By: Jon Christensen on February 8th, 2010 am28 10:51 am
If you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft plans on shutting off the servers for all the original Xbox Live games. This means iconic games like Halo 2 will no longer be playable over the online service, which will officially end the era of an important idea introduced to the console industry.
In response, Bungie has left a note on their website which told their fans to mark down April 14th because they plan on sending Halo 2 off in style.
“That said, mark your calendars now – on April 14th let’s all rally to go online for one last hoorah. One final farewell and one final opportunity for all of you to kick our asses at Halo 2.”
They promised full details of what to expect besides just playing with some of the developers and that information will be forthcoming in the upcoming weeks, so will be checking back for you. Although, I have the feeling the company has something up their sleeve, which should be worth booting up the 5-year-old game. Halo 2 and Xbox Live both played a part in helping the studio grow into one of the biggest in the world.
Just a side note, April 14th falls on a Wednesday, in case any of you were wondering.
via: kotaku
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By: Derek Matias on June 1st, 2009 am30 11:47 am
During Microsoft’s E3 Press conference Halo Reach was announced. The game was announced after Halo 3: ODST. THe game is set to launch in 2010 but when you buy Halo 3: ODST you will get an invite to the Xbox Live multiplayer Beta. Major Nelson on his live blog said: “Joe says when you buy Halo 3: ODST, you’ll get an invitation to the Halo: Reach Xbox LIVE multiplayer beta!” The game is developed by a team at Bungie, who initially made it seam as though they would not be making another game in the Halo franchise.
Check back later for updated information on this game as well as all other E3 announcements.
Images via: Engadget
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By: Jon Christensen on September 15th, 2008 pm30 3:33 pm
Could Bungie be planning on announcing their newest title next week? According to the site gamer.tm, they are. The Website is said to have an industry insider directly from Microsoft who is also remaining nameless, who has reported that Bungie is unveiling their ’secret’ game next week. The same game that was supposed to be shown to the world for the first time at E3, but at the last minute scrapped by Microsoft. Thus unleashing the Bungie fanboys to condemned Microsoft for overusing their power and stop Bungie from making a successful game (yeah, fanboys are sad).
Although the source is confirming the week when it will be announced, he/she has no clue what game it could possibly be. So, we still have no indication if it will be Halo 4 or set in the Halo universe. Maybe it doesn’t even have anything to do with Halo, hopefully this source is telling the truth, because if he/she is — we’ll finally know next week.
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