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Halo 4 live action web series 'Forward Unto Dawn' debuts ... News Microsoft is ramping up the transmedia promotions for their blockbuster title Halo 4, set to release later this year, with the announcement of a new live action web series: Forward Unto Dawn.
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn will launch in the Fall, just ahead of the Halo 4's November 6th release. It will play exclusively on Machinima and Microsoft's Halo Waypoint. There will be five weekly installments, each around 15 minutes long, that tells the story of how Master Chief inspired a young UNSC cadet who will eventually become a leader aboard the UNSC Infinity Spacecraft. Microsoft has been stingy on details choosing, instead, to wait until Comic-Con this July to reveal more about the series. Halo has been a staple title for the Xbox and Xbox 360 since Combat Evolved released back in 2001. "We wanted to do something unique from a narrative standpoint that's big in scale," McCloskey added.
[Variety] Greg Bear: Halo: Cryptum. By Greg Bear Tor Books, 2011 Note: Forerunner Saga: Book One 100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings.
But one species--eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge--achieved dominance. They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness. They were the Forerunners--the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universe’s Living Time. And then they vanished. This is their story. Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting is a young rebellious Forerunner. Bornstellar is marked to become a great Builder just like his father. But this Manipular has other plans. He is obsessed with lost treasures of the past. Bornstellar is sent to live among the Miners, where he must come to terms with where his duty truly lies. But powerful forces are at play. This is a tale of life, death, intergalactic horror, exile, and maturity. Read an Excerpt. Talking with the man who assembled the 'Halo Bible' for Microsoft.
If you've been following the many interviews 343 Industries has been doing surrounding the release of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, you might have seen a mention of a company called Starlight Runner Entertainment.
The New York–based Starlight Runner specializes in what's called "transmedia," or branching fiction into other media platforms. If it's a videogame franchise, for instance, the process could involve taking the game's world and preparing it for expansion into novels, comic books, TV series, movies, etc. Starlight Runner's work has been felt in popular franchises such as TRON, Red Faction, Pirates of the Caribbean, Prince of Persia, Transformers, and Avatar, but President and CEO Jeff Gomez calls its undertaking of Halo, which spanned about a year-and-a-half of the company's time, one of its proudest moments.
"It was the biggest and most challenging work of our entire careers," he says. Halo 3 Main Page - Halo Wiki. Master Chief: A Visual History of Halo's Hero - Xbox360 Feature at IGN. The mysterious, armor-clad hero of the human race is not quite human himself: As part of the Spartan program, Halo's Master Chief, aka John-117, was genetically engineered and reared by the military to become the xenocidal savior of everything.
Master Chief is a hulking pile of future man, with a penchant for one-liners and a steady hand; he could probably blow up the Death Star by driving a Warthog up to the exhaust port and tossing a plasma grenade into it, no "Force" required. We're not aiming for a comprehensive history of Halo in these pages. New Alternate Reality Game Halo 4 Related? One of the biggest announcements during Microsoft’s press conference during E3 2011 was Halo 4.
The announcement of the game was a surprise to all but what was even more surprising was that Microsoft and 343 Industries are starting a new Halo trilogy. Halo will always be the franchise that receives the most hype and some give that credit to the world wide success of Bungie and their fine tuning of the Halo franchise. It was not only the gameplay that added to the Halo experience, but the Alternate Reality Games that preceded some of the title.
ILoveBees.com (ILB) and 42 Entertainment were the most known and really caused a stir in the industry and amongst gamers. ILB was an Alternative Reality Game (ARG) that served both as a real world experience and a viral marketing campaign that was commissioned by Microsoft. Much like the viral marketing for Halo 2, ILB has started another A.I. countdown which might be for Halo 4. That’s all the information we have on the matter so far. Is “Mission Ice Fly” tied to Halo 4? A new website known as Mission Icefly has popped up on the internet, looking for test subjects, and if the rumors are true — it’s got something to do with Halo 4.
The site, which features a rather lengthy warning, along with a spot to sign in and take a pretty psychedelic questionnaire popped up recently and has everyone guessing just what it could be. Here’s where things get interesting. The site is reportedly registered to the same team who created the iheartbees.com alternate reality game for Halo 3. A rumor also suggests that select people were given motorized ice flies at the Microsoft press conference at this year’s E3. The site has also been updated with a number of US Cities. So, what do you we know for sure? (Thanks Zac) Mission Icefly. Test Subjects Needed.
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