Are You A Halo Fanboy?

Are you a Halo fanboy? That’s the question Sarcastic Gamer and IGN asks in their funny re-dubbed version of the recent Halo: ODST  live action commercial. What helps drive home the trailer, is how professional sounding the voice over is. It’s funny hearing the truth spoken (imo) about the game and how blind some fanboys can be. Now I know some of you die hard Halo fans can and will get a little riled up…sit down, stay calm and relax. Keep in mind that this is all in good fun. Check out the video after the jump. [Continue Reading]

New Live Action Halo: ODST Trailer… Proof That A Halo Movie Could Work!

Anything Halo needs no introduction. With Halo ODST coming around the corner, the advertising engine has begun rolling full steam. And of special note is this new Halo: ODST live action trailer. After viewing this trailer, one can only hope how good a Halo movie would have been. Maybe there is still a chance. But for now we can all marvel in how great this advert turned out. I love the production values and the expressions on the actors faces. Well done Microsoft… well done! [Continue Reading]

When And Where Will Bungie Strike Next?

Master Chief’s legacy is about to come to an end, or at least his relationship with Bungie is. The fine folks over at Bungie have already publicly acknowledged that next year’s “Halo: Reach” will be their final foray into the Halo universe, and that any game following is not a guaranteed 360 exclusive. So that begs the questions of what Bungie will be up to next and who they will be working for. The answer to those questions may come fairly soon as industry insiders continue to speculate on potential buyers.

Bethesda production director Ashley Cheng believes the outcome is pretty clear. “You can count on one hand the number of publisher’s around who can afford to publish Bungie’s next game: EA (via EA Partners), Activision, Ubisoft, Microsoft, and of course, Bethesda,” Cheng wrote. “I can only imagine how much it will cost to snag their next title.” [Continue Reading]

Need Even More Halo? Check Out Halo: Legends

First it was The Matrix that got the short story, anime treatment with The Animatrix. Then Batman got his with Batman: Gotham Knight. Now, not to be left out, Master Chief will join the anime fray with Halo: Legends: An all new collective of Halo shorts produced by various, popular Japanese animation studios.

Microsoft has chosen Comic-Con as their forum to release all information on Halo: Legends, including a new trailer for the anime which can be viewed below. [Continue Reading]

Xbox Handheld Officially Confirmed?

Rumors have been running rampant of a Microsoft handheld for years, with nothing ever materializing. Every E3 comes with great speculation on Microsoft’s answer to the DS and PSP, but when the convention doors close, the handheld is nowhere to be seen. Now, Microsoft corporate vice president Shane Kim finally sheds some light on Microsoft’s plans for entering the handheld market, and reaffirms that something is indeed on the way.

“For us, it’s a matter of focusing on ‘when’, because if we chased after a mobile or handheld opportunity, we would not have the resources and ability to do things like… Project Natal,” said Kim, in response to whether he sees room for the Xbox brand in portable gaming in the future. “So we’ve chosen to focus on the living room experience from a hardware standpoint, if you will, but we’re building a service in Live that will… will extend to other platforms. No question about it.” [Continue Reading]

Halo: Reach Possibly Natal Enabled

“Halo” and Microsoft go hand-in-hand. In fact, some say the Xbox 360 may have never even seen the light of day if it weren’t for the success of the original “Halo: Combat Evolved.” Yet, here we are, years later and millions upon millions of copies of games from the “Halo” universe sold, and the franchise continues to go on strong.

It now appears that the “Halo” franchise might be getting another huge, innovative boost to its universe with Microsoft’s new Natal technology, when “Halo: Reach” sees its release later next year. [Continue Reading]

E3 ‘09: Post E3 Thoughts From DW

If you ever had the opportunity I would highly recommend that you go to E3. While the cost of attending can be steep, I think that it would well worth it for anyone who plays and loves video games.  If you go their to work though, I’m sure you may look at the experience a little differently.  For those of us who don’t have to work when we attend, it’s can be a great experience.

I really enjoyed God of War 3. Wasn’t that expected?  Well being the last game in the series, Sony needs to out do themselves in every wa yet again.  With the way things look, it looks like they may just accomplish a three-peat.  I don’t think the game will any one “specific” desire of a gamer but it may do a good job of satisfying you mostly.  It was easy to play and fun maintaining everything you know about the series and adding some new gameplay mechanics here and there.  It may not have the visual fidelity of Heavy Rain but it is still impressive looking; especially when you consider the camera work and other visual tones added to the game.  Sony seemed to have been in full force this year and they had way more titles to show off compared to the last two E3 Shows.  If you haven’t seen the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves live demo during the E3 press conference, I highly recommend that you do.  Naughty Dog will go down in history as being one the greatest developers for Sony of all time. [Continue Reading]

E3 ‘09: Photos From The Show Floor

For those of you who couldn’t make it to California for E3, I put together a select few of the 900+ photos I took of the showroom floor.  It was painful going through all those photos but I picked these and tried to show all the different rooms.  To get an idea of the layout, from a platform standpoint, Nintendo and Sony were grouped together in the same hall while Microsoft separated itself from the three. Whether this was intentional, no one really knows but Microsoft.  It was painful going between the two locations but in a way you had reserve one day for the Microsoft hall and the remaining two for Nintendo and Sony.

If you had interviews with developers and like it is hard to play games.  I heard other bloggers, interviewers and the like saying that this format, the original (having everything in one location) is much better.  Indeed, I would recommend anyone who has the time and funds to take part in E3.  You may be surprised at the amount of executives walking around but they are quite easy to approach and talk to. I had lunch with one sound designers from God of War 3 for example and I spoke with a concept artist who worked on the same game while standing in line for Starbucks.  Well if you can make it next year, look us up! [Continue Reading]

E3 ‘09: Microsoft Sets the Stage – Project Natal Unveiled

Coming into today, many people had guesses on what either Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft had to offer at their individual press conferences, but few could have guessed just how impressive Microsoft’s press conference would actually be (and that’s coming from a huge Sony fan). Microsoft not only introduced the next, exciting wave of traditional software; Modern Warfare 2 footage, a new arcade game from Cliffy B. and company, and Alan Wake, but also revealed new technology in the form of Project Natal – a medium which may change the world of gaming as we know it. [Continue Reading]

Microsoft Betting the Farm on Halo… Again

Microsoft is looking to expand the “Halo” universe, yet again. An online job posting suggests that the company is aiming to create a “Halo” community that not only spans consoles, but possibly reaches out to the web and mobile worlds as well. The listing, which calls for a software development engineer says several interesting things about creating a new “Halo” community. [Continue Reading]

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