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Halo 3: Recon – A Prologue to Halo 3 revealed – from an ODST perspective – Prepare to Drop Fall 2009

Josh Anderson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:06:51 +0000

During the Tokyo Games show, Microsoft showed an ‘extension’ to the Prepare to Drop trailer which showed an ODST Marine leaving the drop pod that crashed. It was also stated that this will ship in Fall 2009.

The trailer has just been uploaded to Bungie.net & presumably the marketplace too: look here.
Xbox.com gives us a few more details: Campaign will be a side story that takes place during the events leading up to Chief’s return to New Mombasa in Halo 3, Multiplayer will provide “groundbreaking multiplayer content” With Exclusive new maps & Forge options as well as Saved films, Screenshots…. Oh and 4 player co-op
EDIT: It’s now called Halo 3: ODST which makes more sense, but I’m not sure I prefer it.

LOL - The Super Intendant Labels the crashed ODST pod with "POSS. PARKING VIOLATION"

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Microsoft / Xbox Keynote at Tokyo Games show tomorrow – Something Halo this way comes?

Josh Anderson — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:28:28 +0000

Microsoft for the first time is keynoting at the Tokyo Games show which kicks off this Thursday and finishes on Sunday….

Will we be graced by the reveal of what ‘Halo 3 Prepare To Drop’ is? Click here to see what we know so far (it’s just a trailer, an awesome trailer.)

Well, there have been a couple hints that we might do:

“Tokyo Rules” mentioned in one of the Super Intendant’s news posts on Bungie.net
“Prepare to J-Pop” Sound familiar? No? Could be a reference to Prepare to Drop from the trailer. And, from the same source: “Brian and Luke are, as you read this, witnessing the marvel that is the beautiful city of Tokyo.” From last week’s Bungie update.

Also, generally speaking, a keynote at a gaming show implies that there is stuff to show off; hopefully this ‘new Halo 3 campaign experience’ is one of those things.

The keynote starts at 12:00PM Tokyo time. If you want to find out when that is in your time zone, click here.

Edit: I was right; Look here

Tagged: Bungie, Halo 3, Halo 3 New Campaign Experience, Halo 3 Prepare to Drop, Halo announcement?, Microsoft, Prepare to Drop, Superintendant, TGS, TGS 08, The Superintendant, Tokyo, Tokyo Games Show, Tokyo Games Show 2008, xbox, Xbox 360

Bungie Countdown finishes – reveals trailer – “Halo 3 Prepare to drop”

Josh Anderson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:13:53 +0000

EDIT: For a longer version of this trailer which was shown at the Tokyo Games Show, look here

After the countdown finished at 07:07AM PDT, Bungie.net revealed a teaser trailer for the next game they’re bringing out. OK no-one knows what the trailer was for, just go and watch it!!!

The description for the video from the marketplace: “High action and deep mystery await players in this new Halo 3 campaign experience. Prepare to drop!”
We can haz new campaign levels???

You can see it here GOGOGOGOGO

Click on any of the pictures below for bigger versions.

WTF?

Don't think water...

Yes, it's upside down, that's how it was in the video!

Possible release date? It

Tagged: Bungie, Bungie countdown, Bungie Countdown Finish, Bungie Countdown Finishes, Bungie.net, Danger: Flood Zone, Halo, Halo 3, Halo 3 New Campaign Experience, Halo 3 Prepare to Drop, Halo 3 Ready to Drop, I've tagged this post too much, New Bungie Game, ODST, Superintendant, The Superintendant, Warning! Metropolitan Disaster!, xbox, Xbox 360

BUNGIE.NET INVADED BY SUPERINTENDANT – AGAIN – COUNTDOWN TO 7:07AM (PDT)/ 03:07PM(UK) September 25th.

Josh Anderson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:38:14 +0000

This time it seems they’re sure that it won’t be cancelled though; if you look carefully at the messages on the current bungie.net homepage they now include:

“THERE WILL BE A PAYOFF”

“IT WON’T BE A LETTER”

Expect something big. It’s what we deserve after last time!

