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The Halo: Reach Xbox 360 beta attracted more players on day one than Halo 3 did during its complete beta period, it has been revealed. A Machanima video featured official stats from developer Bungie which included the claim, according to Destructoid. On the first day of the Halo: Reach beta …
Read More »Kotick: Bungie game ‘unlike anything ever seen before’
Bobby Kotick has declared that Bungie’s first game to be published by Activision Blizzard will be unlike anything audiences have ever seen before”. While the Activision president gave no new details on the title, he did suggest that it would be the Halo developer’s first multi-format release since it was …
Read More »Halo: Reach beta tops 1m
More than one million Xbox 360 owners signed up for the Halo: Reach open beta within the first 24 hours. That’s according to the game’s developer Bungie, which reports that 1,170,112 people have played the game since the beta opened on Monday, according to Kotaku. The studio also announced that …
Read More »No room for Bungie at EA
It’s the most lucrative genre in the western video games market and EA now believes it is the best positioned publisher in the industry with regards to the FPS genre – and that’s the reason why it wasn’t in the race to sign a deal with Halo developer Bungie. Upcoming …
Read More »Halo: Reach tops US purchase intent list
Halo: Reach is the most anticipated upcoming game in the US, racking up the highest purchase intent rating among consumers. The Bungie title topped the GamePlan Insights charts for upcoming games, with fellow Microsoft releases Gears of War 3 and Fable III in third and fourth respectively, according to Gamasutra. …
Read More »Halo Reach beta is struggling
It’s not a huge surprise that that beta for the online component of Bungie’s Xbox 360 shooter Halo: Reach has proved to be hugely popular, and the developer has stated that while some of the early glitches have been ironed out the service, which went live last night, is not …
Read More »Why ‘one studio, one project’ is best for Bungie
Studio plans to solely work on new IP once Halo Reach work for Microsoft is done
Read More »Returning to roots: Bungie on its creative rebirth
Activision deal 'lets Bungie be Bungie', claims community director
Read More »Bungie going â??beyond the box in the living roomâ??
The Halo group talks of â??not locking people into a single choice or platformâ??
Read More »Bungie: Why we chose Activision
â??The majority of publishers and developers right now donâ??t want to embark on this kind of relationship.â?
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