Halo 3: ODST Art

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Bungie has released some new concept art from Halo 3: ODST. Enjoy. (More art after the jump)

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Bungie Unveils Assembly and Orbital

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Bungie has unveiled more screens from two of the maps coming next spring in the Mythic Map Pack for Halo 3. Orbital and Assembly are shown below, the map pack will be out around the launch of Halo Wars. Visit Bungie's site for more pics.

Assembly


















Orbital

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Halo 3: Recon now Halo 3: ODST

Posted by Deadly Cyclone at 1:53 PM 0 comments

Not very exciting news, but news nonetheless. Bungie has announced that their stand-alone campaign expansion to Halo 3 will no longer be referred to as Halo 3: Recon and will be called Halo 3: ODST.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Halo universe ODST stands for Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.
"This special forces branch of the UNSC military force is called into action for highly specialized, small scale operations."

That is all for now, carry on.

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Bungie Releases 'Keep it Clean' Teaser Trailer

Posted by Deadly Cyclone at 9:09 AM 0 comments

Well at long last the countdown is over and we have a brand new teaser from Bungie Studios. What is it? Well take a look over at BNet, or right here! The teaser is up on the Xbox Live Marketplace now. It looks to be an add to to the Halo 3 campaign, this is what the Marketplace description says:

"High action and deep mystery await players in this new Halo 3 campaign experience. Prepare to drop!"

 

Halo 3 'Keep It Clean' teaser

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Once Again, Countdown Appears on Bungie.Net

Posted by Deadly Cyclone at 11:29 PM 0 comments

This time we have to assume it is for real. If you head to Bungie.net you will hit a screen with the image you see and a strange countdown that ends tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 7:07am PST. This looks to be finally the unveiling of the newest Bungie project which were were going to see at E3 but was untimely cancelled by Microsoft. What could it all mean? Hit up BNet or GPU tomorrow morning (or night depending where you are) and find out!  

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Bungie Announcement Coming at Tokyo Game Show?

Posted by Deadly Cyclone at 12:21 PM 0 comments

Over at Bungie.net the superintendent has made another appearence with a random message and some insightful hints. Among the text the phrase "TOKYO RULES" shows up leading us to think that Bungie may be planning their big announcement for the upcoming Tokyo Game Show. What is the text? Jump over to BNet or see below.

            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “METROPOLITAN EMERGENCY!”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “METROPOLITAN EMERGENCY!”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “METROPOLITAN EMER--!”                 
            [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “We know. Personnel are en route. Can you--”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “DETOUR! PROCEED WITH CAUTION!”                 
            [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “--put Kinsler on the line?”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: [UNITELLIGIBLE > DOG GROWLING(?)]                 
            [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Sorry, what?”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “BE A HERO! REPORT VIOLATORS!” 
            [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Oh, come on... ”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “METROPOLITAN EMER--!”                 
            [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Listen. We have a report of core data corruption.”                 
            [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “I need you to upload your--”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “PARDON OUR DUST!”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!”                 
            [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER] “--logs for the last twenty-four hours!”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “KEEP IT CLEAN!”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “KEEP IT CLEAN!”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “KEEP IT CLEAN!”                 
            [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: [UNINTELLIGIBLE > PROFANITY (?)]                 
            [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “We're sending a team, alright?”                 
            [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Until they arrive, all additional comm needs to route through me.”                 
            [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Repeat and acknowledge.”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “OBEY POSTED LIMITS!”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “YIELD TO UPHILL TRAFFIC!”                 
            [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “I'll take that as a ‘yes’...”                 
            [SUPERINTENDENT]: “PLEASE REMAIN CALM!”

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Bungie Unveils Assembly for Halo 3 (Update!)

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Update: Courtesy of CrunchGear.com we have some gameplay footage of Assembly from PAX '08. Enjoy!

The latest installment in maps for Halo 3 was announced by Bungie today at PAX. Assembly is the map formerly known as "Purple Reign" and is a medium-sized covenant themed map. More to come when information is available.

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Bungie Teases More Halo

Posted by Locklem at 12:17 PM 0 comments

Recently, games magazine Edge awarded Bungie's extremely popular game, Halo 3, with the Edge Award for Interactive Innovation at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival. Halo 3 managed to beat GTA IV, Portal, Rock Band, Super Mario Galaxy and Wii Sports for the award. Whether or not you agree with their decision is not the point.

The big news comes from what happened after Edge gave the award. In Bungie's appreciation, they released a new video which shows some features not supported in Halo 3 at this time. What could all this mean? We'll leave you with the video below to make your own speculation. Enjoy!

