Not sure anyone care
Japanese voice cast of Halo 4 changed
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201208/24020092.html

Master Chief:Rikiya Koyama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikiya_Koyama

Cortana:Ayumi Fujimura
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumi_Fujimura

These look new

73 days to go...

Halo 4 DLC: first Spartan Ops season is "longer than Halo 3: ODST"

New Promethean rifle spotted, more "secrets and features" to appear next month

Halo 4's Achievement list dropped yesterday, amid excitement (Hunters!), bafflement ("the Dongblainer"?) and a tiny, tiny helping of dread. The dread's mostly to do with the campaign's eight-mission expanse. Only eight, 343? But there are 15 in Halo 3. Does that mean the single player's only half as long?

Not a bit of it, says studio boss Frank O'Connor. "Number of missions has no bearing on the length of the campaign," he wrote on NeoGAF, via his charming alias "Stinkles". "It's a Halo sized campaign. PLUS [Spartan Ops] etc."

"[Spartan Ops] season alone is longer than [Halo 3: ODST]," David Ellis designer (lybertyboy) chipped in. "Spartan Ops and Campaign are completely separate teams. As Frank mentioned earlier, the main campaign is substantial and will compare favorably with previous entries in the series."

Meanwhile on Halo Waypoint, there's news of impending, erm, news. It's the Penny Arcade Expo in just over a week (kick-off is 31st August), and 343 plans to conquer the show with "even more secrets and features of the weapons, vehicles, gameplay, and characters that you'll see when the Master Chief returns".

One of those new guns could be "the Binary Rifle", pictured, which is rumoured to be a Promethean sniper rifle. And with that, our avalanche of intel is at an end.

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

http://www.oxm.co.uk/45179/halo-4-dlc-first-spartan-ops-season-is-longer-than-halo-3-odst/

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V, a popular energy drink in Australia, is set to introduce a completely new flavour to its range to coincide with a month-long promotion it will be running to promote Microsoft’s Halo 4 XBOX 360 game next month.

In a Facebook post this afternoon, V revealed a picture of the 500ml drink can which prominently features Halo 4 and Master Chief with a purple background instead of its traditional green design. The flavouring dubbed “Purple Plasma” is expected to be grape flavoured, based on my research so far.

The V website also shows a teaser for the lineup of Halo 4-branded products that will be on the market between September 24 and November 18th 2012 during which the claim to be giving away an limited edition Halo 4 XBOX 360 console to a lucky drinker every hour.

The company behind V seems to be keen on XBOX game tie-in promotions as this campaigns follows the limited edition Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3-branded V cans from last year (without a new flavour).