LOOK HERE FOR WHAT HAPPENED

BTW, sorry if this post doesn’t mean a lot to some people; if you want to read about this and when it’s happened before, look here

Tagged: 7:07, 7:07AM, Bungie, Bungie countdown, Bungie.net, Halo, Halo 3, ilovebees, iLovebees.com, It won't be a letter, Superintendant, The Superintendant, There will be a payoff, xbox, Xbox 360

Happy Birthday, Halo 3!

Josh Anderson — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:00:54 +0000

Today, September 26th 2008 marks Halo 3′s 1 year anniversary.

There really isn’t a great deal to say, anyone who is a true fan of Halo 3 would have gotten it on its release day one year ago (the 27th for Europe ) and is still playing it to this day.

I’m certainly one of those dedicated fans; over the last year I’ve played Halo 3 multiplayer for a rather scary 265 hours! (that’s 11 days straight!!!!). (If you want to see how many hours you have spent in Halo 3, click on the picture below or the Spartan over on the right and create an account.)

Supposedly we’ll get a new episode of the Bungie podcast today and hopefully(!) an announcement or at least something more from the Superintendant.

Tagged: Bungie, Bungie.net, Halo, Halo 3, Halo 3's anniversary, Superintendant, The Superintendant, xbox, Xbox 360

THE SUPERINTENDANT IS BACK! – KEEP IT CLEAN

Josh Anderson — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:53:18 +0000

So far he’s not invaded Bungie.net as much as he did the last time but there is a news entry from him on the bungie.net homepage. The entry is a transcript of a ‘conversation’ between the Superintendant (who appears to be an AI) and a Communication Duty Officer. The conversation comes from the UNSC OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE – CLASSIFIED SIGNALS ARCHIVE

This along with the closing message from Luke in this week’s weekly update (“Earlier this summer, my bipolar, crazy landlord told me, ‘The night is darkest just before the dawn.’ Dawn is about to break.”) suggests that we will see something about Bungie’s next project very soon; what better day than Thursday – Halo 3′s one year anniversary?

Keep an eye on Bungie.net for any other weird goings on and hope for an announcement!

Bungie had better be damn sure that Microsoft isn’t going to stop them this time!

EDIT: If you watch the Bungie logo on any page on bungie.net for long enough it flashes to the Superintendant (last time it flashed to ‘tru7h’)

EDIT: He’s back in full like last time BUNGIE.NET INVADED BY SUPERINTENDANT – AGAIN – COUNTDOWN TO 7:07AM (PDT)/ 03:07PM(UK) September 25th.

Tagged: Bungie, Bungie logo, Bungie.net, Flashing Bungie Logo, Halo, Halo 3, Keep it Clean, Superintendant, Superintendant's back!, The Superintendant, UNSC, xbox, Xbox 360

Halo 3 – new achievements confirmed

Josh Anderson — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:36:45 +0000

Damn it, he's back. "A small, private Bungie Invitational looms on the horizon."

Bungie came out and admitted that Auto Update 2 (AU2) for Halo 3 will bring some new achievements to the game; they only gave details of the one’s that will make sense now -

“As folks have seen, these aren’t the only achievements we’re adding. But without proper context, there’s not a whole lot else we’re going to say. Stay tuned.“

Most likely, there will be some more achievements with another map pack / update to Halo 3

Here’s a list of the one’s that they did tell us about:

Vidmaster Challenge: Lightswitch (0 points) – Get to the rank of Lieutenant in any playlist in the new EXP progression system.
Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 (0 points) – Enter into any ranked or social playlist with 7 EXP on the 7th of the month.
Vidmaster Challenge: Annual (0 points) – After 9/25/08, complete Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and everyone in Ghosts.
Double Double (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get two Double Kills during any ranked or social match.
Poor Yorick (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 3 Oddball melee kills during any ranked or social match.
Came…From…Behind (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get 3 assassinations during any ranked or social match.
Defend This (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get a flag melee kill during any ranked or social match.
Flag Dropped (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 2 flag carrier kills during any ranked or social match.
Road Rage (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 5 Warthog chaingun kills during any ranked or social match.
Look Both Ways (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get a Splatter Spree during any ranked or social match.

