{"id":6746,"date":"2012-11-08T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2012-11-08T01:52:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T06:52:28","slug":"how-halo-won-the-hearts-of-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-halo-won-the-hearts-of-gamers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Halo Won The Hearts Of Gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/110812_0541_HowHaloWonT1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Studio&#8217;s award winning, genre defining, multi-billion dollar Halo franchise recently released its latest installment: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0050SYX8W\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=centives-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=B0050SYX8W&amp;adid=157RDRY0PMFG8XM5ZDY9&amp;\">Halo 4<\/a>. Erik Sofge looked at the secrets behind its success and what it says about the future of the video game industry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Halo&#8217;s success is driven in part by the vibrant universe described in best-selling novels written by award winning authors, and an online web series.<\/li>\n<li>The creators of the expanded media and the game work closely with each other to ensure that there are no inconsistencies and that a single, unified universe is being presented.<\/li>\n<li>While a new Halo game is only released every few years, this time around Microsoft is keeping it fresh by releasing periodic content that will extend the storyline and keep gamers engaged.<\/li>\n<li>While the content itself is free, gamers must be signed up with Microsoft&#8217;s paid Xbox live service to access it. In this way Microsoft&#8217;s Halo is less like a game and more like HBO&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/tag\/game-of-thrones\/\">Game of Thrones<\/a>. The game is a way to keep customers coming back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the author who worked with the creators of the game to write the novels, and why video games are the &#8220;new pulp&#8221; over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/video-games\/how-halo-went-from-video-game-to-pulp-empire-14501064\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/video-games\/how-halo-went-from-video-game-to-pulp-empire-14501064\">Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Studio&#8217;s award winning, genre defining, multi-billion dollar Halo franchise recently released its latest installment: Halo 4. Erik Sofge looked at the secrets behind its success and what it says about the future of the video game industry: Halo&#8217;s success is driven in part by the vibrant universe described in best-selling novels written by award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/110812_0541_HowHaloWonT1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6755,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/6755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}