On the heels of our scoop on Bungie releasing Cold Storage on 7/7 (today), we’ve found this nifty little video document (vidoc as Bungie puts it) about the exciting news.
Direct links to the video can be found on Bungie’s Site here for the high definition desires in you. For the quick and dirty desires in you, hit the screenshots and youtube movie after the jump.
Cold Storage: Priced, Dated
By now you’ve all hopefully heard about the new map coming out, Cold Storage, and perhaps even checked out the overhead perspective of the map. Well, Bungie has announced in their Bungie Weekly Updates that next week, they will have a Q&A session with some of the mapmakers to commemorate Cold Storage’s release.
Cold Storage will be available for free beginning on July 7, Bungie Day, on Xbox Live Marketplace.
Additionally, beginning on July 7, there will be a 48 hour long 7 player FFA playlist in Halo 3’s Matchmaking where you can turn the calendar back to 2001 and control l Rockets, Invis and Snipe.
For now, Cold Storage will be implemented in regular rotation in playlists that require the Legendary Maps. To avoid confusion, playlists that previously required the Legendary Maps will now remind players that they need “all Maps” to participate, and since Cold Storage is free, it shouldn’t be a big deal for you to grab the map on July 7 and then return to your regularly scheduled business in SWAT.
And in case that’s not enough good stuff for us, also on 7/7, Microsoft will be dropping the price of the Legendary Map Pack from 800 MS points to 600 Microsoft Points. That price drop does mean that purchases after 7/7 will no longer include the Bungie Pro bonus.
Well, Bungie Day sure will be a good one.
Previously, we reported about last week’s MLG San Diego unveiling of the remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s popular “Chill Out” map for Halo 3.
Well, Bungie has graced us with two screenshots of “Cold Storage” with MUCH better quality. One’s above, but the full resolution photos are after the jump.
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