cards... |
21 September 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The biggest announcement made by Microsoft at this year's E3 trade show was its working on something called Project Natal, a device that would bring complex motion tracking abilities to the Xbox 360. And on the same occasion, while showing off Burnout Paradise played using the new control method, Microsoft claim... |
14 September 2009
05:43 GMT |
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One of the big new things that fans of the Halo series will be getting in ODST, which is set to arrive exclusively for the Xbox 360 on September 22, is the new Firefight mode. The company has offered quite a bit of details on it and it seems very similar to the Horde mode that Epic Games introduced with Gears of War... |
9 September 2009
08:02 GMT |
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It seems that players are so eager to get their hands on Halo 3: ODST that they have breached the highly secure distribution chain that Microsoft has set up in order to get access to copies of the game.Microsoft is investigating news that the upcoming Bungie-developed shooter has been leaked in France. The company is... |
31 August 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has a lot of high-end games coming to its platform, the Xbox 360, during the following fall season. Out of all of them, one of the most important is Halo 3: ODST, a new title that will stay close to Halo 3 and, hopefully, will guarantee plenty of profit for the North American company and the studio behind i... |
28 August 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Bungie is one of the most appreciated development studios in the industry, having established a name for itself by creating the critically acclaimed Halo series of first person shooters. The fact that it almost single-handedly made shooters work on consoles through its multiple Halo titles is something that needs to ... |
27 August 2009
04:03 GMT |
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We live in high-tech days and many people want their entertainment to be at the highest possible quality, meaning that non-high-definition content might not be everybody's cup of tea as a lot of people have HDTVs and current-generation consoles. That is why you don't see a lot of games running on sub-720p ... |
26 August 2009
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Halo is one of the best known video game franchises out there, gaining a huge number of fans all over the world thanks to the critically acclaimed first-person shooter series made by development studio Bungie.This great success has prompted Microsoft to take over the rights to the franchise and extend it to other med... |
11 August 2009
03:57 GMT |
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The Halo franchise is one of the biggest in the gaming industry, boasting a huge number of fans all around the world. That is why Microsoft and reputed director and producer Peter Jackson were planning a movie and a new game as early as 2006. Sadly, the years passed and nothing was heard about the projects, which ma... |
30 July 2009
16:51 GMT |
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The Halo franchise means a huge profit for both Bungie and Microsoft, which is why the studio, despite moving away from under the corporate umbrella of the large corporation, is still hard at work on two new titles for the game series, Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach. During a recent press conference in London, the sen... |
30 July 2009
03:59 GMT |
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There are quite a lot of well-known development studios active in the gaming industry, but one of them has excelled and delivered console gaming one of its most popular genres: shooter. That company is Bungie, and, thanks to its extremely popular Halo franchise, it has transformed into a household name for many gamer... |
28 July 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Ever since Bungie, the developer responsible for putting together the Halo franchise, and Microsoft, its publisher, have become separate commercial entities, rumors have been flying around that other publishers will be trying to sign Bungie to create a new intellectual property.Since then, the team has put together H... |
28 July 2009
05:36 GMT |
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Bungie is one of the most prestigious studios in the world, but this is all due to the Halo franchise that the company has created. However, this is everything the first person shooter studio ever worked on, so many other developers want it to tackle new and interesting things. But as the Halo franchise was sold to ... |
27 July 2009
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Microsoft has announced that Halo Wars, the real time strategy game set in the universe symbolized by Master Chief, is set to get another downloadable content pack. It will be called Historic Battles and will be delivered via Xbox Live for the price of 800 Microsoft Points, which is the equivalent of 10 dollars in re... |
15 July 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Bungie and Microsoft have announced the final three multiplayer maps that are set to be released to gamers when Halo 3: ODST is launched on September 22. The new title is offering a single player campaign focused on the exploits of a Orbital Drop Shock Trooper squad trapped in New Mombasa, a new multiplayer mode, cal... |
8 July 2009
18:11 GMT |
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The gaming industry has quite a lot of highly popular franchises, but, without a doubt, one of the most successful and to which the Xbox and Xbox 360 owe much of their popularity is Halo. Created by Bungie and currently owned by Microsoft, the series explored a massive story, which is now going to evolve onto new pat... |
3 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Game development is often a risky business, especially when studios that have experience in one genre or a specific franchise approach new things or genres that aren't completely grasped by its staff.That is why studios like Infinity Ward or Bungie, which have specialized in the Call of Duty and Halo projects, r... |
25 June 2009
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The Halo franchise is extremely popular all over the world, thanks to the great games that have been released under the brand. This loyalty of fans has made Microsoft quite eager to further develop the franchise into new directions and, as a by-product, to make even more money off it. Case in point is the upcoming e... |
18 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Microsoft's E3 press conference was a much anticipated one as many gamers and journalists were waiting for announcements about Halo 3: ODST, an expansion of the very popular Halo 3 game. This was also the last project that the original developer of the franchise, Bungie, will be making, prompting even more inter... |
2 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The gaming industry has a lot of iconic franchises that have developed a cult-like following of gamers who would gladly pay any amount of money and spend any amount of time for their favorite titles. Such is the case with Microsoft's Halo IP, which has already transcended from first person shooter to its very ow... |
14 April 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The gaming industry has seen over the years quite a few franchises gain a cult-like following due to their innovative gameplay features, intricate stories or solid multiplayer set-up. Bungie and Microsoft's Halo franchise has become well-known for all of these things, being considered one of the best console sho... |
10 April 2009
02:40 GMT |
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, the weekly special here at Softpedia dedicated to all the gamers out there. This week was filled with various announcements from the gaming companies as the GDC has shut its doors and the PR people went back to work promoting their titles. Without further d... |
4 April 2009
