Microsoft has announced a Halo Reach Xbox 360 bundle. The bundle includes a silver Reach-themed 250GB Xbox 360 S, which bizarrely has custom sound effects from the Halo universe. We’re not exactly sure what this means, but if opening the disc tray sounds like a plasma grenade then we’ll die as happy fanboys, much like Kotaku does on a daily basis. The bundle also includes two silver Reach-themed wireless controllers, Read More ...
Bungie has announced two new modes for Halo Reach at this year’s San Diego ComiCon. They are Forge World and Versus Firefight. Forge World is basically a massive new setting for the Forge map editor that uses the new Forge toolset. It’s basically set on a Halo ring and features five game maps put inside one single space. It allows eight players or four split-screen players to create and edit Read More ...
Today is the 7th July, a day which Bungie have claimed their own for a while now. The developers of the Halo series are celebrating the date with less and less vigor each year, but still had a little something in the pot for the celebrations today. We’re not sure what the studio has planned after Halo Reach is released, as that will be their last Halo title. From then Read More ...
343 Industries is looking for recruits for its first title on their website. It’s been highly rumoured that it will be the next Halo game (as that is what the studio was set up for), but nothing has been confirmed at this point. The big jobs seem to be a mission designer, a senior 3D artist and a senior character artist, but there are a few more going. Halo: Reach Read More ...
Bungie has confirmed that Halo: Reach will have scalable difficulty in co-op. That means that enemies will get stronger when more Spartans join the fray. Higher difficulty levels will make the game even more difficult this time round, as other players push up the Spartan count. This probably won’t annoy us until the inevitable Flood level, when the entire office will have a meltdown. Halo: Reach will be released on Read More ...
Bungie have released a new trailer for Halo Reach’s Firefight mode. We picked up on Bungie’s confirmation of the mode making an appearance during E3 and it did look rather good. Matchmaking will allow us folk without friends to get some firefight on and take down waves upon waves of anti-humans. Viddy:
Bungie has confirmed that the Firefight co-op multiplayer mode from Halo 3: ODST will return in Halo Reach. The announcement was made at a small event in LA last night. The Reach version of Firefight will include new gametypes, Xbox Live matchmaking and in-game editor offering customisability. Bungie showed off some modes they created with the editor, including Firefight Classic (the default mode), Generator Defense that looked similar to Network Read More ...
Bungie went on stage and showed off a gameplay excerpt from Halo Reach. We don’t have much time to talk about it thanks to E3 commitments, but it was really entertaining and we can’t wait to get the full game in TheNPCs’ office. Here’s the video:
Microsoft has confirmed that Halo: Reach will be released worldwide on 14th September 2010. They also announced that the series has sold more than 34 million games worldwide to date, going on to confirm that 2.7 million players participated in the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta on Xbox Live. Gamers completed more than 13 million online games, logging over 16 million hours of online gameplay, amounting to over 1826 years of Read More ...
Bungie have announced that the Halo: Reach beta will end tomorrow, a day later than originally announced. The beta will be turned off on Thursday, 20th May at 10AM PDT, which equates to 6PM in the UK. The beta saw 14 million games played in over 29 years of game time, clocking up 157 million kills all in the first week. Reach will be released this autumn exclusively for the Read More ...
The dedicated few who continued to play Halo 2 after Microsoft officially ended support for the console’s online service back on April 15th have been whittled down to one, solitary player. APACHE N4SIR has managed to keep his original Xbox running and online ever since the deadline, holding off overheating and network issues. Agent Windex was the second to last player left, but his Xbox disconnected around 4:21PM PDT today. Read More ...
The Halo Reach Multiplayer Beta is now available to download for Halo 3: ODST owners, clocking in at 1.15GB. To install the beta, launch the ODST campaign disc and select “Play the beta” on the main menu. A pop-up will appear, asking you to confirm the download. Beware that you cannot download the beta in the background like normal content from the Xbox Live marketplace, so you have to leave Read More ...
Bungie has announced a decade-long deal with Activision. The publisher will be bringing the studio’s new games (based on new intellectual property) across multiple platforms and devices. Bungie will retain the rights to their new IP under the terms of the deal. Apparently, it has taken the companies nine months to hammer out the fine details of the deal but now it’s concrete. This comes at an interesting time for Read More ...
The plans for the upcoming Halo Reach: Multiplayer Beta experience have been detailed according to Destructoid. The beta will begin on May 3rd and will last you until May 19th which makes that a total of 16 days of multiplayer mayhem. There will be new gameplay modes unlocked by Bungie during that time as well. You will have access to three playlists once the beta gets going. The first is Read More ...
Microsoft has released a live action teaser trailer for Halo: Reach. The game is going to be released this fall on the Xbox 360. However, those with Halo 3: ODST or special download codes from Microsoft will be able to partake in a multiplayer beta for Reach on May 3rd. Here’s the trailer:
