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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 common complaint echoing in various outlets coming from long-time gamers is that modern video games are getting easier and easier as time goes by, with developers and publishers pandering to the needs of new gamers, who are less experienced and less able to complete tough titles. But research undertaken by Bruce... |
28 October 2009
05:18 GMT |
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14:00. I put in the Multiplayer disc. I guess I got used to all those PS3 titles that ship on Only one Blu-ray. Campaign label is small.14:02. In a galaxy, far, far away... I know that's Star Wars but the initial intro is built up the same way by Bungie. Nice clouds in the cinematic sequence.14:04. “They m... |
6 October 2009
17:41 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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Microsoft seems to be going through a weird period. First, it announced that, for two weeks, the Xbox 360 Elite, which is at the moment retailing for the lowered price of 299 dollars, was set to receive a 50-dollar rebate between September 22 and October 5. And, now, the company has set the price for the Sergeant Joh... |
23 September 2009
08:11 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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Bungie is saying that there's a very good chance Halo 3: ODST, which is set to be released on September 22 exclusively on the Xbox 360, will not be getting any downloadable content mainly because of the work that development studio needs to do on Halo: Reach, the prequel to the series that is set to arrive in 20... |
8 September 2009
16:31 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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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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A while ago, a couple of big retailers, Best Buy among them, and even Internet-based Amazon announced that they planned to enter the used game business dominated by the videogame-oriented GameStop.Now, Best Buy seems to be ready to make a big move, with some stores running a promotion that promises players new games ... |
11 August 2009
03:56 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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Microsoft has announced that all the players who would pre-order Halo 3: ODST, set to be released for the Xbox 360 on September 22 for the price of 39.99 dollars, should get a chance to unlock Sgt. Johnson as a character that can then be used in the Firefight game mode.Johnson is one of the big icons of the Halo seri... |
19 June 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Microsoft has agreed to license two patents from Paltalk for technology that was integrated into a couple of titles from the Halo franchise. Paltalk had to take the Redmond company to court in order to get it to pay for using its intellectual property. The patent infringement lawsuit filed against the software giant ... |
5 June 2009
03:53 GMT |
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For all hardcore gamers, the kind guys who watch their points increase in their Xbox Live profile as they play more games and as they unlock more Achievements, February 2007 was a landmark moment, with an announcement that shaped the way they saw their universe and played their videogames. It's the moment when M... |
1 May 2009
08:21 GMT |
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Earlier in the year, Microsoft made quite a good move when it announced that it would package Resident Evil 5, the latest installment in the zombie shooter franchise from Capcom, with an Xbox 360 console, probably contributing to the title selling better on the Microsoft made gaming device than on the PlayStatio... |
22 April 2009
04:46 GMT |
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Dorling Kindersley, aka DK, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Microsoft related to the creation and publication of a Halo Encyclopedia.The publication is set to be the only official reference guide that takes information from games like Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo Wars and Halo 3... |
17 April 2009
13:11 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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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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With the Game Developers Conference going on, this week saw a lot of news coming out of that reunion of game creators. This doesn't mean that all the interesting pieces of news were about designs, awards and keynotes. Here's what caught our eye these days.On Monday, we found out that Nintendo was planning o... |
28 March 2009
09:11 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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The gaming industry has certainly seen a lot of trends appear, especially in recent years. The launch of new content in the form of either expansions, map packs or new characters through the Downloadable Content method has certainly gained mainstream success with fans, especially due to the Xbox Live, PlayStation Net... |
24 March 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Last week we saw the NPD Group, which specializes in market research, release their monthly charts showcasing the sales of gaming hardware and software in the United States of America. The results were, as always, pretty much the same as any other month, with Nintendo's Wii and related games dominating their opp... |
23 March 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Over the years a lot of video games that must be part of every gamer's library have appeared. For Xbox 360 owners, there are quite a few titles that definitely need to be present on their game shelves at home. Such titles are Halo 3, Mass Effect or Project Gotham Racing 4, which took Microsoft's Xbox 360 c... |
17 March 2009
03:38 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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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
04:20 GMT |
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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
17:21 GMT |
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What's a recession hit gamer to do when he hasn't yet played the biggest videogame releases of 2008 even if the gigantic titles of 2009 are knocking at his door and ready to claim share of their wallet? Renting games, although frowned upon by videogame publishers, is clearly the way to go here and companies... |
16 January 2009
03:45 GMT |
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A few days ago, we talked about a Republican Congressman who wanted to add warning labels to videogames, telling potential buyers that there was a significant link between violent titles and increased aggressiveness in individuals. It doesn't matter that there's little real evidence for that link and that a... |
15 January 2009
12:11 GMT |
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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 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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A quick glance at the NPD data for the United States related to the month of September showed a picture that seemed gloomy to most people. After all, sales of videogame related hardware went down and big releases like Madden NFL and Mercenaries 2 failed to become blockbusters. But the analysts who watch the vid... |
20 October 2008
15:21 GMT |
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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
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A new NPD study shows that more and more girls are interested in videogames and especially to online virtual worlds. The main attraction is the built in social element that they exhibit and the fact that they are easy to play.1,541 girls were questioned as part of the study and over half of them claimed that they spe... |
26 September 2008
03:05 GMT |
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Bungie has confirmed that Title Update 2, which is basically the second update to the Xbox 360 game, introduces new Achievements to Halo 3. There are also a few changes that are made to the game itself, other than adding Achievements.The people at Bungie say that they are adding better online support, with rarer occu... |
10 September 2008
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With E3 criticized for not being the show that it should be, some videogaming industry companies are looking to other events as places where they can announce their most interesting projects. Microsoft has recently held its Gamefest 2008 conference and now it's talking about the future of the Halo franchise at C... |
28 July 2008
19:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is announcing that July 7 is to be declared "Bungie Day" in honor of the brave souls at the game developing company that have sacrificed themselves in order to bring you, faithful gamers, three full Halo games before the pain grew too strong and they had to separate themselves from Microsoft. It's not ... |
4 July 2008
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Microsoft corporate vice president John Schappert signed an open letter targeted at gamers all over the world, describing how Microsoft supports game development on different platforms and the PC is still one of the most important markets for the company. Considering the mind set the "PC gaming is dead" which seems t... |
27 June 2008
18:16 GMT |
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What does the US Army do when it misses its early recruitment targets? It expands the target demographic so as to meet its recruitment efforts. And one of the segments that caught its attention are gamers.The Army is planning to create a pilot recruitment center billed as being inspired by the interactivity features ... |
18 June 2008
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Forbes has decided to compile a Top Ten of the best selling videogames on the American market, so it enlisted the help of the NPD, a company that watches the videogames market and puts out monthly reports on sales figures. The results were a bit surprising and showed a relative minority of titles having a secure grip... |
9 June 2008
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Frank O'Connor, who has served as content manager for Halo developer Bungie Studios, is saying that he is leaving the company to join Microsoft, the company that published Halo and was the owner of Bungie.As part of a Weekly Update posted on Bungie's site, O'Connor has stated his reasons for the move. ... |
21 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Immediately before the release of Halo 3, the (apparently) last game in Master Chief's interplanetary saga, rumors began to surface that the Halo universe would be used as support for a real time strategy title set years before the events of the original Halo, as the Covenant and the Earth forces are engaged in ... |
8 May 2008
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Officially released in January with a price of 800 Microsoft Xbox points the map pack is now free downloadable content for the Xbox console. The main reason for this rather surprising move is that a new map pack, dubbed the Legendary Map Pack, will make its way to the Xbox 360 on April 15. The price will remain the s... |
26 March 2008
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Michael Pachter estimates that the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto sequel will sell over 9 million copies during the fiscal year and, even more, that no less that 6 million copies will be sold during the first week - if these predictions turn to be true, we'll definitely have a record that will be hard to be... |
13 March 2008
05:13 GMT |
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Halo 3 isn't the success it was billed to be. Although it won some GOTY awards, most recently from 1up, the game developed by Bungie for Microsoft is not the smash hit that it was supposed to be. FPS rival Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare sold better in the holiday season and now the same CoD4 is becoming the most... |
27 February 2008
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