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Imagine how badly the devs would have fucked up the gameplay, the cutscenes, the voice acting, the music, everything
Halo really was saved by Asha
The Canceled Halo: First Strike Game Adaptation | Rebs Gaming
Halo Studios had decided to start adapting the Halo novels into games, beginning with Eric Nylund’s Halo: First Strike (the 2003 book that bridges Combat Evolved and Halo 2). The idea was to turn major novel-only stories into playable gaps between the bigger remakes.
“It would have fit perfectly since it could help bridge the gap between campaign evolved and the Halo 2 remake. The campaign would have consisted of at least five missions.”
“The first mission would have started immediately after the ending of campaign evolved. Chief would rescue Linda from her cryopod and reunite with Johnson and the rest of the crew aboard Pilasky's Pelican. and it would conclude with Chief battling the Covetan in a space station called the Unyielding Hierofphant and returning to Earth right at the beginning of Halo 2's story.”
“Each mission was going to be much longer than an average mission, roughly two or three times the usual length, especially the final one. They would have included more things to discover, such as collectibles, terminals, and so on.”
via: Rebs Gaming
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Ok so excitement aside. I found Halo2.com and am now working on making sure its one of the safest websites on the net an archived to everything I can physically do.
This site has been lost media for like... neary 2 decades.
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To give you an idea of the scale H2R has grown to and the workload I've undertaken, every mission since Delta Halo has had nearly ALL of their scripts rewritten from top to bottom by me, as well as every encounter's AI and object composition recreated from the ground-up.
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30th birthday today, feelsoldman 👨🦳
Came to Snoqualmie Falls which the first waterfall on Halo in Halo 1 was inspired by, and the hotel that was used as the Great Northern from Twin Peaks
Comfy af, offsets the age milestone a bit
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I guess I can say it now - so when applicants would apply to the studio, the producer would go through their LinkedIn to see what posts they liked, and if he disagreed with their political/social Like, he'd advocate not to hire them based on their Like.
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I dont really understand why everyone white knights game devs so much when they get laid off after massive failure projects. Most of us if we bomb the shit out of things at work get fired, why is it any different as a game dev? Especially ones like bioware who are smugly anti consumer and molested poor dragon age
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Today I turn 88…I’ve seen some serious shit. The most serious of it all is love. I love my family, my friends, and my wonderful fans. The power of love remains.
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the fuck you mean "early development on the next mass effect," you announced it six years ago. it took 4 1/2 years to release the entire original trilogy.
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once you start playing older games you begin to understand that graphics were never as important as gameplay
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Nothing more relaxing than sitting down to play games, knowing that every second is costing you money.
Really takes the stress out of life.
Xbox Cloud Gaming introductory launch pricing revealed:
-10hrs for $3.99
-25hrs for $7.99
-50hrs for $11.99
news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/10/…
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"Brian Fargo, a game designer who is developing the upcoming first-person role-playing game Clockwork Revolution, told Fortune that under Sharma, studios must present a clear, commercial “investable business case” rather than expecting blank-check funding."
We are so back
Asha Sharma | Fortune Interview
• XBOX plans to release a next-generation handheld device by the 2027 holiday season.
• Xbox intends to release its next-generation console in holiday 2028
• Xbox reportedly projecting the console to cost $1,200 - $1,800, unless the company subsidizes some of the cost
• Xbox is planning a major overhaul of Game Pass that would have players choose features à la carte, including add-ons for console-only games, cloud gaming, and multiplayer, with the system operating on a tiered structure.
• Sharma had Xbox’s new motto plastered on office walls after she took over: “Great games; return of Xbox; future of play,”
• She’s planning the next rounds of layoffs for this month, November, and January, people familiar with the plans said.
• The two sides have clashed over what software should run Project Helix, the next-generation hardware. Windows leaders wanted an upcoming handheld device to use a trimmed-down version of Windows Home.
• Sharma’s team, meanwhile, has sought to build and control its own software to get the best gaming performance.
• Tensions ran high enough that a senior Xbox executive threatened to scrap the handheld project rather than adopt the Windows build, according to people briefed on the clash.
• Xbox is now largely controlling the direction of the operating system for the project, though Sharma emphasized the two still collaborate closely, saying, “We can’t build Helix on our own.”
• Sharma said she has no timeline for how long she expects to be Xbox’s CEO.
Asha Quotes:
“It’s hard to be a first-time CEO … where everybody sees everything you do,”
“We are trying to get done an inordinate amount of things in an inordinate amount of time.”
“The benefit of everybody caring is that you’re going to be able to pick out things that people really care about to actually make our product better,”
“We’re not here to do the minimum viable thing to just have a good business,”
“We’re here to be the No. 1 entertainment company.”
“As a leader, you’re taught to be confident, and I think being curious is way more important,”
“If you’re confident, you might be right, and if you’re curious, you will find a better way. If people understand what’s happening, they will come up with better ideas to fix it than anyone else will.”
Matt Booty Quote:
“If there’s any place that we got out of sync maybe in the last five years, it’s not that any one of those [individual bets] wasn’t working. It’s just that we hadn’t connected the dots maybe as well as we should have,”
Judson Althoff Qutoes:
“Xbox is valuable to Microsoft’s broader enterprise business because its low-latency demands stress-test Microsoft’s cloud, and it helps the company maintain retail relationships with giants like Walmart while connecting the company to creator demographics through Minecraft.”
“Asha is one of the best leaders we have at the whole company. We would not have put her on a business we intend to sell,” Althoff said. “There’s going to be a ton of speculation about all this. Time will tell.”
via: Fortune
fortune.com/2026/10/20/the-n…
