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Source-GamerAnx 343 Industries has announced there still is Easter eggs in the campaign not found yet! Halo 4 contains more secrets and easter eggs than previously imagined. Although players have had no difficulty in finding lore terminals scattered throughout the game, Halo 4's developers 343 Industries say that not everything has been found, and have provided a few hints on how players can uncover these secrets. Unlike previous Halo games, which forced players to discover hidden skulls to unlock higher difficulty levels for the game, Halo 4 provides these skull modifications from the very start, essentially removing what could have served as an additional secret to unlock. However, 343 says that there's more secrets in the game than players think. "The Halo 4 Campaign still contains many secrets left uncovered," wrote the game's lead campaign designer Jesse Snyder, "Did you find any secrets as you played through Campaign? Initially, fans found many things that they thought were Easter eggs. "Discovering that, in fact, many were still hidden, we were relieved. Avid secret hunters claimed that some of our treasures would be found within days of launching the game. ‘Certainly, they’ll find them any day now,’ we thought. Time would prove both us the aforementioned secret hunters wrong. The developer said that 343 Industries intends to release some hints to help players discover these easter eggs and secrets without telling players where they are outright. He hinted that players who discovered them before the hints went out would be rewarded for their tenacity. "Additionally, we’ll be giving you more hints in future Bulletins. Knowing how well we’ve hidden our easter eggs, it only seems fair. Even though this may sound cliché, ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again.’ Never stop searching. Some secrets might be right in front of you.” In the same blog post, 343 Industries released a few tips to help get players started. View full article

Actually I am positive Twinreaper is correct. First of all he has been a gaming developer for how many years now 20?and he knows this stuff.

i had that idea a while ago and they said maybe later in the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZjhSkr2bjYo Source-Examiner According to IGN the next xbox will have voice command! The Xbox 720 will no doubt have some game-changing features, and apparently one of the Xbox 720's features will include a voice recognition system that is similar to Apple's Siri. According to a report from IGN on Thursday, the Xbox 720 will apparently be featuring technology that has voice recognition capabilities. The feature will supposedly be very similar to the Siri feature that now accompanies many of Apple's products. The feature will allow gamers to turn on the Xbox by simply uttering the words "Xbox on." They will also be able to see what their friends are playing by saying "what are my friends playing?" For those who did not see the IllumiRoom demo that surfaced at CES 2013, the person who was demoing the technology did the same "Xbox on" voice command in the video. He said "Xbox on" and the system responded. Perhaps this feature is a bit more likely than others we have heard about. The Kinect for the Xbox 360 does have a voice recognition feature, but it is very bottom-of-the-line, and Microsoft looks to embellish the spec even more with the Xbox 720. Xbox 720 could improve the feature by allowing people to move through apps, games and other features gamers will find on the new dashboard. In addition, the system will also respond to gamers with answers to some of their questions as they relate to the gaming system. This will be an interesting feature if it does come to fruition, and gamers could navigate through the system's features a bit more easily with it. View full article

Source-Xbox 360 Halo 4 is bringing us Team Snipers and Double Teams Next Week! As detailed on Halo Waypoint , the playlist re-introduces Team Snipers, which pits four players against four in a race to land 60 kills lasting no longer than 12 minutes. The only permitted weapons are UNSC sniper rifles with unlimited ammo, and you'll have to do without such mind-atrophying luxuries as death cams, motion trackers, ordnance or grenades. These are the tools of lesser Spartans, my friends. They'll make you soft. You don't want to go soft, do you? Players with shorter attention spans may prefer Shotty Snipers, which is much as above except with grenades and shotguns. According to 343's Jessica Shea, "we'll be launching the playlist with several medium-sized maps - slightly modified versions of Haven, Abandon and some Forge favorites will be available. "Also, we're in the process of building additional new Snipers game types that we'll introduce in upcoming weeks. For those of you wondering about the duration of the Team Snipers playlist fear not - we plan on keeping it around for a while." Also due for drop on Monday is Team Objective, which groups together 4 vs 4 Team Regicide, Oddball and King of the Hill. "The biggest changes you'll see to these game types are that Complex Oddball has been removed," notes Shea, "and instant respawn has been disabled for both KoTH and Oddball." The developer will also tweak this week's Team Doubles playlist in response to complaints about abuse of Ordnance Drops - come Monday, you won't be able to call in Rocket Launchers, Incineration Cannons, sniper rifles or Overshields while rocking the playlists, though these weapons and tools can still be found on certain maps. Also, 343 aims to remove instant respawn from Infinity Doubles, and will address certain spawn issues on Haven, together with a troublesome Sticky Detonator on Dispatch - the latter now spawns with a 180 second resupply timer and two spare clips. Last but not least, Halo 4's "premiere" competitive playlist Team Throwdown will launch on 18th February. View full article

