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The Guinness World Records organization has announced the Top 50 Video Game Endings of All Time, as voted by an audience of 13,519 gamers, with the last level of Call of Duty: Black Ops from Treyarch and Activision coming out on top.
The full countdown includes:
50. Resident Evil 4
49. Star Wars: Knights of the ol... |
11 February 2012
02:14 GMT |
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The Major League Gaming association has announced that the upcoming Winter Championships event will see Halo: Reach return as a competitive video game franchise, with players able to compete with each other for a prize pool that comes in at 56,000 dollars (42,089 Euro).
The Winter Championship will take place betwee... |
10 February 2012
02:27 GMT |
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Halo: Reach will receive a much-needed title update in October, as Microsoft and 343 Industries confirmed that it would add quite a lot of improvements in terms of gameplay, while bringing back the classic Magnum pistol from Halo: Combat Evolved.
Microsoft, the owner of the Halo franchise, made quite a few big ann... |
30 August 2011
04:30 GMT |
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The Halo franchise didn't exactly manage to bring in new players with the last two releases, ODST or Reach, as Microsoft Games Studios Corporate Vice President Phil Spencer acknowledged that the series had always shined its focus on Master Chief, its main character.
Microsoft's Halo franchise saw the rel... |
12 July 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Video game developer Bungie has released a community-focused mobile application called simply Bungie Mobile and says that this is just the first move in a wider new focus for the company, which aims to make it easier for players to connect with its titles when they are on the move.Bungie Mobile is designed to allow g... |
16 June 2011
03:31 GMT |
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Xbox 360 owners that were given entry into this year's new System Update Preview program are now receiving Microsoft's new Xbox 360 discs, which, according to the company, use a brand new format as opposed to the current dual-layer DVDs.
Microsoft knows that its Xbox 360 is lagging behind the PlayStation... |
12 April 2011
03:45 GMT |
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When Microsoft announced that last fall's Halo: Reach, the last game in the series created by original developer Bungie, would be launched on the Games on Demand service for the Xbox 360 home-gaming console, players saw it as a sign that the publisher is becoming more conformable with the idea of digitally distr... |
18 March 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has just reveled what sorts of special deals will be offered to Xbox Live members in the first half of the month, ranging from bringing Halo: Reach to Games on Demand as well as offering a free Xbox Live Gold weekend.
First off, those that still have an Xbox Live Free account can check out all of the pri... |
4 March 2011
14:21 GMT |
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The Defiant Map Pack for Halo: Reach has just received a concrete release date from Microsoft as well as a new batch of screenshots ahead of its launch next month.
Microsoft has been hyping up its hardcore offers and, besides the Gears of War 3 multiplayer beta, which received new details earlier today, has now su... |
25 February 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Halo: Reach, Microsoft's most recent entry in its extremely popular franchise, will be on the receiving end of a brand new add-on, in the form of the Defiant Map Pack downloadable content.Halo: Reach was one of the biggest Xbox 360 exclusives of last year, and impressed quite a lot of people with its touching st... |
15 February 2011
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A new report from the NPD Group shows that 15% of children in the United States are hoping to get either a video game or a piece of hardware for Christmas, with first-person shooters being the most requested games and Nintendo leading when it comes to console purchasing.
The Kids Industry Data Service report from ... |
21 December 2010
16:31 GMT |
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A new set of data from online game tracker Raptr suggests that the Cataclysm expansion for the World of Warcraft MMO has failed to excite the player base very much, with the average playing session after launch being just a little over two hours, the same as for a blockbuster modern first-person shooter title.
