Thu, Aug 19, 2010 | 19:48 BST

Toshiba showing Halo Reach in 3D at gamescom

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Update: Apparently, this was a marketing gimmick by Toshiba. Read on for more details.

Original: Halo Reach is at gamescom, and being shown off in 3D.

As you can see from the shot above and the others here, users at the conference in Cologne can test out Halo Reach in stereoscopic 3D.

There has never been any confirmation that Halo Reach would support 3D, so this may just be the company’s way of saying, “it can be done.” Or not. We’ll find out more on this.

Halo Reach launches worldwide on September 14.

UPDATE

While we couldn’t get any definitive word on this, but thankfully, Eurogamer spoke with Bungie at gamescom and found out Toshiba was using Reach as a way for folks to check out their line of 3D television sets.

“It’s actually got nothing to do with us,” Bungie’s Brian Jarrard told Eurogamer. “It’s a Toshiba TV demo in the booth. It’s actually for their TV hardware. It’s got nothing to do with Xbox or the game itself.

“I heard the same thing and I was shocked. Apparently there’s a sign that says ‘Experience Reach in 3D.’ I was like, ‘Wait… There is? What?’

“Apparently it’s just an off the shelf TV set that supports 3D with glasses and they’re running a Reach trailer for people. So there you go.

“It’s just video playback with 3D glasses to emulate this TV’s ability to upscale to 3D. It’s a little misleading. It terrified us when we heard about it. We don’t have any control over it.

“That’s all it is. It’s just a little bit of a grab your attention marketing tactic. I can assure you there is no 3D-enabled build. We don’t have any specific support for anything like that in our game.”

So there ya go.

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#51

Stephany Nunneley
19/08/10, 7:49 pm

Jesus. Anyway. It was all Toshiba’s fault. The post has been updated. Can we stop arguing now? Please! Think of the children!

#52

cookiejar
19/08/10, 7:58 pm

LOL

#53

DrDamn
19/08/10, 8:35 pm

@TEA
You speechless? We should be so lucky

#54

Retroid
19/08/10, 9:13 pm

So much fail.

For a start: If Sony have added support for non-480i/576i/720p/1080p native screen resolutions then GREAT, seriously, but I’ve heard nothing about it.

#55

albo88
19/08/10, 9:17 pm

infarct it depends from the tv and not what the system builds in i mean i got the old xbox and i connect it on my led tv and it looks better and with more good lighting then in a normal on
the console is responsible of the frame rate the design of the game but when it come to colors all the work is done by your tv

#56

OlderGamer
20/08/10, 3:09 pm

Yup I’ll get a game of anything I own with you Tea, same goes for any of you folks already on my Friends list. If you wanna get on my FL toss me an invite, let me know who ya are w/your invite.

If I had more money Tea, I would buy you a Gold sub.

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