Great X-Packtations?

Posted by: Jake 'ev98' Billo at 13:28 PM 

The tension is building: The most recent Bungie Weekly What's Update offered some hints and speculation - namely that the Korean Xbox.com site had announced upcoming downloadable content as a retail game release. Early this morning, some folks on the HBO Forum discovered an ebgames.com page pointing to the possible existence of a Halo 2 Expansion Pack, which is currently purported to contain new cinematic and mini-documentary videos, as well as nine new maps. The listing has since been pulled from EBGames' site, but the title of the page (Halo 2 Expansion Pack | EBgames.com) indicates that there's something of substance here.

A cached copy of the page has been posted on the HBO forums; however, since it's a Geocities site, the bandwidth may not hold out very long.

Update: I've mirrored the archive of the site available here on our Halo 2 General Files page. Thanks to TheLethalSpartan for providing the cached version.

Update 2: If you're not up for a ZIP download, Louis Wu of HBO has stripped out the Javascript and mirrored the archive online. Thanks!

Update 3 (Mhaddy): Gamesradar.com has purportedly confirmed the contents of the expansion pack: nine new multiplayer maps, as well as a new cinematic video and a mini documentary on Bungie. They also mention that it will be available in US stores on May 24th. Waiting on Bungie to confirm this.

• HBO Forum: Halo 2 X-Pack