Watch Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn With 3 Minutes of Live Action Series Footage. Release Date Is October 5 2012

Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn is a live-action digital TV series that fans got a glimpse of during the E3 2012 Halo 4 debut trailer during that trailer's opening.

Here is a 3 minute trailer for Forward Unto Dawn's debut.



Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn will be released on October 5th 2012 with the debut entry in the live-action series and will continue with releases on Halo Waypoint and Machinima until Halo 4's Xbox 360 release date on November 6th 2012. 

Halo Forward Unto Dawn represents the largest investment Microsoft has ever made in a live-action project. Developer 343 Industries hopes that this live-action digital series will open Halo up to non-fans and non-gamers as well as fans of Halo, which will offer a unique narrative take on Halo 4 on a very large big-budget Hollywood movie-style scale.

Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn will take fans through the terrifying beginning of the Human/Covenant War, wherein a young cadet was inspired by Master Chief to rise up through the ranks and become a leader aboard the UNSC's greatest vessel.... the UNSC Infinity!

Halo 4 Xbox 360 Limited Edition Bundle Announced. Includes 320GB Hard Drive And Exclusive Console Art Design

A Halo 4 Xbox 360 Limited Edition Console Bundle has been announced at Comic Con 2012 to pump everyone up for the beginning of the Reclaimer saga.

It features a number of exclusive aspects along with a hefty 320 GB hard drive that will be sure to satisfy fans of Halo who do not yet own an Xbox 360. It will be released on November 6 2012, one assumes, which is the release date for Halo 4.

<u>Here is what you can look forward to with the Halo 4 Limited Edition Xbox 360 Bundle:</u>

• Exclusive design: Limited-edition, one-of-a-kind console was custom designed by the Halo 4 developer, 343 Industries, and Xbox 360.

• Two custom Halo 4 wireless controllers: High-performance controllers boast a range of up to 30 feet and come with a rotating D-pad and blue LED lights.

• Halo 4 Standard Edition game: Begin the Halo Reclaimer saga right out of the box.

• Exclusive sounds: Hear actual Halo 4 in-game sound effects when console is turned on and when the eject button is pushed.

• Largest hard drive available: The 320-GB hard drive offers more space for game add-ons and downloadable content, and more memory to store all of your entertainment.

• Custom downloadable content: Receive a code to download Halo 4 content from Xbox LIVE, including unique armor skin, unique weapon skin, unique emblem, matching avatar armor, and unique avatar prop.

• Black Xbox 360 headset: Chat with friends on Xbox LIVE, or team up and jump in with multiplayer gameplay.

This announcement will surely increase interest in the Xbox 360 just when Microsoft needs it most 

Halo-Maker Bungie Snags Paul McCartney To Compose Music For Destiny Franchise

The house that Halo built, Bungie, is working with Paul McCartney of The Beatles, who is composing new music for Destiny, the codename for the upcoming videogame franchise that Bungie is working on. Announced the ex-Beatle via Sir Paul McCartney's Twitter.

Bungie, of course, is no longer associated with Halo or Microsoft and the Xbox 360, having moved on to they-hope greener pastures with an all-new franchise that has yet to be announced or revealed. However it was ousted thanks to a legal battle between Activision and Call of Duty developers Jason West and Vince Zampella.

Revealed was a contract that Activision signed with Bungie for an upcoming project called "Destiny", which would see Bungie creating a series of four Massively Multiplayer-style sci-fi fantasy action shooting games; with a new game hitting every other year with yearly expansions (codenamed Comet) filling in the gaps. The contract however is old, dated 2010, and the project was to begin in 2013. Whether or not all of this is still the case remains to be seen, and project-details, target release date and even platforms have yet to be revealed.

However this story will certainly draw the interest of Halo fans and thus Xbox 360 owners given that it is Bungie we are talking about.

Due to Paul McCartney working on the next Bungie project, you are almost insured that the music will be a huge part of the game. Paul McCartney tweeted that he is excited to work with Bungie, the studio that made Halo, to write new music for the game. 

Sir Paul McCartney isn't super familiar with videogames, but he has worked on them in the recent past thanks to The Beatles: Rock Band, and says that he thinks the medium is exciting, and a good way to bring new music to new people outside of the music world; although he doesn't play videogames himself. He is 70 years old, after all.

Here's a The Beatles: Rock Band video review by GameSpot.