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Halo Waypoint was first unveiled three months ago and now Microsoft has released the first screens for the program and even a small video of the service in action. The “new destination for Halo fans on Xbox Live," as it was first labeled, is a channel for the online service of the Xbox 360 where Halo enthusiast... |
20 October 2009
08:01 GMT |
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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 |
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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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Microsoft is one of the biggest companies involved in gaming at the moment, owning a lot of high grossing franchises with a big number of fans all around the world. The software giant is also quite proud of its Xbox 360 console, which has generated a lot of money and is still making a bit more than its arch rival, th... |
18 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
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Development studio Gearbox has been at the center of the news lately for two main reasons, the impending release of its cross between a shooter and a role playing game called Borderlands, which will be quite risky, coming in the face of the behemoth that is Modern Warfare 2, and the fact that Microsoft has firmly den... |
3 August 2009
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It seems that the theme of the videogame world this week has been delay, as more and more games appear to be moving from the fall and winter of 2009 to the greener-looking spring of 2010. Is it fear of the behemoth that is Modern Warfare 2? Is it just a need to put some more work into them? We don't know but thi... |
1 August 2009
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Microsoft has shot down all rumors related to Gearbox creating a new Halo game. Although, usually, the Redmond-based company does not comment on rumors, it seems that the Halo franchise is important enough to get a response out.343 Industries, which revealed at the Comic Con event to be in charge of Halo for Microsof... |
31 July 2009
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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
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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
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The Halo franchise is one of the biggest series of video games in the world, having gained a cult-like following ever since the first shooter came out from Bungie many years ago on the original Xbox. Since then, it has completely rewritten the way shooter was played on consoles and has made a lot of money for Microso... |
29 July 2009
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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
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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
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Recent news has Sam Raimi confirmed as the director of a movie based on World of Warcraft, which has been long in development but has not seen any actual scenes filmed.But as one videogame-based movie gets a director, another loses one, with Neill Blomkamp confirming that he is no longer involved in the creation of t... |
27 July 2009
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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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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important gaming news from the past 7 days. It's been a pretty hectic time, especially since the San Diego Comic-Con started this week, and a lot of companies already prepared some big announcements for this weekend. So without... |
25 July 2009
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Among gaming's most prestigious franchises, Microsoft's Halo series occupies a special place, as it cemented the presence of first person shooters on consoles around the world. Since the first release of Halo: Combat Evolved, the shooter series saw two more iterations, and is preparing for two more, but has... |
24 July 2009
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Microsoft has partnered with heavyweights of the anime industry in order to produce several original short animation films designed to deliver a new perspective over the Halo universe. For the expansion of the Halo franchise in the anime medium, the software giant will collaborate with acclaimed anime creators for th... |
23 July 2009
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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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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
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The Nintendo Wii is a hugely successful console, gaining a big amount of popularity all over the world. But, while it has introduced a lot of people into gaming and has appeared in many households, it has yet to achieve the status of full-pledged gaming console, at least in the eyes of the more experienced, hardcore ... |
15 June 2009
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Microsoft's press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this year was one filled with surprises and new announcements concerning games that were already revealed. One of the biggest ones is Halo 3: ODST, which will act as a prequel to the events in Halo 3, a hugely successful title for the Xbox 36... |
4 June 2009
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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
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The future has always puzzled humanity and scientists, but it has also proved to be an interesting aspect for the gaming industry, which has seen a lot of its creations take place many years, decades or centuries in the future and also offered some interesting views on how things will be then. But thanks to a recent... |
26 May 2009
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Astronomers working with the Very Large Telescope (VLT), operated in Chile by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), finally managed to infer the real size of the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, also known as M87, Virgo A or NGC 4486. According to the recent investigation, it would appear that some of the galax... |
21 May 2009
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The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have been duking it out for supremacy of the hardcore gamer market for quite some time. That is why each of the platforms has focused on getting exclusive franchises for itself, thus making itself much more popular with players who want a great experience. While the Xbox 360 has Bungie... |
4 May 2009
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Halo Wars was one of the most anticipated Xbox 360 titles at the beginning of the year, largely because it was the first new take on the Halo universe, setting it in a Real Time Strategy world, but also because it was the last project for veteran developer Ensemble Studios. Now, after the title has become the best-s... |
23 April 2009
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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
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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
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It seems that there's just no end in sight for the Halo universe. Microsoft and the now defunct Ensemble Studios have just released Halo Wars, a real time strategy title for the Xbox 360, which is seeing good sales mainly due to the name on the game box.Bungie is set to create and release Halo 3: ODST sometime i... |
7 April 2009
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The current state of PC gaming isn't the best, but with the PC Gaming Alliance posting decent revenues and more and more companies joining the non-profit organization, things are looking up. Also, we've seen two of the biggest online services for the old platform, Steam and Games for Windows Live, receive n... |
27 March 2009
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Real Time Strategy games are extremely popular on the PC. Just take a lot at the recent PC sales charts, which are currently dominated by three top strategy titles: Dawn of War II, Empire: Total War and Red Alert 3 Uprising. But a lot of modern RTS games are also launched for consoles, some of them even being exclus... |
20 March 2009
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The gaming industry is a pretty tough one, as a lot of gamers have developed a certain type of loyalty to specific franchises and for developers of new titles it is very hard to make them change their mind. But one of the somewhat newer series managed to break that barrier and went on to achieve a cult status unlike ... |
4 March 2009
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Among new games, not a lot of them have impressed fans quite like Halo did. The hit first-person shooter made exclusively for Microsoft's Xbox and Xbox 360 has taken the world by storm, with its intricate single-player campaign featuring Master Chief and the top-notch multiplayer, which worked seamlessly with th... |
11 February 2009
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Well, another week has passed and with it quite a lot of interesting things in the gaming industry. While this week wasn't as filled with companies being impacted by the recession as usual, we have heard a lot of interesting things about games that will appear this year. While some of them are good, as they have... |
31 January 2009
06:31 GMT |
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The Halo universe is arguably one of the biggest assets of Microsoft Game Studios. The first game, developed by Bungie, was a launch title for the original Xbox and established a franchise that sold a lot of copies, while also making a mythology that generated novels which ended up in top seller charts, an upcoming s... |
30 January 2009
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Halo 3 has surged ahead of not just one but two Call of Duty titles to become the most played AAA videogame on Xbox Live, according to data presented by Major Nelson, one of the most important sources of news when it comes to the Xbox 360.Xbox Live is a very crowded game service, offering those who pay for an Xbox Li... |
30 December 2008
06:12 GMT |
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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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Politics can always be fun, especially around elections. The lengths to which candidates go in order to tarnish the reputation of their opponents and to win the elections is often mind boggling. We've seen candidates accusing each other of misconduct, corruption, or other deeds, but this recent report has reall... |
9 October 2008
08:08 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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The Halo franchise is very important to Microsoft. That being said, with the last title from Master Chief's saga Halo 3 having been launched a year ago and having set new records in terms of sales and popularity, the Redmond based company couldn't leave this series of games to rest. It is already developing... |
2 October 2008
03:28 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
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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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We have all heard about the Large Hadron Collider, it is the biggest and highest energy particle accelerator in the world. Essentially, it is a big ring, located beneath the border between France and Switzerland, with the central part on the outskirts of Geneva. Its purpose is to collide beams of prot... |
19 September 2008
03:33 GMT |
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