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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • AH: Weekend Hunt

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    Got just a few Hunts going on, but with 20x XP in Gears 2 this is hardly surprising.

    First up we have jnp08 killing zombie after zombie inLeft 4 Dead, going for all achievements including Crash Course DLC.
    Saturday, July 24th at 12pm AST (Alaska Standard Time)/4 EST
    Get in contact with jnp08 here on Achievement Hunter

    Next we have Damaster11 with the big one, 20x XP event inGears of War 2, ideally he needs 8 people to boost XP in social King of the Hill. The man has a plan!
    This really started yesterday, and will finish when the XP modifier does on the 25th.
    Contact Damaster11 here on AH, or via his gamertag of the same name.

    Finally, RoboDevil returns again with two games for the weekend. Halo 3 which will be the 24th, he needs 3 people for a quick Legendary playthrough. On Sunday the 25th it’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 going through Onslaught mode once on Easy, and then again on Hardcore!
    Contact the man here on AH, or via his Gamertag: Masked Cleric

    If you want to host a future Weekend Hunt, post the details in this group thread to get some frontpage attention.

  • Wow! Bungie’s Forge World in Halo: Reach is killer.

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    BTW: Halo: Reach with $20 gift card @ Walmart $59.96. Free shipping to your door day of release. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Halo-Reach-w-Bonus-10-Walmart.com-eGift-Card-Xbox-360/14044123

    Those of us that are Undead realize that we probably won’t ever get Halo: Combat Evolved back. Specifically, we won’t get our physics and our pistol back.

    But when we play a Halo game from Bungie, at times, something clicks in us. Something draws us in and captures our attention for hours per day and months per year.

    In Halo: Reach, Bungie has given us something to be very excited about: FORGE WORLD.

    It’s Forge, but it’s huge. LOLHUGE.

    The Forge World, the map in which Forge will run, will be as large as a map from the campaign. Take all the maps from your Halo 3 disc, put them together, and Forge World is bigger. It will take minutes to fly across the map in a Banshee or Hornet.

    But bigger isn’t the only thing that is better.

    Forge itself offers a lot of new fine tuning controls, has a higher forge-object budget (meaning map/game makers can put more stuff in a map), and offers new settings for new objects.

    For instance, you can place a “King of the Hill” hill on a Warthog. Essentially, the hill is a moving Warhog.

    You can rotate objects by a set degree or move them by microunits to make the perfect map.

    And perhaps the best improvement to the Forge engine is this: You can place objects inside objects. That means you can get all kinds of neat shapes but not have to worry about a hill making an object unlevel. You can place a box inside a wall and it will look like you’ve made a ledge.

    We aren’t going to get Halo: Combat Evolved back. But what we are getting in Halo: Reach will be great and well worth the time and money we’ll invest in it. A freakin’ video game.

    I can’t wait.

    And with the improvements of Bungie’s 3D rendering engine, does this mean that they have can tap into a new genre? Can they build world’s that are this huge and gorgeous and put more players on a map? Will this open the doors to an MMORPG?

  • Reach Stage Demo

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    In going over John_117’s video list, I found a GameSpot-hosted 15-minute stage demo from ComicCon in which Sketch and Shishka show off Forge World and some other fun bits – lots of stuff to think about! Go watch.(Louis Wu 14:03:47 UTC)

  • Reach Avatar Items available

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    xIIEnderIIx noticed that the new Reach Avatar items are now available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Some of those are pretty steep!(Louis Wu 14:03:31 UTC)

  • Ferrex talks Forge World

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    Back in March, when the Arena was revealed, Ferrex spent a couple of hours answering fan questions on the Bungie.net forum. We pulled out his answers, reformatted them for easy reading, and posted a local archive. Last night, he did the same thing, this time for Forge World – and once again, we’ve put up a local collection of the questions he answered. (There’s also one pulled from a totally separate thread – but the question – and its answer – are very relevant.) He’s hoping to do another round tonight – but for now, read this batch; it’s chock-full of Bungie goodness.(Louis Wu 13:24:09 UTC)

  • Friday Caption Fun, Round 102

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    It’s Friday, right? So there’s probably a new Friday Caption Fun at Hawty McBloggy’s, right? Right. She’s got amusing responses to last week’s pic, of course, and for this week’s pic, she chose the Blame Stosh replacement pic Brian included in last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update. Go caption it.(Louis Wu 13:23:20 UTC)

  • Fire Team Zulu: Spirit of the Wolf/Raceway

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    FyreWulff continues his Fire Team Zulu challenges, Forge World bombshells notwithstanding – today’s choices include a Campaign challenge on Coastal Highway, and another on Tayari Plaza. (No Firefight challenges at all this week.) They both sound fun – go try ’em!(Louis Wu 13:22:59 UTC)

  • G4’s Liveblog, with Options

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    We mentioned yesterday that G4 was going to liveblog the Reach Panel at SDCC – they did. If you don’t feel like reading the liveblog replay, Kaboris transcribed the whole shebang on our forum. Interesting read!(Louis Wu 13:22:23 UTC)

