Just playing some Halo 3 Epsilon online

by Dustin Burg { Aug 10th 2007 at 5:00PM }

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]

Tags: bungie, bungiestudios, epsilon, halo3

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

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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!