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    The franchise that defined the Xbox, Halo contains some of the most popular games ever released. The Halo FPS titles are revered for their excellent gamepad control and high-quality online multiplayer. The franchise now contains novels, soda tie-ins, an RTS spin-off, toys, and more.

    Halo On Your Phone, Halo On Your PC, Halo Down Your Pants... Halo Everywhere!

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    Edited By jeff
    This guy wants to check his stats, but all he has is an iPhone. Microsoft, help!
    This guy wants to check his stats, but all he has is an iPhone. Microsoft, help!
    Joystiq received a tip over the weekend about a Microsoftjob listing seeking the following individual:

    Do you love Halo? Do online social communities and console video games excite you? Do you love building scalable online infrastructure & websites for large and passionate audiences? The Halo franchise studio is looking for a strong software development engineer with a passion for video games and online services. We have an ambitious task ahead, taking the current Halo community and online gaming support system and bringing it to the next level.

    We're looking to blend console, web, and mobile to create an immersive Halo world that follows the dedicated Halo fan wherever they go. We need engineers that can build connected technology while working in a startup environment.

    As an engineer on this team, your responsibility will be to deliver a great out-of-game interactive experience that takes the next step beyond the systems found in Halo 3. You will work with artists, designers, developers and testers to finalize design plans, implement those plans, and help coordinate large-scale testing of the out of game Live experience by gamers across the world. Your work also will involve several external teams-including other MGS studios and the Xbox Live team-coordinating development dependencies and design considerations of experience as a whole.

    OK, so they want to create some sort of Halo World that connects Halo fans to the Halo universe on devices like mobile phones, which are somehow not yet Halo-enabled, or Xbox 360s, which are somehow not yet Web-enabled. What, exactly, does any of this mean? That's a bit harder to say. It could be a big upgrade of the Halo website stuff that Bungie has already done for Halo 2 and 3, with an eye toward bringing that content to mobile phones. Or maybe it's the start of something much bigger. The entry also states...
    For this year this position is focused on infrastructure, including high efficiency scalability simulation.
    So whatever it is, it's probably not going to launch this year. But if this were just an expansion of the current site that brought the stat tracking features to other platforms, wouldn't most of that work be done already? There are a few interesting bits in this job listing that make this sound like it could be a lot bigger than simply building a mobile version or Xbox-friendly version of the existing website. Stuff like "out of game Live experience" and "integrated mini-games" makes it sound like it could be anything from an a calendar to plan your clan matches (much like Killzone 2 has) to a full-on Halo-themed virtual world.

    Of course, that's all just idle speculation on my part. But I guess it does lead me to a question. Are you at all interested in a overarching, multiplatform place to keep up to date with the universe of one series of games, even if that universe is one as popular as Halo? Or does the existing Halo site's stat tracking fill your needs?
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    #1  Edited By jeff
    This guy wants to check his stats, but all he has is an iPhone. Microsoft, help!
    This guy wants to check his stats, but all he has is an iPhone. Microsoft, help!
    Joystiq received a tip over the weekend about a Microsoftjob listing seeking the following individual:

    Do you love Halo? Do online social communities and console video games excite you? Do you love building scalable online infrastructure & websites for large and passionate audiences? The Halo franchise studio is looking for a strong software development engineer with a passion for video games and online services. We have an ambitious task ahead, taking the current Halo community and online gaming support system and bringing it to the next level.

    We're looking to blend console, web, and mobile to create an immersive Halo world that follows the dedicated Halo fan wherever they go. We need engineers that can build connected technology while working in a startup environment.

    As an engineer on this team, your responsibility will be to deliver a great out-of-game interactive experience that takes the next step beyond the systems found in Halo 3. You will work with artists, designers, developers and testers to finalize design plans, implement those plans, and help coordinate large-scale testing of the out of game Live experience by gamers across the world. Your work also will involve several external teams-including other MGS studios and the Xbox Live team-coordinating development dependencies and design considerations of experience as a whole.

    OK, so they want to create some sort of Halo World that connects Halo fans to the Halo universe on devices like mobile phones, which are somehow not yet Halo-enabled, or Xbox 360s, which are somehow not yet Web-enabled. What, exactly, does any of this mean? That's a bit harder to say. It could be a big upgrade of the Halo website stuff that Bungie has already done for Halo 2 and 3, with an eye toward bringing that content to mobile phones. Or maybe it's the start of something much bigger. The entry also states...
    For this year this position is focused on infrastructure, including high efficiency scalability simulation.
    So whatever it is, it's probably not going to launch this year. But if this were just an expansion of the current site that brought the stat tracking features to other platforms, wouldn't most of that work be done already? There are a few interesting bits in this job listing that make this sound like it could be a lot bigger than simply building a mobile version or Xbox-friendly version of the existing website. Stuff like "out of game Live experience" and "integrated mini-games" makes it sound like it could be anything from an a calendar to plan your clan matches (much like Killzone 2 has) to a full-on Halo-themed virtual world.

