Halo developer bungie has confirmed its first Activision funded project as an independant syudio is an MMO.

Those rumours of a HD remake of revolutionary console FPS Halo : Combat Evolved are beginning to gain some credence. According to Joystiq, the game will be smacking retail upside the head with a plasma sword on November 15 this year, 10 years to the day after the legendary shooter graced the original Xbox. It’s believed to be under development …

Xbox’s Major Nelson has released lists of the most popular games on Xbox Live – boxed retail, XBLA and Indie titles. Their place in the charts is calculated using some sort of odd numerical alchemy based on their first week of availability, so it doesn’t take slow burning hits in to account. It also only considers games released in 2010, …

Remember the colossal advertising campaign that Microsoft pushed for the launch of Halo 3? For months before the game released Master Chief was everywhere. He was even in a really impressive set of diorama-themed trailers. Remember those? They were actually incredibly eerie and very well done. The camera panned slowly through an expansive scene of a Halo battle, complete with …

An anonymous user on the Game Trailer forums has posted up a series of screenshots which he claims are from Bungies next title. The graphics are in a really early stage and all we can see is that it’s going to be another shooter and apparently it’s going to be set in the nearish future and will be a cross …

Some people have way, way too much time. This is evidenced to perfection in the following video. You’ll get to see the fruits of Halo Forge engineer “ACarnage 51’s” month of labour. A ridiculously impressive videogame Rube Goldberg Machine – a deliberately over-engineered machine that performs a very simple task in an overly-complex manner -  made using the Xbox 360’s …

Hold onto your butts, because I’m not kidding when I say these stats are “insane”. They make Britney Spears look like a member of MENSA . Seriously. Halo: Reach (Bungie’s last “HOO-RAH!” in the Halo universe) has already proven popular; we knew that last week when unit sales for the USA alone were pegged at over three million in the first month …

Why? Well, because they’re dirty cheaters and totally deserve sweet retribution from Bungie. A couple of days ago it was reported that Halo: Reach players had found an exploit that allowed them to harvest loads of credits. Reach features Challenges that alter from time to time. Completing the Challenges rewards players with credits that can be used to unlock in-game …