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GAME INFO publisher: Microsoft developer: Bungie genre: Shooters MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS n/a	ESRB rating: M homepage: www.microsoft.com/games/halo/ release date: 2003

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»	Dec 12, 01 Halo review Though some may think that the graphics are HALO's biggest trump, it's in fact the incredible AI, gameplay pace, and the piercing soundtrack and sound effects that make it tower above the lot... » MORE

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May 13, 2008

Tasty Halo Wars Shots
In case you haven't heard already, this one is being created exclusively for the Xbox 360 by developer Ensemble Studios. Set in Bungie's Halo universe, the real-time strategy Halo Wars (which looked quite impressive last time we saw it) is scheduled to arrive some time this year.

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»	May 06, 2008 GTA IV Beats CoD 4 on Live How utterly naive and stupid of me to actually think this day would pass without any news related to GTA IV. Still, this is definitely worth mentioning. » MORE

Apr 30, 2008

GTA IV Storms UK, Over 600k Copies Sold
UK market research company Chart-Track uncovers sales info, according to which Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV sold 609,000 in PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 variants during Tuesday, April 29, marking a new sales record and surpassing Bungie's Halo 3.

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»	Apr 25, 2008 Bungie Working on 3rd Person Halo Prequel? Here's a quick report indicating that Bugnie's next project is a third-person Halo prequel "chronicling early skirmishes between the ODST troops and the Covenant" - so it's possibly a Halo game, but without Master Chief (sniff). » MORE

»	Apr 16, 2008 GTA IV to Bring in $400M Everyone's going on about it. It was forecast that Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV will rack up $400 million within its first week and shift 6 million copies, as reported by Variety. » MORE

»	Apr 09, 2008 US Gamers Prefer Buying Used Games During this year’s MI6 game marketing conference in San Francisco, the results of a study related to the video game resale market in the US have been revealed. » MORE

»	Mar 18, 2008 Current US and UK Best Sellers Nintendo happily declared that their latest Wii title, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, sold over 1.4 million across the territory of North America. The latest Amazon charts show that Wii games are still selling like hot cakes in the US. » MORE

Mar 08, 2008

Top 50 Game Developers
What's this all about? Actually, it's a Top 50 Developers' Countdown on Game Developer Research, and it offers a "ranking of the top 50 developers in the areas of sales figures, releases, and average review scores, along with the full set of results from our survey of over 700 anonymous Game Developer- and Gamasutra.

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»	Mar 03, 2008 LEGO Halo, Likely A Hoax Bungie was quoted several times, saying that the developer's next project will be something entirely different from their earlier work. Certain statements from Bungie also indicated a new IP too. » MORE

»	Feb 12, 2008 Battlefield, Halo Veterans Set up Dev. Studio Word just reached us that a team of experienced game designers founded a brand new development studio called Tyrant Studios. At the helm of this newly-formed company are Exec. » MORE

»	Feb 09, 2008 Gearbox Working on "Big New Project" Gearbox says they are working on a new game and it's big, according to Randy Pitchford, one of the five founders of the studio. In case you need to be reminded... » MORE

Jan 31, 2008

MS Responds to Halo Wars PC Rumor
As much as we were pleased with prospects of Halo Wars making it to the PC, so far, Microsoft is saying it ain't happening. "Halo Wars is being developed from the bottom up for the Xbox 360 and its control scheme to ensure that we deliver a groundbreaking console RTS experience.

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»	Jan 30, 2008 Halo Wars to Invade PCs? We were truly impressed with Halo Wars, Ensemble Studios' upcoming real-time strategy, when we caught a glimpse of the game last year. The game is officially in development as an X360-exclusive. » MORE

»	Jan 28, 2008 New Stuff About Alan Wake Next Month Robbie Bach, President of Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, discussed a variety of topics related to MS and their market strategy for the Xbox 360. » MORE

»	Jan 25, 2008 MS Rejoices, Makes Xbox Into a Profit While we all know that Microsoft made a decent stand on the console with its Xbox endeavor, the company continued to invest in its "little" gaming platform, but with little to almost no actual profit. » MORE

Jan 23, 2008

Call of Duty 4 Beats Halo 3 on Live
Halo 3 ranked as the top playing game on Live for a long time. Major Nelson reports that Bungie's popular shooter was pushed out of the way by Activision's Call of Duty 4, which currently stands as the most played game on Microsoft's Live service.

