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Artist Shows Off Canceled Pitch For Halo Wars 3

A new collection of concept art reveals details of a Halo Wars 3 pitch that featured space battles and XCOM-esque base management. Halo Wars 2 managed to capture the feeling of Bungie’s famous franchise but wasn’t that intense of a strategy game. A handful of art, shared by Creative Assembly concept artist Brad Wright, offers…

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Big-Headed Master Chief And Locke Say Hey

Just in time for next week’s 10th anniversary of Halo 3: Live Halo Or Die Trying, the folks at gaming gear makers Jinx have launched a new line of official Halo clothes and things. Things like these six-inch vinyl figures of Battle Damaged Master Chief and Night Ops Spartan Locke, for example. Designed by Jinx…

Halo Fan Loves The Warthog So Much He Built His Own

Halo 3 came out almost ten years ago, and one dedicated fan has spent seven of them attempting to build his very own Warthog. As Bryanthavercamp’s project has reached its final stages, his friend CAPNJ1mmy took to Reddit to upload the results. You can see the vehicle’s early progress in a YouTube video here. Driving…

Duck Hunt, Recreated In Halo 5

Halo 5 will probably never be anybody’s favorite Halo, but it might end up somebody’s favorite Zelda, Mario Kart, or (now) Duck Hunt—because nobody ever said the world needed to make sense. This map is actually more than a simple remake, though. “Duck Hunt,” as created by Halo 5 Forge user Spartan Blood 1 and…

Halo Gun Counts Your Ammo In The Real World

Jimsbeanz lives in our world, not Halo’s, but you’d be forgiven for thinking he was packing an actual UNMC Assault Rifle when you look at his modified replica gun in action Beginning life as a BOOMco Halo rifle (which shoots the company’s own take on NERF darts), the new paintjob looks nice, but the real…

Then And Now: Talking To Retired Pro Gamers About The Rise Of Esports

Dave “Walshy” Walsh first started competing at Halo in 2002. Back then, the term “esports” hadn’t yet entered the lexicon, pro gamers rarely earned the big bucks, and competitions were all about the love of the game and discovering who played the best. These days, Walshy still works in the pro gaming field as a…

A Cinematic Trailer For A Fan-Made Halo Game

This is the world we live in now. Where even fan-made, multiplayer-only Halo games get four-minute cinematic trailers. This clip is for Installation 01, a back-to-basics Halo fan game for the PC that we first took a look at last year Looks like things are coming along nicely. Installation 01 is an attempt to get…

Boys Just Wanna Have Fun

When they’re not saving the galaxy and throwing ninja stars at cartoon characters, Master Chief and Genji like to unwind like tiny little children. Cosplay by Shagohod Cosplay (MC) and Rider Break Cosplay (Genji), photos by Lock.VII Projects

Halo Fan Turns Microsoft’s Cortana Into Actual Hologram

Usually, Cortana the personal assistant is just a disembodied voice. One Halo fan decided to take his Cortana to the next level by building a rad hologram appliance that responds to your queries. The whole thing is still a work in progress, creator Jarem “untitled network” Archer says, but it’s still pretty cool to watch…

Donkey Kong, Halo: Combat Evolved, Pokémon Red and Green, and Street Fighter II have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. They were picked out of twelve finalists that included Final Fantasy VII, Mortal Kombat, Portal, Resident Evil, and Wii Sports. 

Halo 3 Players Spent Almost Ten Years Trying To Get Into Empty Cage

In 2008, a fan with the username OTfor2 issued a challenge to a forum: in Halo 3’s Sierra 117 level, get inside a barred-off room. For years, Halo fans tried to nail the stunt, but nobody could complete it…until now. Within the Halo community, there’s a concept known as “tricking challenges,” where players dare each…

The Lack Of Master Chief Was The Least Of Halo 5’s Campaign Problems

Video game sequels often fix the problems of their predecessors thanks to, among other things, the iterative advancements of technology. That’s on top of the fact that making creative work in the gaming medium is still an exercise in being an artistic pioneer. So you at least hope that the people making sequels know what…

Most of the time when we post about a promising fan-made project, we never hear from that project again, because fans are rarely also professional project managers. But this Halo game we wrote about last yearis making good progress!

Three Overkills Highlight Series Sweep In Halo World Championships

In the lower bracket semi-finals of the 2017 Halo World Championships, Team Envy and Str8 Rippin were fighting to stay afloat in the bracket. On match point for Envy, both teams’ players showed up in a stellar display of Halo ability. After a long technical delay, the series resumed with Envy up 3-0. Str8 Rippin would…

The Level That Shows Why Halo: Reach Is Awesome

You drop right into a firefight, plasma crackling as it flies past your head. You push forward, blasting away at a pack of grunts, causing them to panic. An Elite taunts you with a burst of blue fire from his rifle, but he backs off when, having caught your attention, you go after him. Starting…

Halo Wars 2: The Kotaku Review

The nice thing about Halo Wars 2 is that it works. Which is nicer than it sounds, because the biggest fear about real-time strategy games on a console, and the thing that generally keeps those games off the platforms in the first place, is that a control pad does not rank highly on the preferred…

Mario Kart‘s Rainbow Road, Remade In Halo 5

Rainbow Road, the dangerous and psychedelic Mario Kart map you and your friends barely survived in elementary school, is now a Halo 5 map. And, yes, of course you can race on it. The map accommodates up to 10 players. It’s got all the thwomps and twists and turns and traps that will test your…

Bonnie Ross, head of 343 Industries, released a statement on the Halo Waypoint forums clarifying the development of Halo/Mega Bloks project Haggar and confirming its development. She noted that Haggar was “just one example of several similar projects we have evaluated throughout the years.” Ross’ statement reads as follows: “Over the past few days, footage…

Apparent Leaked Footage Reveals Cancelled Mega Bloks Halo Game [Updated]

It seems that Master Chief almost ended up blasting Covenant made of Mega Bloks. After showing the Diddy Kong racing sequel that never was and a scrapped sequel to Oni, archivist Andrew Borman is now reporting on the prototype for Mega Bloks Halo in a new video on his YouTube channel Borman reports that the…