The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
Frankie and SketchFactor, over in Barcelona for the X06 event, decided to do a different sort of Humpday Challenge this week, applying their Halo 2 skills to other games available for play.
The two pitted themselves against bots in Shadowrun (the bots won) and then against each other in Gears of War (Frankie won).
Frankie and SketchFactor, over in Barcelona for the X06 event, decided to do a different sort of Humpday Challenge this week, applying their Halo 2 skills to other games available for play.
The two pitted themselves against bots in Shadowrun (the bots won) and then against each other in Gears of War (Frankie won).
To cope with all the new things we’re tracking now, we’ve made some additions to the site. There is now a Halo Wars image gallery and a mirror of the QuickTime version of the Halo Wars trailer; this is a mirror of the same file provided at HBO and re-encoded by Louis Wu.
The image gallery has the five official images from the HaloWars.com website, as well as a series of 17 screen captures from the QuickTime trailer.
There are also keyword tags for Ensemble Studios, for Halo Wars, for Wingnut Interactive and for their upcoming series of Halo games, which for the moment we are codenaming BLAM because no title has been announced.
The Features menu in the left sidebar has a new widget for Ensemble, and this is where the Halo Wars content will live. If you’ve got javascript enabled, each of the hierarchical menus with a triangle sign can be open or closed without reloading the page by clicking the triangle.
To cope with all the new things we’re tracking now, we’ve made some additions to the site. There is now a Halo Wars image gallery and a mirror of the QuickTime version of the Halo Wars trailer; this is a mirror of the same file provided at HBO and re-encoded by Louis Wu.
The image gallery has the five official images from the HaloWars.com website, as well as a series of 17 screen captures from the QuickTime trailer.
There are also keyword tags for Ensemble Studios, for Halo Wars, for Wingnut Interactive and for their upcoming series of Halo games, which for the moment we are codenaming BLAM because no title has been announced.
The Features menu in the left sidebar has a new widget for Ensemble, and this is where the Halo Wars content will live. If you’ve got javascript enabled, each of the hierarchical menus with a triangle sign can be open or closed without reloading the page by clicking the triangle.
From Ensemble Studios’ own web page is this announcement for Halo Wars, which may assuage some of those already screaming that the meagre amount shown in the trailer contradicts known canon:
Breaking News – Ensemble Studios is bringing real-time-strategy to the Xbox 360 and to the Halo universe. Designed exclusively for the Xbox 360, Halo Wars allows you to take charge of the human UNSC armies and see the Halo universe from a totally new perspective.
Halo Wars is set during the UNSC’s first deadly encounters with the Covenant, allowing players to lead the crew of the UNSC’s “Spirit of Fire” from initial skirmishes to an all out war against the evil Covenant.
It’s been pointed out that the very first Covenant-Human encounter was at Harvest, when no Spartans were present. However, I certainly think there are enough gaps in the record of the Human-Covenant war as presented in the novels to place a ground battle on a human colony world with Forerunner artifacts the Covenant want access to, where Spartans are in play and the Covenant are not yet glassing all Human worlds as a matter of policy, or are perhaps avoiding glassing one in particular for specific reasons.
Everybody calm down.
From Ensemble Studios’ own web page is this announcement for Halo Wars, which may assuage some of those already screaming that the meagre amount shown in the trailer contradicts known canon:
Breaking News – Ensemble Studios is bringing real-time-strategy to the Xbox 360 and to the Halo universe. Designed exclusively for the Xbox 360, Halo Wars allows you to take charge of the human UNSC armies and see the Halo universe from a totally new perspective.
Halo Wars is set during the UNSC’s first deadly encounters with the Covenant, allowing players to lead the crew of the UNSC’s “Spirit of Fire” from initial skirmishes to an all out war against the evil Covenant.
It’s been pointed out that the very first Covenant-Human encounter was at Harvest, when no Spartans were present. However, I certainly think there are enough gaps in the record of the Human-Covenant war as presented in the novels to place a ground battle on a human colony world with Forerunner artifacts the Covenant want access to, where Spartans are in play and the Covenant are not yet glassing all Human worlds as a matter of policy, or are perhaps avoiding glassing one in particular for specific reasons.
Everybody calm down.
While I don’t think there’s enough actual content in the Halo Wars trailer to do a full-on annotation, as for the Halo 3 trailer, I did think it worthwhile to try and collect some thoughts about yesterday’s announcements that will be worth pondering in the time between now and when we actually see these new games. Some are picayune details, and some are big questions. First, the picayune details.
For the entire article, click “read more” from the front page.
It’s the Podtacular Update show, where we talk about news and events (as of Sunday the 24th) in the Halo and Podtacular communities, cover some glitching tips, and we light up the stage for “Podtacular night at the Apollo” or Halo comedy people send in. With the usual JVB on a cell phone with people laughing and talking in the background and guest host Stuntmutt, artist of One One Seven, the regular comic on HBO. Pod art is actually related to a story JVB tells later on… you gotta hear it. It’s drawn by Paul Maestri, artist of the Halo Heads comic. Check out his comic, it rocks! Thanks to Ciclonic for editing audio, he did the best he could and so did we since JVB was on a cell phone and Stuntmutt could not find how to lower his volume. I have to apologize for the irony of a Podtacular Update without the biggest update of all that happened just today. (Halo Wars, Wingnut Interactive) Sorry but my time machine’s in the shop. Enjoy the next hour and seven minutes of Podtacular goodness!
It’s the Podtacular Update show, where we talk about news and events (as of Sunday the 24th) in the Halo and Podtacular communities, cover some glitching tips, and we light up the stage for “Podtacular night at the Apollo” or Halo comedy people send in. With the usual JVB on a cell phone with people laughing and talking in the background and guest host Stuntmutt, artist of One One Seven, the regular comic on HBO. Pod art is actually related to a story JVB tells later on… you gotta hear it. It’s drawn by Paul Maestri, artist of the Halo Heads comic. Check out his comic, it rocks! Thanks to Ciclonic for editing audio, he did the best he could and so did we since JVB was on a cell phone and Stuntmutt could not find how to lower his volume. I have to apologize for the irony of a Podtacular Update without the biggest update of all that happened just today. (Halo Wars, Wingnut Interactive) Sorry but my time machine’s in the shop. Enjoy the next hour and seven minutes of Podtacular goodness!
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From HaloWars.com
A Halo RTS for the Xbox360… who would have thought? Apparently Bungie though, and this pre-rendered trailer sets the mood for the game and gets you ready for the epic battles that await! Despite the name (how generic is that?), this game looks like it could be a lot of fun.
Update: If the iPod version was giving you trouble, it should work now. Thanks, h2freak.
| PSP – 6.3MB
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Pocket PC – 3.3MB
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iPod – 9.3MB
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