EDIT: You can see a list of all the other achievements here – They all require the un-announced Mythic Map Pack.

They also said that Auto Update 2 / Title Update 2 will most likely be delayed – “the previously announced date may slip a bit closer to the Halo 3 one-year anniversary.” That’s September 27th so presumably it’ll be between the 16th and the 27th.

Message from the Bungie President re: Countdown / E3….

Josh Anderson — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:30:30 +0000

With 12 hours left on the countdown, a message was posted [supposedly?] by Harold Ryan, the President of Bungie Studios on the superintendent-Bungie-homepage.

It can be seen in the picture below or by going to Bungie.net at this very moment; don’t know how long that’s gonna last.

Is it real?

Is Microsoft preventing Bungie from announcing whatever they were going to announce?

Will anything happen at 07:07:07 AM?

I hope so

EDIT: 07:12:00 AM – Nothing…. I’m just gonna go be depressed somewhere now….

EDIT: September 20th ’08 – he’s back! – click me

EDIT: September 25th ’08 – he’s back in full – click

E3 / BUNGIE TAKEN OVER BY SUPERINTENDANT!

Josh Anderson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:47:52 +0000

The original purpose of this post was going to be to do with what happened at the Microsoft E3 press conference; due to my bias towards Bungie / Halo that will be a minor discussion in this post.

So… The 360′s gonna get a new dashboard in the Autumn / Fall; To be honest I don’t like the look of it but hopefully it will work ok. On the up side, it will have 8 person private chat w00t! Fortunately, they clearly realised that people don’t like change — the xbox guide (accessible by pressing the guide button!) will take the form of the blade-like dashboard we currently have and you will be able to use it in game and in the dash.

Gears of War 2 looks awesome and will be released on November 7th.

Fallout 3 looked cool but the demo didn’t show enough for me to decide whether it will be worth buying — this is combined with the fact that I haven’t read anything about them in the past so I can’t tell!

A few more announcements… including that Final Fantasy XIII will be on the 360 and it was the end of the conference leaving Halo / Bungie fans severely disappointed.

Not even a mention of Halo Wars and this after the Bungie guys on the Podcast severely suggesting that something was going to happen on the 14th.

AND SOMETHING DID HAPPEN!

GOTO BUNGIE.NET!

THE SUPERINTENDANT HAS TAKEN OVER AND A COUNTDOWN IS SHOWN COUNTING DOWN TO 2:07:07PM ON THE 16TH!

To be honest; no-one really knows what is going on with the Superintendant but it is driving all the Halo / Bungie fans crazy and it definitely shows that Bungie can capture the attention of people without using the Microsoft conference like others do.

If this is the beginning of an ARG like ilovebees.com, it’s certainly trying to get the attention of a lot more people; and I think it’ll succeed.

So, yet another post where I leave you waiting for an announcement or something else from the brilliant company that is Bungie.

Edit: just been linked to this page http://www.bungie.net/Inside/soffish/Soffish.html links in with that fish on the Bungie Day 2008 theme….

Someone explain it all!!!

Update – click here

Bungie Day – 2008

Josh Anderson — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:14:14 +0000

Well, tomorrow being the seventh of July means it is Bungie Day!

As was announced earlier last week, we’ll be getting a new map for free – Cold Storage; a remake of a Halo: Combat Evolved map entitled Chillout.

And, just like last year, we get a free theme and some gamer pictures which I hadn’t expected until tomorrow. But, THEY’RE AVAILABLE NOW… GOGOGO!

The theme, as I expected features a picture of the Superintendant (which no-one really know’s anything about! Pictured Below.)

And the Xbox Live blade has an arm with some lightening bolts and some what-is-presumably Latin saying “NON FACETE NOBIS CALCITRARE VESTRVM PERINEVM” — see comments for what this likely means

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!?!?!?

Also, one of the gamer pictures is a fish and the System Blade has a fish on the right and a fish in a bottle!?!?!?

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN!?!?!?!

Looking forward to tomorrow…. hopefully it will bring some answers to all these questions.

Comment with any predictions on what tomorrow will bring!