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Jan 18, 2008

Activision and Nintendo Win the Holiday Season
So who are the big winners this holiday season? The answer is rather straightforward -- it's Call of Duty 4 and Super Mario Galaxy. I must say, though I had expected CoD4 to do good, I was really kind of surprised at just how successful it turned out to be in terms of sales -- it's the actual sales figures that way surpassed my expectations.

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»	Jan 11, 2008 GameStop: Sales Up Nigh on 35%, Holiday Best-Sellers Proclaimed American video game and entertainment software retailer GameStop confirms that company revenues for the last nine weeks of 2007 amounted to over $2.3 billion, almost 35% higher than the $1. » MORE

Jan 08, 2008

2008 Will Not Suck
Microsoft Games chief Don Mattrick confirms in a memo something that we hoped would be confirmed at the start of the year: titles that are currently sure to hit retail in 2008 include Halo Wars, Too Human, Fable 2, Alan Wake, Splinter Cell: Conviction and "several exciting yet-to-be-announced titles.

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»	Jan 05, 2008 Halo 3 Patch Imminent Bungie's weekly update mentions that a patch for their latest shooter Halo 3 is in the works and will be hitting Live pretty soon: Work continues on AU1, which is a fancy way of saying Auto Update 1 or “patch. » MORE

»	Jan 04, 2008 MS: 17.7M X360s Sold Worldwide That's a lot of freaking units sold. Last month's full retail sales figures haven't been tallied just yet, but Microsoft today gave number-hungry gamers a few morsels to tide them over. » MORE

»	Dec 18, 2007 Nintendo Troubled By Wii Shortages, Expects Higher DS Demand Reuters is reporting that besides dealing with Wii shortages, Nintendo is also worried about potentially higher demand for its handheld gaming DS platform. » MORE

»	Dec 15, 2007 Mornin' Listen up, guys! I'm getting married next week. Yep, it's goodbye freedom and hello ball'n'chain. As you might already know, me and the future Mrs. Vader also have a kid on the way (just five more months to go), so it's gonna be a full house. » MORE

»	Dec 14, 2007 CoD 4 and Super Mario Galaxy Top November Console Charts Console sales for the month of November are just in (via NPD Group). Believe it or not, last month's sales indicate that the video game industry generated $2. » MORE

»	Dec 12, 2007 TIME Names Halo 3 GotY Interestingly, Time magazine has issued its list of top 10 video games of the year. So while the jury is still out on the Person of the Year, Time says Master Chief takes that honor in the video gaming world. » MORE

»	Dec 11, 2007 MS Sells 5M Copies of Halo 3 and 1M Copies of Mass Effect Corporate VP of Global Marketing for the Xbox 360, Jeff Bell, says Microsoft sold 5 million copies of Bungie's shooter Halo 3 since the game's launch on September 25. » MORE

»	Dec 10, 2007 BioShock Takes Top Honors at SpikeTV VGAs So we were invited to attend this year's SpikeTV Video Game Awards (red carpet crap and all), but apparently, no one at ActionTrip thought it would be worth to go. » MORE

»	Dec 07, 2007 Bungie Sticks With 360 For Now After negotiating partial independence from Microsoft, talented development team Bungie means to continue creating games for the Xbox 360, as confirmed in a recent interview on EuroGamer. » MORE

Nov 29, 2007

Microsoft Sued for $5M Over Alleged Halo 3 Issues
You see, this is just wrong. It reeks of "perversion of the legal system" as I like to call it. ArsTechnica is reporting: The Bungie-developed Halo 3 is designed to be hand-in-glove compatible with the Xbox 360, right? A federal lawsuit filed against Microsoft and Bungie last week attempts to throw some serious doubt into the mix.

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»	Nov 28, 2007 Altair Climbs Xbox Live Chart Ubi's Assassin's Creed took third place on Major Nelson's top 10 most played 360 titles. Check it out: 1. Halo 3 2. Call of Duty 4 3. Assassin's Creed 4. » MORE

»	Nov 27, 2007 Current Best-sellers in the US Super Mario Galaxy is I think rightfully sitting at the throne of all-format sales charts in the US: 01. Super Mario Galaxy—Nintendo (Wii) 02. Halo 3 Legendary Edition—Microsoft (Xbox 360) 03. » MORE

»	Nov 24, 2007 Jeep Making Halo Warthog Lookalike? Though this is a bit of a stretch, it's quite an amusing extrapolation if you ask me (and hell, the news is slow). Jeep's new Renegade concept, Evil Avatar claims has a striking resemblance to the Halo Warthog. » MORE

