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New Update Makes It Even Easier To Play Mini Games Like Skee Ball Inside Halo 5
J. Dickinson Este invented the first Skee Ball machine in 1909, and just over a century later, the game has finally made its way into Halo 5 Reddit user AllAboutPenguins tried to recreate the classic arcade variation on bowling using Halo’s now robust level editing tools, and said “I started building a skeeball map before…
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CultureWhen You Run Out Of Ammo, Use The Cannon
Today on Highlight Reel we have Mafia III glitches galore, good Tracer taunt timing, Totally Accurate Battle Simulations, deeply depressing gameplay, and much more. Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku…
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EsportsStruggling Halo Team Replaces Players With Last Year’s Champions
Imagine it’s the end of the month. The new NBA season is about to start just days later, but right before that, a majority of the Los Angeles Lakers’ owners decided to cut their losses with the team and sign a new one. With a once proud legacy firmly in the rear-view mirror, they’d had…
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Your Shooter Deserves Better Enemies
So, you’re in charge of a brand new giant AAA video game, and the execs up top are expecting you to drop one of the most slammin’ game designs of 2018 on their desks. What do you do? I’ve played a lot of video games, and if there’s one thing I love, it’s a good…
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Why We Crouch
The crouch. One of humanity’s most basic movements. Humans have been crouching since they figured out that going to the bathroom standing up only worked half of the time, but in video games we sometimes need a little prompting. This post originally appeared 12/3/15. We’ve been crouching in video games for decades—pull the joystick down…
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Halo and Chrono Trigger Collide In the Newest Episode of Super Gaming Quiz
Current games! Retro games! Terrible games! Gaming podcasts are nothing new, but you’ll be hard pressed to find one like Super Gaming Quiz Alpha Turbo. Just to be upfront, the podcast I’m about to promote was created and is hosted by yours truly. It’s a labor of love, and I thought the fine readers of…
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6,000-Piece LEGO Replica Of Halo 5‘s Rocket Launcher
That’s the SPNKr, Halo 5’s iconic double barrelled rocket launcher in all its glory, remade with LEGO bricks by Nick Brick (via Brothers Brick). Looks amazing! It’s double barrelled, and you can remove the launch tubes and reload the weapon just like in the game. Even if it only shoots imaginary rockets, made with After…
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Pokémon Battles Are Pretty Messed Up In Halo 5
The creative stuff people come up with in Halo 5‘s Forge almost reach Garry’s Mod levels of silliness. Here’s, for example, a very well designed map for Pokémon battles. It’s a rock-paper-scissors type map with Blastoise, Venosaur and Charizard, where the winner can eliminate the other player with a powerful weapon. It’s made by CaptainDireWolf,…
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Halo 5 Grifball Is Better When It’s Played In A Quidditch Pitch
Halo 5 and Harry Potter sounds like a weird combination, but Hugabear’s custom mini-game, which adds Quidditch to Halo 5‘s Grifball, looks pretty fun. Grifball is a game mode in Halo 5 where players with Gravity Hammers and Energy Swords have to grab the ball and get it through one of the hoops. In this…
By Gergo Vas
