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November 16, 2012
Halo 4 Sales Records
So by now I expect a lot of you have settled in with the new gameplay within Halo 4, and are slowly rising up the Spartan Ranks. But when I say a lot of you, it may be a lot more than you might think.
343 Industries have set quite a record in games sales according to VGChartz Estimates. VGChartz have given details about Halo 4's day one sales, and the numbers are quite astonishing. Halo 4 has managed to sell 3.1 million copies in total, which is the most any console exclusive has ever sold within day one sales. 60% of those sales, or 1.9 million units were
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November 10, 2012
Halo 4 Info
One of the most frustrating things to happen in matchmaking in previous Halo games is when the rest of your team decides to quit. In a game like big team battle, it may not seem like much of a deal, but after one or two people quit, usually a lot of others will follow, and it makes it boring and extremely difficult to ever stand a chance against the enemy team, especially in smaller games.
343 are hoping to fix this by allowing players to join other games in progress. This will make matchmaking times significantly shorter whilst making sure no one has an unfair advantage against the opposing team.
There have also been a few other changes
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You would have thought that after all the leaked footage and campaign gameplay of Halo 4 there would have been enough reports to fully reveal Halo 4 in its naked form, but somehow it seems that 343 and Microsoft have managed to keep some secrets behind closed doors.
The picture above shows some kind of Promethean weapon or enemy capable of inflicting a considerate amount of damage to the chief and his companions, and it has a shape that we haven't seen in official previews of the game. The new image was revealed by IGN, and has created a ripple of interest throughout different websites and pages on the internet.
343 and Microsoft have released a fair amount of information on the rather complex species and their ranking positions within the main four Promethean groups; the four different Knights, three Crawler variations, and a Watcher species, but all of these are loosely based on a humanoid shape and the concept in the image is some sort of strange orb or space weapon.
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October 20, 2012
Halo 4 Info
After the huge success of Forge World in Halo: Reach, it's only fair that forge fans receive a treatment just as rewarding in Halo 4. A recent video has been released featuring Kynon Pearson, a developer for 343 Industries, and Lori Zawada, a developer for Certain Affinities, discussing the new forge features in Halo 4.Although neither the forge menus nor any of the main mechanics were showcased in this video, information about new maps were. Three new maps will be included with Halo 4 upon release, which have all been designed with forge in mind.
The first map features jagged high-rising cliffs covered in rich
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October 17, 2012
Halo 4 Trailer
A new Halo 4 trailer has been scheduled to air live on October 18th on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and will then be available to watch from Halo Waypoint and the Xbox YouTube channel straight after.
The two minute long trailer has been named Scanned, and will give an "emotionally charged" back story into the mind of Halo's returning protagonist, the Master Chief.
The trailer is being produced by a large crew of talented directors and artists with mainstream success in the media industry. David Fincher, director of popular movies such as Fight Club and Se7en, is executive producing the project, alongside Tim Miller, lead
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October 14, 2012
Halo 4 Gameplay Info
Well if you've come this far through the Halo series, you may be in for a surprise: The Halo 4 campaign is not for the weak hearted.
Frank O' Connor, development director of 343 Industries recently sat down at Eurogamer and played through a scene of the new Halo 4 campaign. As he played it was clear this game was going to be hard, and he was only playing it on normal difficulty.
When I played Halo Reach on Legendary for the first time, it hit me how much Bungie had managed to improve the AI of the covenant, and this was one of the main reasons it was such a challenge. In Halo 4, AI has been improved drastically, and you'll be very lucky
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October 12, 2012
Halo 4 Editions and Exclusives
Haven't pre-ordered Halo 4 yet? Good. Read this post to make sure you get the most out of the content within game, and help yourself save some bucks in the future too. Don't forget that subscribing to our newsletter gives you a chance to win an official Halo 4 console with official Halo 4 Controllers.
There are three main releases for Halo 4 and for all you diehard fans, no, unfortunately there isn't a humongous legendary crate of Halo goodies like previous games, but there are plenty of extras included both in-game and out of game bundled with each edition.
Halo 4 Standard
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October 06, 2012
Halo 4 Info
The flood have become a very iconic race in the Halo series, and from every game since launch there has been at least a small reference to the parasitic species.
It's been known for a while that we won't be seeing the flood in the Halo 4 campaign, but new gameplay reveals the ability to play as the flood creatures in the newly buffed infection game mode.
Infection starts off with a group of players fighting against a predefined number of 'infected' players. In previous games the infected usually wielded an energy sword and had different health stats depending on the game variant. In Halo 4, when a player gets killed by the infected,
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October 01, 2012
Halo 4 Multiplayer Map Details
Halo 4 is just around the corner and as November 6th draws closer, we're receiving more and more details about the content within the fresh beginning to 343's new Halo franchise. We've seen new weapons, new species, new environments and new game mechanics, but today we're going to look at the base of any successful FPS; the multiplayer maps.
Adrift
MLG GameplayAdrift is a mining vessel that has been refitted to house military gear. This small map places players in a largely enclosed environment featuring narrow corridors and
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Recently, a ton of Halo 4 content was displaced throughout Internet. Hypertrooper at the NeoGAF forums compiled a large list of all the news in order to make it easier for the Halo 4 lover in all of us. Check out the links below!
Be warned though. Some links do contain spoilers of the campaign so read at your own discretion.
Here is a video from Machinima showing off Dominion Mode in Multiplayer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aoJMAMR038&feature=g-all-uThis is a video from IGN, which shows off their campaign impressions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWpXszjy3io&feature=plcpA preview posted on Joystiq about the campaign and the approach to the new game.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/21/halos-new-house-343-discusses-its-approach-to-halo-4/