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CES 2009: Halo Wars release date and demo announced photo

The CES 2009 keynote just wrapped up where our boys Nick Chester and Dale North tweeted their brains out about all of the new Microsoft products coming out soon. Windows 7 looks pretty tempting!

Anyway, Robbie Bach of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division talked about all things Xbox 360-related and dropped some Halo-related information for all you Halo fans. Why yes, people actually still play Halo! In fact, the average user has played 150 hours of Halo on Xbox LIVE! Oh snap!

After we got some stats about Halo 3, Robbie talked briefly about Halo Wars and Halo: ODST. A demo for Halo Wars will be hitting Xbox LIVE on February 5, a few of weeks before its release, which was confirmed for February 28. It was also revealed that Halo Wars is going to be rated Teen, a first for the Halo series.

As for Halo: ODST, nothing at all was said about it other than that it's coming out this year, which was already known. Looks like Nick was right about the keynote being a snoozefest. 

[Update: Halo Wars coming out in America on March 3.]


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Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/07/2009 22:08
Dexter345
I'm not really sure CES is the best place to announce stuff like this.

Anyway, I always thought that the other games in the Halo series ought to have been rated T. I mean, compared to other M games, Halo is extremely tame. No dismemberment, minimal blood, no swearing...
dprime's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/07/2009 22:09
dprime
When the fuck are they going to release Halo Wars on the PC? DAMN IT
Xhumation's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/07/2009 22:41
Xhumation
a demo for Halo Wars sounds interesting. I'm still not truly convinced about the whole Halo RTS thing.
Zeag's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/07/2009 22:55
Zeag
I find it pretty funny that Halo Wars is the first to get a teen rating while Halo seems to have been marketed from day one toward teenagers... And it's also what you'll hear the most on XBox Live.

Thank you, parents, for doing your job.
JJBro1's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/07/2009 23:19
JJBro1
ya halo never did strike me as an m rated title. I often forget that it is rated M.
Diverse's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/07/2009 23:23
Diverse
Halo? More like GAYlo.
Bjbrains's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/07/2009 23:32
Bjbrains
gaylo? more like HomosexualLo. Let's be politically correct here.
Darth Kupi's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/08/2009 00:56
Darth Kupi
Is it just me or does that screenshot look like a game from 2004.

Its just.......bad.
Xenomorph52's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/08/2009 01:12
Xenomorph52
@darth kupi

lol, that's Halo 3, and someone made that out of boxes in forge.
XYU's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/08/2009 05:17
XYU
I still play Halo quite a lot, although no where near as much as when I first got it.

Really looking forward to ODST. As for Halo wars, I'll try it out for sure. I just hope it'll FEEL like halo.
masterninja's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/08/2009 07:25
masterninja
Is there really a diehard RTS fan out there waiting for this?

Might try the demo though won't be expecting much...
Drama's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/08/2009 10:29
Drama
Halo originally started out as a RTS, so it is only fair that it gets a RTS 'spin-off'. Personally, I am not a big fan of RTS but I will buy this because I'm a big fan of Halo.

As for the 'gaylo' comments, this isn't middle school. Grow up. :)
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