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20 December 2010
05:53 GMT |
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One of the leading developers working on Halo: Reach at Bungie has said that, early in the development of the multiplayer side of the first person shooter, the team was working on creating a player versus players version of the space battle game seen in the mission “Long Night of Solace,” which comes abou... |
2 December 2010
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Microsoft, as the publisher, and Bungie, as the developer, have introduced seven new Achievements to Halo: Reach and added another 250 Gamerpoints to Halo: Reach with the launch of the new Noble Map Pack.The new downloadable content pack can be downloaded from Xbox Live and the price is set at 800 Microsoft... |
1 December 2010
04:10 GMT |
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Halo: Reach, one of the best selling titles of the year, has just received its first piece of downloadable content, in the form of the Noble Map Pack, which adds three new maps to the multiplayer mode of the first person shooter.The Noble Map Pack adds three new maps to the already impressive multiplayer roster of th... |
30 November 2010
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A report coming from Raptr, which tracks the online gaming habits on modern gaming consoles, says that the newly launched and record breaking Call of Duty: Black Ops has seen an average play time of about six hours daily on the Xbox Live service from Microsoft, about the same levels as other big name online shooters ... |
25 November 2010
04:36 GMT |
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Seeing as how Halo: Reach, the newest installment in the first person shooter, has once again proved to be one of the most profitable games released this year, Microsoft is looking to really take the franchise to new directions with its newly-established 343 Industries studio.In order to do so, the company has just p... |
18 November 2010
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It's been a very busy week at Softpedia, as we posted two reviews, one for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 and the other for Lego Universe, not to mention a quick look at James Bond Blood Stone 007.For those that want more reading material, we also posted a Weekend Reading piece about next week's Call of D... |
7 November 2010
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Bungie has just removed the rank cap in its newest and most successful game to date, Halo: Reach, after gamers plowed their way through more than 117 million Daily and Weekly challenges.Halo: Reach was launched back in September and even though it was exclusive to the Xbox 360, sold a lot of copies around the world a... |
4 November 2010
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The NPD Group, a market research firm which tracks hardware and video games sales for the United States market, has talked about its decision to limit the actual sales figures that it is offering in its monthly reports, which some have criticized as making the public less aware of the trends and tendencies in the vid... |
26 October 2010
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Medal of Honor, the first person shooter developed by Danger Close and DICE and published by Electronic Arts, has managed to take the number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart in its first week on sale despite some pretty unflattering review scores.The reboot for the franchise takes players to the mo... |
21 October 2010
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This week we were pretty busy here at Softpedia, and we not only published two reviews, for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Civilization V, but also a One Hour With Medal of Honor, in order to see if the new shooter is any good and a quick look at Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.We also have a series of diarie... |
17 October 2010
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According to this month's NPD software sales data, Halo: Reach has dominated the opposition, managing to sell around 3.3 million copies in North America.The NPD Group, even though it will not reveal concrete sales data from now on, with its monthly sales charts, has still revealed the top 10 best selling games d... |
15 October 2010
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Halo: Reach finally received details about its first downloadable content, in the form of the Noble Map Pack, which, according to Microsoft, will hit on November 30.Halo: Reach has been, up until now, the biggest title to hit this season, and is already dominating the Xbox Live multiplayer charts.Interest for the fir... |
15 October 2010
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A report from Lazard Capital Markets suggests that the number of hours that so called core gamers are spending on video games is bigger than ever but that less involved players tend to abandon the console eco system attracted by new gaming possibilities that are less expensive and have attractive business models.It s... |
13 October 2010
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Michael Pachter, who is analyst watching the video game industry for Wedbush Morgan Securities, has said that the video game industry will manage to see a growth of 2.4 percent for the month of September over the same period of 2009, with the NPD Group numbers set to be released later in the week set to confirm the e... |
13 October 2010
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Halo: Reach, currently one of the biggest titles to hit this fall, appearing exclusively for the Xbox 360, will finally get its online campaign matchmaking feature on October 19, according to an announcement from its development studio Bungie.Halo: Reach has definitely sold a lot of copies all over the world, and is ... |
11 October 2010
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It's been another busy fall week at Softpedia, with the PC version of Darksiders getting a full review, alongside the high flying H.A.W.X. 2 from Ubisoft, and with a Quick Look of the zombie filled Dead Rising 2 and one aimed at Lionheart.But we also have a Gamer Diary series for Civilization V focusing on the t... |
10 October 2010
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It's been another busy fall week at Softpedia, with the PC version of Darksiders getting a full review, alongside the high flying H.A.W.X. 2 from Ubisoft, and with a Quick Look of the zombie filled Dead Rising 2 and one aimed at Lionheart.But we also have a Gamer Diary series for Civilization V focusing on the t... |
10 October 2010
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Halo: Reach, one of the biggest titles set to be released this fall, has just received its first update from its development studio, Bungie, which is now available for download on Xbox Live.Halo: Reach marks the end of the Bungie's involvement in the franchise, but this doesn't mean that the studio won'... |
7 October 2010
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FIFA 11, the football simulation from EA Sports, has captured the number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart, managing to displace F1 2010, another sports simulation, this one from Codemasters and focusing on the current Formula 1 Championship.FIFA 11 is traditionally a best seller and captures the to... |