  • New Firefight/MP screens

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    ElzarTheBam pointed out a thread on Bungie.net that links to a YouTube video showing off screenshots we haven’t seen elsewhere yet. There’s a warning that there might be Campaign spoilers mixed in here – but I’m pretty sure that’s a totally baseless fear. What you WILL see are shots of an Ivory Tower remake that will cause the nostalgia to roll through in crashing waves. (There are also shots of other, as-yet-unreleased multiplayer maps.)(Louis Wu 13:21:43 UTC)

  • ComicCon Video Library

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    John_117 collected all the video links he could find in one place – swing by and see what you might have missed!(Louis Wu 13:21:08 UTC)

  • Acme Archives Direct talks Halo

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    Halo Waypoint interviewed a couple of employees from Acme Archives Direct, a company that prints Halo artwork (among other properties). Interesting discussion, and gorgeous pieces! Thanks, CaptainTony.(Louis Wu 13:20:18 UTC)

  • Show Floor Firefight Shakeycam

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    GameTrailers has some Firefight video from the ComicCon show floor – same city map Bungie showed off at E3. If you can’t play, at least you can watch. Thanks, AfroRyan.(Louis Wu 13:20:00 UTC)

  • Forge World Demo at GameSpot

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    GameSpot has a great interview with Chad ‘Shishka’ Armstrong, discussing the ins and outs of Forge 2.0 and Forge World. Almost nine minutes of creativey goodness! Thanks again, Minime637. (There’s a writeup, as well, at IGN – no video, but a couple of pages of description – soak it all in!)(Louis Wu 13:19:20 UTC)

  • New vids from IGN

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    IGN posted a pair of vids – one shows off the Armory (at least what’s in it from the start), the other previews Firefight – a bunch of new info about what we’re in for in September. Thanks, Minime637.(Louis Wu 13:18:45 UTC)

  • Friday’s Fan Fiction

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    Only three new pieces in the Fan Fiction section this week – but it’s a pretty interesting variety! Go read ’em.(Louis Wu 13:17:51 UTC)

  • AH: More Mass Effect 2 DLC coming! Now with more Liara

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    [WARNING: Mass Effect 2 Spoilers about the beginning of the game inbound]

    The oft rumored DLC that involves Liara and the Shadow Broker is finally coming! In the DLC titled Lair of the Shadow Broker would end the plot thread that started in the Game/Comics involving Liara and the Shadow Broker. For those of you who do not know (didn’t do the Liara quests in the game or read the comic) what happened in the comics is that after the Normandy 1 crashed and Shepard kinda died the Collectors contacted the Shadow Broker in order get his body. Liara found out about this and the proverbial shit hit the fan. She fought against him and most of her team died. THEN in the game (if you help her) you can help Liara start narrowing down where the Shadow Broker is hiding and other things my boozed brain cannot remember.

    So that brings us to the DLC. This would (one would assume) bring her tracking of the Shadow Broker to an end with a well written mission and some new dialog! What the pictures show (which I will post at the end) is that she is along for the ride and not squadable. Kinda sad but I would stand to believe that it would kinda mess up the narrative story in the main game. What this means in achievements? I have no clue BUT more Mass Effect 2 DLC means more time that disc gets to spin in my 360.

    Release date and price are TBA. OH LOOK PICTURE!

  • Forge World Screenshots

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    To really get a feel for Forge World, which will ship with Reach, Bungie’s posted a few dozen new screenshots – swing by their website and browse! Warning: Gorgeosity Overload Imminent.(Louis Wu 10:06:21 UTC)

  • Unboxing Reach

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    Another video is available today on Bungie.net, or watchable on YouTube; it’s 3 Bungie bigwigs, showing off all the new retail goodies you’ll be able to buy on September 14. (To my knowledge, Bungie’s never done this before… but Reach is a slightly different beast than the games that preceded it.) They perform a full unboxing of the Limited and Legendary Editions of the game, with commentary… along with the unboxing of the brand-new Halo Reach Special Edition Xbox 360 Slim. (That puppy’s pretty slick-looking…) The bundle comes with the 360, 2 custom Reach controllers, and the game, and will sell for $400 – but only for a limited time. Wow.(Louis Wu 10:01:31 UTC)

  • Forge World

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    So yesterday, while your friendly neighborhood site updater was out until 2 am, Bungie turned the Halo world on its ear at San Diego ComicCon. We’ll catch up at some point, but let’s get started with the big stuff… and the biggest stuff was a new ViDoc explaining Forge World. It’s ridiculous, and it’s unexplainable in a paragraph of text, so visit Bungie.net, download the ViDoc in the flavor of your choice (or watch it on YouTube if you must), and then wipe up the drool, because nobody likes walking in drool.(Louis Wu 09:48:07 UTC)

  • New Bungie Comic-Con Madness

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    Bungie is at it again, outdoing themselves with more intriguing vidocs, and two of them! Don’t you feel special.

    First up, we got some un-boxing action of the different versions of Reach you can get your hands on. And of course there’s the Xbox 360 Slim Reach Edition.

    Second up is probably going to give every forger nostalgia until the game actually comes out. A vast majority of space and tools to help every forger. I’m talking different physics, snap angles, rotations, etc. Bungie has really outdone themselves throwing Forge into one gigantic map. This is a must see for everyone.