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Bungie are bringing Halo: Reach to Comic Con and dropping a few bombs. 343 and Halo Waypoint will also be there with some exciting Halo news panels and products and a media embargo lifts today. Videos, screenshots, announcements and hands-on impressions inbound!
Wait press conference?
Bungie will be making a special announcement today at 6pm PDT at ComicCon. If you are reading this, then you'll probably not have the chance to be there but you're covered. G4TV will be running a Live Blog from the panel floor relaying all the information. Futhermore Bungie.net will be updated one hours later (7pm PDT) with the related media.
What are we expecting?
Forge! Similar to how Bungie revealed Firefight 2.0 at E3, we're expecting similar treatment for Forge, maybe even a surprise or two! Videos, screenshots or maybe even a new Vidoc!
During Bungie Day, a new map was revealed. It was massive, big enough to swallow a Blood Gulch remake and still have plenty of room. It seems as if this will be the map Bungie uses to show off Forge 2.0 .
Links
- G4TV Live Blog Link (6pm PDT/2am GMT)
- Bungie.net Frontpage ( Media available after 7pm PDT/3am GMT)
- BungieTweets
- Halo Waypoint (on 360 Dashboard)
- Halo Waypoint Twitter
Media Embargo?
The media was brought into the Bungie cave and given time to play with Reach both Campaign and multiplayer. The Campaign material will be held back until mid/early August bu the rest of the stuff is fair game from later on today. New maps and new modes were shown to the journalists from various sites such as IGN and.... other sites. Expect plenty of hands on impressions from this time spent with Reach and tons of screenshots and videos. The embargo seems to have been timed with the ComicCon announcement so it's expected that the embargo will be lifted around this time. Some sites might leak early and some may come late to the party.
Last Week's BWU said:This week we hosted a slew of worldwide media folks for a big hands-on preview with a huge chunk of Reach. During their stay our guests got to play two and a half campaign missions, several new MP maps, a new game mode and Forge. The bad news is that most of the fruits of that visit, including all of the campaign coverage, wont be surfacing until the first week of August. The good news is that some of what we showed will actually be coming out next week including a boat load of new screenshots and even some direct feed video. Did I already mention that next Thursday was shaping up to be HUGE?!
It was really fun to have "civilians" in to play parts of Reach for the first time. Its often hard to really gauge their reactions but members of our team quietly hovered in the background watching the likes of OXM, IGN and Gamepro get their first taste of the Reach campaign. At one point Joe Tung leans over to me and points out "hey look, all four of those guys are on the same part of the mission and each is using totally different armor abilities. Thats just awesome." Yeah, it sure was.
Links
Links will added as they come online.
Give me more Halo!
Halo: Reach isn't the only Halo main attraction, 343i and Waypoint will be there and hosting a seperate Halo Universe panel. Additionaly, they started the show early with some swet Halo related product announcements. The Halo Universe panel is scheduled for 11-12pm PDT on Sunday.
Action Figures!
- Exclusive "Noble Seven" Action Figure. Link
- Halo Reach Play Arts Kai by SquareEnix. (Announcement to follow?)
Halo Novels!
- Forerunner Trilogy Book 1 by Greg Bear will be out later this year (Announcement to follow?).
- Follow up (not sequel) to Ghosts of Onyx to be written by Karen Traviss due out 2011. Link.
Free Stuff! (For Attendees only! =\)
Attendees will be given a Limited Edition poster by Bungie's Dorje Bellbrook and a Noble Six helmet for an Xbox Live avatar.