Halo

Knockout City Doesn’t Show Your Overall Stats, Which Is A Bummer

Last week, Kotaku’s Zack Zweizen and I teamed up for a few rounds of Knockout City. I played fairly well. Zack, on the other hand, crushed it, even ending one match with a jaw-dropping positive-15 KD. Sadly, save for the screenshots we both snapped in shock after the fact, there’s no way to tangibly commemorate…

The Year Is 2021 And I Just Played A New Official Halo 3 Map

The Master Chief Collection’s latest season, Season 6: Raven, launched last week on April 7 for Xbox and PC. I’ve been busy with Outriders, so I didn’t get to check it out until now. This update adds a lot, but the most exciting new piece of content is a new map for Halo 3 The…

A Well Hidden Halo 5 Easter Egg Was Finally Found After A Dev Shared Some Hints

Halo 5: Guardians was released back in 2015. But it was only a few days ago that finally, after six years, players found a secret race involving mongoose four-wheelers. All it took to find this Easter egg was a little help from the developer who added it to the game. On Easter Sunday, game developer…

Halo Infinite Delayed To 2022 [UPDATED: We Got Got]

Hey, everyone, I am a dumbass. Halo Infinite has not, to Kotaku’s knowledge, been cancelled. We fell for a fake tweet from an in hindsight obviously fake account. (Follower count: 53.) On the eve of April Fool’s. Yes, I realize how this looks. I regret the error. Kotaku regrets the error. Halo Infinite is planned for…

I Love When Mainstream Acts Make Music For Video Games

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, I bring you a treat: a bunch of games! All featuring killer tracks from mainstream musicians. Say what you will about Mirror’s Edge Catalyst (actually, please don’t, that game does not deserve the negativity), but…

Halo: Infinite Devs Destroyed A Piano To Create Some In-Game Sounds

As my great uncle often said, “To create art, sometimes you must destroy an old, unwanted upright piano.” He was a strange man. In the latest Inside Infinite blog, 343 Industries shared a bunch of details and information about how it’s creating the sounds in the upcoming Halo Infinite. There’s a surprisingly large amount of…

‘Shop Contest: Bethesda+Microsoft, Winners!

You got Halo in my Fallout! You got Doom in my Forza! Well, this is a giant mess. At least we get more Game Pass games out of it all. And a fun contest! Our winning image this week comes from…. KaputNoob! Yes, we have a back-to-back winner once again folks! Will they be able…

Elites In Halo: Reach Contain A Gross Secret

I’ve played a lot of Halo: Reach. In fact, last month I played through the entire game again with my brother via the Master Chief Collection. But I had no idea that inside the playable Elites in the game lurks a somewhat disgusting little secret: Their innards…? Guts? Bones? Hard to tell. In Halo: Reach,…

I Can’t Handle How Many Games Turn 20 Years Old This Year

I recently noticed a favorite game of my youth, Halo, turns 20 years old this year. So I got curious and looked up what other games I loved back as a kid, to see how many are going to turn 20 in 2021. I found a lot. “What a drag it is getting old.” I…

How A Halo Symbol Ended Up In The Snyder Cut

If you look closely, you might spot a random symbol from Halo in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. It appears on Deathstroke’s sword and seems to have been added accidentally. As spotted by PCGamesN, it really looks like a rune symbol from the Halo series has snuck its way into director Zack Snyder’s bigger and newer…

Bungie Is Looking To Expand The Destiny 2 Universe

Yesterday, Bungie announced some big plans over the next few years, including new offices, new games, and a new leadership team seemingly in charge of branching out the the Destiny 2 universe into other media. “[O]ne of the primary drivers of Bungie’s expansion is to increase the commitment to the long-term development of Destiny 2,…

Stan LePard, Composer On Games Like Halo Reach & Guild Wars 2, Has Died

Stan LePard, a veteran composer who has worked in the video game business since 1994, died last week. News of his death was publicly announced by his friend and fellow composer Maclaine Diemer, who says LePard, “passed away unexpectedly”. LePard contributed to the score on all kinds of games, including the Halo series (ODST, Reach),…

Halo 3 Is Getting A New Map Over A Decade After Release

Halo 3 received its last official new map all the way back in 2009, as part of the Mythic II Map Pack release. Now, 343 Industries has announced that a new map, first featured in Halo Online, will be added to the next round of Master Chief Collection beta testing. In a blog post released…

343 Industries teased a “a new place and way to play” Halo: The Master Chief Collection in its latest development update. It could mean just about anything, like maybe MCC is getting VR support, or maybe it’s just coming to a new storefront.

Halo 4 Is A Lot Better Than Its Soundtrack

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, we return to the combat-filled levels of Halo 4 for some…actually, rather forgettable music. Controversial opinion alert: I like 2012’s Halo 4 (playlist / longplay/ VGMdb), originally released back on the Xbox 360 and developed…

Halo Infinite Isn’t Coming Out Until Fall 2021 At The Earliest

343 Studios just announced that Halo Infinite—a game that was supposed to launch alongside the Xbox Series X last month—now won’t be released until at least Fall 2021. The lengthy delay was made in a long post on the studio’s site, and while it goes into all kinds of detail on features being added to…

After a year of consistent releases, Halo: The Master Chief Collection is finally complete on PC with today’s addition of Halo 4 The bundle has also been optimized to run at 120 fps on Xbox Series X|S, provided you have a compatible display.

The House On Blue Lick Road’s 3D Tour Has Been Preserved In VR

For most of this week, one of the strangest delights on the internet has been a 3D tour of a house that’s for sale in Kentucky. The home, on Louisville’s Blue Lick Road, was for want of a better term, weird. From the boxes of energy drinks stacked in the kitchen to the Halo action figure…

Halo Infinite Loses Another Director

Master Chief has always had a penchant for bumpy landings, but over the years he’s mostly kept that confined to events inside games. Halo Infinite, however, has weathered a last-minute delay and, now, the loss of two directors en route to putting down wheels. According to a report from Bloomberg, Chris Lee, the 343 Industries…

Master Chief Collection Is Getting Upgraded To Play At 120 FPS On Xbox Series X/S

Halo fans on console will finally get to see Master Chief at double the frames per second when Halo: The Master Chief Collection gets upgraded for Xbox Series X and S on November 17. Microsoft announced the news on Twitter today, stating that the next-gen optimized version of the collection would play at 120 FPS…