Marty O'Donnell, Bungie's audio director, has warned that smaller studios face a difficult future if they can't get a return on their investment due to the sale of pre-owned games.
Bungie writer Luke Smith (Lukems) and Bungie's Sketch factor have assured everyone that the "Maddie, where are you?" slogan in yesterday's teaser was pure coincidence.
Kombo reports, "When Bungie does stuff like this, the wackos like yours truly, come out of the woodwork. We are the kind of people that will analyze the hell out of every trailer, frame by frame. But it looks like the pieces of the puzzle may be coming together a bit. Below is a breakdown of the current rumors that have been inspired by Bungie's new trailer..."
Any remote fan of anything Halo knows a new game is coming. Loot Ninja got a glimpse today of a teaser trailer on Bungie about the new game. It looks to be official and not a ruse or red herring. Furthermore, this is most likely what was delayed from the prior countdown around E3 or at least directly related to it. This is their explanation of what was shown in the teaser trailer.
The Halo 3 expansion teaser trailer's only been out an hour or so but gamers have already started to watch it in slow-mo to find every little hint they can. One Joystiq reader seems to have found a date somewhere in the footage - the date for the Halo 3 expansion's release?
Starting next week and lasting for six weeks, Best Buy will be travelling to 20 of the major colleges throughout the United States bringing the latest in gaming, technology, and music with them as part of their "Game U Best Buy G3: Games, Gear, and Gadgets Tour". At each stop they will allow gamers to play some of the top games like Madden 09 , Halo 3 , Saints Row 2 , Rock Band 2 , and more. The headliner of their games lineup is the ability to not only play Gears of War 2 well before the November release, but also to compete in the "Wingman Challenge" sponsored by Xbox 360 and GamePro Magazine.
Australian site, Xboxoz360-gamer, will be posting the new Bungie announcement as it happens. Background story to the big announcement.
For those Halo 3 gamers who have questions about the latest update to the Xbox killer-app, the good people of Bungie have launched the Halo 3 TU2 FAQ to help get to grips with the changes.
One of the New Halo 3 achievements that is not suppose to be obtainable until after 9/25/08, "Vidmaster Challenge: Annual" is obtainable NOW!