HaloFest: Day One

Los Angeles' PAX Prime convention has played host to a special three-day Halo event this month. HaloFest is currently storming the showfloor, and in the first twenty four hours already some great announcements regarding the future of the franchise have surfaced...

• Buying Forza Motorsport 4 this Autumn? You're in luck- though you can't drive the vehicle, the Halo 4 version of the Warthog (which fans will no doubt analyse to death) will feature in the Autovista mode of the upcoming racer, where players can use a controller or Kinect to walk around vehicles and have information presented to them by a tech specialist, a more comedic take by Jeremy Clarkson (hence the Top Gear sponsorship found throughout the package) and in this case future specs by Master Chief's AI companion Cortana!
• Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary has been confirmed by developer 343 Industries to support stereoscopic 3D, so if you want to look at the beautifully remade HD visuals with a television that supports the tech, then you can go right ahead when this comes out November 18th.
• IGN, the site chosen to provide exclusive coverage of HaloFest, have also released two brand new videos of Halo: Anniversary, the former providing a look at the first Terminal (exciting stuff, looks like a really fluid story of its own to add to the game) and the latter a glimpse at the level 343 Guilty Spark that switches between classic and HD visuals. It's truly stunning stuff, and makes the three months remaining between now and the game's release feel very long.