Bouncing Back

With Halo: Reach pretty much done with, it was only a matter of time before info started turning up on exactly what Bungie would take their hand to next. Obviously, i wouldn't have started the post that way if i didn't have such info, so here we go... Bungie filed a number of trademarks back in July last year which might give us an idea where they're going. They registered trademarks on 4 names, specifically, Seven Seraphs, Osiris, New Monarchy and Dead Orbit. It also turns out that a series of web domains were taken out by Bungie Aerospace, which you can see clearly shows the Bungie logo and redirects to bungie.net when clicked. The web domains registered are:

• deadorbit.com
• deadorbit.net
• deadorbit.org
• newmonarchy.org
• sevenseraphs.com
• sevenseraphs.net
• sevenseraphs.org

What does this all mean? No idea, but i thought you'd like to know.

And A Happy New Year!

Hey readers,

 I just thought 'd take a moment to let everyone know roughly what i want to do with The Arkhive going into the new year, and beyond. First up on the list is a layout change, woot. Nothing drastic, just going to give the blog a fresh new face for all those who might be sick of seeing the current one (like me). Secondly, while i do enjoy pumping out as much gaming news as possible, i'm going to try to get more posts coming on other topics including movies, music, personal stuff and anything else i can think of, which also brings me to the third thing. More posts from Mike and Steve (although they don't know it yet). So if there's anything you'd like to see on The Arkhive then drop a comment below and let us know what we can do, otherwise, continue into the new year you awesome reader you.

P.S. You can also expect some major changes over at The Gamers Pad for next year, and i'm sure Mike will keep up his insane ramblings and musings over at The Mikey Inflection. If Steve was working for another site, you'd find that link here too ;)

Robots In… Your Body

EA have announced a new title heading to the Xbox LIVE Arcade and PSN in early 2011. MicroBot will see you taking control of a prototype microscopic robot (cleverly called a MicroBot) as it enters a persons body to fight off other MicroBots that have malfunctioned and started spreading disease through the hosts body. Looking like a cross between Asteroids and the first stage of Spore, MicroBot will send you through perilous areas of the body such as the heart, lungs and brain. Not to worry though, as you’ll have 20 pieces of technology to unlock in order to build up your MicroBots attributes and really take the war to your robotic brethren. If none of the above made sense to you, then check out the launch trailer below…

See more Game Videos at EA.com.

Returning From The Future and Still Arriving Late

In news that is surely unrelated to the previous post (...right?) it seems DC Universe Online has been delayed from it's November release to a 2011 release. The delay is apparently to "address community feedback", so i guess they need extra time to iron out some bugs and finish developing it. Guess this will be arriving just in time for all the WoW players who manage to finish of Cataclysm then give up on it once more.