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We got the briefest of brief glimpses at Halo 4 back in June at E3 with Master Chief fleeing a burning ship but now 343 Industries, the new keeper of the Halo flame, has revealed more about what the new trilogy has in store for everyone’s favourite super-soldier.

At the PAX Conference this weekend, 343 Industries creative director, Frank O’Connor, detailed the direction the plot of the new Halo series, now dubbed the Reclaimer trilogy, will take and showed off a tantilising concept art video. Click through to see it and find out what O’Connor was ready to reveal about Halo 4…

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Here’s a nice bit of Friday entertainment: Bungie has released a documentary, O Brave New World, charting its twenty year from packaging copies of Pathways Into Darkness by hand to conquering gaming with Halo.

The 55 minute film, which you can watch after the break, commemorates the studio handing over Halo development to 343 Industries and includes some glimpses of Bungie at work on its next game, an MMO for Activision.

A new symbol which seems to relate to that new Bungie universe pops up throughout the documentary and appears again at the very end to tease us. Click through to take a look for yourself and hit the comments to share your Halo memories and what you want Bungie to do next…

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Cut the Rope and Angry Birds are being made into board games – but it’s far from a new idea. What about other games made into board games? We’ll we’ve got a packed list right here, complete with pics of each.

Suffice to say you may be surprised at some to be given the desktop treatment…

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If you’ve been catching up on our E3 2011 coverage you’ll know that Microsoft has been busy showing of plenty of games to get us excited in 2011 and beyond. Mass Effect 3 with voice control, Tomb Raider, Gears of War 3 and many others. But what about all that cool stuff Microsoft didn’t announce? Read on for five of the biggest Microsoft Xbox rumours that failed to materialise.

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Now Bungie isn’t making Halo, it’s on to the next project and it’s finally announced what that is. Not details, of course, but the five words which should get a lot of gamers excited.

Trumpets please! Bungie is working on “a massively multiplayer action game”. That’s big news and something Blizzard with its World of Warcraft empire. What exactly is Bungie doing? We’ll find out at E3. In the meantime, let the speculation begin!

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As Thursdays go, it’s not a particularly fine one outside, but a roundup of all the latest gadget news is bound to leave you in a sunny disposition. See what we mean with all the headlines right here in techie breakie: new phone updates, new games, just about new everything!

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In case you hadn’t already heard, some game called Halo: Reach something-or-other launched this week. We’ve heard it’s pretty good. To mark its launch, Microsoft roped in a bloke to dress up as a Spartan to hover around London’s Trafalgar Square – not something you see everyday. Read on for the high-flying video.

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The Halo movie has been roasting in development hell for years but Frank O’Connor of Microsoft’s 343 Industries has poked the coals and got the rumours hotting up again. After consuming the time and energy of what seems like half of Hollywood, will the Halo movie actually make it onto the screen?

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