SDCC Halo Universe Panel August 11, 2010

One of the other panels at San Diego Comic Con was the Halo Universe panel.  This panel focused mostly not on the game related aspects of Halo but actually the other aspects such as the books or the recently released anime.

Its impressive that one game series that’s only been in existance for nine years has branched into almost every aspect of our culture.  Granted, the majority of the branching didn’t start taking place until only a few years ago (I would say it really started taking off after the release of the Halo Graphic Novel) but most game series have never seen the exposure Halo has had.

In fact I remember Greg Bear (featured in the panel) mentioned in the Halo Legends documentary (on the SE DVD and Blu-Ray) he usually writes for franchises like Star Trek and Star Wars, the fact that the next franchise he’s going to write for is Halo is really telling that maybe video games are where the next major franchises are going to come from.

SDCC Halo Reach Panel August 11, 2010

There really hasn’t been that much gaming related news to speak of over the past few days, which has been really dissapointing.

Since I wasn’t able to attend San Diego Comic-Con since I live on the other side of the country, I wasn’t able to attend on any of the gaming-related panels, even though I reported on whatever I could at the time from here.

I did find this however, the Halo Reach Panel from San Diego Comic Con was videotaped and put online for all to see.  It’s also been posted up on the Halo Waypoint, so you can watch it on your Xb0x 360s.

It is quite a funny panel, and you get to see some content the ViDoc did not include, like what it’s like to play Firefight alongside the enemy waves, and you also see one of the players strategy to defeat his opponent was *ahem* (singing) try to kill him with a forklift.

You also get a much better look at the Forge World map, and a really good look at the improved Forge toolset.

Halo Reach will be out September 14th, 2010 for Xbox 360.