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Source-GamingBlend In the next episode of spartan ops it shows the librarian and Spartan Palmer is ordered by Oni To Kill Doctor Halsey The CGI trailer for "Episode 9: The Key" for Halo 4 Spartan Ops is now available for viewing. Episode 9 will be launching for free this Monday on Xbox Live. In Episode 9, the UNSC Navy's intelligence division ONI has ordered the assassination of rogue scientist Doctor Halsey. Spartan Sarah Palmer is assigned to carry out the mission. Lasky, however, thinks this is a mistake and sends Fireteam Majestic to stop her. "The Key" is the second-to-last episode for this season of Spartan Ops. Expect it to introduce new storylines as much as it wraps up existing ones. The episode description from 343 Industries says that Fireteam Majestic will find "the key to the future of the Halo universe" on their mission. Episode 9 includes five new missions and a new CGI cinematic. You'll be able to download it starting on February 11th at 3 AM PST. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZC53b1m1I-w View full article

Source-IGN Redbox Is coming to xbox live,but will it be more popular than Hulu Plus And Netflix? Look out Netlfix: Verizon and Redbox are looking to bump you from the coveted "thing most of your Xbox Live friends are doing at 3 a.m." spot. Last year, news arrived of Verizon's plans to team up with DVD-rental kiosk company Redbox to offer instant streaming. While the service still remains in beta, Microsoft's Larry Hryb has announced Xbox 360 is the "exclusive" console provider for Redbox Instant's imminent launch. "Today we’re happy to reveal that Redbox Instant by Verizon will be coming to Xbox 360 in the very near future," said Hryb. "If you are currently a Redbox Instant beta participant, you’ll receive an email with a unique code to access the app on Xbox 360 in the coming days." Redbox and Verizon are hoping to compete with similar services, including Netflix and Amazon Instant, by providing a means to easily grab physical copies of new releases. After pushing subscribers toward streaming-only plans with readjustments in pricing plans, the instant-streaming library on Netflix is seriously lacking in current titles. Redbox Instant will offer subscription plans of $8/month (DVD) or $9/month (Blu-ray) which allow you to grab four one-night rentals from Redbox kiosks (in addition to the streaming library). The Xbox 360 app will also allow purchase and rentals of releases without a Redbox Instant subscription. If you're not currently involved in the Redbox Instant beta, you can enter your email address at their site for a chance to join. Redbox representatives have issued clarification to IGN, stating that the service will be available on other games platforms in the future, but will be exclusive to Xbox 360 at the time of its initial launch. View full article

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I think we should have a new world. every where you go its all mined out.

Source-Examiner The Game Engine has been revealed,but heres the real question are the games gonna look good? The Xbox 720 will indeed be receiving some of the best and most advance technology in gaming, and further proof of that is the newly unveiled REDengine3 from CD Projekt RED. According to a report from DSOGaming on Friday, Adam Badowski, head of CD Projekt RED studio, talked about how this new game engine will be contributing to upcoming games they develop. "If we look at RPGs nowadays we find two approaches, one which emphasizes the story but limits the game world, and one that builds a vast, open world but hampers and simplifies the story. "With the REDengine 3 we combine the positive aspects of both approaches for the first time, creating an open environment with a complex, multi-thread story. "Together with believable characters, a captivating tale and a world where players can roam freely without loading times, we will be able to move gaming to a new level with a realistic feel and full player immersion. What do you think about the engine? "When working on our previous titles, I didn’t dream that we would achieve something like this. Thanks to the support of all our fans, now we have the possibility to use REDengine 3 and create something many RPG fans dream of," Badowski said. A description was sent out via CD Projekt RED that helps describes some of the capabilities the new engine has. "The technology uses high-dynamic-range rendering with 64-bit precision that ensures superior picture quality with more realistic and precise lighting without losses derived from reduced contrast ratio. "A flexible renderer prepared for deferred or forward+ rendering pipelines has a wide array of cinematic post-processing effects, including bokeh depth-of-field, color grading and flares from many lights. A high-performance terrain system allows multiple material layers to be efficiently blended and uses tessellation for the best possible detail. "The technology also includes seamless blending between animations and physics along with many more features. The engine uses CD Projekt RED’s new version of its proprietary REDkit editor with tools made specifically for RPG game creation. The editor can build complex, branching quests and set them in a free roaming environment with a simplicity not achieved by similar toolsets." Are you excited for the next-generation engine from CD Projekt RED? Check A Xbox 720 Game called CyberPunk http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P99qJGrPNLs View full article

