Kotaku: Tease

And The Big Fable II Announcement Is...

Mike Fahey — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:20:00 MST

...delayed! According to a post on Lionhead's Fable II development blog, good old Sam explains that the Microsoft didn't think now was the right time for the big announcement they teased last week, and so the teasing continues until this coming Monday, November 24th. Wait! Don't be sad! There's still some good news to be had.

To celebrate the launch of the New Xbox Experience, we've created an all-new Fable II theme for your dashboard. Go show your Fable pride!

Well that's something, I suppose. Not sure if this indicates that Lionhead is very bad at teasing, or very, very good at it. You decide.

Small Fable II News [Fable II Development Blog]

The Teaser for the Halo 3 Teaser

Mark Wilson — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:00:31 MDT

This whole Halo 3 thing has officially gotten out of hand. Here's the new teaser for the new ad coming later this week. We shit you not.

Teaser of the Halo 3 TV Ad [gamersyde]

A Taste of a Halo Wars Battle

Brian Crecente — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:00:35 MDT

Halo Wars moderator Thunder updated the official Halo Wars forums with a bit of news and a taste of what battles in the Halo-themed RTS will be like when it releases. The ever-so-slight news is that the July 6 monthly update will have some more game details and that July will also see the relaunching of the Halo Wars website which will include a new look and "something cool going on the side as well." Hit the jump for Thunder's description of his Halo Wars match against programmer Rob Fermier.

Picture this. I'm sitting on one side of our open playtest area with one of our programmers who goes by the name of Rob "Xemu" Fermier" having just cleaned my clock in a game of Halo Wars sitting on the other side. To be honest, he had completely mopped the floor with me. It was sad, and a number of people who had just witnessed the game were heckling me. We ended up having a rematch...
To further set the scene, we had a new surround sound system hooked up to the TV that I was using and at this point, Producer Chris Rippy stepped in to crank the volume.

The game fired up and I had to weather some early raids by Rob's Warthogs. I managed to survive that and then eventually managed to field a large force of units, the largest force I've seen in the game yet. The screen was almost full. As I wiped out Rob's units, I just kept cranking out more guys. I was using a combination of land and air units that not only looked cool, but was very satisfying to use in Rob's base with the sound of destruction and weapons fire ringing in my ears. I think I may have heard Rob's units calling out for him to resign so they could be spared the onslaught. (This is where Rob stops reading and comes down to my office and challenges me to a game, and I tell him I have to wash my hair.)

Thanks for the game Rob, especially taking it easy on me during the rematch! In short, the game ended up not only really looking like a massive battle scene from Halo, but also sounding like a war from Halo. It won't be too much longer before we'll be comfortable to share more imagery with you all.

That was actually the first of two "Holy...cow" moments for me this month. The second came when... [CENSORED]

I know it's just a long tease, but it still makes me all itchy to play the game.

Halo Wars Update 06.29.07 [Halo Wars Forums]

Starcraft2.com - Teasing Gamers Since 1999

Mike Fahey — Wed, 16 May 2007 01:30:48 MDT

We've received several tips from wide-eyed gamers pointing us, hands shaking with excitement, to Starcraft2.com. Type in the URL and it redirects you to the teaser that's playing out on the Blizzard home page right now. So yeah, only a simple redirect for now. Certainly could indicate that Starcraft 2 is on its way.

Looking at the WHOIS information, the Starcraft2.com domain has been around since 1999, a year after the original game first came out, so it has been floating around forever. It's an easy thing to take an existing URL and have it point somewhere else, so who really knows?

Blizzard, of course, and they'll be sure to let us in on it soon. A simple redirect, or is Starcraft2.com just a DNS assignment away from becoming a full-fledged game site? Michael Fahey