
Finally, proof that our beloved
Halo 3 is nearly complete and ready to be lovingly pressed to DVD for everyone to enjoy. A few
stalkers observant gamers over at the
Bungie Forums and
GamingTalkHQ noticed that both Bungie and Microsoft employees have been playing a little game called
Halo 3 Epsilon online. Why the Epsilon name you ask? Well, after consulting good old
Wikipedia we learned that Epsilon is the name for the letter "e" in Greek. So, following traditional dev name cycles, one would think that
Halo 3 development has breezed through alpha, opened up the beta, whizzed by Gamma, ignored Delta and is currently at a near final build entitled Epsilon. Keep a close eye out for those tricky Bungie gamers online and you just might see them playing some Forge, doing a little online
Halo 3 co-op or playing some Last Resort. And yes, it is normal to feel jealous.
[Thanks,
DjDATZ]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Grindstone @ Aug 10th 2007 5:06PM
It could also just be the final name of the game.
Halo 3: Episilon -- just as there was a Delta Halo, etc... Just a thought. It's not a bad name if it were.
DjDATZ @ Aug 10th 2007 5:07PM
Its funny, cuz I accidentally ran across this when checking BNet for the newest podcast... And at that point the news was only a couple hours old...
DjDATZ @ Aug 10th 2007 5:09PM
Here are the links to the profiles that were playing the Halo 3 Episilon since the BNet post is blacklisted.
http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=Evil%20Otto
http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=frankie
Oh...well aparantly, Frankie accessed his account from Xbox.com...and in doing so "erased" his previous status.
Morgon @ Aug 10th 2007 5:11PM
http://www.mygamercard.net/tracker.php#Halo3Epsilon for those who are really stalkerish ;)
DjDATZ @ Aug 10th 2007 5:12PM
http://www.theliveeye.com/game.asp?ID=868
LiveEye also has proof.
Fontez @ Aug 10th 2007 5:21PM
Good find DJ... GOD DAMN I'M EXCITED !!
Is anyone else getting giddy and flushed in the face or possibly short of breath when people start talking about about Halo 3 being...
FINISHED !!!
and
PLAYABLE !!
Intentless @ Aug 10th 2007 5:25PM
Not alone fontez... not alone...
Intentless @ Aug 10th 2007 5:26PM
Its sad but I took three days off to play the campaign with all my friends as much as possible.
gibber9583 @ Aug 10th 2007 5:26PM
Are you on X3F's payroll?
DjDATZ @ Aug 10th 2007 5:27PM
I know Fontez! I LOOOOVE all the Halo 3 shit happening! ITS SOOO CLOSE! EXACTLY A MONTH AND A HALF LEFT! (45 DAYS!) [www.Halo3coounter.com]
I have a feeling the internets are on fire again...like when Halo 3 4-player online co-op was confirmed.
DjDATZ @ Aug 10th 2007 5:29PM
Who? Me?
No...I just don't have much to do at work so I SCOWER 360 gaming websites for news that could be the latest and most important, at which point I submit it to X3F. This place is my #1 source for news, so why not let everyone know about it?
DjDATZ @ Aug 10th 2007 5:30PM
*http://www.halo3countdown.com/
bigmac375 @ Aug 10th 2007 5:45PM
read through the bungie thread.
that is some funny shit.
one guy said that this is photoshopped and argued about it. lol
DjDATZ @ Aug 10th 2007 5:50PM
"read through the bungie thread.
that is some funny shit.
one guy said that this is photoshopped and argued about it. lol"
Some people are true idiots.
TORO @ Aug 10th 2007 6:03PM
Since Bungie rules the majority of the world, there's a likely chance you'll run into some idiots.
Project Ekim @ Aug 10th 2007 6:03PM
Just thought i tell everyone here and X3F that the bungie podcast is out and with a couple of cool confirmations manily the confirmation of being able to save forge games and send them also live also race is back and you can add check points in forge.
But on the not so cool side it was confirmed that there would be no clan support in halo 3.They go onto say that it was for manly UI and Manangement reasons so basically MS would not allow them to do there Second friends list cheat that they did in halo 2 beacuse this time around you can only have 100 friends.
However they also hint a rumor that ms is making clans in the next dashboard update and they also stated that there will be full clan support on bungie.net where you can create and set up games with other clans.
But as for a in game clan system there is none as of now at least into Microsoft makes the update and allows them to.
Downlaod the podcast here
http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/8/5/d85ce76f-0cb2-41df-aaae-a8c96790332b/Bungie_Podcast_81007.mp3
The part about the clans is exsactly at 47 minutes
bigmac375 @ Aug 10th 2007 6:11PM
thanks Project Ekim!
DjDATZ @ Aug 10th 2007 6:16PM
Ekim! thanks...I'm at 37 minutes into the podcast right now. I already sent it in as a tip as the flash grenades were confirmed.
Project Ekim @ Aug 10th 2007 6:18PM
No problem
John @ Aug 10th 2007 6:27PM
I got my Free Iphone today. Check it out: http://www.elitefreebies.com/iphone.html
Feelz Good @ Aug 11th 2007 9:20AM
You had to consult wikipedia to learn the Greek alphabet? I guess that was just so drilled into our brains in school that it's still something I have memorized. Time to wait for people to play Halo 3 Zeta. Yes, Zeta is actually the letter after epsilon in that language. How ironic.
BlackBeltJones @ Aug 11th 2007 2:22AM
I actually have had dinner with the guy who owns that gamertag (X3f doesn't show the whole jpg but Kotaku's picutre show that the gamertag is Evil Otto). His name is Tom Candland and he does all the menu programming for halo (he's in the Halo 2 special edition documentary). At the time he was still working on Halo 2 and wouldn't give me any inside information, luckily his friend had no such qualms and told me that halo 2 was going to have women marines (before it was common knowledge). Sadly I haven't talked to him since back then so I have no inside info on epsilon.
Dragod @ Aug 11th 2007 11:17AM
Yeah, I have a friend playing it... Has been for a few days now. They're actually encouraged to mod the game. Then, when they report it they get rewarded, somehow, this way they fix the mods so real modders can't do it after release.
It looks like our beloved is in the debugging stage. Can't wait!
Bauer22 @ Aug 12th 2007 12:10PM
Do the people at MS has access to this cause I saw Major Nelson playing it too.
Narcogen @ Aug 12th 2007 12:49PM
It's worth noting that what Bungie referred to as a "beta" was in fact an internal build. The "public beta" was actually a Delta, so the current build would very likely be Epsilon by that reckoning.
Narcogen @ Aug 12th 2007 11:04PM
@21: Actually, his name is David Candland, and yes, he does UI work on Halo.