The next map pack for 343 industries’ Halo 4 is about to the Xbox Live Marketplace. For just $10 you’ll be able to get your hands on the latest maps – Skyline, Landfill and Monolith. Also included is ten new achivements, worth 250 gamerscore, and new free for all multiplayer game type called infinity rumble. Landfill is set in the capital city of Casbah, as a covenant battle against the UNSC battles in the background. Skyline is...
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Halo 4 Spartan Ops Episodes 6-10 Preview Trailer
Halo 4’s Spartan Ops is a lot of fun to play, especially with friends. Starting this coming Monday (the 21st) the weekly episodes of Spartan Ops will return in full force as episodes 6 – 10 will be released throughout the coming weeks. Here is a preview of what’s to come in the next episodes. [youtube id=”G2mq9YTou-g” width=”600″ height=”350″] Which reminds me, I really need to get back to completing some challenges! Of the 5 episodes released...
Continue reading...Suit Up For Spartan Ops’ Return This January
Halo 4’s Spartan Ops mode adds to the game’s narrative via downloadable episodes and the next 5 episodes will be released starting January 21st , Microsoft Announced on Friday. 343i isn’t following the COD formula of new DLC every few months. Instead, by the end of February all five remaining episodes of season one for Spartan Ops will be available on Xbox Live. We’ll see if Microsoft decides to release a second season of ops. Chances are this is a surefire...
Continue reading...Huge Black Friday Weekend For Xbox 360
Microsoft announced that over the Black Friday weekend (November 18th to 23rd) they sold 750,000 consoles in the United States alone. I have to admit, I even know some folks that took advantage of the new bundles and wonderful deals available for the Xbox. Also noted was that Halo 4 sales exceeded expectations. It seemed quite a few retailers were offering gift cards along with the latest adventure in the Halo franchise. Sounds like the new trilogy...
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Halo. Just the sound of the word has many meanings to many fans around the world. There are bands and there are even ideologies of a “halo”. For many people around the world, it is a major part of life. Spanning fans from many countries around the world, it’s no longer just a video game. It is a universe. The universe of Halo spans multiple mediums from video games, movies, music and reading material. This year, we...
Continue reading...Halo 4’s Beautiful Launch Trailer
The Halo series has had it’s share of live action wonderment before, Produced by David Fincher and directed by Tim Miller this launch trailer for Halo 4 continues that trend. Mr Miller is the visual effects creative supervisor behind Scott Pilgrim and is the director of the new Deadpool movie. A nice touch of the launch video is that it never shows Master Chief’s face and cleverly obscures it the entire time. Are you excited? November 6th is fast approaching!
Continue reading...Halo 4 Forward On To Dawn: Enlist Trailer
343 Industries & Microsoft Games Studios have released a brand new live action trailer for Halo 4 titled Forward On To Dawn: Enlist. Get ready to follow the initiation of several UNSC foot soldiers preparing to battle insurrections. The insurrection is an even in the Halo fiction that takes place between groups of USNC soldiers and organized rebels in Earth’s outer colonies between 2493 and 2537. The events of the insurrection where a point of regret, as...
Continue reading...Check Out Six Minutes of Halo 4 Multiplayer
The Rooster Teeth Expo was held this past weekend and it wouldn’t be an RT event without something Halo. 343 industries brought along the latest Halo 4 multiplayer build and several matches where showcased at RTX 2012. Two different videos where uploaded from the expo including a 6 minute segment on the map Longbow and an 11 minute Q&A after the match. Shown in the first video is a mode new to Halo 4, infinity slayer, where...
Continue reading...Is This Halo 4’s Viral Marketing Campaign?
From “I Love Bees” to “Iris”, the Halo franchise and Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) seem to go hand-in-hand these days — a trend that appears to be continuing with Halo 4, if a recent ad on ESPN.com is to be believed. Last Friday, a flash ad for Halo 4 begun appearing on the top of ESPN.com’s front page. The ad played a Halo 4 trailer, as one might expect, but here’s where it starts to get strange:...
Continue reading...Halo 4 Campaign Demo Impressions
The world premiere of Halo 4’s campaign took place during the opening moments of the Microsoft E3 Press Conference. In the demo we learn that the UNSC Infinity, the setting for Halo 4’s multiplayer, was dragged through a portal potentially killing members of the crew. The campaign demo opens with the infinity crashing to the ground as Master Chief readies himself he must follow what is presumably a forerunner ship. Cortana is now placed right on the...
Continue reading...Leaked Halo 4 Footage Showcases New Grenade Launcher
We know for sure that Halo 4 will be going shown on Monday morning at Microsoft’s E3 press conference. We also know that there is a private internal private multiplayer beta going on within the depths of MS. It looks like more footage from the internal beta has leaked onto YouTube. The map featured in the new video looks to be the open air Wraparound, one of the first two maps unveiled back in January. On the...
Continue reading...Halo 4 Pre-Order Bonuses Revealed
Halo 4 is going to have a huge impact come Election Day, this November. If you’re thinking of picking up Master Chief’s latest ass kicking space adventure you might want to take these newly revealed Pre-Order bonuses into consideration. As is usual with gaming now-a-days Amazon, EB Games and Play.com all have different bonuses up for offer. EB Games (confirmed only for Canada at the moment) – Camo battle rifle & Festive Armor Amazon – Web Armor...
Continue reading...Halo 4 cover revealed
The cover art for the highly anticipated Halo 4 was reveal by Microsoft yesterday in a random giveaway of sorts. Sending 32 pieces of the cover attached to emails to lucky fans, it took members of the Halo Waypoint Forums 67 posts before getting an end result no one was disappointed with.
Continue reading...New Halo 4 Artwork Showcases Single Player Campaign
A number of choice Halo 4 screenshots have found their way on to the internet thanks to All Games Beta. These new screenshots go beyond the Red Vs Blue multiplayer mode that was revealed earlier this week. We get our first look at the single player campaign through Master Chief’s visor as well as a new look at Chief’s revised armor. Check out several of the new screenshots and our analysis after the jump.
Continue reading...Halo 4’s Multiplayer Includes Co-Op & Custom Loadouts
Following on the heels of yesterday’s announcement that Halo 4 would be launching on November 6th Microsoft have announced some brand new details surrounding the games multiplayer mode. These majority of these details come from a GameInformer ViDoc released to promote the latest edition of the magazine. Other supposed details surrounding the multiplayer also leaked out last week. The multiplayer suite of Halo 4 could offer a radically different experience from previous Halo games depending on how...
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