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Ten Years Anniversary Brings New Comic and More Content for Halo

343 Industries and Microsoft have announced that they are planning to deliver more content for the Halo brand as the ten years anniversary of the first title in the series is drawing near, although neither of the two companies offered any information about a new video games set in the universe.Halo Waypoint is the fi...

14 April 2011
05:44 GMT

343 Industries Not Interested in Doing Halo Based Side Stories

One of the leading executives of 343 Industries has claimed that the team he is leading is not interested in any minor stories in the Halo universe and that its future plans are linked to creating new and complex fictional stories that are linked to Master Chief. Frank O'Connor, who is the development directo...

8 February 2011
16:41 GMT

Microsoft Talks About the Secret for Halo Success

Microsoft has not yet revealed the future plans it has for one of its biggest franchise, Halo, following the launch of Bungie's last title in the series, Reach, but recent statement from a Microsoft executive suggests that the company is aiming to deliver a similarly wide ranging experience that aims to satisfy ...

20 January 2011
14:51 GMT

GOTY 2010: Best First Person Shooter – Halo: Reach

I admit that there's some nostalgia already at work in choosing Halo: Reach as the Best First Person Shooter of the Year, but that's just a small percentage of what makes the latest Spartan-powered adventure a great game. Both ODST and Halo 3 were more of the same and, while they had the universe and the...

23 December 2010
18:31 GMT

'Brain Maps' Explain Human Reach

A new study conducted at UC Santa Barbara concluded that the brain has several maps in a region called the precuneus, inside the parietal lobe, and these maps are what allow people to reach for different things and plan different movements.The two scientists examined the brains of 18 individuals who made 400 differen...

3 December 2010
11:00 GMT

Halo: Reach Level Cap Will Be Increased

Developers Bungie have unveiled a host of statistics linked to their first person shooter Halo: Reach adding that they are planning to release an update for the game which will increase the level cap for player and will allow them to access new armor with which they can outfit their Spartan II.An official posting on ...

20 October 2010
04:28 GMT

Weekend Reading: Halo Needs to Take a Break

Halo: Reach has been out now for more than one week and initial reports show impressive sales for the Bungie made and Microsoft published shooter that arrived exclusively on the Xbox 360. The big question now is where Halo goes once the love for Reach goes away.I believe that Spartans, the Covenant, the dreaded Elite...

25 September 2010
08:21 GMT

Support for Halo: Reach Will Focus on Multiplayer Maps

Halo: Reach is one of the most important video game launches of the fall and the developers at Bungie are saying that they plan on a long period of offering support and additional content for the game with the focus being on delivering more maps for the multiplayer modes that the title will introduce.In a statement a...

30 August 2010
15:01 GMT

Halo: Reach Pirates Are Permanently Banned from Xbox Live

Halo: Reach is one of the biggest video game launches of this fall and publisher Microsoft has taken some pretty tough measures on those who have obtained the new Spartan featuring game early and have been playing it on Xbox 360 console that are connected to the Live service.It seems that at some point in early Augus...

25 August 2010
17:11 GMT

Microsoft Calls on Halo Fans to Contribute to the Monument of Light

Halo: Reach is set to be launched on September 14 exclusively on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the publisher is stepping up the promotional campaign for the new action shooter by introducing the Monument of Light, a virtual structure set to honor the heroes of the battle of Reach, that will be accessible at Remembe...

25 August 2010
06:09 GMT

Halo: Reach Ad Campaign Will Be the Biggest Microsoft Ever Prepared

A new Ad Age report suggests that the new marketing campaign for Halo: Reach, the shooter coming from Bungie and Microsoft, will be the biggest that the company has even mounted for the video game launched on the Xbox 360 home console.The new campaign will be organized by AKQA and AgencyTwoFifteen from The Interpubli...

24 August 2010
06:19 GMT

Hands On: Halo Reach

Halo: Reach is Bungie's last entry in the Halo series and is one of the most eagerly awaited launches of the year, with its focus on Spartans fighting Covenant forces on the doomed planet of Reach right before the beginning of the original Halo: Combat Evolved.At Gamescom Microsoft offered a playable version of...

