Red vs Blue, Reach edition

In a mini-series hitting the Red vs Blue comedy show within the world of Halo, it was undoubtedly going to find its way on Reach. And low and behold, thanks to the sponsorship power of Gamestop, the guys behind the series have launched episode 1 of their mini series to tie into the US marketing campaign by the retailer. Continue »

Activision: Blizzard working on new IP

We’ve posted about the Activision earnings call a lot today but more news keeps trickling out. Now it’s Blizzard’s turn. Activision’s answer to Darth Vader, CEO Bobby Kotick, jumped in to talk about Bungie and Blizzard. Interestingly, he outlined Blizzard spending huge money on a new IP. Speculation of such a thing came about originally around 2006/7 when Starcraft II… Continue »

Activision’s year

Activision gave an earnings call today for press people to post all the wonderful news they had. However Activision were surprisingly open about their losses and wins. The years successes with Blizzard (World of Warcraft, no word on how amazingly Starcraft is doing) and Call of Duty were offset by poor sales of racing title Blur and Singularity. Blur only… Continue »

Bungie are nervous & excited

The weekly Bungie update hit this week with a lot of natter about Halo: Reach, Bungie’s last hoorah with their own creation, Halo. A Halo without their most famous character, Master Chief. “You’ve got a lot of questions for me. I’m afraid I don’t have all the answers. For those we have to dig deep and turn to the men… Continue »

Bungie ink deal with Activision

In a move that can only be described as ironic, prolific former Mac-exclusive, then Xbox-exclusive developers, who for a time were owned by Microsoft, have signed an epic 10 year publishing deal with none other then Activision. Yes, the same Activision that developers of Call of Duty are desperately trying to jump ship away from. Keep in mind this deal… Continue »

Halo: Reach beta footage is a dime a...

Every where you look today there seems to be new Beta footage! You can even expect to see some video’s on Inside Xbox via your Dashboard this afternoon. I’m pretty excited but it looks like the Beta’s going to drop at an awkward time for me so it could be a few days before I get some free time to… Continue »

Halo:Reach Vid Doc 2 and Legendary...

Want to get your Friday started with 8 juicey minutes of Halo: Reach goodness that you may not have seen before. Boom! Its done. Watch the latest Vid Doc from Halo creators Bungie below. Want more? Then check out the super expensive Legendary edition pics below, Mcfarlene diorama, epic amounts of crap that you never read and (the usually reserved for Bungie… Continue »

Bungie vs. HipHopGamer

Some time ago some video-games vlogger (video blogger, for those not in the know) decided to post some deflamatory remarks about Bungie, developers of Halo. He made two such videos saying Bungie had wrecked Halo essentially and were inspired by Sony in their methods of development. This is where the problems arise. According to HHG, Bungie confirmed that they used… Continue »

Halo: Reach New gametypes announced

Bungie released some news of some brand new game types Friday, all of which will appear in the upcoming Beta for Halo:Reach Grab Bag, Free For All, Headhunter, Stockpile and Generator Defense The first three are all new versions of old game types, the last two are where it gets interesting. I’ll let Bungie explain: Stockpile is a little more… Continue »

Halo: Reach looks good!

Bungie’s forum is always populated with cool information and tid-bits, but now we can get a nice comparison of Halo: Reach. Most instances of these things we see games being pitched against their previous versions, or even the competition. Only today we posted news about CliffyB saying how much nicer Gears 3 is to Gears 2. Bungie are confident people…. Continue »