Microsoft E3 badge hints at Halo, Star Wars, Portal reveals


Recommended Posts

ars technica

Ars has more photos of the badge.

Microsoft E3 badge hints at Halo, Star Wars, Portal reveals

Microsoft has sent badges to members of the press allowing entry into their E3 press event, and boy, are they laden with expectation. We know that Nintendo and Sony both have new hardware to show off, but Microsoft is much more of an open question. What will be shown? Does the company have anything that will get players excited?

post-62693-0-24410500-1306248715.jpg

The envelope came with a badge, and stickers you can use to fill in a few slots on the badge. The phrases, character names, and images come from a few large properties, including Star Wars, Halo, Tomb Raider, and Portal. Take a look, and let's get to speculating!

So what do we see? Lightsabers, Lancers, an energy sword, and the names Luke Skywalker and GLaDOS. We know there's a Star Wars Kinect game on the way, and there's an image of the Kinect hardware right there. The rest of the images and names aren't quite as cut-and-dried. Will we finally see the HD-enabled remake of the original Halo? Exclusive Portal 2 content? There's an image of a guitar; will there be a new rhythm game?

This is fun to think about, and the badge certainly did its job: we're excited for the event. We'll be able to share more during our liveblog of the event Monday, June 6.

Portal's "surprise" is just going to be a showing of the upcoming free DLC that both the 360 and PS3 will get. Valve has nothing major to announce, or they'd actually be there as a studio showing stuff off.

All the rest really isn't that hard to guess, except for maybe Halo. Probably either DLC for Reach or the rumored XBLA remake.

Star Wars ... some kinect based game to be honest like the one in the weird preview that was shown before kinect launch where he moved his hand after the lightsabre moved on screen :laugh:

Halo 4 maybe? :shiftyninja: More likely some DLC.

Still hoping for that Halo CE remake, I get most of the logos they use,

Lightsaber = Star Wars Kinect and maybe The Old Republic if they show off some Windows stuff?

Batcar = Batman: Arkham City

Plane = Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Lancer = Gears 3 and maybe that rumored Kinect title?

Kinect = Kinect Games

Energy Sword = Halo remake or maybe even a Halo 4 announcement, lol?

Lightning Bolt = MGS Rising

I would assume either the Axe or the Sword is something to do with Codename: Kingdoms form Crytek, But what are the Guitar and what looks like Nunchucks for?

Still hoping for that Halo CE remake, I get most of the logos they use,

Lightsaber = Star Wars Kinect and maybe The Old Republic if they show off some Windows stuff?

Batcar = Batman: Arkham City

Plane = Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Lancer = Gears 3 and maybe that rumored Kinect title?

Kinect = Kinect Games Not just the games imo probably some more kinect software based updates like stereoscopic 3D support maybe?

Energy Sword = Halo remake or maybe even a Halo 4 announcement, lol?

Lightning Bolt = MGS Rising

I would assume either the Axe or the Sword is something to do with Codename: Kingdoms form Crytek, But what are the Guitar and what looks like Nunchucks for?

IMO that nunchuk looking thing looks like a skipping rope so maybe more family based kinect games. That guitar thing may mean that we are getting an air guitar type game :laugh: Yup, that axe is definitely Codenamed Kingdoms for sure though I'm still hoping for a Lost Odyssey 2 announcement but I doubt it it will happen :(

Still hoping for that Halo CE remake, I get most of the logos they use,

Lightsaber = Star Wars Kinect and maybe The Old Republic if they show off some Windows stuff?

Batcar = Batman: Arkham City

Plane = Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Lancer = Gears 3 and maybe that rumored Kinect title?

Kinect = Kinect Games

Energy Sword = Halo remake or maybe even a Halo 4 announcement, lol?

Lightning Bolt = MGS Rising

I would assume either the Axe or the Sword is something to do with Codename: Kingdoms form Crytek, But what are the Guitar and what looks like Nunchucks for?

This year being 10 year anniversary of both Xbox and Halo:CE, I think it's pretty obvious we will see something Halo - a Halo:CE premium theme if nothing else! :laugh:

I am hoping for a Halo:CE arcade port with absolutely NOTHING changed except adding XBL option for multi-player! I am ok if they do it without adding TrueSkill MM in it. Although if they do port it, I think graphics upgrade will be added which might **** up the whole look of the game. :/

Not expecting Halo4 till NeXtbox, probably Reach 2 but MC ain't coming back this soon IMO.

  • 2 weeks later...
This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • Ummmm that is what is it supposed to do. Just turn if off in settings if you do not want it analyzing your open tabs. Chrome does the same thing with Gemini. Sarfari will do the samething after Apple's AI and even more so with the release of their 27 versions that is now powered by Googles LLM/ML models. Understanding why it is doing it and how it can help you vs jumping to some conspiracy theroy is a much better approach. As long as it can be turned off, all is good. Yes the default should be off but the a lot of people would never discover these features.
    • Just another reason (aside from many others) not to use Edge. Firefox 153.0b5 DEx64 has a similar feature added recently in prior builds that I will turn off at some point when I get around to it. It's the new "Something looks suspicious" page that pops up here and there. It cleverly hides itself between web pages that I've actually visited; as a result, you know, of selecting a web page and telling the browser where to go. The interesting thing is that it does not produce these warnings from pages that I, as the only intelligent user of the browser in my system, have ever directed the browser to open! What seems to be happening is that the browser looks at all the goofy ad links on a web page I do actually open and selects one that "looks suspicious" and then creates the "something looks suspicious" web page, which is neatly inserted, as mentioned, between web pages my RB ("real brain") has directed the browser to load in a session. The thing is, I usually look at links I am considering to follow before I ask the browser to load them, and in cases I have noticed where the link does indeed look suspicious, most of the time I will choose to not follow the link at all. Doesn't everyone do this or something similar? I am picky about what I voluntarily load... (I don't like links that start off fine, with a site designaiton that seems normal enough but then is followed by indecipherable alphanumeric strings many, many lines long, etc. I tend to reject those because they look suspicious. They may not be, but I don't care... I'll stay with Firefox, of course, if for no other reason than they usually let you turn off the junk you don't like. And because it isn't Edge... But at some point Microsoft will come to realize that putting your bookmarks on the left side is a Good Thing for a lot of people, just as Microsoft discovered when it had the bright idea of nailing the Windows taskbar to the bottom of the screen, when for decades Microsoft browsers had left that placement up to the user. They have finally reversed the obscenity of that decision. Finally.
    • Google was using the old CATPCHAs data to train their LLMs. What is the say they won't use this camera data of users to train their LLM? these companies need some strict regulations!
    • Depends on what you need. Might be a bit clearer on what you plan to do with it. Sort of a waste if you get the newest and greatest, but don't know how to use it.
  • Recent Achievements

    • One Year In
      BA the Curmudgeon earned a badge
      One Year In
    • Conversation Starter
      rosiecharles earned a badge
      Conversation Starter
    • First Post
      KMilenkoski1202 earned a badge
      First Post
    • First Post
      carols23 earned a badge
      First Post
    • One Month Later
      Tom Willson earned a badge
      One Month Later
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      513
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      258
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      151
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      94
    5. 5
      macoman
      66
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!