20 August 2010
15:57 GMT

Bungie Says Work on Halo: Reach Is Now Done

It's just the beginning of August but the team at Bungie that has been working on Halo: Reach says that development work on the video game is now finished, even though the launch date for the title is set for September 14. The latest installment in the series is coming exclusively on the Xbox 360 for Microsoft a...

2 August 2010
06:07 GMT

Halo: Reach Coming on September 14

Bungie seems to have confirmed that it will be launching one of the biggest videogames of the fall, Halo: Reach, on September 14 in North America and in Europe, with Japanese gamers having to wait one more day before they can get their hands on it. The final title in the Spartan saga will be delivered exclusively on ...

24 May 2010
18:21 GMT

Halo: Reach Beta Extended for One Day

Bungie is extending the play time for the multiplayer beta stage for Halo: Reach for one extra day. The beta was set to be closed down today, May 19, but the developer is saying that players will be able to enjoy it for another 24 hours, as a sign of gratitude for their participation. Brian Jarrard, who is the commun...

19 May 2010
05:58 GMT

Halo: Reach Beta Only Lasts Until May 19

Microsoft has revealed that the beta stage for Halo: Reach will be ending on May 19. Considering that the start date for the testing period begins on May 3, this is quite a limited time frame for fans of the series to see what they might be in for when the full videogame is launched on the Xbox 360 home console from ...

29 April 2010
18:11 GMT

Reach Gets Birth of a Spartan Live Action Short

Microsoft and Bungie are already working hard to spike up interest in Halo: Reach, the shooter featuring Spartan that is set to be launched later in the year. And, in what is becoming a sort of a trend in the videogame world, Reach should get a live action short film, named Birth of a Spartan, which will be aired on ...

27 April 2010
05:01 GMT

Halo Movie Still Something Players Might Get to Watch

The Halo movie was set to be a spectacular project, featuring Peter Jackson, the man who brought the monumental Lord of the Rings to the big screen, as producer, and Neill Blomkamp, the man who went on to make the excellent sci fi District 9, as director.Since 2005, when the idea was first floated around, the project...

13 April 2010
15:11 GMT

Halo 3 Coming to Xbox 360 Games on Demand

For all those who failed to pick up a disk-based version of Halo 3, the shooter that closed the saga of Master Chief for the moment, Microsoft is making things easy. The title will be arriving on Xbox Live Games on Demand on April 20 for all the regions where the service is active. The software giant is not talking a...

7 April 2010
05:41 GMT

Less Grenades, Less Speed in Halo: Reach Beta

The Halo: Reach beta is coming in about one month and it will be quite a huge event, with all the players who have picked up last year's ODST having the chance to participate. Developer Bungie has put out a podcast offering the latest details related to the open beta stage and to the changes that long time fans ...

31 March 2010
16:21 GMT

We May Need ODST to Get into the Beta, but Reach Is More Like the Original Halo

Halo games have always had it big, but none could reach the popularity of the third one, with Halo 3 breaking records and delivering a shock-and-awe tactic upon the gaming community. With heavy publicity leading up to its launch, as well as promises of greatness to which the title actually lived up, in the autumn of ...

19 February 2010
05:54 GMT

Bungie Released Its First Halo Reach ViDoc, 'Once More unto the Breach'

When Bungie announced the day when the Halo Reach beta would kick in, it also promised that it would continue to feed us information along the way until we actually got to shoot each other on The Powerhouse map, but also that it would release a ViDoc "very, very soon." As it turned out, "very, very soon" was sooner t...

15 February 2010
12:01 GMT

Halo Reach Beta Will Begin on May 3

There have been a lot of big announcements lately, and while the biggest one so far has unquestionably been the estimated time of arrival for StarCraft II's closed beta session, Microsoft's X10 event held yesterday might have released a piece of news that was almost just as big. Bungie announced that the be...

12 February 2010
15:01 GMT

Tearing Down Halo: Reach Rumors, the Bungie Way

There have been a lot of rumors going around ever since Bungie announced its Halo: Reach and most of them resonate with either leaked screenshots or short alpha-gameplay clips. Of course, there's also the fact that we know how Reach is going to end, since its a prequel, so it's incredibly easy to reverse-en...

1 February 2010
12:01 GMT

Halo: Reach Is Not Halo 4

Bungie might have made a name for itself with nothing but the Master Chief, and even if it has another installment in the series coming up, the developer doesn't believe that the title should receive a number and join the rest of its productions. The reason is that Bungie doesn't see Reach as part of the Ma...

