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  • Halo: Reach multi-player beta is really quite fun

    Halo: Reach multi-player beta is really quite fun

    I spent a few hours last night playing the Halo: Reach multi-player beta. (Microsoft sent out a few early invites to writing-guys like me, but the beta opens to Halo: ODST owners today.) It's been a while since I've played a Halo game for any real amount of time. I dabbled with Halo 3's multi-player for a little while there, but that was two years ago. First impression of the Reach beta: absence makes the heart grow fonder. CrunchGear: your home for old man idioms.

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  • Bungie signs 10-year deal with Activision (cue explosion sounds)

    Bungie signs 10-year deal with Activision (cue explosion sounds)

    Infinity Ward? What's that? Activision just snagged Bungie, of Halo fame, to a ten-year deal. Silver lining: the Sun will run out of hydrogen in about 5 billion years.

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  • Bungie: The Halo 2 big E3 reveal back in 2003 was ’smoke and mirrors’

    Bungie: The Halo 2 big E3 reveal back in 2003 was ’smoke and mirrors’

    Well now this is mildly embarrassing. Six years ago, Bungieshowed off, and I guess I use that term loosely now, Halo 2 for the very first time. Let's see... 2003, that would make me 17. Trivia! Anyhow, what Bungie showed was a complete hunk of nonsense. This is where you act surprised.

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  • Riiiiight: Bungie says Halo: Reach is its last Xbox 360 Halo game

    Riiiiight: Bungie says Halo: Reach is its last Xbox 360 Halo game

    “There was a boy tending the sheep who would continually go up to the embankment and shout, ‘Help, there's a wolf!’ The farmers would all come running only to find out that what the boy said was not true. Then one day there really was a wolf but when the boy shouted, they didn't believe him and no one came to his aid. The whole flock was eaten by the wolf.” Bungie has said that Halo: Reach will be the last Halo game it works on for the Xbox 360.

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