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29 Apr 2010Listen, we love atmosphere. Don’t get us wrong, if someone was making a list of websites that liked moody, atmospheric advertising, Joystiq would be right there at the top. With a bullet. We watched that Gears of War “Mad World” ad and thought “Hmm, not enough atmosphere and pensive reflection.” That said, the two-minute-and-thirty second [...]
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12 Feb 2010Coinciding with the info avalanche at X10, Bungie has released a new Halo: Reach video documentary (aka “ViDoc”). There’s something for every Halo fan here: Spartan customization, new weapons, huge maps, new music, and plenty of human-on-alien warfare. A few things to look out for include a grenade launcher, stealth kills and a Spartan actually [...]
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27 Jan 2010Bungie this week released a large batch of concept art for the upcoming Halo: Reach, showing some soldiers, some Covenant, some trees, some snow and a Spartan with a little robot T-Rex arm. Some of this was featured in the latest issue of Game Informer, but since most of you wouldn’t have seen that, enjoy.
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22 Jul 2009Microsoft is teaming with five productions houses for a series of seven short films called Halo Legends, reports the Los Angeles Times. The five production houses are some of the biggest names in the industry: Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio4 C, and Toei Animation. The creative director overseeing the production is Shinji Aramaki, director [...]
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8 Jun 2009We know nothing about Halo: Reach other than the fact it’s a new Halo game, and that it’s due sometime next year. So in the absence of facts, then, let’s speculate! While the game’s trailer lets us know the obvious things – it’ll deal with the Covenant’s attack on the human colony of Reach – [...]