27 January 2010
05:15 GMT

The Story of Halo: Reach Could Upset the Fans of the Original Book

While Halo 3: ODST didn't manage to topple the previous game in the series in popularity, from the looks of it, Reach might just succeed where Drop Shock failed. And the game has some huge shoes to fill, having to do with more than just rising above Halo 3. We already know how the title is going to end, because ...

22 January 2010
12:31 GMT

Mythic 2 Map Pack for Halo 3 Arrives in February

Microsoft and Bungie are announcing that they are planning to release the Mythic 2 Map Pack for Halo 3 on February 2 on Xbox Live. The three maps that are included in the new package have been previously only offered to those who picked up Halo 3: ODST, via the second game disk, which delivered the definitive multipl...

21 January 2010
04:21 GMT

Halo: Reach Leaks Epic Details

Bungie's Halo: Reach has begun to trickle some details and, as time slowly passes, the game starts to look more and more promising. Already stetting itself up as the most exhilarating Halo yet, after the Video Game Awards trailer unveiled that it would feature an entire Spartan squad, the title seems intent on b...

12 January 2010
05:44 GMT

Reach Gets New Super Secret Multiplayer Mode

The people at Bungie are apparently very busy internally testing a new “Halo Reach Super Secret Game Mode” they are not yet willing to openly talk about. The developers are only saying that it will not be a variation on the Firefight cooperative mode introduced in last year's Halo 3: ODST but somethi...

8 January 2010
04:28 GMT

Weekend Reading: Last Year of the Gaming Decade

Despite what most people think, the decade is not ending when December 31, 2009 passes. We still have one more year of playing before actually ending this gaming decade. Of course, the end of 2010 is not as interesting a moment to do a “Top 10 of the Decade” but the upside is that we have another full 365...

31 December 2009
10:21 GMT

Final Halo: Legends Episode Coming on January 2

Microsoft is announcing that it plans to release a new episode of the Halo: Legends anime series on January 2, 2010. The last piece of the saga is set to be delivered on the Halo Waypoint Xbox Live area for exactly 24 hours and gamers will have a first chance to see it before the whole series is launched on a DVD in ...

28 December 2009
04:44 GMT

Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta Rumored for May 2010

The first proper look at Halo: Reach since the very brief one at E3 has just been released for the whole world to be amazed by. Along with the trailer, a news release has announced that, while it will take a while before we'll be able to drive our bare hands through some Covenant skulls as the mighty Spartan tro...

14 December 2009
14:01 GMT

Halo: Reach Reveal Shows Off Spartan Squad

The Spike Video Game Awards were home not only to quite a few awards, with Uncharted 2: Among Thieves taking Game of the Year, but also to a lot of cinematic trailers for those titles developers and publishers hope would make it big in 2010. And one of the most expected reveals was that related to Halo: Reach, w...

14 December 2009
05:46 GMT

Bungie Had No Control Over Halo 3 Price

It seems that gamers are getting less and less content for 60 dollars this year. Modern Warfare 2 cost that much, including on the PC, but had a laughably short single player experience, even if the multiplayer was as solid as always. And before it, Halo 3: ODST, which was initially described as a simple expansion pa...

14 December 2009
04:18 GMT

Halo: Reach Will Be the Biggest Game of 2010

2009 has been marked by the price cuts enacted by all the three major console manufacturers, which tried to boost the number of consoles sold by making them attractive even during the recession, and by the fact that, for the last three months, the PlayStation 3 from Sony has managed to best the Xbox 360 from Microsof...

11 December 2009
05:15 GMT

Microsoft Has Six-Year Plan for Halo

The prevailing philosophy at Microsoft seems to be that you can never have enough Halo. The recently launched Orbital Drop Shock Trooper content was initially set to be a download-only add on, but it grew into a full fledged 60-dollar title.Bungie was supposed to be breaking off with the software giant to pursue its ...

9 October 2009
17:11 GMT

Halo 3: ODST Storytelling Could Impact Reach

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

Short Development Cycle Precipitated Halo 3: ODST Changes

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

Firefight Will Likely Return in Halo: Reach

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

No DLC for Halo 3: ODST

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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