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sega4life on 12 April 2009

 

 

Microsoft job listing hints at mobile Halo project

by Ben Gilbert 


When we're not too busy trouncing Halo 3-developer Bungie in "humpday challenges," we fancy ourselves quite the career builders. And so it was with shock that we found ourselves colliding directly with the enormously popular franchise on CareerBuilder.com, albeit under the auspices of Halo license-owner Microsoft. Apparently the company is seeking folks who not only love Halo but also love "building scalable online infrastructure and websites for large and passionate audiences."

What does that mean, exactly? The listing doesn't go into as much details as we'd like, but it does say the job will blend, "console, web, and mobile to create an immersive Halo world that follows the dedicated Halo fan wherever they go." Our thoughts first went to iPhone integration of Bungie.net and future Halo community endeavors but then we realized that Microsoft may want to keep whatever mobile application it may be creating on Windows Mobile-based phones. We're hoping for our future-phone having selves that this isn't the case.

[Thanks, Dan!]



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JaggedSac on 12 April 2009

LOL. I was just about to post this. Could be something interesting cooking here.



DiplomaticImmunity on 12 April 2009

halo on iphone would be like mgs on iphone
fail



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puffy on 12 April 2009

Isn't MGS coming out to iPhone?

... So something like this then?

 



 

JaggedSac on 12 April 2009
puffy said:
Isn't MGS coming out to iPhone?

What does that have to do with this thread?

 



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invetedlotus123 on 12 April 2009

Once there were a rumor that a DS halo was in development. M$ already showed they don't see nintendo as a rival, and considering that they don't have their own handheld console to realese cheaper software and spin-off of their mainstream series DS would be the plataform to go. And M$ have a good relationship with nintendo, and even n64 games were realesed on XBL with nintendo agree. I wouldn't be suprised if there was realesed some M$ games on DS and even Wii(this is much more unprobable, thought).



puffy on 12 April 2009
JaggedSac said:
puffy said:
Isn't MGS coming out to iPhone?

What does that have to do with this thread?

 


-_- read the thread lol

 

JaggedSac on 12 April 2009

Software Development Engineer - Relocation to Redmond, WA

THIS JOB REQUIRES RELOCATION TO REDMOND, WA

 

Do you love Halo? Do online social communities and console video games excite you? Do you love building scalable online infrastructure & websites for large and passionate audiences? The Halo franchise studio is looking for a strong software development engineer with a passion for video games and online services. We have an ambitious task ahead, taking the current Halo community and online gaming support system and bringing it to the next level.

We're looking to blend console, web, and mobile to create an immersive Halo world that follows the dedicated Halo fan wherever they go. We need engineers that can build connected technology while working in a startup environment.

As an engineer on this team, your responsibility will be to deliver a great out-of-game interactive experience that takes the next step beyond the systems found in Halo 3. You will work with artists, designers, developers and testers to finalize design plans, implement those plans, and help coordinate large-scale testing of the out of game Live experience by gamers across the world. Your work also will involve several external teams-including other MGS studios and the Xbox Live team-coordinating development dependencies and design considerations of experience as a whole.

For this year this position is focused on infrastructure, including high efficiency scalability simulation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Designing the infrastructure for simulation millions of concurrent users on the service
Designing and delivering code for community console application
Designing and delivering code for services supporting community applications and game titles
Building user-facing on-console features such as forums, tournament ladders, media libraries, and integrated mini-games
Taking input from creative, community and production leads to produce a console experience

Requirements:

 

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS

At least 5 years of C/C++ professional experience (C# is a plus)
Strong Networking Skills including such protocols as Winsock, TCP/IP
Experience with the Xbox 360 networking APIs
Strong Debugging and Optimization skills in a multi-threaded environment
Prior experience with services and web development (including ASP.net, SQL, HTML, CSS, and Javascript).

 

THIS JOB REQUIRES RELOCATION TO REDMOND, WA

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workforce.

 

http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?ipath=EXIND&siteid=cbindeed&Job_DID=JB92DK6WM175TX579BP&cbRecursionCnt=2&cbsid=df02460e7183434aa485ca4547148068-292856720-wf-6



ameratsu on 12 April 2009

Can't wait to play Halo on my Zune.



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JaggedSac on 12 April 2009
puffy said:
JaggedSac said:
puffy said:
Isn't MGS coming out to iPhone?

What does that have to do with this thread?

 

 

-_- read the thread lol

I just don't see it as being, in any way, relevant.  Is it because they mention the iPhone?