According to Bungie, over one billion 'Halo 3' online matches have been played since the sci-fi shooter's September 2007 release to Xbox 360. The landmark one-billionth game occurred Saturday night at precisely 6:36 PST. The four-player game of Infection on Foundry lasted just 3 minutes and 19 seconds. To put the enormity of this achievement [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 24, 2009
Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 exclusive "Halo Wars" has gone gold, which means the version that gets on retail shelves is complete and ready for mass production. The game will ship in two editions, one standard and one special which will include bonuses like the last "Halo 3" map pack, a new vehicle, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Here at GameCyte, we don't typically post Top Ten lists. Why? With few exceptions, the vast majority of such articles are meaningless filler, only serving to provoke fanboys and flamers and generally denigrating the reputation of the website which hosts them. However, as long as the firm continues to make them public, one of those [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 8, 2008
That's right -- Microsoft has today announced that on February 26th, 2009, American gamers will not be buying Halo Wars. That's when the highly-anticipated strategy title arrives in Asia. On Feburary 27th, residents of the United States can enjoy not playing Halo Wars once more, as the game receives its European debut. Finally, on March 3rd, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
In their 2008 MediaWise Video Game Report Card, the National Institute for Media and the Family included a fairly extensive list of games to avoid buying your children this holiday season, including such grotesque, gore-filled titles as Silent Hill: Homecoming and Gears of War 2. This was all well and good -- we wouldn't advocate [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 29, 2008
While plenty of classic analog games have seen digital adaptations over the years, it's not unprecedented for the transition to occur in the other direction. From Everquest pen-and-paper RPGs, to Street Fighter CCGs, to board games based on World of Warcraft, Doom, and even Pac-Man, tabletop gaming is no stranger to video game franchises realized [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 9, 2008
Japan loves the Xbox 360. Just a short while after sales had been extremely sluggish in Nintendo and Sony's home turf, Microsoft is now claiming that sales are exceeding projections. "We've done better than we forecast. We are finding that we have a shortage of hardware," said Microsoft's John Schappert in a Reuters report this [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 25, 2008
It doesn't take a very complex message to excite Halo fans -- a simple direction to KEEP IT CLEAN or an apologetic PARDON OUR DUST can suffice. But when you give those fans an entire cryptic teaser trailer full of codes, hidden messages and no doubt a good number of red herrings, they're liable to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Kotaku and Shacknews are reporting -- each through their own anonymous source -- that following his August departure from Kojima Productions, Metal Gear Solid 4 producer Ryan Payton has found a new job at Microsoft Game Studios, where he will serve as creative director of the new Halo collaboration with Lord of the Rings director [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 23, 2008
MTV Multiplayer's Patrick Klepek has collected circumstantial evidence that points to one conclusion: Microsoft may be working on Halo: Chronicles -- the episodic Halo game being overseen by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson -- independent of long-time Halo developer Bungie.
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