So, Halo: Reach is here. This latest entry to the acclaimed franchise currently sports a 92/100 review average, encompassing over 60 reviews. Impressively, it made $US200 million in sales in the United States and Europe in the first 24 hours of its release. Oh, and within 24 hours of release the highest number of concurrent Halo 3 players was surpassed. Want more numbers? Here's how things panned out 5 days after it hit store shelves:
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It seems that developers are starting to get serious about making sure that the online experience they deliver is fun, and remains fun. We know EA Sports has some anti-rage-quit measures in mind for FIFA 2011, and now Bungie's Brian Jarrard has come out and let their intentions be known on the topic: "people who do this habitually will actually be penalised."
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Halo Reach is merely months away, with "Noble Team's epic, planetary battle" beginning on September 14th, in fact. Bungie has just let-loose the final trailer for the highly anticipated Xbox 360 shooter, which serves as a campaign trailer for you all to whet your appetite with. ...

Live action trailers are all the rave right now. Microsoft have jumped on the band-wagon with this trailer for the fast approaching Halo Reach Beta. Apparently it's a short of the short, with the longer version making its way online during America's April 29th....

Some Halo Reach beta footage has made its way onto the net thanks to Taiwan's Game News Network. I'm not a Halo fan, or a console FPS player, but it does look cool - it even has jet-packs...

US magazine, Game Informer, has the exclusive scoop on a lot of what we can expect from Halo Reach. It appears as though you're going to be dropped back into the world of the original, with a focus on Team Noble. You can view the page-scans here, or hit the jump for a summary......