Tag archive: Halo

There's no shortage of fan-made Halo projects out there — everything from movies to costumes — but one that's received a lot of attention over the past year or so is the indie game Halo: Out With A Whimper. In development since 2010, Out With A Whimper is a 2-D, side-scrolling shooter set “during the waning days of the Human-Covenant war” that promises to offer a lot more than the average retro-reinvention.… Read More

Old soldiers never die, they just switch developers and continue on. When Bungie ended its tour of duty with the Halo franchise that it created, and headed for the greener (and more lucrative) pastures of Activision, the developer left one of the most iconic characters in video game history in something of a precarious situation. Halo 3 ended the trilogy of games with a definitive conclusion to the Earth’s war against the Covenant and battle… Read More

When most people think of Bungie, they think of the Halo franchise–which makes sense, what with those games going on to become a pop cultural phenomenon, and making both Bungie and Microsoft boat loads of cash. But before Halo: Combat Evolved was even a twinkle in the collective eyes of the developers, there was the Marathon Trilogy. For most, the games will either be unknown, or little more than a feint memory. Bungie developed the first… Read More

There's a cornucopia of fan-made trailers, short films, and other tributes to the Halo universe available online, but the number of them that are actually good is, well… significantly smaller. That's why it's nice to find the occasional DIY project that feels like it could hold its own on the big (or small) screen. Case in point: the new trailer for Halo: Helljumper, an unofficial, live-action series that will debut… Read More

Recounted in full detail at the Bygone Bureau blog, Eric Smith found himself devastated after his long-time girlfriend confessed to cheating and broke up with him. At the time, Smith was prepared to propose to his now ex-girlfriend and had even obtained her perfect image of an engagement ring. Specific to her description of the perfect ring, the diamond was shaded canary yellow and set on a white gold band. After the breakup, the engagement… Read More

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

After months of negotiations, Ubisoft’s uber-popular Assassin’s Creed property has found a home at Sony. On the surface it sounds simple enough—a major movie studio buys the rights to one of the biggest properties in the video game world—happens all the time. But this contract is a bit unusual. And not everyone is happy about it. A closer look at the contract by Vulture.com shows that Sony has agreed to give Ubisoft unprecedented control over… Read More

Warhammer predates our digital age. For decades, geeks have crowded around tabletops with a handful of miniature figures, pitting ork against Ultramarine and fighting the evil chaos demons. And for a few years now, they've been building their digital armies in the real-time strategy versions of Warhammer 40,000. But sometimes strategy and tabletop play aren't enough. Sometimes you need to get down and dirty and there's no one… 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 dropped a bomb on Halo Fest attendees this past weekend, revealing that Halo 4, revealed earlier this summer in an E3 trailer, would kick off “The Reclaimer Trilogy,” continuing the story of series protagonist Master Chief and his AI sidekick Cortana. That plot thread has been sidelined in recent years as Bungie wrapped up its commitments to the franchise it created with Halo: ODST and Halo: Reach. The weekend… 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

The role of the trailer is becoming increasingly more important in the world of video games.  A good trailer can generate interest, put a game on the map and even find a publisher for a title in some cases.  Some companies have groups dedicated to polishing their own trailers, while others reply on third-party companies to produce a clip for the game.  But regardless of who makes the trailers these days, the results are some truly impressive… Read More

Microsoft’s E3 press conference starts in a mere 20 minutes, but one of the company’s biggest announcements has already begun making the rounds. This morning, Microsoft’s E3 landing page prematurely launched and clued us in to some new features coming to Xbox Live and upgraded Kinect capabilities, as well as a few new Kinect titles. More traditional Xbox fanboys will also be thrilled to hear there are not one but two new Halo titles coming to a… Read More