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Halo – Hunt the Truth – Recap: Episode 04 – Crossing the Black

Halo’s fictional universe is vast and detailed, with stories filling in the gaps between the games and more. In the build up for the series’ next release, Halo 5: Guardians, Microsoft and 343 Industries has once again taken to viral advertising to fill in more of these gaps. This time, using audio diaries and images, we are invited to join fictional reporter Benjamin Giraud as he recounts the history of Halo’s hero: The Master Chief. Join us as we examine...

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Halo – Hunt the Truth – Recap: Episode 03 – Critical Condition

Halo’s fictional universe is vast and detailed, with stories filling in the gaps between the games and more. In the build up for the series’ next release, Halo 5: Guardians, Microsoft and 343 Industries has once again taken to viral advertising to fill in more of these gaps. This time, using audio diaries and images, we are invited to join fictional reporter Benjamin Giraud as he recounts the history of Halo’s hero: The Master Chief. Join us as we examine...

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Halo – Hunt the Truth – Recap: Episode 02 – Bad Records

Halo’s fictional universe is vast and detailed, with stories filling in the gaps between the games and more. In the build up for the series’ next release, Halo 5: Guardians, Microsoft and 343 Industries has once again taken to viral advertising to fill in more of these gaps. This time, using audio diaries and images, we are invited to join fictional reporter Benjamin Giraud as he recounts the history of Halo’s hero: The Master Chief. Join us as we examine...

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Halo – Hunt the Truth – Recap: Episode 01 – A Hairline Fracture

Halo’s fictional universe is vast and detailed, with stories filling in the gaps between the games and more. In the build up for the series’ next release, Halo 5: Guardians, Microsoft and 343 Industries has once again taken to viral advertising to fill in more of these gaps. This time, using audio diaries and images, we are invited to join fictional reporter Benjamin Giraud as he recounts the history of Halo’s hero: The Master Chief. Join us as we examine...

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Halo – Hunt the Truth – An Ongoing Analysis of the Viral Marketing Campaign

  Since I first played Halo: Combat Evolved, I’ve been hooked on the Sci-Fi story it tells. I dug deep into the backstory as Microsoft and Bungie fleshed out their narrative, reading the books and keeping tabs on things like the Halo 2 Viral campaign, “I Love Bees.” Halo continued to grow into a universe that had complex concepts being thrown at the fans from many directions, and in the time between each subsequent game release, the Universe grows even more. As of...

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The Curious Case of Bungie Aerospace

Four long years ago, world-reknowned creators of Halo and the yet-unannounced space-epic Destiny announced an interesting project: Bungie Aerospace. Aerospace was a brilliant initiative from the minds at Bungie to partner with small developers and provide them with the initiative, funds, and community to cultivate and launch amazing games. Per Audacia ad Astra – Through Boldness To The Stars – was the motto. A powerful term first coined by the philosophical...

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Day 1 Halo MCC Matchmaking Issue Continues

Praise the Halo gods, Halo: The Master Chief Collection has finally been graced into our Xbox One systems. Oh wait, what’s that? You’ve been waiting 5 minutes to get into a Halo 2 classic playlist? It seems that 343 Industries is having trouble establishing matchmaking connections server side, and addressed this head on November 11th. Since the launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, we’ve received several, well deserved, complaints related to slow...

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Hands on with Bungie’s Destiny Alpha – Our First Impressions + Enter to win!

We’ve been playing Bungie’s latest and greatest for a week now. Curious as to whether it’s worth your time? Read ahead to find out… Four years. Four long years. It has been this long since we have had our hands on anything created by the masterminds at Bungie, who we haven’t seen come from their shell since the last great Halo, Halo: Reach, hit store shelves on September 14th, 2010. Since that day, many years ago, much has changed: Bungie has...

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Halo: The Master Chief Collection is Coming – but is the time right?

Halo: The Master Chief collection was announced today for the Xbox One, featuring the original multiplayer for every Halo game running on its original Xbox on the Xbox One. We have to ask ourselves a question now: is it the right time for this? Halo as a multiplayer shooter is still a huge game on the Xbox 360, thousands of players play Halo 3, Halo 4, and Halo: Reach every day on the Xbox, and the communities there are still very much alive and well – what will happen...

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Halo 5: Guardians Coming Fall 2015

Microsoft and 343 Studios announced today that the next adventure in the Halo saga, Halo 5: Guardians will release in fall 2015 exclusively for the Xbox One. Using a new engine designed specifically for the game, 343 promises to bring entire new experiences to the Halo universe by harnessing the power of the Xbox One. Head manager at 343 Studios, Bonnie Ross, had this to say in a blog post: It’s a game that will hopefully demonstrate the talent, learnings and abilities of...