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Bungie is a studio that has been through a lot of things lately. After developing a hugely successful franchise for Microsoft, Halo, it split with the huge corporation and is now following its own internally developed projects to fruition. But this doesn't mean that new content for Halo won't arrive, as the... |
31 March 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Bungie is in quite a strange situation at the moment. It has created one of the most successful and profitable franchises in the history of videogames with Halo and its iconic symbol, Master Chief and had a very lucrative working relation with Microsoft. The developer separated itself from the mothership and is repor... |
27 March 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Bungie has released data showing that players who have bought Halo 3, the latest game in the series featuring Master Chief, released exclusively for the Xbox 360, have played more than 1 billion online matches since the game was released, sometime in September 2007, less than 15 months ago.Bungie says that the billio... |
4 March 2009
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Halo is one of the most popular gaming series out there, having won over a huge number of fans when the first title, Halo: Combat Evolved, shot its way onto the original Xbox. The great single player mode featuring Master Chief and the top notch multiplayer experience are something that other game developers are stil... |
6 February 2009
03:47 GMT |
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Bungie and Microsoft have offered small bits of information on the upcoming Mythic Map Pack set to be delivered for Halo 3 before the official release of Halo 3: ODST, the expansion pack scheduled for later this year. The information appeared originally on an Xbox blog from Austria, but Bungie is now offering a lot o... |
30 January 2009
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In the gaming industry some franchises have gained the status of cult series, with a big number of fans eagerly anticipating anything remotely related to them and ready to buy them the instant they are available. One such series is Halo, which has become a true phenomenon, despite the fact that the team at Bungie, wh... |
27 January 2009
14:51 GMT |
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In the gaming industry, as in a lot of entertainment branches, a few franchises have really stood out from the crowd. Thanks to either the great gameplay or the big number of fans, some things propelled these series to new heights and critical acclaim. Such is the case with the Halo franchise, developed by Bungie and... |
26 January 2009
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We've talked about the teen who tried to use an insanity defense in his murder trial, arguing that Halo 3, his favorite game, drove him to murder. The judge in the case, named James Burge, ruled that this defense strategy was not admissible and that the defendant should be judged as an adult, which could lead to... |
19 January 2009
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A teenager who killed his mother and seriously wounded his father in an incident caused apparently by a videogame has been ruled sane enough to face trial by an American judge. The defense his lawyer team put up, based on the fact that he was made insane by a supposed addiction to the shooter Halo 3, has been rejecte... |
14 January 2009
04:53 GMT |
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Halo has truly been a worldwide phenomenon in terms of sales, popularity and critical acclaim. Originally a small game for the first Xbox, it won over fans through its great story and characters and critics through its innovative gameplay elements and the fact that it handled remarkably on a console.Its sequels, Halo... |
5 December 2008
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Halo has certainly been one of the defining series for the whole Xbox line of consoles. It placed players in the body armor of a futuristic soldier, named Master Chief, who fought for humanity's right for survival against the evil aliens from the Covenant. It took console shooters to new heights in terms of game... |
28 November 2008
03:23 GMT |
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One of the main elements included in the New Xbox Experience, which has just launched for all the users of the Xbox 360 gaming console from Microsoft, is the ability to install parts of a game on the hard drive of the device, if you have one of the two models with an internal storage solution. The idea was to r... |
20 November 2008
20:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has not been too keen to share details regarding the next chapter in the Halo first person shooter saga, which it has dubbed Recon. The game has been rumored for some time, and Bungie originally wanted to present it officially at E3 this year, but Microsoft pushed back the announcement. Moreover, at the Tok... |
14 November 2008
06:28 GMT |
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Bungie Studios remain in the minds of gamers worldwide as the developers of the hit futuristic shooter Halo. They gained fame through this franchise and have brought an unrivaled success to the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles. Formerly part of the Microsoft Game Studios development team, the Bungie staff decided to become... |
22 October 2008
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One of the biggest games for the original Xbox was the first Halo title, which brought the futuristic shooter into people's homes and, with a solid single player campaign, placing gamers into the Spartan armor of Master Chief, captured the attention of the whole world. But it wasn't the single player aspect... |
15 October 2008
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Oh, Microsoft, only you can make a very exciting announcement about a new Halo game duller than watching grass grow. Microsoft has denied Bungie the possibility to reveal their latest project at E3, apparently because the Redmond giant thought it had more interesting things to show (like what? Oh , yeah, Final Fanta... |
9 October 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Halo has really evolved over the years. From the humble origin of first person shooter, the franchise has become the flagship for the Xbox 360 gaming console and has already spawned a host of other merchandise, from action figures to novels. And with Halo themed games not ready for release for another six ... |
8 October 2008
05:33 GMT |
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At long last Bungie tells us what it has been doing and what to expect from the studio. A trailer is now up and available to all those who want to see it. The problem is that, in true Bungie fashion, there's not much information to glean from the trailer.One clue is in the Xbox Live information that accompa... |
26 September 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Man, the people at Bungie really know how to tease us gamers. A few days ago, they launched yet another of their brain bending teaser series which set to culminate later today in an announcement which most of us hope will be related to the next Halo game.It all started way back on September 19, when the Bungie site p... |
25 September 2008
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Ensemble studios are closing, as a result of Microsoft’s deciding that the studio wasn't very profitable. We even read yesterday the opinion of a regular employee on the matter and it was quite hard to digest, to say the least, but until the Halo Wars title is shipped, Ensemble will be kept alive. Now, rec... |
25 September 2008
03:51 GMT |
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Halo was a great game for Microsoft; it single-handedly sold the original Xbox and marked the beginning of a great franchise for the console. It made Xbox Live popular and convinced Microsoft to acquire the studio which, until then, developed games for Macintosh. It became known as the Xbox's best game, with th... |
18 September 2008
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