Why did the Covenant come to Reach? For the interstellar club scene, undoubtedly. Every victorious horde of bloodthirsty monsters needs to blow off a little steam, but these guys couldn’t even wait till the end of the battle. Watch this video, captured by the crew at Rooster Teeth, to learn precisely how to activate Covy Rave Mode on your copy of Halo: Reach, and experience the madness for yourself. Glo sticks and candy bracelets not included.

After delaying it until the end of the week, Edge has finally posted its review for Bungie's Halo Reach.

Edge has added its vote of approval to a significant number of others by awarding Halo Reach an impressive 9/10 score.

The review wastes no time by describing Bungie's finale as the "kind of game built to last through years of playing and expansion", going on to say the game is "the most complete Halo experience yet".

Lagging U.S. video game software retail sales have made investors nervous about core gamers' buying habits, but Halo Reach's strong debut this week reflects a "healthy core gamer market" going into the holiday, one analyst says.

Lazard analyst Colin Sebastian said that the $200 million in day-one sales of Microsoft and Bungie's Halo Reach "bodes well for holiday core titles," including Activision's high-profile November release, Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Sebastian reiterated his "buy" rating on Activision stock following the news of its competitor's...

Bungie had no option but to sign with Activision, the publisher's CEO has suggested.

"When they started the process of looking for a new partner they had a vision for a kind of product they wanted to create that needed certain skills and capabilities," Bobby Kotick told an audience at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference in California.

"As they started looking at the obvious candidates they realised that no company other than Activision had the skills they needed to be successful for their vision for that product.

Latest Reports this morning say users are experiencing a major issue when trying to play Halo: Reach co-op online. Those playing the game on one of the new Xbox 360 4GB slim units are apparently locked out of the mode due to a lack of hard drive space on the console.

Players were greeted with the message "One or more players do not have the hard drive required for this game type."

Microsoft told GamingLargest the company is aware of the issue and are looking into it. We'll keep you updated if a solution...

Halo Reach suffers from bad disc production, users queue for an exchange



So i just got back from my local GameStop, and there was a huge line wrapped around the store. Every single person in line was waiting to exchange their copies of Halo Reach. Apparently, A ton of bad copies got released. When you put the disc in the 360, it won't read it, or it will say eject tray. There are some serious quality control issues going on here. I live in Washington state, and the San Diego Gamestop was calling...

14th September 2010 – London, UK/The official Bradygames guide to Halo Reach went on sale today and is the latest in the publisher's critically-acclaimed Signature Series of high quality strategy books that dissect the biggest games, revealing strategies and secrets that you won't find anywhere else.
With a pedigree that has seen it develop strategy guides for some of the biggest videogames of all time, BradyGames' official Halo Reach Signature Series guide...

SWORDBASE

Like all the multiplayer areas in Halo: Reach, Swordbase was developed as a multiplayer map first and handed over to the single-player team to incorporate into the campaign. That's a big change for Halo, and Bungie hopes it will make the competitive portion of the game feel more closely tied to the story elements. Also, it looks cool that way. You'll see Swordbase -- an abandoned Office of Naval Intelligence building ... in the campaign, but Bungie hasn't said exactly when or where it will show up. Regardless, it's a fun one. Super vertical and really tight, it's packed full...

POWERHOUSE

Note: Weapon locations are bound to change throughout the Beta and there are variations based on the game you are playing (for instance, in Juggernaut, the Gravity Hammer does not appear). Each map features location names that you can read in the lower left of the screen, under the radar. We've used these convenient titles to identify important locations below.



Every multiplayer beta needs a classic all-purpose map, and this is it. Powerhouse is a ton of...

In Halo: Reach, players experience the fateful moments that forged the Halo legend. It's the story of Noble Team, a squad of heroic Spartan soldiers, and their final stand on planet Reach, humanity's last line of defense between the terrifying Covenant and Earth. This darker story is echoed by grittier visuals amid a backdrop of massive, awe-inspiring environments. Characters, enemies and environments are rendered in amazing detail by an all-new engine designed to deliver...