343 Industries, the new owners of the Halo franchise, with the help of Certain Affinity and Sabre Interactive, have released a remake of Halo: Combat Evolved. Dubbed “Halo Anniversary”, it also comes with new features that will excite many Halo fans. However, with Halo 4 coming next year, will this show 343 Industries is the right group to handle the franchise?
After the release of Dance Central, and being critiqued as not only the best Dance game but the best Kinect game of 2010, Harmonix has released Dance Central 2 with amazing new tracks and features. With new Crew Challenges and refined Break it down mode will Dance Central 2 be as good and successful as the first game?
New images have been leaked by a member of the Se7ensins forums, revealing the next Call of Duty game, named Project Iron Wolf. Modern Warefare 3 hasn’t even been released, nor has there been any new updates on the game, and Treyarch are already developing another CoD game.
After the release of the fourth and final DLC character, Freddy Krueger, all four DLC characters as well as four Klassic Costume packs are now available. It is unknown whether there will be more DLC characters in the future.
Only a few more months until Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary hits the stores, and in about a month, more news on Halo: Anniversary and Halo 4 will be released at HaloFest at PAX Prime 2011. A demo trailer of the Halo: CEA campaign was shown at this year’s ComicCon, and from what we know, 343 Industries are yet to announce more features other than the campaign.
Hinted in Skarlet’s Video Biography Skarlet, Kenshi and Rain were announced as DLC as well as a mysterious character. Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street series, is the fourth DLC character to be released by NetherRealm Studios, joining the cast of fighters with his razor gloves and his plain creepiness.
Despite the fact that Aussies still can’t get their hands on this amazing game, NetherRealm now presents their third DLC character, Rain. Being a purple ninja (a reference to Prince) NetherRealm Studios have done a great job in designing Rain and adding him into Mortal Kombat 9 as DLC, which they should’ve put him in the original cast of fighters.
We have turned fifty, Nokia says that we should not look at “Sea Ray”, and has Apple made a fatal mistake with its new version of Final Cut Pro? All this and more on this week’s special edition of TECHGEEK Weekly.
Bungie, the developers of the Halo series have passed on the Halo franchise to 343inudstries, and are working on a new MMORPG title. Before they say goodbye to the Halo franchise, from the 23rd of June up until Bungie day (7th of July), the Bungie team will not only be celebrating their 20th anniversary of the studio, but also 10 years of Halo.
Already mentioned by Terence, it is confirmed that 343 Industries will be releasing not only a remastered version of Halo: Combat Evolved, the very first Halo game, but are also working on Halo 4, the continuation of Master Chief’s storyline. There are many other amazing games being shown in E3 but for now, lets talk about Halo.
So it has finally been confirmed, the very first DLC pack will include two new characters, Skarlet and Kenshi, and will include all the ‘Klassic Kostumes’ that were available when you pre-ordered the game. These costumes are basically palette swaps, which brings back memories of the original trilogy as the ninjas and assassins were basically re-coloured and given a new name. There will only be new costumes for Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Reptile, Ermac, Mileena, Jade and Kitana, as well as three ‘Klassic’ fatalities for Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Reptile.
The second character confirmed for the first line-up of Mortal Kombat DLCs, as seen on a leaked image with Skarlet, AND confirmed by Ed Boon, the creative director of the MK series, is Kenshi a.k.a the Blind Swordsman.
It has been about a month after the release of Mortal Kombat, and there are many rumours going around regarding DLC, and console-exclusive characters. There will definitely be DLC coming out soon which may contain 3 MK characters in the series. It is unknown which characters are going to be released first but through the hacking of the game, Skarlet a.k.a the Lady in Red will definitely be one of the 3 characters in the first line-up of DLCs.
In 10 days time, the new Mortal Kombat will be released everywhere except Australia (Booo!) but hopefully we will get this game sometime this year. As it was revealed, PS3 users were given an Exclusive character, Kratos from the God of War series, and an exclusive DoW themed map. This angered Xbox 360 fans as they got nothing, not even a demo. Rumours have now surfaced, saying that there might be Xbox 360 Exclusives for Mortal Kombat 9.
With 343 Industrial being the new owners of the highly acclaim Halo series, does 343 Industrial, with the help of Certain Affinity live up the exceptions set by Bungie? Does this map pack sets a good path for 343 Industrial and their future?
