Halo

Old School Halo Crashes SXSW This Weekend In $100,000 Tournament

SXSW used to be a cool festival for musicians and artists to hang out. Now in its 30th year, it’s become other things: Woodstock for tech geeks, Davos for hipsters, spring break for nerds. So where do esports fit in? The cultural cache of SXSW might make it the ideal platform for showcasing something like…

Halo: The Master Chief Collection Is Coming To PC, Adds Halo: Reach

Halo: The Master Chief Collection will soon include Halo: Reach and be available on the Windows store and Steam, Microsoft announced today during its Inside Xbox livestream. Rather than make every game in the collection available all at once on PC, Microsoft said the collection will roll out one game at a time, starting with…

The Master Chief Collection Is What Happens When A Studio Doesn’t Give Up On A Game

It’s now taken as gospel that the future of a game isn’t written in stone when it first comes out. Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege rebounded from a lackluster launch, hampered in large part by its grinding, fragmented progression system, into one of the most successful shooters on PC right now. No Man’s Sky released bereft…

Halo: The Master Chief Collection got a nice big update yesterday fixing some things and adding others. Chief among the new stuff are extra skulls for Halo: Combat Evolved and options for making the aiming in the old games more like Halo 5

Competitive Halo Goes Old School With The Halo 3 Classic Tournament 

While the competitive Halo scene has been losing some steam in recent years, there’s no end of love and nostalgia for the earlier games in the series, especially Halo 3. This weekend a mix of pro teams and grass roots teams will duke it out in St. Louis in the first of many Halo 3…

Mod Turns Serious Military Shooter Into Giant Halo Game

Operation: TREBUCHET is a mod for military simulation ArmA III that transforms it from a realistic armed forces shooter into a massive Halo game. While it’s been in development for a few years now, there’s a new trailer for the project that looks fantastic: Named for the UNSC’s war against insurrectionists just before the Covenant…

Halo: The Master Chief Collection is getting a “match composer” for multiplayer. In a tweet yesterday, Brian Jarrard, the Community Director for 343 Industries, said it would facilitate mixtape matchmaking. The mode will enter into testing “soon.”

The Games That Inspire Coheed And Cambria’s Sci-Fi Saga

Claudio Sanchez is a rock star. His band, Coheed and Cambria, has millions of fans across the world. His cascading mane of heavy metal hair is the envy of other musicians and prides of lions alike. The secret to Sanchez’s success: being a giant nerd. Some bands tell stories with their music. Then there’s Coheed…

No, Master Chief’s Suit Does Not Jerk Him Off

An erroneous piece of Halo lore began with a joke by the Twitter account dril, posted on May 11, 2017: “my main issue with ‘master chief fucks cortana’ is if you read the halo novels youd know the space suit automatically jacks master chief off.” By the next day, Halo fans had begun circulating a…

There Is Video Evidence Of Steve Vai Shredding On The Halo 2 Soundtrack

The guitar legend Steve Vai makes a couple appearances on the soundtrack for 2004’s Halo 2, and now we have video to confirm that he did, in fact, absolutely shred in the studio. Posted in a thread by Resetera user jambo, the video is a rip of a DVD made by Halo composer Martin O’Donnell,…

The Xbox One package of the first four Halo games—Halo: The Master Chief Collection—will be available to Xbox Game Pass members on September 1. The trailer promises several updates, including “improved matchmaking” (good news for those who remember the collection’s initial launch).

Halo 5: The Kotaku Re-Review

Each new Halo game since 2007’s Halo 3 gets some praise, then fades, and then is pointed to as a sign that the Xbox’s once-unstoppable franchise is hitting a wall. Halo 5, released in 2015, deserves a different reputation. The first new Halo game on Xbox One got the accolades three years ago, then faded as…

Space Force vs The Halo Theme Song

The creation of the SPACE FORCE is the dumbest fucking thing, and deserves nothing but the ridicule it is receiving. AND YET: below is a very good idea that an actual space force in the future, when a force in space is actually required, should use.

Fortnite is fun, but Forge Labs figured it’d be funner if they added some Halo to the game. So they went and built Halo 2’s classic Lockout map in Playground.

Microsoft is working with Showtime on a Halo TV show set to go into production next year The project, which has been bouncing around in one form or another since 2013, is finally moving ahead with Steven Spielberg still attached along with Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt.

Microsoft Announces Halo Infinite With Tiny Teaser

Microsoft kicked off its E3 2018 press conference with a small teaser for the next Halo, called Halo Infinite. If you thought Halo 5 could have used more Master Chief, Microsoft says you’ll get more play time with the series’ protagonist this time around. “We will join Master Chief on his greatest adventure yet to…

Halo Is Coming To Arcades

Microsoft just showed off Halo: Fireteam Raven, a lightgun shooter for the arcade that’s set during the events of the first game in the series. It’ll be out this Summer at Dave & Busters.

Halo Online Fan Project Goes On Hold After Microsoft Intervenes 

A team of modders working to make the unreleased Halo Online playable have halted work after Microsoft contacted them in an effort to protect its intellectual property. Developed for the Russian market and based in the Halo 3 engine, Halo Online would have been only the third game in the series to be playable online…

Modders Are Still Working On The Never-Released Halo Online Game

Halo Online is a free-to-play version of the popular shooter series that was only ever offered in a closed beta test in Russia in 2015. After years on ice, a mod that makes it playable the world over is getting a brand new version on April 20. A new trailer, first spotted by PC Gamer,…

Halo 5 Players Can Now Shoot Each Other On Board The Titanic

There’s a somewhat lesser known corollary to the “If you build it, they will come” line from the baseball movie Field of Dreams. It goes: “If you build it, someone will also build it in Halo 5.” Thanks to the game’s Forge map editor, players have been pumping out all sorts of creations inspired by…