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Frankenreview: Halo 3: O.D.S.T.
Halo Wars showed us that a Halo game in a different genre can do moderately well without Master Chief, but a first-person shooter? Can O.D.S.T. pull that off? Master Chief is such an iconic gaming figure that it almost seems wrong to have an FPS with the Halo name on it without him. It’s like…
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Rare: “We’re Long Past the Stage” where Goldeneye Deal is Feasible
The long, sad tale of bringing the groundbreaking shooter Goldeneye to Nintendo’s Virtual Console, or Xbox Live Arcade, appears to have ended long ago, with a whimper. Addressing a reader question about Goldeneye ever getting an agreement between Nintendo and Microsoft, releasing it to current generation consoles, Rare said, alas, no. That was some time…
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Scrapped Halo MMO’s title: ‘Halo Universe’?
Dylan Cole, an artist formerly with Ensemble Studios, has on his personal Web site some concept pieces for a canceled Halo project that may or may not have been called “Halo Universe.” Ensemble of course was the muscle behind a Halo MMO that was greenlighted and then scrapped sometime last year. Cole’s pictures (two are…
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‘All You Need Is Love’ Needs Only Two Days to Set Rock Band Record
The combination of an iconic tune representing both a band and an era, sold to support a charity, helped the Beatles’ “All You Need is Love’ become the fastest-selling downloadable song in Rock Band history, two days after its release. However, in the statement Microsoft released to announce the chart-topping feat, neither the specific number…
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Halo ODST: Breaking The Mold
Explore Halo 3: ODST‘s journey from DLC to full game, or in the words of cinematics director CJ Cowan, "Here’s an engine, here’s a story, you got a year. Go." Cowan’s quick and dirty summary of the project might be accurate, but it downplays the sheer amount of work that Bungie has put into Halo…
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XNA Studio Adds Zune HD Dev Support
To coincide with the retail launch of the shiny new Zune HD, Microsoft has released extensions for XNA Game Studio 3.1 to aid indie developers in creating games for the mobile media player. It won’t be long now before the Zune HD is swamped with indie game titles, thanks to these new extensions freely available…
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Halo 3: ODST Soundtrack Drops Next Week
Halo 3: ODST hits store shelves next week, and Sumthing Else Music Works is making sure you can listen to it when you can’t play with the release of the Halo 3: ODST Original Soundtrack. The latest chapter in the Halo saga brings with it new music composed by Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori, and…
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Producer: Halo Natal will be Done ‘When It Makes Sense’
For those wondering if Microsoft’s Project Natal motion control automatically means they’re working on Natal-enabled Halo titles, Halo 3: ODST producer’s says, not necessarily. “We are committing to only doing it when it makes sense,” Alex Cutting told VideoGamer.com. “We are not going to produce a gimmicky feature that just takes advantage of motion controls…
By Owen Good
