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Halo: Reach Beta Starts May 3

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Microsoft and Bungie confirm a start date for the Reach beta.

Microsoft is currently holding a press event in San Francisco, and the company is in the process of releasing new assets and other details on some of its upcoming games. One of those bits of info is the start date of the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta.

That beta will begin on May 3.

Access to the Reach beta is governed via Halo 3: ODST. Owners of ODST will be able to pop the disc in and use it to download the beta, much like Crackdown owners were granted access to a Halo 3 multiplayer beta.

We'll have more from Microsoft's event soon.    
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Microsoft is currently holding a press event in San Francisco, and the company is in the process of releasing new assets and other details on some of its upcoming games. One of those bits of info is the start date of the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta.

That beta will begin on May 3.

Access to the Reach beta is governed via Halo 3: ODST. Owners of ODST will be able to pop the disc in and use it to download the beta, much like Crackdown owners were granted access to a Halo 3 multiplayer beta.

We'll have more from Microsoft's event soon.    
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More Halo = Never a bad thing.

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@scarace360 said:
" ok so what another halo game thats like number 9000 now. "
It isn't like this game was just announced or anything. 
 
 
And I am looking forward to it, though I was hoping it would be a little sooner!
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@scarace360 said:
" ok so what another halo game thats like number 9000 now. "
I don't like halo at all, but thats a pretty pathetic trolling attempt. Fail more, please.
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I can't wait to get my hands on it. Then I'll be able to judge if I really want to buy another Halo game.

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coolio, hope it will be good.

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You mean the 6th Halo game? 4 in the main story and 2 spin-offs? 
 
That's a lot over 2 generations and 9 years. 
 
Stop trolling.

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YES!

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YEAH!  Looking forward to it.

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Yeah, great, great w/e. But speaking of Crackdown... What's the news on that?

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@Baillie said:

" You mean the 6th Halo game? 4 in the main story and 2 spin-offs?  That's a lot over 2 generations and 9 years.  Stop trolling. "

Yeah I'm always a little confused about those kinda comments.
Especially when they come from fans of other franchises that have been milked so much harder.
 
You don't have to be a fanboy to be hungry for the still very rare 4 player co-op full campaign.
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Sweet!  Now I'll have to make 100% sure that my "coupon" for it is still in my Halo 3: ODST box.

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nice

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Shall be a good day.
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I will be the first to admit that I'm pretty stoked for this. Wasn't the Halo 3 beta out on May 3rd as well?

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Dude, yes. I'm actually going to be so sad and book that week off from college. 

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Can't wait to start playing. Time to take out ODST out of the basement.
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I'm still hoping the single player is Republic Commando-esque.   With wristblade preferably.

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@CitizenKane: I'm almost certain that there is no "coupon" for the Reach beta.  As long as you have the ODST campaign/firefight disc, you're good.  When the beta is released there will likely be an option to download and play it in the "extras" menu on the main startup screen.
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Ah, don't have 360 anymore... dang.

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Kinda far off, but I can wait.

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@Aaox:
you would think that it would be 7 since bungie gets hard off the number 7
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Is there going to be any other way to get in besides ODST?

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yay time to fail all my exams

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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@ez123 said:

" Yeah, great, great w/e. But speaking of Crackdown... What's the news on that? "

There's some new pictures up.
 http://www.gamersyde.com/news_x10_crackdown_2_images-8961_en.html
 
Unforunately this X10 event is mainly geared for the press/developers and much of it is very hush hush.
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@Milkman: 
Nothing has been announced yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft paired the beta with some new game release in the same way that they tied the Halo 3 Beta to Crackdown. Not much potential profit to be had by restricting it to ODST-only, since people can get their hands on a heavily discounted retail copy or a used copy at this point.
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@Milkman said:
" Is there going to be any other way to get in besides ODST? "
ODST 
 
And... sounds interesting... Considering what happened from halo 2 to 3 i'm properly excited.
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Sounds like I have something to distract me from going outside this Spring. Stupid sun and its damn tanning rays.

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@WinterSnowblind: Thanks! It looks so awesome. So is the event over? There is no chance of them announcing a release date?
 
Oh weak, the orange armor is a preorder incentive confirmed by kotaku.  Awesome level decreasing.
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They released 3 new screenshots as well.  I think they look great (a bit better than the last batch).  They also say that they are demoing a flythrough of one of the levels (maps?) at X10.  I can't wait to see more!
 
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=HaloReach_X10    

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My college exam grades ;_;

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inb4 i came

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@LincoIn said:
" More Halo = Never a bad thing. "
unless its halo wars. 
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sweet

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So I am going to have to get ODST eh.... Damn I didn't really enjoy that game when I played my roommates copy.

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Ahh, just what I wanted to hear!

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I like how this is such a small article. Almost like they're specifically avoiding hyping it up in anyway. Which makes sense, because it kind of hypes itself up.

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Or maybe they are just informing you about an announcement that requires no further analysis.

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Need to see gameplay videos before I care.

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Well, it is time for me to pick up ODST. ODST was the second Halo game I haven't picked up on release day (the first being Halo Wars) because of its ridiculous price-point. I still stand by the fact that it was overpriced; it should have been $40 max.
 
Hell, I might as well buy it used since I don't want to support those practices. 
 
And no, I'm not going to get it at Gamestop.

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What a cheap way to sell extra copies of Halo 3: ODST, by restricting the beta to ODST owners. I like the preorder model better.

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Well.. I felt like ODST was a waste of my money, ATLEAST I get this damn thing.

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Guess I won't be playing it then...I don't think I'll be missing much.

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So now i can feel i little better about purchasing ODST, seing as i never finished it... Probably should though. Too many other good games in 2009.

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@TimesHero said:
" inb4 i came "
LMAO
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I might get ODST for 20$.
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Hopefully its not gonna be a mess like when you used the Crackdown disc.  I got on ok.  But I heard there were tons of peepz that couldn't get on the beta because of some mess up.  I'm sure Bungie and Microsoft learned from their mistakes though.   Good to hear that its coming soon! 

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I have ODST. 
I will play this beta.

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meh i still dont think odst is worth 60 bucks. ill get it when its like 30. the beta for a game which we have no gameplay of is not incentive enough