Month: September 2006
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It’s not yesterday anymore.
Just a reminder – if you’ve been away from the Halo scene for a day or two, you REALLY want to check Wednesday’s news; there were quite a lot of tidbits worth reading.(Louis Wu 01:13:42 UTC)
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HaloOrbit interviews Halogen Leader
Thanks to Oliver “HO Legend” Stopienski, who pointed out an interview with Dispraiser, of the Halogen team, at his website, HaloOrbit. An interesting read, and an interesting choice of release times… (Louis Wu 01:10:22 UTC)
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Halo Wars Trailer in QT
There have been a number of requests for a QuickTime version of the Halo Wars trailer; I doubt there’ll be one coming from Ensemble, so I whipped one up myself. It’s not the full 720p version – but it’s still bigger than the low-res 360p they’ve made available – it’s 480p (852×480), and it weighs…
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H2Vista Screens
In all the rush to cover Halo Wars and the Wingnuts stuff, we totally forgot that Bungie was going to be talking about Halo 2 for Vista in Barcelona today; if you swing by the Xbox Press section, you can grab a 50 mb zipfile containing a fact sheet, some logos, and 12 hi-res BMP…
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I’m pushing for Flaming Gerbils.
Dolbex, in true Dolbex fashion, has put his own spin on the X06 news; things that make him happy, things that make him worried. My favorite kind of Halo/Bungie fan is one that loves Halo (and/or Bungie) without being blind to potential problems; Dolbex shows he fits this nicely. Go read!(Louis Wu 21:11:56 UTC)
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Linkslinkslinks
Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, gathered up a bunch of links to stories about today’s Halo news. You can also check out ICDedPpl’s mention of this CNN Money article. I’m sure there’ll be plenty more – but it’s time to leave the keyboard for a bit…(Louis Wu 20:08:56 UTC)
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Wingnut and a Prayer
Xbox.com article on the Peter Jackson venture… still hard to tell what he’s planning.(Louis Wu 19:44:55 UTC)
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Halo Wars RTS coming to Xbox 360!
We knew about Halogen being cancelled and that made some speculate on Bungie possibly working on a RTS game. Well the rumors are confirmed today: Ensemble Studios, makers of the Age of Empires series of RTS games, is working on a Halo RTS called Halo Wars! There was a trailer shown at X06 today. You…
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Official Halo Wars thread
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/27/ms-announces-halo-wars-a-new-rts/”A real-time strategy game based in the Halo universe has been announced. The project, entitled Halo Wars, will be designed by Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires) “exclusively…
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A new HALO game on XBLA – It’s not H3
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/27/peter-jackson-and-fran-walsh-to-make-new-halo-game-original-ip/Microsoft has confirmed that the Academy Award-winning duo Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (Lord of the Rings, King Kong) are set to create two “new in…
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Halo Newsfest Link Roundup
There’s an embarassment of riches in Halo-related news out of X06: Kotaku: Jackson Working On New Halo Game Kotaku: Halo RTS Announced Joystiq: X06 Live Blog Major Nelson: X06 Live Blog Gamasutra: New Halo Releases, Partnerships GameSpot: Wingnut Unscrewing New Halo Franchise GamesAreFun: Bungie and Ensemble team up for Halo Wars (360) RTS Xbox.com: Microsoft…
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First Deadly Encounter
Xbox.com has put up an item on the Halo Wars announcement; there’s one particularly interesting tidbit there that places the game at the beginning of the human-Covenant conflict: “Halo Wars” places the player in command of human UNSC armies as they deploy for mankind’s first deadly encounter with the enemy Covenant forces. Given that the…
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Bungie Makes It Official
Since real Bungie fans don’t trust a word that is said about the Halo franchise, or indeed any Bungie game, unless it comes straight from Bungie, KP has now posted at Bungie.net to give the official imprimatur to the heretofore scurrilous rumors spread in Spain by Peter Moore and Peter Jackson. To wit: Ensemble Studios…
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Halo Wars RTS coming to Xbox 360!
We knew about Halogen being cancelled and that made some speculate on Bungie possibly working on a RTS game. Well the rumors are confirmed today: Ensemble Studios, makers of the Age of Empires series of RTS games, is working on a Halo RTS called Halo Wars! There was a trailer shown at X06 today. You…
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Backstage With Peter Moore
Major Nelson did a backstage interview with Peter Moore before the press event. Despite the latter’s predilection for annoying golf claps punctuating his presentation, he does redeem himself with his good taste in beer, mentioning that Bass ale is one of his green room requirements. A link to the video interview can be found here:…
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Spartan Group Omega
The press event saved the best for last, in an almost Steve Jobsian “just one more thing” sort of way, with a trailer for Ensemble Studios’ upcoming Xbox 360 title, Halo Wars. It features a battle between Human and Covenant forces, as well as Spartans other than the Master Chief. The latter, of course, has…
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Official Halo Wars thread
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/27/ms-announces-halo-wars-a-new-rts/”A real-time strategy game based in the Halo universe has been announced. The project, entitled Halo Wars, will be designed by Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires) “exclusively…
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Impact Of A Movie, Interactivity Of A Game
Peter Jackson has just been on stage with Peter Moore to announce the formation of Wingnut Interactive. I really believe that there is a new form of entertainment that is not a film and is not a game. I am not a game designer. But what I am really interested in is in the idea…
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Halo Wars and Wingnut – Details
Wow. Tons more info on Halo Wars and the new Peter Jackson project is now available at Bungie.net – go read! (There was an amazing trailer shown at the end of the X06 press conference, of Halo Wars – this should almost certainly be available for download soon, from Halowars.com.) Update: It’s up now -…