Last night at their Tokyo Game Show 2008 press conference, Microsoft and Bungie Studios officially unveiled one of their next Halo projects for the first time. Officially titled Halo 3: Recon, the standalone game will feature a new campaign as well as a new main character with expanded multiplayer options to boot.
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An extended countdown on Bungie.net, one that started during E3 before being taken down, has finally been allowed to go through to completion. That reveal was a mysterious video (shown below) which showed a city being bombarded by bombs from the sky and subsequently being blown to pieces. That was mysterious.
What’s not so mysterious is [...]

The so called Halo “Mythic” update is coming on September 23, and it’s not all that mythical. The title update is pretty extensive, including revised maps on certain playlists (no shield doors on Epitaph? Ouch), redesigned Bungie.net stat tracking, and a new ranking system. Never fear, your old rank will stay right where it is.
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Last week during PAX, some photos were released of the mysterious Halo 3 “Mythic” and some new achievements. The achievements, at the least, are all real. The 10 new achievements announced is not the final list, and more are planned. You can find a full list around the interwebs, though as Bungie states, without context, [...]

Bungie’s Halo announcement at E3 last month might have been canceled at the last minute by Microsoft, but it’s certainly not stopping them from teasing it. In a new video release by the company accepting their EDGE Interactive Innovation Award, the company drops references that could be perceived as anything from nothing at all to [...]

Bungie Studios is celebrating “Bungie Day” by giving back to their community next week. On Monday (and Monday only), the studio will be giving away Free Halo 3 themes and gamerpics that will be available for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace. In addition, there is a new multiplayer map, Cold Storage. It’s a faithful [...]

 
A few months back, Halo 3 was surpassed by Activision’s Call of Duty 4 as the most played game over Microsoft’s Xbox Live. Today, CoD 4’s short reign at the top has come to an end, as Grand Theft Auto IV nabbed the top spot. Call of Duty 4 closed the past week at #2, [...]