»	Nov 21, 2007 Get Halo Theme Song for Guitar Hero III This is a pretty cool move by Activision and Microsoft. Neversoft, Bungie, Activision/RedOctane, and Microsoft have teamed up to offer the main Halo theme (MJOLNIR Mix) as a free playable song for Guitar Hero III for the X360. » MORE

»	Nov 20, 2007 Halo 3 'Heroic' Map Pack on Dec. 11 People who are heavy into Halo 3 multiplayer should be happy to hear that on December 11, Microsoft will be releasing three new multiplayer maps for the game. » MORE

»	Nov 19, 2007 Halo 3 Novel Becomes NYT Bestseller People incessantly keep dissing Halo. No, scratch that, some people keep incessantly dissing Halo and yet the universe itself is successful on so many different fronts. » MORE

Nov 16, 2007

Hellgate and Orange Box Conquer PC October Charts
As much as I try to avoid posting about some of these sales charts, it's always interesting, sometimes even amusing to see what people buy the most. Okay, so October sales, for instance, show that Hellgate: London is right up there with the top-selling Orange Box from Valve.

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»	Nov 09, 2007 Bungie Working on 'Couple of New IPs' After taking a vacation from work on Halo 3, and then dropping the bomb that they've separated from Microsoft, Bungie is back in the office so to speak. » MORE

»	Nov 06, 2007 US All-format Best Sellers The latest Amazon sales charts currently show Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) as the top-selling title in the US. Check out the all-format chart below (as before, '*' indicates pre-orders): 01. » MORE

Nov 02, 2007

Halo Movie Well and Truly Dead?
Peter Jackson and director Neill Blomkamp are moving away from the Halo movie and are putting their plans for that project on ice. Their aim is to work on a new live-action sci-fi flick, entitled "District 9," which is going to mark Mark Neill's directing debut.

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»	Oct 25, 2007 Wanna Play Halo DS? If the answer is "yes," then you can take part in this petition which strives to get the much rumored Nintendo DS version of Halo into production and eventually onto store shelves. » MORE

»	Oct 20, 2007 The Orange Box Outsells Halo 3 (Week Ending Oct. 13) According to VGChartz (thanks VE3D) Half-Life 2: The Orange Box is outselling Halo 3. In its first week, The Orange Box sold 348,049 units for the X360, while Halo 3 managed 285,860. » MORE

»	Oct 19, 2007 Halo 3 Helps Game Sales Reach $1.3b As expected, with the release of Halo 3, one of the most highly anticipated shooters this year, Microsoft registered impressive sales during September, when the game was launched. » MORE

»	Oct 16, 2007 Hollywood Blames Halo 3 for Drop in Ticket Sales The long list of "things to blame on video games" keeps on growing. Now Hollywood is complaining that the rather feeble $80 million dollar ticket sales for the Oct. » MORE

»	Oct 15, 2007 Is Halo in Churches Wrong? You may recall a report from several weeks back about how certain churches in the US are using Halo 3 to attract young people to the church. The report has since caused quite a bit of controversy, namely because Halo 3 is an 'M' rated title. » MORE

»	Oct 13, 2007 Bungie Reveals Plans for Halo 3 Downloadable Maps In their latest Bungie Weekly Update, the folks from the now independent (or as much as they can be) game studio reveal plans for new downoadable maps in Halo 3. » MORE

»	Oct 09, 2007 'Halo Nights' in Churches Nationwide And while the Church of England is waging a crusade against Sony and their portrayal of the Manchester Cathedral in Resistance: Fall of Man, some other churches are hosting "Halo Nights" in an effort to get more young people to attend church. » MORE

»	Oct 08, 2007 Halo Movie Proclaimed 'Entirely Dead' For those of you still hoping that you might see a Halo movie in some foreseeable future (or a movie that's anything like the movie that was planned), let me spare you the suspense. » MORE

»	Oct 05, 2007 Bungie Talks About Split With MS In their latest weekly update, Bungie sounds off on their new-found freedom from Microsoft (if you can call it that): As you have no doubt read on the web today, Microsoft Corp. » MORE

»	Oct 04, 2007 Cliffy B Talks About 'Gears of War' Movie As Variety had reported back in March, New Line has acquired rights to make a movie based on Epic Games' Gears of War. Now GoW Lead Designer Cliff Bleszinski sounds off on who'd he like to see cast for the movie. » MORE

»	Oct 03, 2007 Rumors on Bungie and MS Split Continue Is Bungie actually leaving Microsoft? Well, as a follow up on yesterday's news, this report on GameInformer points to a source who claims that Bungie is “tired of Making Halo, and didn’t want to do future Halo games. » MORE

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