7 October 2010
13:41 GMT |
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A Bungie executive has suggested that fans of the Halo series might at some point get to play a MMO or another kind of persistent world based around the game universe, just as the development team itself is preparing to create a new world for its next game project..Answering a question about game worlds at the GDC On... |
7 October 2010
04:42 GMT |
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Fans of the Halo franchise can now download a new theme designed to integrate with Windows 7 free of charge from Microsoft. The Redmond company is offering a Halo: Reach branded theme pack featuring exquisite content from the game. “Battle for planet Reach with this Windows 7 theme based on the latest version... |
6 October 2010
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Gamers looking to get the Recon Armor in the latest iteration of the Halo franchise (Halo: Reach) should think twice about using “alternative” methods. Microsoft is warning fans of the game to steer clear of some code generators which promise to deliver the rare armor, but instead infect their computers ... |
4 October 2010
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Halo: Reach, this year's biggest Xbox 360 exclusive, has broken quite a lot of records and, according to Xbox Live charts, is quickly becoming the most played online title, which, sadly, means that a lot of people tried to cheat the system and get special things.If you've been playing fair and square though... |
4 October 2010
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This week has been dominated by a lot of Halo: Reach play, which lead to four gaming diaries and to a review about the final game that Bungie has created in the well known Xbox 360 exclusive series.But we also found the time for a Quick Look at Civilization V, the addictive turn based experience from Firaxis and Sid ... |
3 October 2010
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F1 2010, the Formula 1 simulation title created by Codemasters, has taken the top position in the United Kingdom video game chart from Halo: Reach, the science fiction based first person shooter from developer Bungie and publisher Microsoft.F1 2010 uses the EGO engine, which also powered racers GRID and the new Colin... |
30 September 2010
13:41 GMT |
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“Remember Reach”, says the tagline for the promotional campaign for Halo: Reach. The imperative statement was pretty hard to follow before the launch of the game considering the rather limited knowledge of what happened on Reach that the gaming community had. Sure, we knew it was a significant step in the... |
29 September 2010
08:13 GMT |
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Screenshots posted on the official Bungie blog suggest that their blockbuster Halo: Reach might be getting downloadable content in the very near future, with copies of the game installed at machines at the developer showing more Achievements and Gamerscore points than those available to gamers who have the retail box... |
27 September 2010
05:37 GMT |
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It's been a shorter than usual week here at Softpedia and a busy one, with both H.A.W.X. 2 from Ubisoft and Halo: Reach getting plenty of play time, as exemplified by two Quick Looks and one Gamer Diary talking about the overall feel of the two titles.And for those who love to read about video games we also have... |
26 September 2010
09:41 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: Two video games have occupied most of my gaming time this week, Halo: Reach, the shooter from Bungie and Microsoft, and H.A.W.X. 2, the flight combat game from Ubisoft, and these will be the titles that will also gobble up most of my weekend.H.A.W.X. 2 is a game which cannot make its mind up whethe... |
24 September 2010
16:31 GMT |
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A report from game tracking application Raptr shows that the newly launched first person shooter Halo: Reach, from developer Bungie and publisher Microsoft, has become the most played title on the Xbox Live service, dethroning Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 which dominated the service for the last ten months.Raptr al... |
24 September 2010
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It's nice to be back in powered armor, after the frail human skin I inhabited with my Halo fan persona in Halo: ODST, the moody, jazzy shooter that Bungie experimented with last year.Reach appears to be a last hurrah of the epic, macho, powerful franchise and as far from ODST as two titles in the same series cou... |
23 September 2010
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Halo: Reach, the Bungie developed and Microsoft published shooter that has arrived exclusively on the Xbox 360, has managed to top the United Kingdom video games chart during its first week on sale, ending the reign of the gangster story that was Mafia II.Halo: Reach was a very successful launch for Microsoft, managi... |
23 September 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, the president and Chief Executive Officer of publisher Activision Blizzard, has commented that Bungie is the last of the independent developers that is actually managed as a high level company and has clear business sense.Talking to an audience at the Deutsche Bank 2010 Technology Conference the executi... |
21 September 2010
18:31 GMT |
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Analysts that are watching the evolution of the video game industry have questioned Microsoft's assertions that the upcoming Xbox 360 exclusive Halo: Reach from Bungie and Microsoft will manage to sell better than Call of Duty: Black Ops from Treyarch and Activision.Jesse Divnich, who is an analyst working with ... |
20 September 2010
05:51 GMT |
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This week has been dominated by the launch of Halo: Reach, the final Bungie made video game in the long running series, but there's have been other pieces of news that were prominent enough to make it into this recap.And if you are interested in more video games themed reading you can see a review of the World W... |
19 September 2010
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Microsoft announced yesterday that the new released Halo: Reach made $200 million in its first 24 hours on the United states and the European market, according to neowin.Halo: Reach is a prequel to the first Halo and part of a nine year-old saga, and it offers passionate combats against aliens in a wide variety of se... |
16 September 2010
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Users have reported that the newly released Halo: Reach from Bungie and Microsoft is not playable in the campaign cooperative mode when using a 4 GB version of the Xbox 360 Arcade model with the console maker and video games publisher saying that it is working on a fix for the issue but not offering a timeline for it... |
16 September 2010
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The ten years old Halo saga fans ares celebrating today the release of its latest – “Halo: Reach”, the newest of the popular science fiction game made exclusively for Xbox 360.There are millions of fans that awaited this event and thousands of them attended launch parties held yesterday in London, N... |
14 September 2010
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