The demo for Halo Wars has set the one day record for most demo downloads over Xbox Live. The demo landed on Xbox Live on the 5th of February and was downloaded by over 2 million Xbox Live gold members in the first five days.
Halo Wars, Ensemble’s real-time strategy game set in the Halo universe, releases on February 27th, exclusively on Xbox 360. South African gamers can also get their hands on it on the 27th of February .
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Microsoft have confirmed that the upcoming Mythic Map pack for Halo 3 will be released on March 3rd, meaning that buying the special edition version of Halo Wars will only grant you access to them one week early. They have also given us a few new details on each of the 3 new maps:-
Sandbox combines large-scale vehicular combat with a limitless amount of Forge customization. Boasting a tiered, open-world layout, “Halo 3” players will be able to build their own unique game experiences... Read Full Story
New video documentary series and Xbox LIVE demo details revealed Microsoft Game Studios and Ensemble Studios announced today that “Halo Wars,” the highly anticipated action strategy game based on the legendary “Halo” universe, is finished and sent to manufacturing! Created from the ground up for the Xbox 360 console and controller, “Halo Wars” combines a peerless control scheme and gameplay with an incredibly rich, epic story set 20 years prior to the story told in “Halo: Combat Evolved... Read Full Story
Excited for Halo Wars? Well we’ve got some good news: Microsoft has given Major League Gaming some codes for early access to the Halo Wars demo. MLG is planning to give them out to 25 random people who reply to a forum post made just for that purpose. So if you are interested, here are the rules:
This thread is for submissions to our Halo Wars demo code giveaway. For all Questions/Discussion, please use this thread.
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If you were apart of people who didn't want to shell out $80 for the Halo Wars Limited Edition just so you could play the Mythic maps early some good news came out today for you! Microsoft has announced that the Mythic map pack will be available for 800 MSP on April 9th.
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I've been looking forward to Halo Wars for a couple of years now and wasn't too happy as they consistently pushed it back further and further. But now the game is finally here and I have to say that this game is fun.CampaignFor those of us who played the demo you really get a sense of how the campaign plays out. Right now I'm only on Mission 4 and it's starting to ramp up as far as difficulty ( Read Full Story
Now available for download off of Xbox LIVE Marketplace is the Halo 3 Mythic map pack for 800 MS Points. This map pack comes with three maps, Orbital , Assembly and Sandbox . RonyDean Short Review: Iv had the map pack for a month now (thanks to Halo Wars) and to tell you the truth its not really all that great. As a big Halo 3 fan I thought these maps might get me back into the game sense I stopped for a while, but really all it did was made me wish I didn't spend that extra $20 for Halo Wars... Read Full Story
Dude, he doesn't understand Mediaroom either. If there's one thing Microsoft's keynote at CES tonight taught me, it's that Microsoft Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach is juggling a weird variety of stuff right now. After the mighty Steve Ballmer stalked the stage, proclaiming the awesome virtues of Windows in all its mysterious forms for much of the first half of the press conference, Bach tagged in to talk briefly about a few of the random-ass projects his division's working... Read Full Story
