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Exactly 10 years ago today, Bungie dropped Halo: Combat Evolved, effectively changing the face of video gaming in ways that no one at the time could have possibly predicted. To celebrate the anniversary, the current franchise lead developer 343 Industries has prepared a special treat for the fans: A high-definition remastering of the classic Xbox title, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. Make no mistake either–this is definitely a game for… Read More

It is a good time to be a Halo fan. Next week marks the 10-year anniversary of the release of Halo: Combat Evolved on the original Xbox, and to commemorate the event, Microsoft has two offerings for its fans. The first is the remastered, anniversary edition of Halo: CE, featuring all new HD graphics, online connectivity for the six slightly reimagined competitive multiplayer maps and one new Firefight map, Kinect voice integration, plus a few… Read More

Tokyo Game Show is revving up to start right now, and news is flying out of Japan as a result. Here's something you might like to hear about: Microsoft has revealed yet another of the classic maps to be featured in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, which hits stores on November 15. “Headlong,” known in Anniversary as “Breakneck,” will let fans revisit the old Halo 2 map with new and improved visuals. Here's… Read More

343 Industries' Frank O'Connor, formerly of Bungie, has hinted that the upcoming HD re-release, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, will add a new feature to the game's Firefight mode, something that fans have been waiting for. Now we know what that feature is. A new press release from Microsoft reveals that the game's lone Firefight map — called Installation 04 — features AI marines that will fight alongside… Read More

Terminals have a legacy in the Halo series extending all the way back to the pre-Master Chief days of Bungie's Marathon. Finding them all in Halo 3 unlocked an Achievement, but the text-based presentation could've been improved upon. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, the HD-enhanced November 15 re-release of the first game in the series, will do just that. In the newly updated game, which actually runs two engines simultaneously to… Read More

Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios today released more details on the upcoming Xbox 360 title Halo 3. Gamers will have their choice of Standard Edition ($60), Limited Edition ($70) and the Legendary Edition ($130). The Legendary Edition will be released in limited quantities and arrive in a Spartan helmet case, along with two bonus disks full of supplemental content. The first disk will provide exclusive, behind-the-scenes… Read More

The success of Xbox Live reinforces a stellar holiday season for the Xbox platform, which saw Xbox lead competitors in consoles sales, according to recently released data from NPD Funworld.* Other highlights from NPD Funworld include these: Monthly share for Xbox has grown year-to-year every month for 14 consecutive months, climbing 11 share points to 37 percent in December. Xbox was the onlyplatform to see year-to-year growth… Read More

If someone had told us that Macworld 1999 would herald the launch of a game that would go on to spearhead Microsoft's push into the console games market, we would have demanded to know what they were drinking, and where the hell we could get some. And yet on July 21st, 1999, in front of a lot of very pretty but functionally incapable artists who believe Microsoft should be written with a dollar sign (only joking, Mac fellows!), Myth… Read More