Good evening fellow Spartans, I have some excellent news on behalf of Bungie and the UNSC. April Mathchmaking Updates went live today a little early and they are fantastic on all fronts.
Hello everybody, its my favorite thing in the world time….new Halo content! Thats right, Bungie, Microsoft, and more importantly Certain Affinity officially announced the upcoming release of the Defiant Map Pack for Halo: Reach. This will be the first map pack released for Reach from another studio other then Bungie. Certain Affinity has done some fantastic work in the past, and have worked with games like Halo 2, Left 4 Dead, World at War, and many other popular competitive shooters. Certain Affinity was founded by a 10 year Bungie veteran, so be sure that the maps and Reach are in great hands.
According to a WhoIs profile search, Microsoft bought the rights to the website KinectHalo.com. Does this mean the next Halo will be motion controlled? Gamrfeed did some domain name trolling to come up with this discovery. According to the domain records, Microsoft bought this all the way back June of last year and have been keeping the dirty secret all this time.
What a better way to start off a new year of Halo: Reach then to update and modify the playlists. Bungie has implemented a variety of changes, additions, and modifications to existing and new playlists. The most notable change would have to be the addition of a “Community Slayer” playlist, these games will use all community created maps and leave them untouched. The maps that receive high voting over a trial period will rise to the top and maintain there place in regular rotation.
Now that the new year has creeped upon us, I think a perfect way to start off 2011 would be to post about my top 5 favorite games of 2010. 2010 was an amazing year for game releases which made my decisions that much harder. The following 5 games are ranked from least to most favourite.
Bungie began their week with a proper video walk through of Anchor 9, they have continued the promo today with more footage on the upcoming DLC launching next week. These maps are beginning to look really polished, and look like they are going to promote some excellent gameplay. Noble map pack seems to have a little bit for everyone, whether you are looking for small arena maps, large team environments, or a new invasion space Bungie provides on all fronts.
Bungies first batch of DLC is around the corner, and what better way to learn about these maps then to hear it first hand from the guys that made them. Over the next 3 days Bungie is spilling the beans on the 3 new environments coming out next week, and first up is Anchor 9.
As promised in Bungies weekly update last Friday, this morning they have released a new gameplay trailer showing off the 3 new maps that will be shipping at the end of November. This is a great cinematic look into some epic new gameplay and best of all some brand new multiplayer environments.
As promised before launch, Bungie unveiled another playlist on friday in Halo: Reach that will accommodate all gamers who wish to play through any campaign level through Xbox Live. Its nice to be able to play through an epic campaign with gamers beyond the likes of your own friends list. Upon entering the playlist you have an opportunity to vote on the appropriate difficulty level, just in case you either want to take it easy or grind a legendary mission. Bungie has stated that this playlist wasn’t available right away at launch in order to keep gamers from accidentally hoping into the end of the game pre maturely, the game is over a month old now and its time to have some fun apparently. This playlist is live now!
You may remember reading last week that Bungie had accidentally, or incidentally teased that DLC was on the way through some Bungie update screenshots. Well it turns out that the speculation’s can be put to rest, Bungie officially announced today that the Noble map pack will be available on the Xbox live marketplace for 800 points and will be available November 30th. Bungie released a proper statement on their website today that breaks down details on the three new maps that will make up the content. The maps are called Anchor 9, Tempest, and Breakpoint. Below are some screen shots and some proper Bungie explanations on what these maps are built for and what gametypes play best.
Halo Reach has been amongst the masses for under one months time, but that doesn’t mean its too early for a playlist update. Bungie is notorious for listening to their ever growing community, and today marks the first of many adjustments to ensure that all of us Halo players are getting the fine tuned experience that we expect.
In a recent screenshot released during the weekly Bungie, instructions were shown on how to install the game to your Hard Drive. In the picture used in the walkthrough Reach is shown with a total of 1250G and 59 achievements, this had lead many gamers to believe that DLC is on the way to make up for the extra gamerscore and achievements.
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