Source-SeekingAlpha Facebook might be having games from the xbox 360 to Facebook for a price Facebook is hoping an upcoming batch of 10 console-type games from developer partners will draw your attention (and virtual goods dollars). Titles include the first-person shooter Offensive Combat and the real-time strategy game Stormfall: Age of War. They present fresh competition for Zynga (ZNGA -1.8%), which has been working to expand its lineup of "mid-core" titles. Also Facebook might be having their gift cards coming to retail stores. Facebook users can now say "charge it," with a new physical gift card the social network is rolling out, which people can use to make purchases in brick-and-mortar retail stores. Facebook's mockup of its physical gift card. The product, called the "Facebook Card," is a plastic, reusable card that users can give their friends to redeem at four different partner companies: Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora, and Target. Facebook describes the product as "a new type of gift card," in a blog post announcing its launch. Here's how the Facebook Card is designed to work: A person can select a gift for a friend on the site's Gift Cards & Digital category to be redeemed at one of the affiliated stores. After the user chooses the amount of the gift, the friend is notified and receives the card in the mail a few days later. When the card arrives, the friend can use it at the retailer that was chosen for the gift amount. If the chosen retailer were Target, for example, the person doing the giving can choose between, say, a US$10, $50, or even $100 value for the card. Once the recipient receives it in the mail, it can be used at any local Target store, Facebook said, although it will not work at Target.com or Target Mobile. Company officials were not immediately available to comment on whether the card would work with websites of the other stores involved in the program. One card, several accounts Also, because the card is reusable, it can store multiple gifts from multiple stores. That means that first-time gifts arrive physically in the mail as the card itself, but then later gifts are loaded instantly, electronically, to the same card, the company says. If there are multiple balances on the card, each balance is dedicated to the retailer associated with the gift, Facebook says. In other words, a person can have a gift balance of $25 at Target, $10 at Jamba Juice, and $40 at Olive Garden. The balances are not cross-distributed among the stores. Card holders can view their balances on Facebook from either their phone or desktop. Facebook will also send an instant notification to recipients' phones whenever the balances change, the company says. Facebook did not provide details on whether additional vendors would eventually be included in the program. It is also unclear how the card will be sent to recipients who have not provided their mailing address to the site, or whether there would be any other methods to distribute the product for people who do not wish to share their address with Facebook. Facebook has long promoted digital gift cards for a variety of services. Last year, its Gifts service moved beyond digital options to offering sale and actual delivery of physical items. Migrating from virtual Those questions aside, the Facebook Card is a good product that could help the company move beyond the virtual environment where it largely operates today and into the physical world, said Puneet Mehta, CEO of location-based app developer MyCityWay. The card could lead to payment models beyond gifting, such as microfinance, wherein a person could use Facebook to send money to, say, an entrepreneur in South Africa, he said. Mobile app to manage the gift card. And Facebook's mobile app could eventually bypass the need for the gift card. "Eventually, users might be able to carry money just on the app itself," Mehta said, akin to a "mobile wallet." Company executives were not very bullish on Facebook's Gifts product during the firm's January 30 fourth-quarter earnings call, so the timing of the card launch is interesting. The company sought to "temper near-term expectations on revenue" coming from areas such as Gifts or search, for instance, and instead focus attention on its mobile platform, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. Facebook said the card will roll out gradually to people in the U.S. The company did not say whether the card would be available in other countries. View full article