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At this past week’s New York Comic Con 09 (February 8, 2009), Marvel announced that it will have two new Halo comics in store for fans this year. Neither of which will feature Master Chief but, instead, focus on expanding the overall Halo universe. The first of the two planned… Continue Reading »

Halo has gone from being a mere video game to a full scale phenomenon and the engine shows no signs of stopping. Its third installment has sold an amazing 8 million copies and sold $170 million worth of games in the US in its first 24 hours. In his keynote… Continue Reading »

Halo fans may have another item to add to their holiday wishlist - the Halo Trilogy - The Complete Original Soundtracks boxed set. Sumthing Else Music Works’ has just announced that the five disc release, which also comes with four tracks from Halo Wars will be available both in stores… Continue Reading »

According to Bungie’s community and PR director Brian Jarrard, Halo 3: Recon, the recently revealed standalone campaign expansion pack for Halo 3, may very well be the company’s final game to use the Halo property which it created (and is now owned by Microsoft Game Studios). Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Jarrard… Continue Reading »

Bungie has finally confirmed that more achievements are being added to Halo 3 as well as several other upgrades. According to the announcement, the ten Achievements are part of the “Title Update 2” (aka TU2) which, putting an end to many rumors, is “not ushering in a new ‘BR spread,’… Continue Reading »

According to our traffic reports, you, our valued readers, crave more data on the Halo 3 “Marathon Man” achievement. I will not lie, this warms my heart. It means that there are new players still trickling into the game, a phenomenon I heartily doubted would occur. At the very least,… Continue Reading »

A lot of lesser known, smaller games got their moments in the sun at the Game Developers Conference, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t any love for more established, smaller sized games. Xbox Live’s Arcade has been one of the providers of tiny games that get you and all your… Continue Reading »

Looking for a legit response for my previous post titled “Am I getting old or is game text getting smaller?” I contacted the PR department for Bungie. In the original post, I made a physical measurement comparison of the word “Campaign” used in the main menu of each of the… Continue Reading »

If my eyes are getting worse, I might have to blame game developers and publishers. No, I’m not sitting too close to the TV while gaming (10 feet away, thank you). Instead, the in-game text is getting smaller and more difficult to read. Case in point: I physically measured the… Continue Reading »

Xbox 360 fans can heave a big sigh of relief. Bungie, developer of the Halo series, told Eurogamer that it intends to continue producing titles exclusively for the Xbox 360. Jonty Barnes, Bungie’s Executive Producer, said that Bungie hopes to maintain a strong relationship with Microsoft and that it has… Continue Reading »