Bungie Has Left Microsoft

This is pretty huge news and horrible news for Microsoft. Apparently Bungie doesn't want to be tied down to making Halo games continuously indefinitely. As much as I love Halo, I too would like to see a new franchise from Bungie having now played 3 games in the Halo series. It's also said that Bungie does not like the way Microsoft runs things in a lot of other respects. I really think this is awesome news! Go Bungie! :)

Bungie has bought their name back from Microsoft, but Microsoft still owns all rights to the Halo franchise.

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Halo Goodness

I didn't keep up with all of the E3 stuff like i usually do, but here are the Halo videos:

Halo 3


Awesome video, but leaves a bit to be desired. The live action approach is pretty cool to change things up, but i still prefer to see trailers made using the game engine. This leaves me to believe that Halo 3 might be lacking some of the jaw dropping visuals that we have come to expect from Bungie. Just a quick thought.


I love the video! But yet again, prerendered. Oh well.

Halo Wars

Yes, you know, but to recap: Halo Wars is a real time strategy game based in the Halo universe. It's being developed by Ensemble Studios, makers of the Age of Empires/Mythology series.


That's not new, but it's awesome! I absolutely do not mind seeing prerendered trailers for RTSs, different genre. Love it!


I believe that's the only game play footage of Halo Wars so far. Not much to see yet, but it looks good based on that short 30 seconds.

Red vs Blue to Come to an End

Red vs Blue is one of the most popular machinimas on the net, and will be showing it's final episode one Wednesday. I haven't watched the series in quite a little while, but was a regular watcher when the series first started back in 2003. The series is hilarious!
rvb.roosterteeth.com

"The comedy series, featuring two squads of hapless Halo heroes locked in an endless civil war prolonged mostly by their own ineptitude, took the emerging machinima medium -- movies made with real-time video-game footage -- mainstream."

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roosterteeth.com is the home of the following:
Red vs Blue (based on Halo)
The Strangerhood (based on The Sims)
PANIC (based on F.E.A.R.)
1-800-MAGIC (based on Shadowrun)
and, their original web comic