    Of course, that's all just idle speculation on my part. But I guess it does lead me to a question. Are you at all interested in a overarching, multiplatform place to keep up to date with the universe of one series of games, even if that universe is one as popular as Halo? Or does the existing Halo site's stat tracking fill your needs?
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    #2  Edited By stephengotlost

    It's raining Halo!

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    #3  Edited By LiveOrDie1212

    "halo down your pants"

    *snickers*

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    #4  Edited By r3b3lr0b0t

    Sometimes I wish Halo didn't exist and then other times I think about how cool it would be cel-shaded.

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    #5  Edited By Superchris129

    I'm fine with these spin-offs like Halo Wars, but don't try to milk this franchise...

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    #6  Edited By Cazamalos

    halo kart, halo kart TOUCH,halo kart UNDERWEAR, SUPER HALO ADVENTURES, halo MMO, HALO HALO, i think jp were the only fools to have like 4 tittles of the same game,  ie "insert stupid name here" Mama

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    #7  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

    It's halo mania.

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    #8  Edited By Atomic_Tangerine

    Somehow, all I can think about is the terrible ad on Xbox Live for the Mythic maps where still images move across the little square it fills.  It got me thinking how much better everything would be if all the cutscenes were like Dragonball: Evolution ones.

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    #9  Edited By jakob187

    Every morning, there's a Halo hanging from the corner of my girlfriend's four-post bed.

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    show me where on this picture Master Chief touched you.

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    #11  Edited By JJOR64

    It would be kinda weird to see Halo DS finally come out.

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    #12  Edited By Civraz

    Cel-shaded Halo ftw

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    #13  Edited By Scooper

    Halo on the Zune, you heard it here first.

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    #14  Edited By sixpin

    I was half expecting the last question in that post to be: "Have you seen a spook, specter, or ghost?"

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    #15  Edited By killdave

    Its Xbox 360 "home" complete with dancing Spartans !

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    #16  Edited By AURON570

    halo is overrated

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    I've been playing Halo 3 all weekend and more Halo is a good thing.  Lots of people hate on the game but you can't deny how easy it is to have fun with it.

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    I like Halo a lot but this is over doing it.

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    #19  Edited By Jackel2072

    Burn franchise BURN!

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    #20  Edited By CaptainScarLeg

    Sounds cool to me, It will be interesting to see what this turns into.

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    #21  Edited By RichardLOlson
    I'm hearing a lot about this halo kart...is this for real or a joke?
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    #22  Edited By PercyChuggs

    People really need to cut the crap with all this iPhone and mobile gaming business. Nothing puts me to sleep quicker during a podcast than talk about mobile and iPhone games.

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    #23  Edited By borgmaster

    it probably actually is a way to get Halo in your pants, it'll add a whole new dimension to teabagging.......I honestly have no idea what i just wrote or why it creeps me out....

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    #24  Edited By irishjohn

    I think it would be awesome, but awesome for how long?  I'm not sure it would really cause me to play the game any longer.

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    #25  Edited By Arkthemaniac

    Is Halo even relevant anymore? What, with games like COD4 outclassing it in longevity and quality of solo campaign?


    How about a world that is based off of THE WHO!?! That'd be awesome.
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    #26  Edited By Crono

    Uhhh... what's halo?

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    #27  Edited By ddensel

    Halo the luchbox! Halo the breakfast cereal! HALO THE FLAMETHROWER!!!

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    #28  Edited By ValkyrieGoddess

    The title just made me laugh.

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    #29  Edited By MordeaniisChaos

    Pants... I want halo in them...

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    #30  Edited By LiquidPrince
    LiveOrDie1212 said:
    ""halo down your pants" *snickers*"
    =P
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    #31  Edited By Crono

    ddensel say:

    ...Halo the breakfast cereal!

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    #32  Edited By gunslingerNZ

    Really...

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    #33  Edited By MeatSim

    Lets milk this mutha for all it's worth!!!

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    #34  Edited By penguindust

    This is the precursor to the secret Halo MMO with "Live Anywhere" applications.  Need to know how much to vendor your used Mjolnir armor?  Want to check if anyone's bought your polished brute skulls?  Want to know if your clan is doing an Unyielding Hierophant run tonight?  Check it all out from the ease of your mobile phone.  Halo...the only game you'll ever need...ever.

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    #35  Edited By Hector

    All Hail to the Chief!

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    #36  Edited By Aaron_G

    Microsoft is going to milk all it can out of Halo.

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    #37  Edited By daniel_beck_90

    I truly love Jeff’s sense of humor. 

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    #38  Edited By crunchUK
    Arkthemaniac said:
    "Is Halo even relevant anymore? What, with games like COD4 outclassing it in longevity and quality of solo campaign?
    hahaha what?
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    #39  Edited By Media_Master

    no thanks

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