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Bungie Announcement Canceled?

Posted by Deadly Cyclone at 10:02 PM 0 comments

Well, we are thoroughly perplexed. A few days ago the Bungie opening paged teased us with a countdown timer and mix of random sayings that appeared to be shaping up to be a big announcement. Today if you check the site, a letter is up from Harold Ryan (Studio Manager and CEO) saying that:

"We were looking forward to sharing that (reveal of something exciting) with our fan community during the week of E3. However, these plans were just changed by our publishers."

Is this true or just another type of viral marketing? For now it seems as if something came up at the last minute (maybe a surprise announcement of Final Fantasy XIII on 360 took up their time slot?) and we will have to wait a bit longer to discover the nature of Bungie's next project.

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Bungie Teases Wednesday Anouncement

Posted by Deadly Cyclone at 3:24 PM 0 comments

If you jump on over to Bungie.net you will be greeted by a new teaser screen telling people to "keep it clean" and "proceed with caution." Also a countdown can be seen in the bottom right corner with an end time of Wednesday at 11:00am. What could be in store from Bungie? More Halo? A new IP? Only time will tell.

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"Cold Storage" Halo 3 Map Free on July 7th

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UPDATE X2: The Bungie Day theme and gamerpictures have just hit the marketplace, you can see two of the gamerpictures at mygamercard.net (and the rest when people upload them).

UPDATE: If you want an early look at "Cold Storage" Bungie has just released a new Vidoc for download on the Marketplace or over at Bungie.net. Enjoy!

Well it is almost here again. No not the fourth of July, Bungie day. The day each year where we get to celebrate the Halo creators with free swag, and this year does not disappoint. Among the gamerpics and themes as usual for Bungie Day, Halo fans also get quite a nice surprise. The new map shown at MLG San Diego called "Cold Storage," a remake of Halo 1's "Chill Out," will be available absolutely free!

"Cold Storage will be available for free beginning on July 7, Bungie Day, on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Additionally, don’t forget to grab the one-day-only free gamerpics and theme on 7/7.

Beginning on July 7, there will be a 48-hour long seven-player FFA playlist in Halo 3’s Matchmaking where you can turn the calendar back to 2001 and control l Rockets, Invis and Snipe."

Courtesy of the day-early Bungie Weekly Update. Also the Legendary Map Pack will be dropped in price from 800 to 600 Microsoft points. So load up your copy of Halo 3 on Monday and chill out on "Cold Storage!"

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Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack

Posted by Locklem at 7:30 PM 0 comments

Bungie is all set to release the Legendary Map pack for Halo 3. The Legendary pack is the second map pack for the game and will be available on April 15th. Details and images on all three of the upcoming maps, two of which are classic remakes, can be found inside!

Source: Bungie

Ghost Town

"Ghost Town is the fragmented ruins of a small 24^th century water purification complex that geographically lies just North and West of the jungle foothills hydroelectric facility from the Sierra 117 mission. The well-protected facility built into a shallow ravine was once home to the Global Water Campaign, where the still somewhat-pure Kilimanjaro meltwater was transported via pipelines from the river and directed to this small outpost where it became further purified, and then transported via GWC trans-African pipelines along the Tsavo Highway for distribution throughout the entire continent."









Avalanche

"Avalanche is a lovingly crafted reimagination of Halo: Combat Evolved classic Sidewinder. It wouldn’t be wholly accurate to call it a “remake,” but elements of Avalanche are certainly culled from Sidewinder – it has the same familiar U-shape, multiple ways from base-to-base, and a whole sandbox full o’ vehicles to play with. But there are many, many changes too.
Avalanche is a large forerunner power station set on the front of a huge glacial shelf on an under construction Halo installation. The structure is pulling its power out of the densely compacted ice that constantly builds up behind the station before it falls into the ocean below."

















Blackout

"As its name suggests, Blackout is a remake of the Halo 2 classic Lockout, a cold series of interconnected platforms and walkways. Where Avalanche was retuned, reworked and massaged into something both familiar and unfamiliar, Blackout is a remake in a pretty strict sense of the word.
It’s a UNSC research station set in the Arctic, and I am pretty sure that this is also where all of the R&D on military grade Otter Pop rations took place. Early on I thought it was going to be an oil derrick, but that changed over time. We have some cool racks of glacier core samples, Doppler radar and other pieces of research gear strewn about, which makes for a nice touch – and when you look up to see them make sure you notice the beautiful Aurora Borealis in the sky."

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