{"id":9975,"date":"2011-02-10T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"halo-reach-defiant-map-pack-unofficially-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/9975-halo-reach-defiant-map-pack-unofficially-official","title":{"rendered":"Halo: Reach \u201cDefiant Map Pack\u201d unofficially official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French Halo fansite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halodestiny.net\/news.php?readmore=1208#skip\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Halo Destiny\">Halo Destiny<\/a> recently posted a heap of info about a so-called, alleged, 100% unconfirmed Halo: Reach DLC add-on that may or may not actually exist, called the Defiant Map Pack.<\/p>\n<p>According to the posting, the incoming pack includes three new maps &ndash; the UNSC frigate-based Condemned, the outdoorsy Highlands, and a brand new Firefight playground, Unearthed.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of blurry images leaked from some dark corner of the internet are posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/59332597@N03\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Halo Destiny&rsquo;s Flickr account\">Halo Destiny&rsquo;s Flickr account<\/a>, where, for some esoteric reason, the Highlands map is labelled &ldquo;Training Preserve.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most significantly, the site is currently offline, with a message claiming that Microsoft and Bungie had requested the owners remove all the info they&rsquo;d posted about the DLC. Which is pretty much exactly the same as saying, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t steal our thunder, frogs.&rdquo; Now that everybody on the planet already knows, we can probably expect official confirmation any moment now.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ed (James): If (like me) you aren&#8217;t a die-hard Bungie Community regular (like Tarryn) you can brush up on your <a href=\"http:\/\/bungie.wikia.com\/wiki\/Stosh\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bungiepedia\">&#8216;blame Stosh&#8217; meme at the Bungiepedia<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Discuss the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/10945-Halo-Reach-Defiant-Map-Pack-rumoured\" target=\"_self\" title=\"rumoured Halo: Reach Defiant Map Pack\">rumoured Halo: Reach Defiant Map Pack<\/a><\/strong> on the MyGaming froum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fansite posts info, Microsoft requests that they remove it, somebody blames Stosh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}