Halo

Twitch Is Playing Halo, And It’s Excruciating

When Twitch users playedPokemon, it kinda made sense. That’s a game you can break down into simple movements. Halo? That’s a pretty complicated game! Which might explain why this stream is so funny. If you were watching a single human wander around the dead corners of the map, shooting at rocks and aiming at the…

Halo: Master Chief Collection Has Been Broken For 100+ Days Now

It’s been four months since Halo: The Master Chief Collection came out for Xbox One, and unbelievably, the game is still broken. The matchmaking and lobby systems somehow still don’t work properly. For a complete, startling look at just how bad things have been, check out this full timeline (at Team Beyond) of problems, patches,…

New Tricks Help Runners Shatter The Halo Legendary Speed Record

As of November of last year the world record time for completing Halo: Combat Evolved on Legendary difficulty was 1:29:59. In this video a group of four speedrunners demonstrate techniques that shave a full 22 minutes off of that time. A group effort by a group of Halo speedsters which includesformer Legendary record holder Andrew…

Remember how Microsoft was setting a beta test for a patch that would hopefully resolve many of the problems plaguing Halo: The Master Chief Collection? Well, that beta was pushed back and then cancelled altogether. The “content update” is still coming but will only be tested internally now.

Video Game Car Crash Survivor Should Buy A Lottery Ticket

In Highlight Reel today we have some close calls in The Crew, stylish ways to kill zombies in Dying Light, a Life Is Strange mashup and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the…

That’s Not How Fighting Works, UFC Game 

Today on Highlight Reel we have some impossible UFC and WWE moves, a fantastic Destiny save, flying sergeants in Halo and more. Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Hard Crota Raid…

You Can’t Escape H1Z1‘s Killer Bear

Today on Highlight Reel we have a matter-defying H1Z1 bear, impressive Far Cry 4 wingsuit stunts, flashy entrances in GTA V and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. CS:GO –…

Last Year’s Halo Is Such A Mess, They’re Beta-Testing The Next Patch

Of all the broken video games that we were stuck with in 2014, none were as broken as Halo’s Master Chief Collection, which even now, months after release, isstill broken. But it’s OK! You can now sign up for a beta. For an update that may or may not fix it. Yes, that’s right. 343…

Tiny Battlefield Vehicle Is Surprisingly Deadly

Today on Highlight Reel we have land mines in H1Z1, killer parachutes in GTA V, some unlucky NPCs, and an homage to the skid loader in Battlefield 4. Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via…

Fans Are Bringing Counter-Strike‘s Most Popular Maps To Halo

Halo and Counter-Strike both have guns, but otherwise they couldn’t be more different. And while I really hope someone focuses on upping Halo‘s chicken count soon, for now a couple classic Counter-Strike haunts will have to do. MyHouseRules is recreating fy_iceworld and perhaps one of the best known video game maps of all time, de_dust,…

Spartan Crabwalks in Halo 5 Beta Glitch

Players have discovered plenty of interesting issues in the ongoing Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta, but this is probably the funniest. “Not sure if anyone has shared this before, but this is what happens when you crouch in midair and sprint upon landing at the beginning of a breakout game,” wrote Redditor coked_up_tourist. Other users…

Battlefield 4 Player Didn’t See That Chopper Coming

On today’s Highlight Reel we have lucky gun throws in Counter-Strike, random raining cars in Far Cry 4, photobombing helicopters in Battlefield 4 and more. Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below.…

The Guns That Never Made It Into Halo

You’ve never used these guns or played these levels in any Halo game, and odds are, you never will. The latest Did You Know Gaming video delves into darkest, strangest portions of Halo‘s history, the most interesting of which center around cut content from the master and chief of alien-blasting’s earliest iterations. The original Halo…

GTA Cop Pulls Player Over Like A Damn Terminator

Today on Highlight Reel we have a new way to play Fallout: New Vegas, some lucky shots in Battlefield 4, a bubble city in Destiny and one incredibly dedicated supercop in GTA V Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and…

On The Spot Pianist Takes On Final Fantasy, Chrono Cross And Skyrim

Last month master pianist/composer Sonya Belousova charmed us with on the spot arrangements of classic Nintendo themes, many of which she had only just heard for the first time. I was hesitant to post her follow-up, but then I heard her version of “The Scars of Time” from Chrono Cross. I’m currently in the middle…

‘Flinch’ Is Going Away For Halo 5, Developers Say

“Flinch,” or the penalty of your aiming reticle getting moved up when shot, has long been a controversial feature in the Halo games. But that flinch animation that players have been noticing in Halo 5‘s beta will soon be removed, according to 343’s Josh Holmes. The flinch feature appeared most notoriously in Halo 4, which…

Halo 5‘s Aiming Has Changed, And Not Everyone Likes It

If you’re a longtime Halo fan, you know that a good amount of the weapons in your arsenal would only fire from the hip. That is, compared to most popular first-person shooters, they had no scope system. But in Halo 5, developers 343 are implementing something they call smart-link—which is essentially an aiming-down-the-sights scoping feature—and…

It Only Took $7,000 To Build This LEGO Halo Spaceship

The iconic “Pillar of Autumn” from Halo, now in LEGO form. And it’s damn huge—not exactly minifigure-scale, needing more than one person to move it. According to its builder, Lee Jones, it took 3.5 years to complete it and it weighs a massive 220 pounds (100 kg). It’s around 7 feet (2.15 meters) in length…

Microsoft Sorry For Broken Halo Games, Giving Away Free Stuff

In an effort to make good on the troubled launch of the Xbox One’s Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Microsoft announced today that they’re giving anyone who played the game some free stuff, including a copy of an upcoming remastered version of Halo 3: ODST. In a letter posted to the Xbox website, 343 Industries…

How To ‘Ground Pound’ And Other New Moves In Halo 5‘s Multiplayer Beta

Now that the Halo 5 multiplayer is officially in session, you might want to pull off one of those new movement abilities you may have heard of. You can see them all in action in HaloFollower’s video above—with details explaining things like how your shield won’t recharge if you’re sprinting. But what about their basic…